Brings together the different areas within one text to offer a more integrative understanding of business and management, thereby addressing concerns about the fragmentation and 'silo' nature of traditional MBA teaching.

The Ninth Edition of this award-winning text offers abundant instructor resources to simplify the planning and delivery of a successful course with emphasis on: electronic messages and digital media, professionalism, communication technology, and employment communication.

Offers the fundamental information businesspeople need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. This title is suitable for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.

Mentoring is the most cost-efficient and sustainable method of fostering and developing talent within your organisation. This book explains what mentoring is, what various models there are and how these differ from coaching. It shows you how to make a business case for mentoring and then how to set up, run and maintain your own programme.

How do businesses go beyond prescriptive policies and make the shift from the 'low road' of cost to the 'high road' of innovation and value? This ground-breaking book gives a clear analysis of the context and the challenges, and offers managers and consultants a range of ideas that could take their companies well beyond 'business as usual'.

Introduce your students to the latest concepts in strategic thinking with this industry-leading text. Exploring Strategy tackles the biggest issues surrounding the operation, growth, and innovation of organisations. With longer case studies included in the Text & Cases edition your students will gain deeper insight into the manager-way of thinking.

Every manager, every coach, every HR professional, every trainer, every team leader - anyone who needs to get the best out of a group needs to know how to facilitate.

Your stomach's churning; you're hyperventilating you're in a badly deteriorating conversation at work. This book shows how to master the combat mentality, emotional maelstrom, and confusion that poison difficult conversations. It explains why we turn to ineffective tactics when the heat is on; and how to avoid the pitfalls of such conversations.

Adopting an innovative, open-learning approach to introduce the main principles of financial management in an accessible, non-technical way, this fully updated seventh edition provides a unique focus on the practical application of financial management and its role in decision making.

Offers a framework for transition acceleration that will help leaders diagnose their situations, craft winning transition strategies, and take charge quickly. This book shows how to learn about new organizations, build teams, create coalitions, secure early wins, and lay the foundation for longer-term success.

Interwoven with the fictional story of a woman who becomes CEO of a struggling, high-profile company with a dysfunctional executive team is an analysis of the five corruptions, diagnostic questions to help readers assess their organizations, and a teamwork model of the action steps to overcome the corruptions.

Interwoven with the fictional story of a woman who becomes CEO of a struggling, high-profile company with a dysfunctional executive team is an analysis of the five corruptions, diagnostic questions to help readers assess their organizations, and a teamwork model of the action steps to overcome the corruptions.

Fast food is a modern day evil, right! It's making us fat. It's making our children fat. Big Fast Food companies are out to take over the world,starting with our eating habits. Or are they? This book presents a very different side to fast food, a funny side,a human side,even (whisper it) a tasty side.

Technology companies are making millions from content created and funded by others, reducing the value of culture in the process. How did the media industry lose control over its destiny? What are the consequences? And are we headed for cultural meltdown if the media can't stop the free ride? This title deals with these questions.

Fundamentals of Strategy provides a comprehensive overview of the techniques for strategy from the authors of the market-leading Exploring Strategy. With easy-to-follow, well-structured content, the book contains illustrations, summaries and case studies to help students get a thorough understanding of strategy across different industries.

Highlights what every business needs to be aware of and prepare for to prosper and survive in the future

A guide to negotiation. Including principles such as: Don't bargain over positions; Separate the people from the problem; and, Insist on objective criteria, it simplifies the whole negotiation process, offering an effective framework that ensures success.

Bold, practical strategies that will shatter the glass wall in the workplace, and boost any woman's career

The new edition of Janet Morrison's engaging and comprehensive textbook explores the economic, political, social, legal and cultural environments in which businesses operate. Thoroughly updated, now featuring videos and interactive ebook, it challenges readers to think critically about the challenges and responsibilities of global issues.