For management and non-management majors taking an undergraduate course in the principles of management.

REAL managers, REAL experiences.

With a renewed focus on job-relevant skills, the newest edition of this bestselling text helps management and non-management students alike better prepare to enter the workforce. The Canadian edition of Management vividly illustrates effective management theories by incorporating the perspectives of real-life managers. Through examples, cases, and hands-on exercises, students will see and experience management in action - helping them develop the specific skills that employers are looking for and understand how the concepts they're learning about actually work in today's dynamic business world.

Hallmark Features

• Advice for Surviving and Thriving in the Workplace. Regardless of whether one is working in an organization employing three or 300,000 people, there are common challenges that employees will encounter. We provide students with guidance for dealing with these challenges in our “Workplace Confidential” features.
• Career Guidance. We’ve found that students appreciate career guidance. To that end, we included “It’s Your Career” boxes that address skills that will enhance career progress. These include identifying your strengths and weaknesses, managing your time, developing your negotiation skills, and learning to read an organization’s culture.
• Developing Resilience.“Learning From Failure” boxes illustrate how people like Sarah Blakely, James Dyson, and J.K. Rowling as well as companies like Google and Volkswagen have encountered setbacks, assessed what went wrong, gained new insights from their experience, and bounced back.
• Resilience is also a valuable quality for students and employees. These boxes can help students see the positive side of failures and how individuals and organizations have learned from their mistakes.
• Continued Focus on Practical Applications. This edition of Management continues our commitment to providing instructors with a comprehensive set of in-text exercises that allow students to translate what they’ve learned into practical applications. These include, for example, end-of-chapter cases, ethical dilemmas, and team-building exercises.

New GenAI Study Tool

We’ve heard how important it is for students to use reliable AI tools in responsible and productive ways. To that end, Pearson is focused on creating tools that combine the power of generative AI with trusted Pearson content to provide students with a simplified study experience, delivering on-demand and personalised support that compliments your teaching and aligns with the text you’ve chosen. The Study Tool is available to students who access the Pearson eText on its own or through MyLab.

What can the AI Study Tool do?

• Generate simplified explanations of challenging sections
• Summarize material to help learners focus on key topics and ideas
• Students can ask for multiple choice or short answer questions related to a specific chapter or section to help fill knowledge gaps
• For extra practice, students can also generate flashcards and notes based on their chat interaction with the tool

New to this Edition

The 14th Canadian edition of Management addresses the evolving workplace at a pivotal time in the practice of management. Understanding that many students that use this text are not necessarily majoring in management, this edition continues to build on our approach of ensuring students see the importance and relevance of studying management. Each chapter opens with a common myth that students are likely to hold about that chapter’s content. We then show them that what they thought they knew was wrong. The objective? To demonstrate that the practice of management is not all common sense.

Further, regardless of students’ majors or career plans, they are likely to work in an organization. Whether that organization has three or 300,000 people, there are common challenges that employees will encounter. We provide insights throughout the book, based on solid research, to help students survive and thrive in the workplace. In addition to revisions that uphold this commitment to demonstrating the importance and relevance of the course, the following sections highlight other new aspects of this edition.

• New Author - Dr. Colin Conrad. The most significant addition to this revision is a new co-author, Dr. Colin Conrad. Dr. Conrad is an associate professor of Digital Innovation at Dalhousie University, where he currently also serves as a co-director of the university’s College of Digital Transformation. He has been involved with this work previously, as a student studying under Drs. Kilfoil and Leach in the Starting Lean entrepreneurship program more than a decade ago. Later, as a Ph.D. student, he assisted them in creating the 11th Canadian edition by helping research the content. Now in the 14th edition, he brings fresh expertise related to emerging technologies, particularly how they impact organizations, workplaces, and the economy.
• Contemporary Topic Coverage. The theme of this edition is technology and change. As the world learned how to live with COVID-19, new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence have since changed the way we live and work. Furthermore, workplaces in Canada have become even more diverse, as offices include people from varying ethnic or gender identities, skill sets, or age groups. Management professionals making their way to the workforce must now be familiar with the central role of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and collaboration software, in the workplace. Similarly, they must be prepared to work in an ever-changing landscape. The Canadian authors have taken care to incorporate the lens of technology and change throughout the text, which extends the technological theme that the authors of the 16th U.S. edition started relating to the importance of remote and hybrid work.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI capabilities are advancing quickly, and many management practices are changing to incorporate them. AI is becoming increasingly integrated in decision making, task automation, communication processes, and human resources. Managers now need to understand how AI can impact their organizations and how to harness its potential effectively. The opportunity for engagement or use of AI tools is addressed throughout this edition, with a strong focus on the ways that generative AI is proliferating into the workplace.
• Streamlining and Enhancing Features. For this edition, we have continued to streamline and enhance the features included within the text to retain its length and focus. The “Workplace Confidential,” “It’s Your Career,” and “Learning from Failure” features have been supplemented and updated to retain the text’s close focus on real-world application. End-of-chapter materials have been enhanced with new and updated cases, exercises, discussion questions, and much more.