Contemporary Management with Student CD-ROM and PowerWeb [Hardcover]

Gareth R. Jones (Author), Jennifer M. George (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072551003 | ISBN-13: 978-0072551006 | Publication Date: May 2, 2002 | Edition: 3rd

When first introduced to the market in 1998, Contemporary Management, by Jones and George made a huge splash with its innovative voice, content, pedagogy, design, and package. The cutting-edge 3rd Edition continues to redefine what principles of management texts should look, sound, and feel like. Authors Gareth Jones and Jennifer George are dedicated to the challenge of "Making It Real" for students. As a team, they are uniquely qualified to write about both the strategic imperative for managers and organizational challenges that real managers face! Their combined research and text-writing experience is matched by no author team today. Contemporary Management is a comprehensive text that surveys the theoretical underpinnings of modern management thought and research and through a variety of real world examples from small, medium, and large companies shows the reader how those ideas are used by practicing managers. Of course, the organization of this text follows the mainstream functional approach of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling; but the content is flexible and encourages instructors to use the organization they are most comfortable with. The themes of diversity, ethics, and information technology have been greatly expanded in the 3rd Edition through in-text examples, photographs, "unboxed" stories, and the end-of-chapter material - all areas of importance that truly serve to bring to life the workplace realities that today's student will encounter in the course of a career.

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About the Author

Gareth Jones, Texas A And M University. Gareth Jones is a professor in the management department of the College of Business Administration and the Graduate School of Business and Texas AAndM University. He is co-author on three other major textbooks, including one on organizational behavior (accolades he shares with CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT co-author and wife, Jennifer George), one on organizational theory, and a one on strategic management. Jones received his BA And PhD from University of Lancaster, UK. He has taught at University Warwick, Michigan State University, and University of Illinois/ Urbana-Champaign

Jennifer George is a well-published professor as is now the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate. School of Business at Rice University. She is co-author of the aforementioned organizational behavior book. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her MBA And PhD from New York University.

Charles Hill received his Ph.D. in industrial organization economics from the University of Manchesters Institute of Science and Technology. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence in both the undergraduate, MBA, and executive MBA programs at the University of Washington. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Richard D Irwin; 3rd edition (May 2, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072551003
• ISBN-13: 978-0072551006
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,055,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, March 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Contemporary Management (Hardcover)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly Written, September 15, 2004

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Kevin R. Cotter (Prior Lake, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Contemporary Management with Student CD-ROM and PowerWeb (Hardcover)

This was the required text for a class, as we had a very lazy instructor who relied 100% on the book to teach her class - including the quiz questions. The book is very wordy, contains many poor examples, and contains language that is downright wrong and confusing at times. I wrote the authors about some of the questions/concerns I had and recieved the most poorly written reply from the author - a PhD and professor at Texas A&M. He would have had trouble passing High School English from the email he sent.

The quiz questions within the book were very poorly written. The class, as a whole, used reason and argument to overturn over 10% of the books answers within the class.

Below is the reply from Professor Gareth Jones
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hello kevin

writing a textbook and keeping its lenght within limits is always a major problem for authors. ther short answer to your quesiton is that the "invalidated theories are discussed because many instructors want them, and many people out there still think they are valid. by the end of each chapter you see how far research has come and how complex thew topic really is. our goal is to help people understand the compleixty of the issues involved and that management is not a cut and dried issue but one intimately tied up with the appraoch and beliefs of each manager

our text is rarely regarded as being wordy, quite the opposite as people find our examples and boxes interesting, i dontg know what your own background is possibly computers/engineering? its always hard crossing disciplines, and the issues you raise with motivation are addressed in adsvanced classes inside management departments for majors and for MBAs

the test bank is another issue, and i have forwarded your comments to the publisheds who are responsible for that

possibly by the end of the book, and having digested what is a lot of material, you can think back to whaty you knew before the course and wehat you know now and you find that we will have added value to your understand, that is our goal anyway and one thats is succeeding as our book is one of the most widely used across the U.S.

good luck, gareth

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contemporary Management, December 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Contemporary Management (Hardcover)

This book was an excellent book on the principles of management. The student CD was a great help in reviewing each chapter prior to class. The quizzes also helped in understanding the objectives. Would reccommend this book to anyone taking a business course.