Principles of Management meets scope and sequence of introductory management courses and covers many areas such as human resource and strategic management.

Most management textbooks would say, as does this one, that managers spend their time engaged in planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating...

The combination of coordination and specialization problems encouraged the development of management study as a distinct field. In this chapter, we trace the evaluation of management from its …

Human resource management is an area that has evolved a great deal over the last few decades. From the days of the very tactical “personnel” management ...

Managers and business owners—like Jen Rubio and Stephanie Korey—make decisions on a daily basis. Some are big, like the decision to start a new business...

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Now, Justin will need to choose and implement an administrative system for delegating duties, establishing oversight, and reporting on performance. They...

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Contrary to the image offered by management textbooks, they are rarely alone drawing up plans or worrying about important decisions. Instead, they spend most of their time interacting with …

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