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1 Introduction to Management and Organizations
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1.1 beginning
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1.2 who Are Managers?
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1.3 why are Managers Important?
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1.4 where do Managers Work?
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1.5 What Is Management?
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1.6 What Do Managers Do?
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1.7 What are the factors that are reshaping and redefining the manager’s job?
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1.8 Why Study Management?
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2 Constraints and Challenges for the Global Manager
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2.1 The Manager: Omnipotent or Symbolic
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2.2 The Organization’s Culture
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2.3 Current Organizational Culture Issues Facing Managers
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2.4 The Environment
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3 Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics
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3.1 What Is Social Responsibility?
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3.2 Green Management
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3.3 Managers And Ethical Behavior
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3.4 Encouraging Ethical Behavior
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3.5 Social Responsibility And Ethics Issues In Today’s World
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4 Managers as Decision Makers
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4.1 The Decision-Making Process
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4.2 Four Ways Managers Make Decisions
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4.3 Types of Decisions and Decision-Making Conditions
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4.4 Decision-Making Styles
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4.5 Effective Decision Making In Today’s World
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5 Introduction to Planning
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5.1 The What and Why Of Planning
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5.2 Goals and Plans
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5.3 Setting Goals and Developing Plans
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5.4 Contemporary Issues in Planning
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6 Organizational Structure and Design
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6.1 Defining Organizational Structure
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6.2 Mechanistic and Organic Structures
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6.3 Common Organizational Designs
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7 Contemporary Organizational Design
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7.1 contemporary organizational designs
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7.2 how organizations organize for collaboration
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7.3 today’s organizational design challenges
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8 Motivating Employees
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8.1 What Is Motivation?
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8.2 Early Theories of Motivation
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8.3 Contemporary Theories of Motivation
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8.4 Current Issues in Motivation
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9 Manager as Leaders
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9.1 Who Are Leaders and What Is Leadership
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9.2 Early Leadership Theories
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9.3 Contingency Theories of Leadership
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9.4 Contemporary Views of Leadership
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9.5 Leadership Issues in the Twenty-First Century
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10 Introduction to Controlling
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10.1 What Is Control and Why Is It Important?
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10.2 The Control Process
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10.3 Controlling Organizational Performance
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10.4 Tools for Measuring Organizational Performance
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10.5 Contemporary Issues in Control