MBA Handbook, The: Academic and Professional Skills For Mastering Management, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (December 7, 2020) © 2021
Sheila Cameron

Title overview

Help your students face the MBA process with confidence

The MBA Handbook, 9th edition, is the definitive support guide for students studying for their MBA, giving them advice on the challenging process from start to finish.

With features that support revision and study skills, this text teaches your students what learning at this level is all about, supporting them at every step from choosing a course to post-MBA opportunities.

The text can be used to support a specific study skills unit on the course or as a student reference and is excellent for distance-learning students.

Written by a former MBA Director, this guidebook equips your students to face the MBA process with confidence.

There is also a Companion Website available with this edition.

Hallmark Features of this title

The chapters address the practical needs and concerns of MBA students

  • The text draws on the author's experience as MBA Director, recognising the challenges faced by students.
  • Students are provided with guidance on each step of the MBA process, such as choosing the right course in the first place.
  • Chapters help students develop critical skills, such as research, teamwork and leadership skills, to help them benefit from their course.

Support offered by the book goes beyond the classroom - and beyond the MBA

  • Further reading material encourages students to dig deeper and develops critical learning skills.
  • The text goes beyond the degree program, considering post-MBA opportunities.

New and Updated features of this edition

Updated content addresses modern developments and approaches to learning

  • Updated coverage of technology usage keeps the text relevant to today's students and provides practical advice.
  • Revised support and specific guidance for Distance learning students and International Students addresses the challenges different students may face.
  • Global perspective: Emphasis on global context by recognising the major challenges organisations are experiencing due to climate change and the ideologies behing them.

Additional content helps your students engage with the text and develop critical skills

  • Updated help on developing critical thinking prompts students to challenge established assumptions in the field.
  • New activities, examples and exercises test students' knowledge and help them develop relevant skills.
  • Mini-cases and real-life study and business examplesrintegrated throughout the book.
  • Revised further reading and additional resources offer students the opportunities to dig deeper into topics.

Key features

Features of eTextbook for the 9th Edition

Improve your students' learning experience with a range of digital tools.

From fully online delivery to blended learning, this is a digital textbook with integrated resources designed to keep your students engaged and support their learning.

With eBooks your students can:

  • Customise how they study and add their own notes, bookmarks, and highlights directly in their eBook.
  • Organise study time and read online or offline, anytime, anywhere.
  • Optimise their studying and access learning content with their computer, mobile, and Android apps.
  • Study for their course with an environmentally friendly learning resource.

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Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Guided tour

Part 1 Understanding the challenge

  1. Orientation to postgraduate management learning and the role of the handbook
  2. Theory, practice and ethics in management learning

Part 2 Transferable personal skills

  1. Managing yourself and other stakeholders
  2. Managing your time

Part 3 Transferable learning skills

  1. Managing your learning
  2. Professional development
  3. Critical use of ideas and information
  4. Diagrams and infographics
  5. Teamwork, communication and leadership
  6. Case studies, complexity and consultancy
  7. Information from numbers

Part 4 Skills for assessment

  1. Assessment methods, stakeholders and grades
  2. Writing for business and assessment
  3. Effective presentations
  4. Examinations

Part 5 Completing your qualification and using it

  1. Academic and work-based projects, and dissertations
  2. Applying your skills to your career

References and bibliography

Index

Author bios

Sheila Cameron has years of experience of the particular needs of these students as MBA Director at the Open University Business School. She was involved in the development of the school's pioneering MBA programme, and subsequently developed its Masters in HRM. She has been external examiner for management programmes at a wide range of universities. Sheila is also the author of The Business Students Handbook.

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