The new edition of this successful textbook continues to provide a complete introduction to management.
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Introduction to Management: Principles, Practices, and Processes
Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach.
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The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change.
This edition now places greater emphasis on the applications of management science and use of computer software with less focus on algorithms.
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the founder of modern sociology, Max Weber, identified and distinguished between three forms of 'legitimate authority,' or three ways in which authority that might be socially grounded and legitimated within a social group.