Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Fundamentals of Management, 4/e, an abridged version of Management, 8/e, provides up-to-date coverage to key functional areas (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling) plus new research and examples, all in a brief format. From respected author Ricky Griffin, this skills-based text gives instructors the flexibility to integrate their own cases, exercises, and projects while continuing to provide them with a strong theoretical framework.New Each chapter also contains either a Technology Toolkit, Business of Ethics, or Today' s Management Issues boxed feature. These are intended to briefly depart from the flow of the chapter to highlight or extend especially interesting or emerging points and issues relating to new technology and its role in management or ethical issues and questions facing managers today.New Test Preppers, located at the end of every chapter, prompt students with true/false and multiple-choice quizzes to gauge their retention and comprehension of chapter material. The answers are found at the end of the text.New HM e-Study Student CD-ROM is carefully tailored to supplement and enhance the content of the text, including ACE self-tests, selected videos, chapter outlines, company web links, a glossary, flashcards, learning objectives, ready notes, self-assessment exercises, and chapter summaries. The CD-ROM is free with the text.Knowledgebank Icon in the text refers students to the new Knowledgebank feature on the HM e-Study CD. Here they can find additional information about particular topics in the text. It can also be used to find further management knowledge or for a research project, and it can be found only on HM e-Study CD ROM.BuildingManagement Skills exercises appear throughout the text and are organized around the set of basic management skills introduced in Chapter 1. The Skills Self-Assessment Instrument helps readers learn something about their own approach to management. Finally, an Experiential Exercise provides additional action-oriented learning opportunities, usually for group settings.Pedagogical features that support learning are features throughout the text. In addition to the end-of-the-chapter exercises, every chapter includes important learning objectives, a chapter outline, an opening incident, boldface key terms, a summary of key points, questions for review, questions for analysis, and an end-of-the-chapter case with questions.Eduspace, a flexible, powerful, and customizable e-learning platform, provides instructors with text-specific online courses and content for Management, 4/e, Eduspace permits the instructor to create part or all of their course online using the widely recognized tools of Blackboard and quality text-specific content of Houghton Mifflin (HMCo). Instructors can quickly and easily assign homework exercises, quizzes and tests, tutorials and supplementary study materials. Pre-loaded material can be modified, or instructors can add their own.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Note: Each chapter includes a Summary of Key Points, Questions for Review, Questions for Analysis, Building Effective Skills, You Make the Call, Skills Self-Assessment Instrument, an Experiential Exercise, and a Case Study
• I An Introduction to Management
• 1 Understanding the Manager's Job
• An Introduction to Management
• The Evolution of Management
• Contemporary Management Theory
• 2 The Environment of Organizations and Managers
• The Organization's Environment
• The Ethical and Social Environment of Management
• The International Environment of Management
• The Organization's Culture
• II Planning
• 3 Planning and Strategic Management
• Planning and Organizational Goals
• The Nature of Strategic Management
• Using SWOT Analysis to Formulate Strategy
• Formulating Business-Level Strategies
• Formulating Corporate-Level Strategies
• Tactical Planning
• Operational Planning
• 4 Managing Decision Making
• The Nature of Decision Making
• Rational Perspectives on Decision Making
• Behavioral Aspects of Decision Making
• Group and Team Decision Making in Organizations
• 5 Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management
• The Nature of Entrepreneurship
• The Role of Entrepreneurship in Society
• Strategy for Entrepreneurial Organizations
• Structure of Entrepreneurial Organizations
• The Performance of Entrepreneurial Organizations
• III Organizing
• 6 Organization Structure and Design
• The Nature of Organizing
• The Bureaucratic Model of Organization Design
• Situational Influences on Organization Design
• Basic Forms of Organization Design
• Emerging Forms of Organization Design
• 7 Organization Change and Innovation
• The Nature of Organization
• Change Managing Change in Organizations
• Organization Development
• Organizational Innovation
• 8 Managing Human Resources
• The Environmental Context of Human Resource
• Management Attracting Human Resources
• Developing Human Resources
• Maintaining Human Resources
• Managing Workforce Diversity
• Managing Labor Relations
• IV Leading
• 9 Managing Individual Behavior
• Understanding Individuals in Organizations
• Personality and Individual Behavior
• Attitudes and Individual Behavior
• Perception and Individual Behavior
• Stress and Individual Behavior
• Creativity in Organizations
• Types of Workplace Behavior
• 10 Motivating Employee Performance
• The Nature of Motivation Content
• Perspectives on Motivation Process
• Perspectives on Motivation Reinforcement
• Perspectives on Motivation Popular
• Motivational Strategies
• Using Reward Systems to Motivate Performance
• 11 Leadership and Influence Processes
• The Nature of Leadership
• The Search for Leadership Traits Leadership
• Behaviors Situational Approaches to Leadership
• Related Perspectives on Leadership
• Political Behavior in Organizations
• 12 Communication in Organizations
• Communication and the Manager's Job
• Forms of Communication in Organizations
• Electronic Communication
• Informal Communication in Organizations
• Managing Organizational Communication
• 13 Managing Groups and Teams Groups and Teams in Organizations
• Characteristics of Groups and Teams
• Interpersonal and Intergroup Conflict Managing
• Conflict in Organizations
• V Controlling
• 14 Managing the Control Process
• The Nature of Control in Organizations
• Operations Control
• Financial Control
• Structural Control
• Managing Control in Organizations
• 15 Managing for Total Quality
• Managing Total Quality
• Managing Productivity
• Managing Quality Through Operations
• Management Using Operations
• Systems for Quality
• Appendix: Tools for Planning and Decision Making
• Forecasting: Sales and Revenue
• Forecasting
• Technological Forecasting
• Other Types of Forecasting
• Forecasting Techniques
• Other Planning Techniques: Linear Programming
• Breakeven Analysis
• Simulations
• PERT Decision-Making Tools: Payoff Matrices
• Decision Trees
• Other Techniques
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Planning Tools: Weaknesses and Problems
• Strengths and Advantages
• Summary of Key Points