Management: The Essentials

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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• Chapter 1: Managers and management
• Chapter 2: How organisations operate
• Chapter 3: The external organisational environment
• Chapter 4: Managing social responsibility and ethical behaviour
• Chapter 5: Making decisions
• Chapter 6: Planning
• Chapter 7: Organisational structure and design
• Chapter 8: Managing work groups and teams
• Chapter 9: Managing human resources
• Chapter 10: Managing change and innovation
• Chapter 11: Understanding individual behaviour
• Chapter 12: Motivating and rewarding employees
• Chapter 13: Leadership and trust
• Chapter 14: Managing organisational and interpersonal communication
• Chapter 15: Controlling work and organisational processes
• Chapter 16: Managing entrepreneurial ventures
• Appendix: A brief history of management's roots

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Stephen P. Robbins is Professor Emeritus of Management at San Diego State University and the world's best-selling textbook author in the areas of both management and organisational behaviour. His books are used at more than a thousand US colleges and universities; have been translated into 19 languages; and have adapted editions for Canada, Australia, South Africa, India and the Middle East. Dr Robbins is also the author of the best-selling books The Truth about Managing People (4th edn, Pearson, 2014) and Decide & Conquer (2nd edn, Pearson, 2015).

Mary Coulter received her PhD from the University of Arkansas. She held different jobs including high school teacher, legal assistant, and city government program planner before completing her graduate work. She has taught at Drury University, the University of Arkansas, Trinity University, and Missouri State University. She is currently professor emeritus of management at Missouri State University. In addition to Management, Dr. Coulter has published other books with Pearson including Fundamentals of Management (with Stephen P. Robbins), Strategic Management in Action, and Entrepreneurship in Action.

David A. DeCenzo (PhD, West Virginia University) is president of Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. He has been at Coastal since 2002 when he took over leadership of the E. Craig Wall Sr College of Business. As president, Dr DeCenzo has implemented a comprehensive strategic planning process, ensured fiscal accountability through policy and practice, and promoted assessment and transparency throughout the university. Before joining the Coastal faculty, he served as director of partnership development in the College of Business and Economics at Towson University in Maryland. He is an experienced industry consultant, corporate trainer, public speaker and board member. Dr DeCenzo is the author of numerous textbooks that are used widely at colleges and universities throughout the United States and the world.

Megan Woods (PhD, University of Tasmania) is a senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania, where she teaches management, human resource management and qualitative research methods. Her overarching interest in experiential learning informs her research and teaching. Dr Woods's research focuses on adaptive learning at individual and organisational levels, with a particular focus on experiential learning in organisational settings and learning related to the management of mental health issues in the workplace. She is a keen methodologist with a special interest in computer-supported qualitative and mixed methods research. Her research on these and other topics has appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Learning and Education, Work, Employment and Society and the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. She has also developed a suite of learning resources (with colleagues Angela Martin, Rob Macklin and Sarah Dawkins) for the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management to teach managers about supervising employees with mental health issues.