The sixth edition of this market leading text continues to raise the standard through its cutting-edge presentation of managerial thought, carefully developed applications, and innovative technology components. Richard Daft seamlessly integrates the new workplace with traditional management concepts to show what influences and guides managerial action in today's organizations. To illustrate the conceptual material and engage the student, Daft includes diverse examples, exercises, applications in every chapter. Through each edition, Management has continued to build an outstanding reputation with instructors for its quality, topic selection, applications, and authorship.

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Introduction to management

1. Managing the new workplace

2. Historical foundations of management

Part 2. The environment of management

3. The environment and corporate culture

4. Managing in a global environment'

5. Managerial ethics and corporate social responsibility

6. Small business and internet start-ups

Part 3. Planning

7. Organizational planning and goal setting

8. Strategy formulation and implementation

9. Managerial decision making

Part 4. Organizing

10. Fundamentals of organizing

11. Using structura; design to achieve strategic goals

12. Change and development

13. Human resource management

14. Managing diverse employees

Part 5. Leading

15. Foundations of behavior in organizations

16. Leadership in organizations

17. Motivation in organizations

18. Communicating in organizations

19. Teamwork in organizations

Part 6. Controlling

20. The importance of control

21. Information technology and e-business

22. Operations and service management

Glossary

Index



About the Author :

Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor in Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Professor Daft specializes in the study of organization theory and leadership, and enjoys applying these ideas in his roles as Associate Dean. Dr. Daft is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Journal of Management Education. he was the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science and served for three years as associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly.

Professor Daft has authored or co-authored 12 books and has also authored dozens of scholarly articles, papers, and chapters. His work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Accounting Organizations and Society, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, California Management Review, and Organizational Behavior Teaching Review. Professor Daft has been awarded several government research grants to pursue studies of organization design, organizational innovation and change, strategy implementation, and organizational information processing.

Dr. Daft also is an active teacher and consultant. He has taught management, leadership, organizational change, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and organizational behavior. He has been involved in management development and consulting for many companies and government organizations.