Prepare today to become a strong, effective manager tomorrow with the powerful insights, solid concepts, and reader-friendly approach in ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, Eleventh Edition. This text equips readers with the skills and practical understanding to meet the management challenges of a new century. Readers delve into the fundamentals of human behavior in today’s organizations as …
Understanding and Managing Diversity: Readings, Cases, and Exercises (6th Edition)
For undergraduate and graduate courses in human resources. A diverse approach to understanding and managing diversity. Understanding and Managing Diversity uses applications to clarify the complexity of a diverse workforce, and explains how it can be used as an organizational asset. This text also provides students with a wide range of expertise—from the perspective of experienced …
Unique and current insight on the everyday processes and phenomena of OB. Behavior in Organizations shows readers the real world of OB through its blend of cutting-edge research and practical applications. This text then challenges readers to take theory one step further by having them put the concepts into action. The many changes in the tenth …
Packed with the latest research, court findings, and best practices from the field, Gatewood/Feild/Barrick’s HUMAN RESOURCE SELECTION, 8E equips learners and practitioners alike with the tools to develop and implement effective selection programs within today’s unique organizations. With an engaging presentation, the book focuses on the most important legal, global and ethical concerns; psychometric measurement concepts; job analysis; …
A philosopher/mechanic’s wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one’s hands Called “the sleeper hit of the publishing season” (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both economic and …
Certo’s Supervision: Concepts and Skill-Building 8e prepares students to be supervisors in a challenging modern workplace. It is based on the premise that organizational variables including diversity in the workforce, computer and communication technology, and the design of organization structures are constantly changing. Overall, this text focuses on discussing important supervision concepts and providing fundamental skills necessary for …
Supervision Today has earned a reputation of being the one of the most effective supervision books because it blends traditional and contemporary topics, as well as theories and experiential skills. Offering a three-tier learning system, it focuses on building readers’ knowledge, improving their comprehension and applying concepts directly to skill development. Known for its lively tone and …
Small Business Management: Launching and Growing Entrepreneurial Ventures
Help your students realize their dreams of small business success with this market-leading book. SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: LAUNCHING AND GROWING ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES, 16E provides the practical concepts, entrepreneurial insights, and comprehensive resources essential for students’ success now and throughout your management future. This edition’s solid coverage of the fundamentals of business management teaches not only how to start …
This book is an entertaining and practical guide for every trainer and performance improvement professional as it tackles the three universal and persistent questions of the profession—how do learners learn, why do learners learn, and how do you ensure that learning sticks. This interactive book with it fun and breezy style illustrate the authors’ point of view that …
Managing Human Resources: Productivity, Quality of Work Life, Profits
Managing Human Resources is for the general management student whose job inevitably will involve responsibility for managing people. It explicitly links the relationship between productivity, quality of work life, and profits to various human resource management activities and as such, strengthens the students’ perception of human resource management as an important function, which affects individuals, organizations, and society. …