Product Description

Discover true innovation in management today – within the pages and throughout the technology-driven package accompanying the latest edition of this market-leading text. Respected author Richard Daft helps you build better managers for today and tomorrow with the latest managerial theories based on established research, engaging contemporary applications, and a wealth of cutting-edge exercises and examples. Students develop a strong managerial foundation, organized around the four functions of management and supported by a seamless blend of theory and applications within the pages of each chapter. Unique photo essays, challenging cases, and topics not typically found in other management texts help students build the innovative skills to manage successfully throughout turbulent times in business today. Fresh management ideas and the best practices blend with traditional theory as this book – recognized for its quality and trusted for its strong content – once again puts management into practice with proven exercises and learning features that support the book's research orientation and tightly connect concepts. A complete supplement package helps ensure your students reach their full management potential with an all-new video package featuring Hollywood film scenes that demonstrate management principles in action. The innovative new CengageNOW online course management and learning system saves time in assigning homework and grading, while offering personalized learning paths to ensure your students develop the management skills they need for success today and tomorrow.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #556428 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-09
• Released on: 2007-03-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 848 pages

About the Author
Richard L. Daft, PhD, the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Professor Daft specializes in the study of organization theory and leadership. He 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 associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Professor Daft has authored or co-authored 12 books as well as 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, MIS Quarterly, and many others. Professor Daft is currently completing a new book, THE EXECUTIVE AND THE ELEPHANT. An active teacher and consultant, Dr. Daft has taught management, leadership, organizational change, organizational theory, and organizational behavior. He has served as associate dean and managed a start-up enterprise. A well-known management consultant, he has assisted numerous well-know organizations, including the American Banking Association, Bridgestone, the National Transportation Research Board, Nortel, TVA, Pratt & Whitney, State Farm Insurance, Tenneco, United States Air Force, Central Parking System, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Customer Reviews

I like it, BUT...
I am taking a college class, where this book is the required textbook. I am also a person that prefers to read things on screen than on the paper. This book came with a CD-ROM and with an InfoTrac subscription. And so I decided I would try out the CD and see what it has to offer. I was looking forward to browsing through the full text of the book, especially since I paid a lot of money for it, and well, WAS I IN FOR A HUGE SURPRISE!!! The entire CD is empty, except of a tiny (52KB) html file which redirects the user to the company webpage. WHAT A WASTE! A tiny floppy disk would have been enough, but NO it has to be a CD, since that looks better on the cover...

Anyways, I would recommend the book for anybody wanting to learn about Management the old way, on paper. If you, like me, enjoy using the new technologies, I would rather look further until I found a book that came with a CD that is actually worth the effort of putting it in the drive...

TL

pretty decent textbook
has some interesting parts. not too boring. i recommend.

Daft keeping pace with changes !
I have come across the new edition of R. Daft's "Management" during lecturing MBA students in the Long Distance course of the University of Leicester, U.K (working in Athens, Greece with Icon International Ltd)
The structure and overall philosophy of the book keeps the well tested and succesful character that made it a must as a studying and teaching aid so many years now.
There is a steady persistance upon the strategical aspect of managerial decision making within a dramaticaly changing business world.
There is also a tendency to structure the book as a "palempseston" of succesive layers of introduction, theory, exhibits, case studies and reviews that make it so interesting that someone tends to disregard the number of pages.
What distinguishes the new edition from the previous one is not only the cover. It is rather an effort to adress the current concerns of managers who encountered the massive loss of dreams, during the previous two years. Yet, a light in the darkness of the busines world comes through focusing into the new shape of the working environment. After many dissapointments regarding expansion and growth in the e-business sphere and in the K(nowledge)-economy, many jobs lost and many projects abandoned, managers can return to the foundamentals of the every days work. As a matter of fact management is mainly doing work with others and it is there that things changed recently.
Daft offers a good opportunity for students and managers to rethink about their changing role instead of the changing paradigm of management that was his focus in the previous edition.
Very succesful approach and recommended to both pofessional and academics.