Management: Core Concepts and Skills Powerpoint Slides CD-R0M

by Paul Davidson

***Now available in Australia with the most up-to-date information about the new \'Work Choices\' legislation. For orders use isbn 0470813229. This new Australasian text effectively blends the three aspects of contemporary undergraduate introductory management management theory, concept application, and skills development. The text`s 15 chapters are presented in colour in a lively and concise manner ideal for the typical 12 or 13 teaching weeks of semester. The texts flexible framework allows instructors to engage students through the use of interactive tools such as case studies, exercises, and projects. These action oriented learning activities complement the text\'s solid foundation of knowledge based material. There is a balanced coverage of both small to medium sized enterprises and larger multinational companies operating in the Australasian region. The challenges of managing technology and making ethical decisions are integrated in each chapter of the book. Specific chapters are devoted to the topics of managing operations, individual behaviour, and human resource management in organisations.

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304 pages, CD-ROM

First published December 5, 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.