TY - BOOK AU - Gareth R Jones;Jennifer M George TI - Contemporary management SN - 9780073530222 AV - HD 31 PY - 2008/// CY - Boston : PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin, N1 - Managers and Managing -- Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: The Manager as a Person -- Ethics and Social Responsibility -- Managing Diverse Employees in a Multicultural Environment -- Managing in the Global Environment -- Decision Making, Learning, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship -- The Manager as a Planner and Strategist -- The manager as a decision maker -- Value-Chain Management: Functional Strategies for Competitive Leadership -- Motivation and performance -- Effective groups and teams -- Communication Managing organizational architecture -- Managing organizational structure-- Organizational control and change -- Human resource management -- Managing organisational conflict,politics and negotiation. Utilizing advanced information technology -- Promoting innovation, product development and entrepreneur -- ER -