Contemporary Management

well, literally I bought this book for my management class. it is past edition. a little different and I was not able to sell it back to bookstore after the semester. but, cheap and new book. I used it and I was satisfied.

This is a great text. It really dives into the inner workings of managing. I would recommend this text for any graduate student.

I used this text while teaching an Introduction to Management class to undergraduates at SUNY. It is comprehensive, well produced, up-to-date and has a lot of engaging real world examples. However, it's very expensive. Strengths: - Business Week excerpts at the end of each chapter allow students to examine real companies and real managers - Case problems are pitched at the right level - short, but with enough content to make the students think - DVD has some excellent content, especially on the entrepreneurship chapter. Many "Hot Seat" segments depict provocative scenarios such as sexual harassment that engage students and stimulate discussion. - Case materials are integrated into the text instead of being presented in "boxes" that disturb the chapter flow. - Good material on women in management. - Well produced - Comprehensive: the only material I added was on problem-solving and analysis skills, and some extra depth in business strategy. Could be better: - The book lumps business strategy under "planning", which understates its importance. The boring material on business planning gets more space than the interesting topic of competitive strategy. The business strategy material focuses on SWOT analysis and (briefly) Porter's Five Forces model. I would have liked to see some material on the resource-based view - such as core competencies - which is intuitive enough for undergraduates. - The online test material is mostly multiple choice/ fill in the missing word, and in my view tests facts more than management concepts. I found this entirely inadequate and used none of it. I ended up writing a lot of short answer questions. - The authors use a strange selection of tools in the section on psychology. There is no mention of Myers-Briggs or Belbin, which are widely used in the real business world. - The text is very expensive. I felt guilty asking some students to pay this much.

The book was in very good condition and arrived just in time before classes began. Shipping was fast and the book was exactly what I needed.

This was a great course book for use with my business class Itook last term. I had current up to date examples and was veryreadable.