Management: An Australian Perspective

by Paul Davidson

***Now available in Australia with the most up-to-date information about the new 'Work Choices' legislation. For orders use isbn 0470813210. This book is the third edition of the highly regarded introductory management text by Paul Davidson and Ricky Griffin. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the current trends and practices of Australasian businesses. Each chapter`s content is presented within a global context of management, where the new work environment knows no geographic boundaries. A solid foundation of research provides the background against which Australian, New Zealand, and Asia-Pacific illustrative examples are used. These examples are drawn from small to medium size enterprises as well as larger multinational corporations. A critical thinking perspective is integrated throughout the book, asking and encouraging students to analyse the theory in light of real world examples. The text emphasises the importance of ethics in internal and external business environments, acknowledges diversity in the workforce, and the need to manage information technology, knowledge, and quality to achieve organisational goals.

839 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2005

About the author

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Davidson did not originally choose economics as a profession. His primary training was in chemistry, for which he got a BSc from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1951 he worked in that same university as an instructor in physiology and chemistry. He soon switched to economics, receiving his MBA from the City University of New York in 1955, and completing his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959.

He has taught economics at University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Bristol University, University of Cambridge, and the University of Tennessee. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Schwartz Center For Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research and is currently an Emeritus Holly Professor of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is especially known for promoting a Post Keynesian school of macroeconomics. He and Sidney Weintraub founded the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics in 1978. He is the Editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.