The Manager's Bookshelf: International Edition

Directed primarily toward undergraduate/graduate Management or Business college/university majors, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals. The Manager’s Bookshelf: A Mosaic of Contemporary Views is a collection of objective summaries from a broad sampling of bestselling business books. Presenting readers with a collage of information to improve their knowledge of management practices, this text introduces the philosophies, views, and experiences of several authors whose works have captivated the attention of today's management community.

Table of Contents:
  Preface Acknowledgments About the Editors   I. INTRODUCTION Reading 1: Understanding and Using the Best Sellers, by Jon L. Pierce and John W. Newstrom Reading 2: Reflections on the Best Sellers and A Cautionary Note, by Jon L. Pierce and John W. Newstrom, with Larry L. Cummings, Brad Jackson, and Anne Cummings II. BEST-SELLER “CLASSICS” Reading 1: The Practice of Management, by Peter F. Drucker Reading 2: The One Minute Manager, by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson    Reading 3: Out of the Crisis, by W. Edwards Deming             Reading 4: The Human Side of Enterprise, by Douglas McGregor    Reading 5: Maslow on Management, by Abraham H. Maslow       Reading 6: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey    Reading 7: The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge                      Reading 8: Competitive Advantage, by Michael E. Porter               III:  HIGH- AND LOW-PERFORMING ORGANIZATIONS Reading 1: Good to Great, by Jim Collins    Reading 2: Big Winners and Big Losers, by Alfred Marcus    Reading 3: How the Mighty Fall, by Jim Collins                  IV.  ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY AND EXECUTION Reading 1: Higher Ambition by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Reading 2: Responsible Restructuring, by Wayne F. Cascio            V. ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Reading 1: Organizational Culture and Leadership, by Edgar H. Schein Reading 2: Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor, by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, and James O’Toole       VI.  MOTIVATION Reading 1: The Enthusiastic Employee, by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer       Reading 2: Psychological Capital, by Fred Luthans, Carolyn M. Youssef, and Bruce J. Avolio    Reading 3: Why Pride Matters More Than Money, by Jon R. Katzenbach    Reading 4: Mojo, by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter            VII.  LEADERSHIP AND POWER Reading 1: Positive Leadership, by Kim Cameron             Reading 2: Bad Leadership, by Barbara Kellerman    Reading 3: Power, by Jeffrey Pfeffer   PART VIII. TEAMS AND TEAMWORK Reading 1: Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems, by J. Richard Hackman Reading 2: Beyond Teams, by Michael M. Beyerlein, Sue Freedman, Craig McGee, and Linda Moran          IX. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Reading 1: Building the Bridge as You Walk on It, by Robert E. Quinn          Reading 2: A Sense of Urgency, by John P. Kotter               X. “UNDISCUSSABLE” ISSUES AT WORK Reading 1: Workplace Survival, by Ella W. VanFleet and David D. VanFleet Reading 2: The No-Asshole Rule, by Robert I. Sutton             Reading 3: It’s All Politics, by Kathleen Kelley Reardon                     XI. MANAGERIAL DECISION-MAKING Reading 1: Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman Reading 2: Super Crunchers, by Ian Ayres Reading 3: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, by Gerd Gigerenzer      XII.  ETHICS AND AUTHENTICITY IN THE WORKPLACE Reading 1:Blind Spot, by Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel Reading 2: Authentic Leadership, by Bill George   XIII. EMOTIONS: POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, AND IRRATIONAL Reading 1: Prisoners of Our Thoughts, by Alex Pattakos    Reading 2: Toxic Emotions at Work, by Peter J. Frost    Reading 3: The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely      XIV.  SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES AT WORK Reading 1: Groundswell, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff Reading 2: Content Rules, by Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman      XV. MANAGEMENT FABLES: LESSONS FOR SUCCESS Reading 1: Who Moved My Cheese?, by Spencer Johnson Reading 2: Fish! by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen          Reading 3: The Fun-Minute Manager, by Bob Pike, Robert C. Ford, and John W. Newstrom          XVI. CONTEMPORARY THINKING ABOUT MANAGEMENT Reading 1: What Were They Thinking?, by Jeffrey Pfeffer    Reading 2: Managing, by Henry Mintzberg             Reading 3: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense, by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton    Reading 4: Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas Friedman                  Glossary of Terms Bibliography of Inclusions Index