Management : a focus on leader /

Annie McKee

Management : a focus on leader / McKee Annie - Preliminary ed. - New Jersey : Pearson Education, c2011. - xiii, 598 p. : ill. ; 25cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Glossary of Management Terms -- Management Theory -- Developments in Management Theory 1910-1990 -- Definitions of Management -- The Search for Principles of Management -- Max Weber and the Idea of Bureaucracy -- Motivation: The Early Theorists -- Motivation: Later Theorists -- Leadership: Theory and Practice -- Groups and Group Behaviour -- Organisations as Systems -- Contingency Approaches to Management -- Modern Approaches to Management -- Management in Practice -- Types of Business Organisation -- Developing an Organisation Culture -- Women in Management -- The International Context of Management -- Strategic Aspects of Management -- Objectives, Policies and Organisational Ethics -- Performance Standards in Management -- Decision-making in Organisations -- Human Resource Planning -- Work Structuring, Job Design and Business Process Re-engineering -- Organisational Structures -- Delegation and Empowerment -- Managing Change: Key Concepts -- Implementing Change: Organisation Development -- Communication in Organisations -- Time Management and Personal Effectiveness -- Controlling Performance -- Quality Standards and Management -- The Role of Information Technology -- Functional Management: Marketing, Production, Personnel and Financial -- The Marketing Concept, Competitiveness and the Global Dimension -- The Marketing Mix: Product and Price -- The Marketing Mix: Promotion -- The Marketing Mix: Distribution -- Marketing Research -- Marketing Organisation -- Customer Services and Consumer Protection -- Production Planning and Control -- Types of Production -- Aids to Production -- New Technology in Manufacturing -- Human Resource Management -- Recruitment and Selection -- Employee Development and Training -- Performance Appraisal, Discipline and Grievances -- Developing Managerial Competencies -- Stress Management and Employee Counselling -- Job Evaluation -- Employee Relations and Collective Rights -- Legal Aspects of Employment: Individual Rights -- Company Accounts -- Budgets, Forecasts and Business Plans -- Examination Technique -- Outline Answers to Examination Questions -- Examination Questions for Practice. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Pt. 2. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Pt. 3. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. App. A1. App. A2. App. A3.

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Management.

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