TY - BOOK AU - Robbins,Stephen P AU - David A DeCenzo AU - Henry Moon TI - Fundamentals of Management: Essential Concepts and Applications SN - 9780136007104 U1 - 658 21 PY - 2008/// CY - Upper Saddle River PB - Pearson Prentice Hall KW - Personnel Management KW - Management KW - Organization and Administration N1 - Preface -- Ch. 1. Managers and Management -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Are U.S. Executives Overpaid? -- History Module: The Historical Roots of Contemporary Management Practices -- Details on a Management Classic: Frederick Taylor -- Ch. 2. Managing in Today's World -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: The Contingent Workforce -- Ch. 3. Foundations of Planning -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: When Is Competitive Intelligence Unethical? -- One Manager's Perspective: Geoff Gilpin -- Ch. 4. Foundations of Decision Making -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Bausch & Lomb Leaves Town -- Quantitative Module: Quantitative Decision-Making Aids -- Ch. 5. Basic Organization Designs -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Following Orders -- Details on a Management Classic: Stanley Milgram -- Ch. 6. Staffing and Human Resource Management -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Stress Interviews -- Career Module: Introduction -- Ch. 7. Managing Change and Innovation -- Details on a Management Classic: Coch and French: Resistance to Change -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: The OD Intervention -- Ch. 8. Foundations of Individual and Group Behavior -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Must Attitudes and Behaviors Align? -- Details on a Management Classic: Solomon Asch and Group Conformity -- Ch. 9. Understanding Work Teams -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Must Employees Work on a Team? -- Ch. 10. Motivating and Rewarding Employees -- Details on a Management Classic: David McClelland and the Three-Needs Theory -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Rewarding Appropriate Behavior -- Ch. 11. Leadership and Trust -- Details on a Management Classic: Fred Fiedler and the Fiedler Contingency Model of Leadership -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Gender Differences in Leadership -- Ch. 12. Communication and Interpersonal Skills -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Purposefully Distorting Information -- Ch. 13. Foundations of Control -- One Manager's Perspective: Alan Pincus -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Control systems and an Invasion of Privacy -- Ch. 14. Technology and Operations -- Ethical Dilemma in Management: Is Sharing Software Okay? -- Notes -- Photo Credits -- Name/Organization Index -- Glindex N2 - Principles of Management courses that require a brief and/or skills focused text. Robbins/DeCenzo is the best-selling brief paperback text that gives students more depth and breadth of practical tools to practice their management skills (Management Workshop) than any other textbook ER -