Management: The Essentials, 5th edition

Helps students to see themselves as managers facing contemporary issues

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The 5th Edition of Management: The Essentials helps students to see themselves as managers facing contemporary issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health and wellbeing, inclusive leadership, design thinking and more.

Written using concise and straightforward language to help students better absorb the theory. The content is relevant and engaging, covering core as well as 'hot' topics and new issues facing managers today.

This text provides a sound foundation for first year management students by:

• introducing essential management principles, theories and practices,
• illustrating of how an understanding management will be relevant and valuable to learners,
• engaging and simplifying the learning experience, and
• helping learner's to develop their own managerial style and skills.

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Key features

Scaffolded content with a broad range of opportunities to apply and test learning:

• Learning outcomes: These are listed at the beginning of each chapter and explain the key concepts that students should understand after studying the chapter. They are also revisited in the summary section.
• Managing for diversity and inclusion: Focuses on diversity issues in organisations and reinforces to students that diversity and scaffolded delivery of content, offering a broad range of opportunities to apply and test their learning. inclusion influence every aspect of a manager's job.
• Managing for sustainability: Highlights sustainability issues related to the economic, social and environmental impacts of organisational activities to help students understand the complexities and trade-offs involved in managing sustainability in an organisational setting.
• Rethinking management in a global crisis: Shows how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed ways of thinking about and practising management Classic concepts in today's organisation Helps students to understand a classic management concept.
• Management skills spotlight: This end-of-chapter feature highlights a key managerial skill related to the chapter topic. It explains how each skill contributes to managerial success, and how building that skill will help students be more successful managers in the future
• A question of ethics: Presents students with an ethical dilemma and encourages them to practise their skills in ethical/critical decision making.
• Experiential exercise: Each of these exercises is a hands-on activity in which students typically collaborate with other students to complete a task. Students then complete a guided reflection to help them identify what new insights about management they developed from completing the task, and how they can use those insights in the future.
• Discussion questions: These are presented at the end of each chapter.
• Application case: These cases, which appear at the beginning and end of each chapter, cover situations involving managers, management and organisations. To help students apply management concepts to the real world, the cases ask them to assess a situation and answer questions about 'how?' and 'why?', and 'what would you do?'.

New to this edition

• New chapter titled 'How Organisations Operate':
  • Explains how an organisation's operating system determines what the organisation does to create the goods and services it produces.
  • Demonstrates how culture helps to determine how an organisation operates by defining its goals and how they should be achieved.
• New chapters titled 'Managing Social Responsibility and Ethical Behaviour' and 'Managing Entrepreneurial Ventures':
  • Extension of the previous edition modules in these essential topics of Ethics and Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship
  • Content includes contemporary research and examples.
  • Learning activities expanded to include chapter learning outcomes, chapter features, and a full suite of end-of-chapter materials, including a chapter summary, discussion questions, management skills spotlight, experiential exercise and case applications.
• New chapter feature titled 'Rethinking Management in a Global Crisis':
  • Showcases the particular ways in which the COVID-19 global pandemic has inspired ways of thinking about and practising management.
  • Examines some of the many and varied ways that dealing with the pandemic has caused individuals, organisations and even governments to try new approaches and develop new insights about what works and what doesn't.
• The new Experiential Exercise learning feature at the end of each chapter:
  • Details an applied and reflective learning activity in which students develop direct personal experience of a concept or practice detailed in the chapter.
  • Includes task instructions and reflective questions designed specifically to help students explore and articulate the new insights the experience has given them about this aspect of management, and how they can apply those insights in future situations.
• New Holiday Home Helpers case application:
  • Showcases a fictional business that provides cleaning and property management services for holiday accommodation properties such as Air BnBs.
  • Written as a running case study with 16 chapter-specific instalments and discussion questions linked to the chapter learning outcomes.
  • Can be used for teaching and/or assessment, and either as stand-alone chapter-specific case studies or to highlight for students how different aspects of management interrelate and synergise.