Ricky W. Griffin Livres

Prepare to think and act like a successful manager with the powerful insights, proven concepts and reader-friendly approach found in Griffin/Phillips/Gully's ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, 13E. This edition equips you with the skills and practical understanding to meet modern management challenges. Examine the fundamentals of employee behavior with balanced coverage of classic management ideas and the most recent organizational behavior developments and contemporary trends. Memorable examples from well-known organizations and managers throughout the book complement numerous cases and features that focus on pressing issues and practical solutions. You also scrutinize your personal strengths and explore areas where you need further development with self-assessment activities and end-of-chapter activities designed to improve your skills.

"International Business illustrates how successful managers must function in a competitive world. Packed with current examples that reflect the vibrancy of the international business field, this student-friendly text offers a managerial approach that keeps an emphasis on skills development, emerging markets and geographical literacy. "--Publisher.

Organized around the traditional functional/process framework, this updated text introduces students to the nature of the management process. In addition to covering basic management functions, it present topics such as global management, technology, diversity, ethics and total quality management, incorporating real-world examples. International management is integrated throughout the text, and half of the end-of-chapter cases are based on international companies. Ancillary package available upon adoption.

For undergraduate courses in International Business.This Forecast 2003 update of International Business, Third Edition is designed to help students stay up-to-date with the critical changes occurring in the global economy--to understand how the decisions and the choices facing businesspersons and consumers around the world are influenced by events and issues such as political upheavals, spread of new technologies, fluctuations in exchange rates, etc. Also, it shows them that which changes someone thinks are important depends to a large extent on who they are and where they're from.

This skills-based text from respected author Ricky Griffin gives instructors the flexibility to integrate their own cases, exercises, and projects while continuing to provide them with a strong theoretical framework. Chapters are organized according to a strong pedagogy, featuring learning objectives, a chapter outline, a First Things First opening vignette, boldface key terms, a summary of key points, questions for review, questions for analysis, end of chapter exercises, and an end-of-the-chapter case with questions.

This text provides students with a comprehensive overview of all the important functions of business. This eighth edition focuses on the broad range of developments - economic, social, and political-re-shaping some long-established business practices.