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Contemporary Management 4th Edition with Student DVD & Premium OLC Content Card |
Author: Gareth R Jones
Published: 2005-01-04 |
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 Shipped Slowly
I was told there was over night shipping on this book which I requested. When it did not show up the next day I checked with the shipping company and they said it was sent 2nd day air. I phone Amazon and they confirmed there was no over night shipping. If I knew there was no over night shipping from Amazon I would have purchased it from another source because I needed it the next day.
 Good but expensive.
I used this text while teaching an Introduction to Management class to undergraduates at SUNY. It is comprehensive, well produced, up-to-date and has a lot of engaging real world examples. However, it's very expensive.
Strengths:
- Business Week excerpts at the end of each chapter allow students to examine real companies and real managers
- Case problems are pitched at the right level - short, but with enough content to make the students think
- DVD has some excellent content, especially on the entrepreneurship chapter. Many "Hot Seat" segments depict provocative scenarios such as sexual harassment that engage students and stimulate discussion.
- Case materials are integrated into the text instead of being presented in "boxes" that disturb the chapter flow.
- Good material on women in management.
- Well produced
- Comprehensive: the only material I added was on problem-solving and analysis skills, and some extra depth in business strategy.
Could be better:
- The book lumps business strategy under "planning", which understates its importance. The boring material on business planning gets more space than the interesting topic of competitive strategy. The business strategy material focuses on SWOT analysis and (briefly) Porter's Five Forces model. I would have liked to see some material on the resource-based view - such as core competencies - which is intuitive enough for undergraduates.
- The online test material is mostly multiple choice/ fill in the missing word, and in my view tests facts more than management concepts. I found this entirely inadequate and used none of it. I ended up writing a lot of short answer questions.
- The authors use a strange selection of tools in the section on psychology. There is no mention of Myers-Briggs or Belbin, which are widely used in the real business world.
- The text is very expensive. I felt guilty asking some students to pay this much.
Good 'nuff
Used this book for a class. It is well organized and has plenty of thought-provoking exercizes. It presented ethics and morals as fluctuating things, based on the times and location - I don't agree with that stand. However, the book was good. The online material is awsome - good chapter notes, practice tests, and glossary.
 Contemporary Management 4th Edition
The book was in very good condition and arrived just in time before classes began. Shipping was fast and the book was exactly what I needed.
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