Effective Management: A Multimedia Approach

Management theory isn't mysterious anymore! EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT: A MULTIMEDIA APPROACH brings you time-tested theories and information along with the most extensive multimedia package available. And when you combine that with its unique storytelling approach, you've got the best management textbook around. Inside you'll find MP3 lecture recordings, videos of the author giving extra tips, and a self-test bank that will make test time no problem.

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Providing "all kinds of resources for all kinds of minds," this text introduces management functions, environments, and responsibilities; how to make things happen; meeting the global competition innovatively; organizing people, projects, and processes; and leadership. Includes actual case examples and meta-analyses; chapter- end critical thinking video cases and exercises to develop management potential; color graphics; a glossary of terms; three online student support modules (a study guide audio CD, a video case on CD-ROM, and a CD-ROM multimedia version of the text); and a chart correlating these multimedia resources with text chapters. An instructor's resource CD- ROM is available. Williams teaches management at Texas Christian U. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Award-winning author Chuck Williams is Dean of the School of Business at Butler University. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Valparaiso University. He specialized in Organizational Behavior, Human Resources, and Strategic Management while earning his M.B.A and Ph.D. in Business Administration from Michigan State University. Chuck has taught at Michigan State University, Oklahoma State University, and Texas Christian University, where he also served as Associate Dean of the Neeley School of Business and Chair of the Management Department. He has also served as Dean of the Eberhardt School of Business at the University of the Pacific. Chuck's research interests include employee recruitment and turnover, performance appraisal, and employee training and goal-setting. He has published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, Personnel Psychology, and the Organizational Research Methods Journal. Chuck has consulted for numerous organizations, including General Motors, IBM, and JCPenney. He teaches several courses, but has taught his favorite, Introduction to Management, for nearly 20 years. His teaching philosophy focuses on four principles: (1) courses should be engaging and interesting; (2) nothing is as practical as a good theory; (3) students learn by doing; and (4) students learn when they are challenged. Chuck has earned numerous department, business school and university teaching awards for his approach.