Master the process of management with Griffin’s “Fundamentals of Management” 11th Edition. Content focuses on active planning, leading, organizing and controlling as you examine emerging management topics. Explore the impact of technology, the importance of a green business environment, the need to adapt, ethical challenges, diversity, the growing impact of AI, emerging issues of hybrid work and conflict resolution. The text examines the impact of COVID-19 and its resulting economic turmoil. Cases and learning features help balance classic theory and contemporary practice. Hundreds of examples highlight organizations such as Starbucks, Hilton Hotels and Quicken Loans. MindTap digital resources guide you to think and act like successful managers with learning, application and study modules for each chapter. Immediate feedback and links to the printed book also help you prepare for exams.
Part I: AN INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT.
1. Understanding the Manager's Job.
2. The Environment of Organizations and Managers.
Part II: PLANNING.
3. Planning and Strategic Management.
4. Managing Decision Making.
5. Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management.
Part III: ORGANIZING.
6. Organization Structure and Design.
7. Organization Change and Innovation.
8. Managing Human Resources in Organizations.
Part IV: LEADING.
9. Basic Elements of Individual Behavior in Organizations.
10. Managing Employee Motivation and Performance.
11. Leadership and Influence Processes.
12. Communication in Organizations.
13. Managing Work Groups, Teams, and Conflict.
Part V: CONTROLLING.
14. Basic Elements of Control.
15. Managing Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Productivity.
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Ricky Griffin
Dr. Ricky W. Griffin is Distinguished Professor of Management and the Blocker Chair in Business in Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Houston in 1978, Dr. Griffin joined the faculty at the University of Missouri for three years before moving to Texas A&M in 1981. His research on task design and dysfunctional work behavior has appeared in the leading professional journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management. He has served as editor of the Journal of Management and has been program chair and division chair of the Organizational Behavior Division and Program Chair of the Research Methods Division of the Academy, Program Chair and President of the Southwest Academy of Management, and a member of the Board of the Southern Management Association. He is a fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association. Dr. Griffin has taught organizational behavior, human resource management, international management, and research methods at all levels and has won several teaching awards. He is a frequent speaker to executive audiences and is the author of several widely used textbooks. Dr. Griffin was director of the Center for Human Resource Management at Texas A&M and just returned to the faculty at Mays after 11 years of full-time appointments as Management Department Head, Executive Associate Dean and Interim Dean. His current research interests include workplace culture, managerial skills development and decision making during times of crisis.
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New topics include technology's impact, green business, adapting to change, AI's importance, hybrid work and COVID-19's effects. This edition also focuses on ethics and diversity.
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This edition's framework logically progresses from introducing the field and focusing on the environment to discussing the four major managerial functions of planning and decision-making, organizing, leading and controlling.
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Chapter opening Management in Action cases and closing Management at Work cases highlight key themes in each chapter.
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The latest research and citations are integrated throughout the text, referencing recent information on international business, strategic management, decision-making, leadership, productivity, quality management and more.