Management Fundamentals- Vantage Learning Platform

Concepts, Applications, and Skill Development

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KEY FEATURES OF MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS: CONCEPTS, APPLICATIONS, AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT, TENTH EDITION

New to this Edition:

• 30 new cases on real-world organizations such as LG, L'Oreal, Adobe, Food Network, Blaze Pizza, and Twitter are included.
• New and expanded coverage of important topics like generational differences in the workplace, addressing sexual harassment, AI, cybersecurity, the entrepreneurial mindset, managing change, and emotional intelligence.
• Fully updated Trends and Issues in Management sections in each chapter.
• Hundreds of new examples, statistics, and references so your students are exposed to the latest thinking in management.

Key Features:

• Case studies highlight contemporary challenges and opportunities facing managers at well-known organizations such as IKEA, LG, Alibaba, and Buc-ee’s.
• Trends and Issues sections explore timely topics such as the changing nature of work, managing multiple generations, and virtual teams.
• Online Self-Assessments in SAGE Vantage help readers gain personal knowledge of management functions in the real world and provide opportunities for readers to learn about their personal management styles and apply chapter concepts.
• Skill Builder exercises develop skills readers can use in their personal and professional lives.
• Ideas on Management chapter-opening cases highlight real companies and people and are revisited throughout the chapter to illustrate and reinforce chapter concepts.
• Case studies ask readers to put themselves in the role of a manager to apply chapter concepts and consider issues facing real organizations.