For Principles of Management courses requiring a comprehensive, flexible text with an emphasis on skills and applications.

Modern Management, 10e is the most flexible book available. It is built around the concept of “Core Plus” - a core of chapters covered in most courses , surrounded by a rich selection of optional chapters that enable one to teach exactly the type of course he/she wants to teach. Possible “flavors” around the core? (a) Management History (b) Operations Management (c) Information Technology in Management (d) Creativity and Innovation in Management.

Table Of Contents

Part One Introduction to Management

1 Modern Management: Skills for Success

2 Managing: History and Current Thinking


Part Two Modern Management Challenges

3 Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics

4 Management and Diversity

5 Managing in the Global Arena


Part Three Planning

6 Principles of Planning

7 Making Decisions

8 Strategic Planning

9 Plans and Planning Tools

Part Four Organizing

10 Fundamentals of Organizing

11 Responsibility,Authority, and Delegation

12 Managing Human Resources

13 Organizational Change and Stress

Part Five Influencing

14 Influencing and Communication

15 Leadership

16 Motivation

17 Groups,Teams, and Corporate Culture

18 Understanding People:Attitudes, Perception, and Learning

19 Encouraging Creativity and Innovation

Part Six Controlling

20 Principles of Controlling

21 Production and Control

22 Information Technology