Fundamentals of Management: Essential Concepts and Applications (6th Edition) [Paperback]

Stephen P. Robbins (Author), David A. DeCenzo (Author), Henry Moon (Contributor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall,2007; 6 edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0136007104
• ISBN-13: 978-0136007104
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Low Quality Printing and Poor Examples, July 17, 2006

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John C. Ayers "Always Right" (Jacksonville, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Management: Essential Concepts and Applications, 5th Edition (Paperback)

This text was published on the cheap. Be forewarned that even the condensation from a glass of ice water, transferred by your hand to the page, can cause a paragraph of text to run easily. The binding is also not well constructed. I would have preferred an electronic edition of this book due to the sheerly poor nature of its print quality. As for the text itself, it is often contradictory and perpetuates myths that have long been debunked in the business world. In one of my favorite examples, the book praises organizational planning and rigid structure, referring to systems that sound like communist five year plans; the book then proceeds to upend its argument by touting that Steve Jobs and Apple Computer have been successful not just in spite of organization structure but rather because they have turned the old concepts upside-down. Some would say this simply shows the book being fair and balanced. Unfortunately, many times it simply comes off somewhere between pedantic and silly.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars College student review, May 20, 2010

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Kyle Morrison "Fallen Angel" (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Management: Essential Concepts and Applications (6th Edition) (Paperback)

I used this book in my business class. I found a few chapter's completely uninformative and rather boring. One such chapter was on communication and the other was on motivation. Either of which, if you have basic common sense is more helpful then the textbook.

The book is also very contradictory in its writing and examples. It seemed to me the author's had an agenda which was to push the business practices and ideas they deem the best, then bash the rest in a sneaky backhanded way. Then later on in the same chapter compliment the other side, as a means to try to make it balanced.

I would never use this book for personal exploration or knowledge not worth it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Management 300, March 10, 2001

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Jennifer Fogler (Harlaxton College- Grantham England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamentals of Management: Essential Concepts and Applications (Paperback)

I found Fundamentals of Management to be a very well organized and informative learning tool. The chapters start simply and build upon one another in a manner that facilitates retention-(in order to learn from one chapter you must have understood the previous one.) This book develops a solid management base that will enable a student to succeed in the rest of their managerial education. Each chapter is prefaced with a prevalant example of a current managerial situation that ties directly to the chapter's content. These real life examples help to encorporate what the student learns with how it applies to today. The combination of these examples and the diagrams and pictures that are distributed throughout the chapters, present an easy to understand and current depiction of management. The sectioning of the chapters and the questions at the end of each chapter help the student to organize the important information in their own mind. These questions emphasize the important points and give students a place to begin when it's time to study. This form of presentation is very student friendly and will definitely enhance their learning experience