Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concept and Cases, eBook, Global Edition

Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concept and Cases, eBook, Global Edition
Author: William Hesterly
Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2015-02-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1292070080

For courses in strategy and strategic management. Core strategic management concepts without the excess. Just the essentials, Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage strips out excess by only presenting material that answers the question: does this concept help students analyze real business situations? This carefully crafted approach provides students with all the tools necessary for strategic analysis. MyManagementLab for Strategic Management is a total learning package. MyManagementLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that truly engages students in learning. It helps students better prepare for class, quizzes, and exams—resulting in better performance in the course—and provides educators a dynamic set of tools for gauging individual and class progress. Please note that the product you are purchasing does not include MyManagementLabLab. MyManagementLabLab Join over 11 million students benefiting from Pearson MyLabs. This title can be supported by MyManagementLabLab, an online homework and tutorial system designed to test and build your understanding. Would you like to use the power of MyManagementLabLab to accelerate your learning? You need both an access card and a course ID to access MyManagementLabLab. These are the steps you need to take: 1. Make sure that your lecturer is already using the system Ask your lecturer before purchasing a MyLab product as you will need a course ID from them before you can gain access to the system. 2. Check whether an access card has been included with the book at a reduced cost If it has, it will be on the inside back cover of the book. 3. If you have a course ID but no access code, you can benefit from MyManagementLabLab at a reduced price by purchasing a pack containing a copy of the book and an access code for MyManagementLabLab (ISBN:9781292060378) 4. If your lecturer is using the MyLab and you would like to purchase the product... Go to www.mymanagementlab.com to buy access to this interactive study programme. For educator access, contact your Pearson representative. To find out who your Pearson representative is, visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/replocator

Management Information Systems

Management Information Systems
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789702605287

Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.

Selling Today: Partnering to Create Value, Global Edition

Selling Today: Partnering to Create Value, Global Edition
Author: Gerald L Manning
Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2015-01-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1292065249

For courses in Sales and Personal Selling. Selling Today: Partnering to Create Value helps students understand the value of developing their personal selling skills by exposing them to a careful integration of personal selling academic theory and real-world applications. And with the largest number of learn by doing materials available in any personal selling text, Manning/Ahearne/Reece offers instructors a variety of teaching tools to strengthen the learning process. As the developed nations of the world transition from a production focus to a sales-and-service focus, this edition prepares students to succeed as members of a new generation of businesspeople. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Organizational Behavior

Organizational Behavior
Author: Stephen P. Robbins
Publisher: Pearson South Africa
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781868918539

Robbins/Judge provide the research you want in the language your students understand; accompanied with the best selling self-assessment software, SAL. Some topics include management functions; the social sciences; helping employees balance work and other responsibilities; improving people skills; improving customer service; motivational concepts; communication; power and politics; conflict and negotiation; culture; and stress management. Globally accepted and written by one of the most foremost authors in the field, this is a necessary read for all managers, human resource workers, and anyone needing to understand and improve their people skills.

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management
Author: Gary Dessler
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789684444881

For Human Resource Management (HRM) and Personnel courses. The #1 best-selling HRM book in the market, Dessler's Human Resource Management provides a comprehensive review of personnel management concepts and practices in a highly readable form. This edition focuses on the high-performance organization building better, faster, more competitive organizations through HR; while continuing to offer practical applications that help all managers deal with their personnel-related responsibilities.

Management, Global Edition

Management, Global Edition
Author: Stephen P. Robbins
Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1292090219

For undergraduate Principles of Management courses REAL Managers, REAL Experiences With a renewed focus on skills and careers, the new edition of this bestselling text can help better prepare your students to enter the job market. Management, Thirteenth Edition vividly illustrates effective management theories by incorporating the perspectives of real-life managers. Through examples, cases, and hands-on exercises, students will see and experience management in action, helping them understand how the concepts they’re learning actually work in today’s dynamic business world. Students will gain hands-on practice applying management concepts with MyManagementLab. They’ll engage in real business situations with simulations, build their management skills by writing and talking about different management scenarios, have access to a video library to help put concepts into perspective, and more. Also available with MyManagementLab MyManagementLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. Please note that the product you are purchasing does not include MyManagementLab. MyManagementLab Join over 11 million students benefiting from Pearson MyLabs This title can be supported by MyManagementLab, an online homework and tutorial system designed to test and build your understanding. Would you like to use the power of MyManagementLab to accelerate your learning? You need both an access card and a course ID to access MyManagementLab. These are the steps you need to take: 1. Make sure that your lecturer is already using the system Ask your lecturer before purchasing a MyLab product as you will need a course ID from them before you can gain access to the system. 2. Check whether an access card has been included with the book at a reduced cost If it has, it will be on the inside back cover of the book. 3. If you have a course ID but no access code, you can benefit from MyManagementLab at a reduced price by purchasing a pack containing a copy of the book and an access code for MyManagementLab (ISBN:9781292090313) 4. If your lecturer is using the MyLab and you would like to purchase the product... Go to www.mymanagementlab.com to buy access to this interactive study programme. For educator access, contact your Pearson representative. To find out who your Pearson representative is, visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/replocator

Fundamentals of Management

Fundamentals of Management
Author: Stephen P. Robbins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780130176011

Whether the topic is understanding e-business, six sigma, workplace violence, knowledge workers, Internet job searches, or visionary leadership, Stephen Robbins and David DeCenzo cover it thoroughly and in a way that truly captures the issues facing managers in the twenty-first century. Its not enough just to know about managementyou have to possess the skills to match! With Robbins and DeCenzos new edition, youll learn so much about the real world of management, including: *Why Amazon.com is revolutionizing the book-selling industry *How SiloCaf, a coffee bean processing plant, uses sophisticated technologically-based controls to enhance productivity and ensure consistent quality in its work *Why companies like London Fog are struggling to survive *How teams at Hewlett-Packard redesigned a production process, cut waste, controlled costs, and increased productivity *New techniques that can make a university more efficient and responsive to its students

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
Author: Gary Dessler
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Personnel management
ISBN: 9780132994903

"Fundamentals of Human Resource Management covers a wide range of HR topics and shows students the importance of human resource management within the restraints of a compact semester. Offering a wealth of functional examples and applications, this text emphasizes the notion that all managers need basic human resource management skills."--Publisher's website.

Strategic Management in Action

Strategic Management in Action
Author: Mary Coulter
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Strategic planning
ISBN: 9780132620673

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Strategic Management. Current theories and practice in an interesting, engaging, and easy-to-read format. Strategic Management in Action presents current strategic management theories and practice in an engaging and easy-to-read format. Coulter effectively blends theory with plenty of opportunity to practice throughout the text, providing students with the ideologies, ethical dilemmas, and unique strategies of today's real managers and organizations in action. The sixth edition continues to present current strategic management theories and practices in an interesting, engaging, and easy-to-read format. There is also a new emphasis on color and photos, making this edition a more visually engaging text for students.