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Management, 15th edition, continues to offer the same balanced theoretical approach as with previous editions. Students need an active and engaged learning classroom environment that brings personal meaning to course content and the instructor's course objectives. The book communicates with students through rich, timely features, and cases that bring management topics, theories, and concepts to life. The underlying goal is to translate foundation theories into lasting tools for students as they move beyond the classroom where their skills will be put to the test. This international edition has been revised and updated with a focus on timely content, student engagement through real-world challenges, and personal career issues. Centralizing new topics such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and social impact, this edition introduces new feature of Issues to attract learners'attention to timely social and organizational issues as well as new cases and more opportunities for self-assessment.

The brand-new first edition of Exploring Management supports the teaching and learning of core management concepts by presenting material in a straightforward, conversational style with a strong emphasis on application. Comprising of 16 chapters, this first edition is succinct and more concise than the popular larger Schermerhorn Management title. The content is chunked so that digestible sections are followed by activities that check student comprehension. The text is full of current examples, social issues, reflection questions and group work activities that bring key management issues to life. And there is a broad variety of cases, such as end-of-chapter cases and and end-of-book cases that include nine probing case studies and four integrative capstone ones. New ANZ videos focus on small businesses and start-ups companies with Managers who provide insights into how they got started and how they deal with key management issues. Supported by a variety of digital resources, including five interactive learning modules with a bank of videos and interactive exercises shaped around the PLOC Management Framework, this text is textbook designed for an engaging learning experience.

Exploring Management, 7th Edition supports teaching and learning of core management concepts by presenting material in a straightforward, conversational style with a strong emphasis on application. With a focus on currency, high-interest examples and pedagogy that encourages critical thinking and personal reflection, Exploring Management, 7th Edition is the perfect balance between what students need and what instructors want. Organized by study objectives and broken up into more manageable sections of material, the Seventh Edition supports better student comprehension and mastery of concepts. And features like skill builders, active learning activities, and team projects give students frequent opportunities to apply management concepts. Class activities provide opportunities for discussion and debate. Students can build solid management skills with self-assessments, class exercises, and team projects.

This book contains the papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2018), held on 20-22 June 2018 in Cartagena, Spain. It reports on cutting-edge topics in product design and manufacturing, such as industrial methods for integrated product and process design; innovative design; and computer-aided design. Further topics covered include virtual simulation and reverse engineering; additive manufacturing; product manufacturing; engineering methods in medicine and education; representation techniques; and nautical, aeronautics and aerospace design and modeling. The book is divided into six main sections, reflecting the focus and primary themes of the conference. The contributions presented here will not only provide researchers, engineers and experts in a range of industrial engineering subfields with extensive information to support their daily work; they are also intended to stimulate new research directions, advanced applications of the methods discussed, and future interdisciplinary collaborations.

The growing phenomenon of showrooming plagues sales managers and small retailers in ever increasing numbers as technology has evolved to create smarter and more empowered consumers. Showrooming refers to the phenomenon of consumers – or potential consumers - browsing products in a retail store, and then ultimately purchasing online at a lower price through another store. In the age of the Internet, the sight of a customer who will visit a store and use their smartphone to scan the barcode, hoping to find the same item at a cheaper price from a different vendor has become commonplace. Through exhaustive research, the authors of this book investigate this exploding trend and offer strategies, tools, and training approaches that can help to transform showrooming customers into in-store sales.Offering retail managers and owners deep insight into how they can stem the loss of resources to showrooming, this book, through a close, systematic examination of showrooming, provides insight and understanding of the value added through customer service and expert salesperson knowledge. Retailers will learn how to implement essential, incremental changes to infuse value in the customer experience and entice significantly improved in-store sales while building core customer relationships and enhancing loyalty.

Exploring Management supports teaching and learning of core management concepts by presenting material in a straight-forward, conversational style with a strong emphasis on application. With a focus on currency, high-interest examples and pedagogy that encourages critical thinking and personal reflection, this text is the perfect balance between what students need and what instructors want.

The Handbook of Behavioral Operations Management provides easy-to-access insights into why associated behavioral phenomena exist in specific production and service settings, illustrated through ready-to-play games and activities that allow instructors to demonstrate the phenomena in class settings along with applicable prescriptions for practice. By design the text serves a dual role as a desk/training reference to those practitioners already in the field and presents a comprehensive framework for viewing behavioral operations from a systems perspective. As an interdisciplinary book relating the dynamics of human behavior to operations management, this handbook is an essential resource for practitioners seeking to develop greater system understanding among their workers, as well as for instructors interested in emphasizing the practical relevance of behavior in operational settings.

We've got you covered for your Principles of Management course with Schermerhorn/Bachrach, Management 13th Edition Binder Ready Version. With new cases, more opportunities for self-assessment and the Management Weekly Updates news blog, the text and its comprehensive suite of resources promote critical thinking and active learning. Thoroughly updated while maintaining its trusted balance of concepts and applications, Management 13th Edition Binder Ready Version presents the most current material to apply theory and show relevance of management concepts in the real world–for students to succeed in your management course and beyond. This text is an unbound, binder-ready version.