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Table of Contents

Part 1    Introduction
Chapter 1    What is management?
Chapter 2    Evolution of management thinking

Part 2    The environmental context of management
Chapter 3    Managing cultures
Chapter 4    Managing change and diversity
Chapter 5    Ethics and social responsibility

Part 3    Managing people
Chapter 6    Managing leadership
Chapter 7    Managing motivation
Chapter 8    Managing decision-making
Chapter 9    Managing human resources

Part 4    Managing organisations
Chapter 10    Managing strategy and organisation structure: planning
Chapter 11    Managing information: communication and  technology
Chapter 12    Managing in a global environment
Chapter 13    Control and operations management

Part 5    Revolution of management
Chapter 14    Change, innovation and the future of management thinking

About the Author

MARY BARRETT BA (HON) MBA PHD is Professor of Management at the School of Management, Operations and Marketing at the University of Wollongong. UOW has campuses in Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as the coast of NSW between Sydney and the border of Victoria, and Mary has taught at several of them, especially in general management, business communication and human resource management. Mary has also taught at several Queensland universities, and worked for the Queensland Government and in the University of California system as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow.

She holds two Honours degrees, an MBA and a PhD, all from the University of Queensland. Mary has published and presented many refereed papers in management and entrepreneurship, especially gender issues, family business, communication, leadership and organisational learning in those fields. Her publications include four books: BCOM Asia Pacific Edition, 1e, (Cengage Learning, 2012), Women in Family Business Leadership Roles: Daughters on the Stage (Edward Elgar, 2009), Learning Family Business: Paradoxes and Pathways (Ashgate Publishing, also published in Korean by Hanul Publishing Group) and Working Communication (John Wiley, 2002).

BEVERLEY HONIG BA LLB MBA is the Chief Executive Officer of Honeylight Enterprises Pty Ltd, a worldwide leading edge business consultancy commissioned by corporations and governments to improve their organisational capabilities. She is an internationally qualified lawyer, and a board director and chairman of several high-profile public and private companies. Beverley is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and a judge on the Essential Services Commission Appeals Tribunal. She has been a senior sessional lecturer for the past 20 years in the University of Melbourne, the Queensland University of Technology and Monash University. Her publications include Making Contracts Work (Woodslane, 2010), and Project Management: A Managerial Process (McGraw-Hill, 2013). She has also contributed case studies to Organisational Behaviour 5e (McGraw-Hill, 2016).

Through Honeylight Enterprises, Beverley has delivered over 200 000 corporate training courses globally in the fields of leadership, management and business acquisition, and sourcing through disciplines such as project and contract management, across Asia, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, the UK and the US. She is the recipient of multiple multinational trade awards in recognition of her outstanding contribution to international trade links and was announced a winner of the prestigious ‘100 Women of Influence’ award by the Australian Financial Review and Westpac Bank in 2015, and listed in the top 10 business entrepreneurs nationwide in that same year. In 2016 Beverley was listed in the esteemed Businesswomen’s Hall of Fame.

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