Management: An Interactive Approach, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (October 29, 2025) © 2026

  • Kelly Mollica University of Memphis
  • Nicole Coomber University of Maryland
  • Naomi Dale University of Canberra
  • Sarvjeet Kaur Chatrath University of Canberra
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Title overview

For principles of management courses

Engage your budding Australian managers with a thoughtfully curated, concise look at management concepts and their application in the real world.

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Management: An Interactive Approach nurtures and develops the critical-thinking skills today's students need to make them tomorrow's successful managers and business leaders.

This digital-only, first Australian edition helps students learn what's most important, examining foundational management concepts, weaving topics throughout each chapter and integrating local, global, inclusive, and ethical perspectives into activities and examples. With an abundance of videos, case studies, and assessment questions, the digital functionality in Pearson eTextbook and Revel will help overcome some of your key teaching and learning challenges: keeping students engaged in course material, focusing on foundational concepts, integrating local, global and ethical perspectives, providing practical examples with an Australian flavour, developing critical-thinking skills, connecting concepts to career success, and incorporating diversity and inclusion. Your students will find great value in engaging with Management: An Interactive Approach.

Table of contents

  • Part I: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
  • 1. Managing ethically in a global world
  • 2. Managing yourself
  • 3. Organisational environment and culture
  • Part II: PLANNING
  • 4. Decision-making
  • 5. Planning and strategic management
  • Part III: ORGANISATION
  • 6. Organisational structure
  • 7. Teams
  • 8. Human resource management
  • PART IV: LEADING
  • 9. Individuals and diversity at work
  • 10. Leadership
  • 11. Motivation
  • 12. Managing communication
  • 13. Innovation, change, and entrepreneurship
  • Part V: CONTROLLING
  • 14. Managerial control

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