Management (7^th Ed.)
An Introduction

David Boddy’s market-leading text is the one guide today’s students and tomorrow’s managers need to read. A comprehensive introduction to the themes and functions of management, this book is an accessible and academically rigorous guide through the field. Now into its seventh edition, it continues to be the most up-to-date and reliable text of its kind. Management: An Introduction offers:

• Substantially expanded case studies that examine in depth key management issues in a broad range of organisations, including the BBC, Carlsberg and Dyson International.
• Important themes like entrepreneurship, sustainability, governance and internationalization interweaved through the chapters, giving clear guidance on how students can further their understanding of these key topics.
• Innovative 'Develop a skill' theme which encourages students to link theory with practice, and to begin to develop a set of skills valued by employers.
• Management in Practice features full of insights into contemporary management activities.
• Exercises throughout the text that encourage critical thinking and the application of real-life experience.

This is the ideal text to accompany a first course in management, either as an undergraduate or a postgraduate.

David Boddy is a Research Fellow at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. He is the author of three other Pearson books: Essentials of Management (2012), Managing Information Systems (2009) and Managing Projects (2002).

Part 1 An Introduction To Managment

1 Managing in organisations   

2 Models of management

Part 1 Case: Apple Inc.  

Part 1 Employability skills  

Part 2 The environment of Mangement

3 Organisation cultures and contexts

4 Managing internationally

5 Corporate responsibility  

Part 2 case: BP   

Part 2 Employability skills   

Part 3 Planning

6 Planning

7 Decision making

8 Managing strategy

9 Managing marketing   

Part 3 case: The Virgin Group  

Part 3 Employability skills   

Part 4 Organising

10 Organisation structure

11 Human resource management   

12 Information systems and e-business

13 Creativity, innovation  and change

Part 4 case: Royal Bank of Scotland

Part 4 Employability skills  

Part 5 Leading

14 Influencing   

15 Motivating  

16 Communicating

17 Teams   

Part 5 case: British Heart Foundation

Part 5 Employability skills   

Part 6 Controlling

18 Managing operations and quality

19 Performance measurement and control

20 Finance and budgetary control  

Part 6 case: Tesco

David Boddy is a Research Fellow at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. Management: An Introduction has supported students and educators since 1998.

- Comprehensive coverage of management theory and practice in an accessible approach

- Management in Practice features insight into contemporary management activities

- Employability in each chapter to reinforce transferable skills and knowledge

- Critical thinking exercises for applying theory in real-life scenarios and gaining experience of management