Project Description
Exploring Management, 1st Asia-Pacific Edition
Schermerhorn, Woods, Junaid, McKeown, Co
Interactive E-Text: 9781119874959 Print & Interactive E-Text Code: 9781119874935
The first edition of Exploring Management delivers core management concepts in a clear, conversational style, designed to engage students with a focus on practical application. With 16 concise chapters, this edition is streamlined, and with an eText that’s enriched with interactive videos and concept-check questions to enhance the learning experience.
Available on Wiley Business Now, our affordable subscription platform, it includes practice resources and study notes for students. An Instructor Resource Toolkit is also available, supported by our local Wiley team.
Table of Contents
1.2 Management function and skills
1.3 Current career issues in management
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application questions
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: career readiness ‘Big 20’
Class exercise: my best manager
2.2 Behavioural management approaches
2.3 Foundations of modern management thinking
2.4 Current issues in management theory
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self-assessment: managerial assumptions
Class exercise: evidence-based management quiz
3.2 Supporting ethical conduct
3.3 Corporate social responsiblity
3.4 Sustainable business
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: terminal values
Class exercise: confronting ethical dilemmas
4.2 The complexity of change in the external environment
4.3 The global business environment
4.4 The internal environment and organisational culture
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: work values
Class exercise: the Zappos family – how they work
5.2 The decision-making process
5.3 Current issues in managerial decision making
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: maximiser or satisficer quick check
Class exercise: lost at sea
6.2 Types of plans
6.3 Planning tools and techniques
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: time management profile
Class exercise: the future workplace
7.2 The strategic management process
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: facts and interferences
Class exercise: strategic scenarios
Case study: planning (Viterra Australia)
8.2 Organisation structures
8.3 Current trends in orgnisational design
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: empowering others
Class exercise: organisational metaphors
9.2 Innovation
9.3 Achieving organisational change
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: tolerance for ambiguity
Class exercise: force field analysis
10.1 The role of human resource management
10.2 Human resource management functions
10.3 Current issues in human resource management
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: performance review assumptions
Class exercise: upward appraisal
Case study: organising (Foodland supermarket brand)
11.1 Control in the management process
11.2 Types of controls
11.3 Control tools and techniques
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: internal/external control
Class exercise: after meeting/project review
Case study: controlling (Uber)
12.2 Contingency leadership theories
12.3 Current issues in leadership development
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: least-preferred coworker scale
Class exercise: leading by participation
13.2 Personality and individual behaviour
13.3 Attitudes, emotions and moods
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: stress test
Class exercise: job satisfaction preferences
14.2 Perception, process and reinforcement
14.3 Goal setting and job design
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: two-factor profile
Class exercise: why we work
15.2 Stages of team development
15.3 Building blocks of successful teamwork
15.4 Leading high-performance teams
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: team leader skills
Class exercise: understanding team dynamics
16.1 Effective, efficient and persuasive communication
16.2 Barriers to effective communication
16.3 Improve communication with people at work
Summary
Key terms
What do you think?
Career situation
Concept check
Short-response questions
Integration and application question
Learn about yourself
Self assessment: feedback and assertiveness
Class exercise: difficult conversations
Case study: leading (Haigh’s Chocolates)
Authors
Peter Woods (Griffith University)
Fatima Junaid (Massey University)
Tui McKeown (Monash University)
Jess Co (Monash University)
Explore our content
Exploring Management offers students a highly engaging and practical approach to core management concepts.
Content is broken into digestible sections, each followed by activities that reinforce understanding. The text features current real-world examples, discussions on social issues, reflection questions, and group activities to bring management challenges to life.
With a variety of end-of-chapter exercises, nine in-depth case studies, and four integrative capstone cases, students are given ample opportunity to apply their knowledge. In chapter videos spotlight ANZ small businesses and start-ups, providing insights from local managers on how they navigate key management issues.
Supported by digital resources, including five interactive learning modules structured around the POLC management framework, and a rich bank of videos and exercises, this text ensures an engaging and comprehensive learning experience.
What’s in this edition
- Concise and comprehensive with 16 chapters delivering core management content in a succinct format.
- Over 30 case studies including both short and long-form case studies throughout the text.
- Capstone cases featuring four case studies built around the POLC (Planning, Organising, Leading, Controlling) framework.
- End-of-book case studies with nine in-depth case studies covering diverse management topics.
- Interactive learning modules with five modules featuring videos, activities, and reflective questions based on the POLC framework.
- Expanded small business focus with increased coverage on small business and entrepreneurship.
- ANZ practitioner videos featuring insights from local small business and startup managers.
- Emerging issues boxes highlighting current trends in diversity, technology, sustainability, innovation, and more.
- Career readiness boxes focusing on career-relevant skills, with end-of-chapter activities and self-assessments.
- Group work and reflection activities included in every chapter to encourage collaboration and self-reflection.
- Concept check questions offering multiple-choice questions with immediate feedback for self-assessment.
- ‘How to use this text’ guide providing an overview of features, case studies, exercises, and revision tools.
Take a closer look:
Interactives and Key Features
Available as a digital eText or full colour printed textbook with an interactive eText code, this title enables every student to master concepts and succeed in assessment. Lecturers are supported with an extensive, easy-to-use teaching and learning package.
Written around the Planning, Organising, Leading and Controlling (POLC) management framework.
Capstone case studies
>Featured in our digital eText are multiple-choice questions provide immediate feedback, reinforcing learning and identifying areas that may need further review.
Concept check questions (eText)
Our digital eText features interactive activities that let you match, categorise, or sequence concepts by moving elements on-screen, actively reinforcing learning with immediate feedback.
Interactivities (eText)
Over 30 short and long form case studies encourage critical thinking and problem-solving. Using local case studies enhances relevance and engagement by reflecting students' familiar contexts, making the learning more practical and applicable.
Local case studies
These box features cover hot-topic issues impacting management today, including diversity, technology, innovation, sustainability, data, geo-politics, crisis management, and remote work.
Featured: Emerging issues
These box features highlight a career-relevant issue or skill, plus end-of-chapter activities, reflective questions and self-assessment tasks that enable students to develop and assess their career-ready competencies.
Featured: Career readiness
Students can personalise their eText by highlighting and taking notes, as well as other useful tools like the read aloud.
Personalisation features (eText)
Winner at the 2023 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) for Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning Resource – Print or Blended Learning
This ‘text’ is the epitome of the online/blended 21st-century learning and teaching that has been promised for so long!
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Answers to every odd-numbered question posed in the text. Students can check their understanding, boost self-study and excel at exam preparation.
Study Notes
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Practice book
Interactive revision sets enable students to test their knowledge with instant feedback and personalised guidance (3x as many practice questions as the text).
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