Management, Global Edition, 13th Edition

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. 

This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to students outside the United States.

Help Students Interpret and Analyze Data

Essentials of Organizational Behavior employs the following techniques to facilitate learning:

REVISED! Content covered has been extensively increased and updated to include the newest research, relevant discussion, and new exhibits on current issues of all aspects of organizational behavior.

• NEW! Increased integration of contemporary global issues was added into topic discussions.

• NEW! Implications for Managers section applies chapter topics together to practical applications for managers.

• NEW! Global icons indicate material that can be applied specifically to international cases.
  • Globalization, diversity, and ethics are integrated into the material to address issues such as cross-cultural differences that may arise in OB situations.
• NEW! P.I.A. (Personal Inventory Assessment) is a new assessment tool available to students.
• NEW! The glossary and Index have been separated into different sections to provide more information and easier navigation to the text.
• Examples are extensively used throughout the text to relate the concepts to real life.
• A focus on theory helps readers see the connection between OB theories, research, and implications for practice.
• Teaches students how to minimize the intrusion of emails and the management of information.
• Provides Information on dealing with job enrichment, bonuses, effective feedback, and alternative work arrangements.
• Covers the importance of social relationships at work and its relation to job satisfaction and motivation.
• Covers emerging literature on functional conflict, dysfunctional conflict, and conflict management
• Explores issues in the workplace, such as:
  • Safety and emotions
  • Risk aversion
  • Self-determination theory
  • Managing information
  • Downsizing

Concise, Brief format allows for:

• Considerable flexibility in assigning supporting materials and projects.
• Balanced topic coverage of all necessary Organizational Behavior topics.
• Direct, to the point text allows students to absorb the information they need without distractions.

Interesting, engaging, and widely used text has allowed this book to be translated into various languages and enjoyed by students worldwide.

Prepare Your Students for the Job Market

• NEW. A focus on skills and careers. Throughout the new edition, the authors emphasize the work skills that both future managers and successful employees will need.
  NEW. It's Your Career chapter openers describe critical work skills that employers look for including: managing time, developing your global perspective, finding a mentor, being self-aware, becoming a leader, setting goals, and more. Students can test their understanding of each skill in MyManagementLab.
• NEW. Future Vision added to each chapter. Based on current trends, this feature provides insights into what tomorrow’s work world may be like.

Keep content current

An Updated Table of Contents:

• Since everything a manager does involves making decisions, the decision-making chapter now appears in Part I.
• Part II has been expanded to include chapters dealing with the basics of managing in today's workplace (environment/culture, global, diversity, social responsibility/ethics, and change/innovation).
• The control chapter now appears as its own part.
• The entrepreneurial ventures material now appears in the Planning part.
• NEW. New topics include big data, gamification, leaning in, twenty-percent-time innovation initiatives, stretch goals, social media, and wearable technology, and more.

Also available with MyManagementLab—the online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that fosters learning within and beyond the classroom. MyManagementLab combines homework, tutorial, and assessment with a dynamic set of tools for gauging both individual and class performance. You always know how your students are doing, and can engage each one to improve performance.

• NEW! Personal Inventory Assessment (PIA): Student learn better when they can connect what they are learning to their personal experience. PIA (Personal Inventory Assessments) is a collection of online exercises designed to promote self-reflection and engagement in students, enhancing their ability to connect with concepts taught in principles of management, organizational behavior, and human resource management classes. Assessments are assignable by instructors who can then track students’ completions. Student results include a written explanation along with a graphic display that shows how their results compare to the class as a whole. Instructors will also have access to this graphic representation of results to promote classroom discussion.