Business Essentials (12th Ed.)
Auteurs : Ebert Ronald, Griffin Ricky
For introductory business courses.
Focus on the practical skills and important developments in business
The recent events in domestic and global economies are presenting unprecedented challenges, excitement, and disappointments for businesses -- and a need for change in introduction to business courses and texts. Business Essentials captures the widespread significance of these developments and presents their implications on companies today. The 12th Edition includes new real-world examples and research findings, helping students to see how entrepreneurs are putting into practice the concepts that they are learning about, and making this text the most current and relevant one available on the market.
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PART I: THE CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS WORLD
1. The US Business Environment
2. Understanding Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
3. Entrepreneurship, New Ventures, and Business Ownership
4. Understanding the Global Context of Business
PART II: MANAGING THE BUSINESS
5. Managing the Business
6. Organizing the Business
7. Operations Management and Quality
PART III: PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONS
8. Employee Behavior and Motivation
9. Leadership and Decision Making
10. Human Resource Management and Labor Relations
PART IV: PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH
CUSTOMERS FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
11. Marketing Processes and Consumer Behavior
12. Developing and Pricing Products
13. Distributing and Promoting Products
PART V: MANAGING INFORMATION FOR BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS
14. Information Technology (IT) for Business
15. The Role of Accountants and Accounting Information
PART VI: THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND ISSUES IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
16. Understanding Money and the Role of Banking
17. Managing Business Finances
Appendix I: Risk Management
Appendix II: The Legal Context of Business
Appendix III: Managing Your Personal Finances
Appendix IV: Unions and Labor Management
Ronald J. Ebert is Emeritus Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he lectures in the Management Department and serves as advisor to students and student organizations. Professor Ebert draws on more than thirty years of teaching experience at such schools as Sinclair College, University of Washington, University of Missouri, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania), and Consortium International University (Italy). His consulting alliances have included such firms as Mobay Corporation, Kraft Foods, Oscar Mayer, Atlas Powder, and John Deere. He has designed and conducted management development programs for such diverse clients as the American Public Power Association, the US Savings and Loan League, and the Central Missouri Manufacturing Training Consortium.
His experience as a practitioner has fostered an advocacy for integrating concepts with best business practices in business education. The five business books he has coauthored have been translated into Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Malaysian, Bahasa Indonesian, and Romanian languages. Professor Ebert has served as the Editor of the Journal of Operations Management. He is a Past President and Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. He has served as consultant and external evaluator for Quantitative Reasoning for Business Studies, an introduction-to-business project sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Ricky Griffin joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1981. During his career at Texas A&M, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in management, organizational behavior, human resource management, and international business. Professor Griffin’s research interests include workplace aggression and violence, organizational security, workplace culture, and leadership. His work has
A real-world business practices approach with timely current events topics
- New - Discussions on the emerging new relationship between the United States and Cuba.
- New - Coverage of the likely impact of Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States, the looming withdrawal of Great Britain from theEuropean Union, the increasing diversity of the labor force, the continuing impact of social media, and the slow but steady growth of the United States economy.
- Updated - Chapter Openers present real-world cases that introduce a variety of topics and highlight organizations like Netflix and Wegman’s, that students can easily relate to.
End-of-chapter features help students review and apply concepts and build skills
- New - back by popular demand!Five kinds of chapter-ending involvement activities -- to reinforce and practice the use of chapter concepts.
- A Building a Business: Continuing Team exercise is designed for student teams to develop business plans cumulatively from the ground up, chapter-by-chapter, throughout the course. Each chapter-ending assignment directs teams into discussions and applications of that chapter’s contents, which they apply to their team’s business plan.
- Exercising Your Ethics ask students to examine an ethical dilemma and think critically about how they would approach and resolve it.
Applied learning opportunities to enhance student leadership skills
- New - Managing in Turbulent Times demonstrates to students how to learn from disappointments and challenges real companies face.
- New - A look at recent IPOs, leadership in a virtual world, and workplace bullying.
Date de parution : 01-2018
Ouvrage de 704 p.
22.5x28.5 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 12 jours).
Prix indicatif 143,48 €
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