""A Foundation in the Principles of Management" gives readers a firm understanding of important principles of business management. These principles serve as building blocks for future business courses in the major. The initial chapters introduce the history of management and familiarize readers with different management roles and functions. Students then learn about ethics, an increasingly important focus in today's business education. The book addresses planning and decision-making, and how to effectively handle change, innovation, and conflict. Readers also explore management in distinct scenarios and environments including managing communication, work teams, human resources, and service and manufacturing operations. Specific topics include interview formats, the history of management, the four functions of management, organizational structure and design, and strategic planning. Each chapter features clearly defined objectives to focus and enhance learning, a summary to support retention and review, and discussion questions that can be used to facilitate classroom interaction or to serve as outside assignments. Informative, interesting, and accessible "A Foundation in the Principles of Management" is designed for introductory courses in management and business. Daniel Kipley holds a D.B.A. and an M.B.A. in strategic management from Alliant International University in San Diego, California, as well as a Masters in management from the University of Redlands, California. Dr. Kipley is a professor at Azusa Pacific University, where he has been nominated for the university's Distinguished Research Professor award . Ronald Jewe earned his Ph.D. in organizational leadership at Regent University and his M.B.A. from Arizona State University. He is a professor, the Undergraduate Chair, and the Associate Dean in the School of Business and Management at Azusa Pacific University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in management, leadership and business ethics. Roxanne Helm-Stevens has a D.B.A. in strategic management from Alliant International University and an M.B.A. from Azusa Pacific University. She is an associate professor and Director of Graduate Management Programs at Azusa Pacific, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational behavior, management, business and employee development."

The first experience as a manager is often the most challenging. Often times, a productive employee does not have the right knowledge and experience to immediately transition into management. A way to quickly get up to speed on the basics of management is needed. Principles of Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know provides the core information to speed your transformation from an employee into a successful manager. That knowledge includes details in areas such as: · Management in an organization and understanding its functions and elements · Business responsibilities of a manager · Tools that can help you navigate your role as a manager · Managing employees and team relationships · Managing customer relationships Principles of Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know is part of the Self-Learning Management Series that helps working professionals moving into management roles. The series addresses every aspect of business from HR to finance, marketing, and operations. Each book includes fundamentals, important concepts, and well-known principles, as well as practical applications of the subject matter.

Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.

Management Pyramid: Principles and Applications, second edition is based on my principle of thoughts about business administration and/or management which has become a predominant practice in our every day life, and could be look at in many ways - managing oneself to exist economically, managing in a family circle, managing in the community, managing in a school setting and in that of business administration. This text is therefore enhanced to educate students in colleges and universities of business studies, including professional businessmen and women whose primary objectives are to study business management in its fullest extent. A study of management administration should go beyond what happens to other disciplines and consider the institutional arrangements which manages the way man lives, the family, the community, and the larger society with their complex interrelationships. Because the problems of these arrangements are much too varied to be understood from any single standpoint, hence there are number of different fields like, economics, business administration, social science, marketing to mention but a few. It is in fact, the quest for management of people and the industry that I decided to undertake the research to write this book. Management Pyramid: Principles and Applications is a researched text solely designed for today's successful executives to lead the way to dramatically increase their values to their companies and to increase their personal standing and self-worth. It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business through the manager's performance toward opportunities for economically significant results. The book addresses the concerns of the application of scientific approaches to improve management performance. Management is along with other behavioral sciences, a fundamental approach that subjects an individual or managers to be aware of how to deal with group of people and/or society. Management is no longer a new field of study. Today, such terms as cost/benefit analysis, simulation systems optimization, modeling, and data base management are the standard vocabulary. Management Pyramid: Principles and Applications seek to develop the facts and theories in an orderly fashion so as to provide a general understanding in management administration. I believe that the foundation of our economy is growth. Therefore, this book reveals innovative strategies you can use to get out in front of the new trends, new markets and new avenues of self-development and human resources management. It will enable you to decide on the changes you will be making in the years ahead, and it explains why you should think of profits as a means of growth, and not vice-versa. It clearly indicates how managers make things happen in organizations. Finally, I have structured the second edition to be more understanding by summarizing each chapter, as well as providing the references available at the end of the chapter which superimposes the context of the first edition. This is in order to enhance my student's reading comprehension and understanding. Geoffrey O. Wuzor, Ph.D.