Up-to-date in content and approach, this comprehensive yet accessible text will be invaluable to all levels of management students, on both competence-based and conventional academic programmes, including business degree courses, single semesters in management and foundation examinations of professional bodies. It will also prove useful for practising managers wishing to update existing skills, since it includes the most recent management concepts, theories and best practice. The book addresses all of those competencies specified by the Management Charter Initative and indicates them at the beginning of each chapter. The text is extensively illustrated with tables, diagrams and charts for easy access of data and information.
Defining the Subject Area: the Problems of Management Managing Ourselves Managing People The Management of Human Resources The Organisational Domain Management Processes Management Functions Entrepreeneurship and Small Medium Sized Enterprises
Tony Dawson is a senior lecturer at the Liverpool Business School, John Moores University and has previously lectured at the University of Liverpool. He has provided business and management consultancy for several major organisations.
"I can recommend this book which covers in depth those management issues related to the modern business organisation..." -- Professor Tom Cannon.