Principles of Management

OpenStax

Rice University

2019

Abstract

The book Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.

The contents of the book include 18 chapters:

+ Chapter 1 Managing and Performing

+ Chapter 2 Managerial Decision-Making

+ Chapter 3 The History of Management

+ Chapter 4 External and Internal Organizational Environments and Corporate Culture

+ Chapter 5 Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, and Sustainability

+ Chapter 6 International Management

+ Chapter 7 Entrepreneurship

+ Chapter 8 Strategic Analysis: Understanding a Firm’s Competitive Environment

+ Chapter 9 The Strategic Management Process: Achieving and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

+ Chapter 10 Organizational Structure and Change

+ Chapter 11 Human Resource Management