Product Description: Creating High Performance Teams is an accessible and thorough new introduction to this key area of business education. Written by teams experts Ray Aldag and Loren Kuzuhara, this book provides students with both a firm grounding in the key concepts of the field and the practical tools to become successful team managers and members...read more

Product Description: The world of work and organizations is complex, ambiguous, changing, diverse, and global. In the new millennium, hierarchies are flatter, deadlines are shorter, teams are pervasive, employees must manage themselves, and technology is transforming the nature, pace and possibilities of work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the qualities and skills needed to be an effective leader and explains how to define an organization's vision and turn it into reality.

Product Description: With a skills-based approach, this text focuses on the social learning perspective, applying critical managerial tools and techniques. In each chapter, the learner is presented with a short discussion of relevant theory and concepts and then actively participates in the application of these concepts through experiential exercises, self-assessment tools, and case studies...read more

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Product Description: This fouth edition of the text incorporates increased coverage of TQM, cross-functional work teams, employee empowerment, crisis management, geopolitics, with highlighted features on quality, diversity and small business throughout.

Product Description: Book offer detailed coverage of operations management, small business management and entrepreneurship, international management and information management, to help insure compliance with AACSB guidelines.