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Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach (Mba Series) 2nd Edition, Luke M. Froeb

2013-03-20T22:15:00.001-07:00

Teach your MBA students how to use economics to solve business problems with this breakthrough text. Froeb/McCann's MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: A PROBLEM SOLVING APPROACH, 2E covers traditional material using a problem-based pedagogy built around common business mistakes. Models are used sparingly, and then only to the extent that they help students figure out why mistakes are made, and how to fix them. This edition's succinct, fast-paced presentation and challenging, interactive applications place students in the role of a decision maker who has to identify mistakes that reduce profits, and propose solutions to bring profits back up. The lively book provides an excellent ongoing reference for students pursuing business careers. New chapters and updates highlight mistakes that precipitated the financial crisis. With MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS, 2E your students are taught to use economics to not only identify profitable decisions, but also how to implement them within an organization.

This text is clearly and concisely written. The author drives home his points through examples, which is a much more interesting approach than just offering theory and concept without regular application to follow. The YouTube video set that mirrors the chapters is an excellent complementary tool to the book to enhance the understanding of the topics and to further walk through the examples. A great learning tool for someone looking to better understand economics and the impact of economics in the world we live in today.

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 2 edition (September 11, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439077983
ISBN-13: 978-1439077986
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches

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Business Driven Information Systems 3rd Edition, Paige Baltzan

2013-03-20T22:03:00.001-07:00

Business Driven Information Systems story: Business Driven Information Systems discusses various business initiatives first and how technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique approach is that business initiatives should drive technology choices. Every discussion first addresses the business needs and then addresses the technology that supports those needs. This text provides the foundation that will enable students to achieve excellence in business, whether they major in operations management, manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance, human resources, accounting, or virtually any other business discipline. Business Driven Information Systems is designed to give students the ability to understand how information technology can be a point of strength for an organization.

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Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 3 edition (January 31, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073376825
ISBN-13: 978-0073376820
Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 0.8 x 10.9 inches

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Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement 2nd Edition, Mark Graban

2013-03-20T21:58:00.000-07:00

Building on the success of the Shingo Prize-Winning first edition, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement, Second Edition explains how to use the Lean management system to improve safety, quality, access, and morale while reducing costs. Lean healthcare expert Mark Graban examines the challenges facing today’s health systems, including rising costs, falling reimbursement rates, employee retention, and patient safety.

The new edition of this international bestseller begins with an overview of Lean methods. It explains how Lean practices such as value stream mapping and process observation can help reduce wasted motion for caregivers, prevent delays for patients, and improve the long-term health of your organization.

Detailing the steps needed for a successful transition to a Lean culture, the book provides the understanding of Lean practices—including standardized work, error proofing, root cause problem solving, and daily improvement processes—needed to reduce common hospital errors. The balanced approach outlined in this book will guide you through the process of improving quality of service while reducing costs in your hospital.

Whether it is the ThedaCare story … Seattle Children’s … or Virginia Mason, the answer is in: Lean works. The question now for all of you is how are you going to do it? What is the leadership model required? … There will be many questions, and I believe starting with Mark Graban’s updated book Lean Hospitals is a good first step. … This book lays out the nuts and bolts of the Lean methodology and describes the more difficult challenges, which have to do with managing change. … I wish I could have read this in 2004, as it might have prevented some of the mistakes we made in our Lean transformation journey.

Lean health care is becoming a global movement. The reasons given are overrun costs, errors that compromise patient safety, time of patients wasted, and general bureaucratic inefficiency. In Lean terms the problem is how to eliminate waste. Health care is different than car making. This is true but many, many hospitals are finding the principles of the Toyota Production System apply well and are making remarkable improvements. Unfortunately the remarkable improvements are in specific areas and challenging to sustain because of a mysterious ingredient which the folks at Toyota seem to understand quite well--humans. The humans that health care exists to help also operate the system and are far from perfect. Toyota's system is actually designed to support the development of people, not to provide a quick fix set of technical solutions, and this takes time and patience. Many health care consultants have rebadged themselves as lean consultants and do not understand the real thinking behind the Toyota Production System. Mark Graban is an exception. He has worked hard to study the philosophy and stay true to the thinking of Toyota. His book is a welcome translation of the Toyota Production System into language any health care professional can understand.

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Paperback: 268 pages
Publisher: Productivity Press; 2 edition (November 7, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439870438
ISBN-13: 978-1439870433
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.5 x 10 inches

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The Product Manager's Desk Reference 1st Edition, Steven Haines

2013-03-06T18:40:00.000-08:00

Whether a business sells tangible goods or services, product management holds a critical position in the organization's pursuit of profits. Because traditional departmental roles continually evolve, and because the business climate is so competitive, the job of product manager has become exceedingly critical—yet it remains very complex. The Product Manager's Desk Reference is the first book to lay down a comprehensive body of knowledge for this critical function, and it is the only book that can effectively guide product managers so that they can establish and build a successful career in product management.

Here, product management expert and practitioner Steven Haines clearly illustrates the entire product life cycle, from beginning to end. This outstanding work is packed with an array of best practices and helpful hints which are critical to the efficient management of products.

There are some books that are destined to become classics in their field. The Product Manager's Desk Reference by Steven Haines is one of those books. Anyone working not just in Product Management but also Marketing and Business Development, should take the time (and it is a hefty volume of 700 pages!) to read and absorb the comprehensive body of knowledge that Steven has organized around Product Management. If that sounds too daunting, be reassured by the fact that this is a reference book as well, so specific topics can be accessed easily without reading the entire book.

Steven demonstrates his vast knowledge of the true scope of the Product Manager's role. After explaining the basics in the first module that goes through the Foundational Elements of Product Management, the Desk Reference then explains the myriad details that position the Product Manager as the end to end owner of the business. Starting with the market analysis of the industry and competition, he then moves onto the fundamental elements of the role by teaching customer need analysis, market segmentation, forecasting and product planning. However he doesn't forget that a Product Manager needs to be the champion who can keep the process moving along with the Product Development team as well as being able to persuasively argue the business case to management to justify the product investment.

In particular, I appreciated that he sees the Marketing function as intricately linked to the Product with the Marketing Plan and details of the Launch synchronized together with the Communications Team and Sales Channels. In Module Four, he ups the ante with a clear-eyed explanation of auditing the launch results as input to running the business and going through the details of the entire lifecycle of Product Portfolio management, including End of Life.

The book has accessible Executive Summaries at the start of each chapter as well as easy to read diagrams and charts and a section at the end of each chapter called PMEQ that are a series of questions and suggestions for raising a Product Manager's Product Management Experience Quotient. Finally, there are two modules at the end about how to be professional and develop your career as a Product Manager and how to develop your employees, if you manage Product Managers. Taking this advice together with the last module, which is a Toolbox for Product Managers, leaves the reader with a full compliment of tools to successfully and methodically manage products, whatever the industry. As an endnote, I liked the extensive glossary, references and resources section, bibliography and comprehensive index.

This is the type of book that you will want to pick up often to check against an idea, template or list, so don't be surprised if it becomes dog eared as you find pages that you will want to get to quickly over and over again. This comprehensive guide should appeal to both neophyte product managers and those with experience, who just need to check a particular area or topic.

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Hardcover: 744 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1st edition (August 26, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071591346
ISBN-13: 978-0071591348
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 2 x 9.5 inches

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Data Analysis and Decision Making 4th Edition, S. Christian Albright

2013-03-06T18:23:00.002-08:00

DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING is a teach-by-example approach, learner-friendly writing style, and complete Excel integration focusing on data analysis, modeling, and spreadsheet use in statistics and management science. The Premium Online Content Website (accessed by a unique code with every new book) includes links to the following add-ins: the Palisade Decision Tools Suite (@RISK, StatTools, PrecisionTree, TopRank, RISKOptimizer, NeuralTools, and Evolver); and SolverTable, allowing users to do sensitivity analysis. All of the add-ins is revised for Excel 2007 and notes about Excel 2010 are added where applicable.

If you are familiar with Winston-Albright's other books, this has a familiar look and feel. This book requires a solid basic knowledge of statistics and a good grasp of Excel, but does not require any mathematical intuitive leaps. Some linear programmings problems, some forecasting problems (you can download a trial version of the Palisades software if you don't get the CD), and nice treatment of regression analysis. Also, multiple regressions can now be done with the standard data analysis plugin for Excel, so you don't even need the Palisades software for much of the book.

It should be noted that if you are looking specifically for an Excel book, this isn't it since it does not show the line by line spreadsheet code. This would have made this book more popular.

Over 1000 pages of solid well written material. Although there's no calculus, it's certainly no "Dummies" book. There's a good 300 page explanation of confidence interval estimation through regression analysis with lots of practical advice about sorting through variables and deciding which ones really matter.

This book fits into the big gap between introductory texts and theory. It is also a good follow-up to Albright's "Practical Management Science," which was more focused on classic linear programming examples. This one is a little more statistical.

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Hardcover: 1080 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 4 edition (October 12, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0538476125
ISBN-13: 978-0538476126
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 1.7 x 10.3 inches

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Managing Human Resources 9th Edition, Wayne Cascio

2013-03-06T00:35:00.000-08:00

Wayne Cascio's Managing Human Resources, 9e is perfect for the general management student whose job inevitably will involve responsibility for managing people. It explicitly links the relationship between productivity, quality of work life, and profits to various human resource management activities and as such, strengthens the students' perception of human resource management as an important function, which affects individuals, organizations, and society. It is research-based and contains strong links to the applicability of this research to real business situations.

This is a well-written, clear, and practical text that covers all major areas of human resource management. It includes real-world examples and case studies that demonstrate clearly the topic at hand. Unlike many business texts, this one also addresses the perspectives of small businesses (which comprise over 90% of US businesses--why is this area so neglected?). Another big plus is that Managing Human Resources puts HR management into the context of the wider business objectives, integrating it with overall competitive strategies rather than separating the HR function from finance, marketing, or operations.

Easy to read, timely, informative, and taking an approach that is integrated with the broader business strategy...everything a useful text should be.

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Hardcover: 768 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 9 edition (February 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0078029171
ISBN-13: 978-0078029172
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 1.2 x 10.3 inches

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Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill Development 5th Edition, Robert N. Lussier

2013-03-06T00:29:00.000-08:00

The most practical leadership textbook on the market, LEADERSHIP 5e, uses a unique three-pronged approach to teach leadership concepts and theory, and takes students to the next level by developing their competencies in applying the concepts and development leadership skills they can immediately start using in their personal and professional lives. The authors combine traditional theory with cutting-edge leadership topics in a concise presentation that is packed with real-world examples. The text constantly puts the student in the leadership role engaging them in applying the concepts, as well as providing step-by-step behavior models for effectively handling leadership functions. LEADERSHIP's innovative three-pronged approach provides the greatest array and quality of learning opportunities.

I used this text in my MBA program and it is the one textbook I will never resell. It contains many quizzes to help you identify where you are on the leadership spectrum, and explains what you need to change to get the results you need from your group. Even homemakers and the retired elderly have leadership roles that can be enhanced by the info in this book. Easy, enjoyable read with tons of applicable, easy-to-understand information whether you are a CEO or an office worker. I highly recommend this book for your library.

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Paperback: 552 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 5 edition (January 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1111827079
ISBN-13: 978-1111827076
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 9.7 inches

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Organizational Behavior and Management 9th Edition, John Ivancevich

2013-03-03T20:37:00.000-08:00

The authors’ goal in writing Organizational Behavior and Management 9e is to improve students’ ability to understand, interpret, and predict the behavior of people working in organizations. The book combines text, self-learning exercises, group participation exercises, and cases in an integrated way designed to enhance learning and retention of organizational behavior concepts and skills. A solid research base and an appendix on research techniques make this book suitable for a graduate studies course.

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Paperback: 672 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 9 edition (February 12, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073530506
ISBN-13: 978-0073530505
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 1 x 10 inches

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Organization Development and Change (with InfoTrac College Edition Printed Access Card) 9th Edition, Thomas G. Cummings

2013-03-01T22:08:00.000-08:00

Market-leading ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, 9th Edition blends theory, concepts and applications in a comprehensive and clear presentation. The authors work from a strong theoretical foothold and apply behavioral science knowledge to the development of organizational structures, strategies, and processes.

Cummings OD book is perfectly designed to approach and delve into the field of OD smoothly and profoundly. Its first three chapters provide an excellent introduction to OD and how it is differentiated from overlapping organizational dynamics, primarily change management and organizational change. I respected this text's strategic analysis of the OD interventions and the pragmatic models of their implementation. Although developing business organizations sounds theoritical in its conceptual or abstract sense, this text gives you reasonable and sensible tools that help convert the OD theory to a tangible reality.

Having read hundreds of books on organisational development I have to say this is the best. It is true to say that this book has never been far from my side over the last nine years. It covers the wide range of activities required to transform organisations, providing intervention theory, diagnosis, learning and development structure design etc. This single work has informed 70% of my thinking towards change management. I cannot rate this book highly enough, its the most important book in my collection and has informed most of the change management work I have conducted. It does take quite a bit of study and even more practice. I want to thank Cummings and Worley for producing this book, it has changed the course of my career.

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Hardcover: 800 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 9 edition (July 11, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0324421389
ISBN-13: 978-0324421385
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.4 x 1.4 inches

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Organizational Behavior 6th Edition, Steven McShane

2013-03-01T21:48:00.000-08:00

Organizational Behavior provides the essential OB knowledge to students in an accessible, student focused presentation. This text builds on the strengths of the main textbook, including a strong literature foundation, excellent readability, meaningful exhibits, global representation of examples, and presentation of both core and emerging topics. McShane/Von Glinow allows students to practice applying concepts via Connect.

Organizational Behavior, Sixth Edition is written in the context of these emerging workplace realities. This edition explains how emotions are the foundation of employee motivation, attitudes, and decisions; how social networks generate power and shape communication patterns; how self-concept influences individual behavior, team cohesion, and leadership; and how adopting a global mindset has become an important employee characteristic in this increasingly interconnected world. This book also presents the reality that organizational behavior is not just for managers; it is relevant and valuable to anyone who works in and around organizations.

I received the book on a Saturday and I ordered it that Friday so I was really, really surprised when UPS pulled up with the book. It came in great condition and the return processed was really easy. I'm getting ready to rent another book online now for my daughter for this semester.

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Hardcover: 640 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 6 edition (January 13, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0078112648
ISBN-13: 978-0078112645
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 1.2 x 11.4 inches

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Strategic Management 13th Edition, John Pearce

2013-03-01T21:30:00.000-08:00

Contemporary research in strategic management, with an emphasis on conceptual tools and skills created by scholars and practitioners in the field are evident throughout Strategic Management, 13e. This thirteenth edition of Strategic Management has a refined message and a new subtitle: Planning for Domestic & Global Competition. This new edition is specially designed to accommodate the needs of strategy students worldwide in our fast-changing twenty-first century. The authors complement the focus on strategic planning for success within U.S. borders with unprecedented attention on how U.S. firms can leverage their domestic success by forming international partnerships and can achieve international success by becoming actively involved in global trade. These are exciting times, and they are reflected in this book. The new edition includes NEW or revised chapter material, 30 NEW cases, and dozens of NEW illustrations.

This text was required for my final Master's level class, so I had no choice in buying it. With that being said, it presented great up-to-date company examples within in each chapter. This text pulled together information from many other classes, and integrated them into usable methods for any size organization. Also noteworthy, is that globalization is addressed constantly. The glossary was low to moderate, and there was an abundance of case studies.

I should start by saying this book is not user-friendly; with a note that a text like this really shouldn't be when you consider it is a collegiate-level business tomb aimed at the B.S. of Business to M.B.A. level student. Socio-political stories, geared towards appeasing left-leaning professors, that do nothing to enhance the topic at hand found in many of today's "business" textbooks are thankfully wholly absent here. No frills, and no politically/affirmative action friendly pictures tucked neatly between sub-headings--just a well executed factual analysis of what you need to know in a rapid-fire format.

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Hardcover: 976 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 13 edition (January 19, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0078029295
ISBN-13: 978-0078029295
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 1.6 x 10.4 inches

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Successful Project Management (with Microsoft Project 2010) 5th Edition, Jack Gido

2013-03-01T00:08:00.000-08:00

Gido/Clements' best-selling SUCCESSFUL PROJECT MANAGEMENT, 5E presents everything you need to know to work successfully in today's exciting project management environment, from how to organize and manage effective project teams, to planning, scheduling and cost management. Revised chapters now closely align with the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) framework to ensure you are mastering today's best management practices. Coverage of the latest business developments and challenges introduce issues, such as project constraints, the project charter, and how projects relate to an organization's strategic plan. You even gain experience working with the latest version of today's most popular project management software — Microsoft Project 2010 — using the trial version that comes with each new book.

Very good book, very useful and easy to understand. The only thing I didn't like about it is the glossary terms in the chapter are not listed at the end of the chapter. However, they are highlighted within the chapter and in the glossary section in the back of the book. Also the CD-Rom is only a trial and you will need to learn and play around with it. It helps make project management much easier to understand if you never knew anything about it before.

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Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 5 edition (February 18, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0538478977
ISBN-13: 978-0538478977
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 9.7 inches

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Understanding Business 9th Edition, William Nickels

2013-03-01T00:01:00.001-08:00

Understanding Business by Nickels, McHugh, and McHugh has been the number one textbook in the introduction to business market for several editions for three reasons: (1) The commitment and dedication of an author team that teaches this course and believes in the importance and power of this learning experience, (2) we listen to our customers, and (3) the quality of our supplements package. We consistently look to the experts – full-time faculty members, adjunct instructors, and of course students – to drive the decisions we make about the text itself and the ancillary package. Through a series of focus groups, symposia, as well as full-book, single-chapter, revised manuscript reviews of both text and key ancillaries, we have heard the stories of more than 600 professors and their insights and experiences are evident on every page of the revision and in every supplement. As teachers of the course and users of their own materials, the author team is dedicated to the principles of excellence in business education. From providing the richest most current topical coverage to using dynamic pedagogy that puts students in touch with today’s real business issues, to creating groundbreaking and market-defining ancillary items for professors and students alike, Understanding Business leads the way.

Being somewhat of an entrepreneur, I decided to enhance my business background by taking an introductory course in business this Fall, 2011. This is the assigned text, and I prefer to get familiar with course materials as soon as published. Honestly, this text is not what I expected from an introductory textbook. It gives a solid overview of past and current business science. The online materials augmenting the text are impressive, and downloadable for the most part.

The topics discussed in the text are pertinent and current to issues being experienced both locally, nationally, and internationally: Business Trends; Business Ownership; Business Management; Human Resources; Marketing; Financial Resources.

The text is easy to read. It includes highlights of business personalities from the local, national, and international arenas, and why they are significant in the business world. The layout of the subject materials is highly organized and makes the taking of notes easy as well.

The online materials are designed to augment the text by offering study aides that can be downloaded and printed including practice tests, case studies with practice tests, videos, and more.

Overall, I find this text both informative and worth reading for anyone interested learning the foundations of business science regardless of whether it is for a college course or personal interest.

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Hardcover: 569 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 9 edition (October 6, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073511706
ISBN-13: 978-0073511702
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.2 x 11.2 inches

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Statistics for Business and Economics, Revised 11th Edition, David R. Anderson

2013-02-28T23:50:00.001-08:00

The revised, eleventh edition of STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS brings together more than twenty-five years of author experience, sound statistical methodology, a proven problem-scenario approach, and meaningful applications to demonstrate how statistical information informs decisions in the business world. And, to give you the most relevant material, you select the topics you want, including coverage of popular commercial statistical software programs like Minitab 16, Excel 2010, and others. These optional chapter appendices, coordinating data sets (on CD and online), and other support materials make STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS the most customizable, efficient, and powerful approach to learning business statistics around.

Simply put, the revised, 11th edition of Statistics for Business and Economics is powerful. The authors bring more than twenty-five years of unmatched experience to this text, along with sound statistical methodology, a proven problem-scenario approach, and meaningful applications that clearly demonstrate how statistical information informs decisions in the business world. Thoroughly updated, the text's more than 350 real business examples, cases, and memorable exercises present the latest statistical data and business information with unwavering accuracy. And, to give you the most relevant text you can get for your course, you select the topics you want, including coverage of popular commercial statistical software programs like Minitab® 16 and Excel® 2010, along with StatTools® and other leading Excel® 2010 statistical add-ins.

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Hardcover: 1120 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 11 edition (April 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0538481641
ISBN-13: 978-0538481649
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 1.7 x 10.2 inches

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Compensation 10th Edition, George Milkovich

2013-02-28T06:57:00.002-08:00

Compensation, 10th Edition, by Milkovich, Newman and Gerhart is the market-leading text in this course area. It offers instructors current research material, in depth discussion of topics, integration of Internet coverage, excellent pedagogy, and a truly engaging writing style. The authors consult with leading businesses, have won teaching awards, and publish in the leading journals. This text examines the strategic choices in managing total compensation. The total compensation model introduced in chapter one serves as an integrating framework throughout the book. The authors discuss major compensation issues in the context of current theory, research, and real-business practices. Milkovich, Newman and Gerhart strive to differentiate between beliefs and opinions from facts and scholarly research. They showcase practices that illustrate new developments in compensation practices as well as established approaches to compensation decisions. Time after time, adopters relay stories of students getting job offers based on the knowledge they learned from this book.

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Hardcover: 712 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 10 edition (January 5, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073530492
ISBN-13: 978-0073530499
Product Dimensions: 9 x 1.3 x 9.4 inches

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Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor and Lead, John Shook

2013-02-28T06:51:00.000-08:00

Managing to Learn by Toyota veteran John Shook, reveals the thinking underlying the vital A3 management process at the heart of lean management and lean leadership. Constructed as a dialogue between a manager and his boss, the book explains how A3 thinking helps managers and executives identify, frame, and then act on problems and challenges. Shook calls this approach, which is captured in the simple structure of an A3 report, the key to Toyota's entire system of developing talent and continually deepening its knowledge and capabilities. The A3 Report is a Toyota-pioneered practice of getting the problem, the analysis, the corrective actions, and the action plan down on a single sheet of large (A3) paper, often with the use of graphics. A3 paper is the international term for a large sheet of paper, roughly equivalent to the 11-by-17-inch U.S. sheet. The widespread adoption of the A3 process standardizes a methodology for innovating, planning, problem-solving, and building foundational structures for sharing a broader and deeper form of thinking that produces organizational learning deeply rooted in the work itself, says Shook. Management expert James Womack predicts Managing to Learn will have a deep impact on the way lean companies manage people. He believes readers will learn an underlying way of thinking that reframes all activities as learning activities at every level of the organization, whether it's standardized work and kaizen at the individual level, system kaizen at the managerial level, or fundamental strategic decisions at the corporate level. A unique layout puts the thoughts of a lean manager struggling to apply the A3 process to a key project on one side of the page and the probing questions of the boss who is coaching him through the process on the other side. As a result, readers learn how to write a powerful A3 - while learning why the technique is at the core of lean management and lean leadership.

John Shook has written a solid book that can stand proudly alongside the other books in the Lean Enterprise Institute's lineup. This book is especially useful for those new to lean who want to understand the nuts and bolts of how the A3 management system works. Most people new to lean begin applying the tools without a full appreciation of the management system or the real thinking that goes on behind it. Without these supporting mechanisms, people's efforts at lean deployment generate small results and sustainment is poor. A3s are one of the key tools to successful deployment.

As with other books in the LEI lineup, this book is very readable. The illustrations are simple, the examples are straightforward, and the text is well-edited and well-structured. This book takes a fictional company as an example. As one who helps teach others, the narrative style has irritated me because authors frequently use it in a pure storytelling format. Books like these often have little instructional value because they are difficult to study from. Managing to Learn tells a company's example story, but it also explains and discusses the narrative events in a second column of text in the margin. Its almost like your floating above the players with your sensei, hearing the thoughts of the actors and an explanation by your lean leader. Combined with sidebar comments and uncluttered illustrations, the layout and style of this book make it a rich reference and a great study and teaching tool.

As the book points out, there are a number of ways A3s can be used, and Managing to Learn shows examples of each. The theme linking all of these together is the systematic problem solving thinking that is at the heart of A3 thinking.

I am a consultant and I currently manage a consortium of over 50 companies working together to become lean organizations. For a number of reasons, I have made the preparation of A3s for every kaizen improvement event a MANDATORY requirement for all my clients and consortium members. One of the key results of doing so is that it gets people oriented from day one understanding that lean is more than just using tools - you are solving problems, and going from problem, through analysis, down to root causes, and on to a plan that you implement and check, is the structured thinking that A3s create.

I recommend this book highly, and it is now on the short list of required reading I endorse for anyone using lean tools and principles.

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Paperback: 138 pages
Publisher: Lean Enterprises Inst Inc; Pap/Chrt edition (June 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934109207
ISBN-13: 978-1934109205
Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.9 x 0.5 inches

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Essentials of Negotiation 5th Edition, Roy Lewicki

2013-02-28T06:44:00.000-08:00

Essentials of Negotiation, 5e is a condensed version of the main text, Negotiation, Sixth Edition. It explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and inter-group conflict and its resolution. Twelve of the 20 chapters from the main text have been included in this edition, several chapters having been condensed for this volume. Those condensed chapters have shifted from a more research-oriented focus to a more fundamental focus on issues such as critical negotiation subprocesses, multiparty negotiations, and the influence of international and cross-cultural differences on the negotiation process.

I used this textbook for the class "Negotiation and Conflict Resolution". I found it easy to read, very comprehensive, with real-life and clear examples. I would highly recommend it to students and professionals.

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 5 edition (February 17, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073530360
ISBN-13: 978-0073530369
Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches

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Organization Theory and Design 11th Edition, Richard L. Daft

2013-02-27T04:03:00.000-08:00

Discover some of the most progressive thinking about organizations today as acclaimed business author Richard Daft blends contemporary, innovative organizational ideas with proven classic theories and effective business practices. The result is a best-selling book—ORGANIZATION THEORY AND DESIGN—that's as enjoyable and engaging as it is useful and informative. You'll see, firsthand, how well-known organizations cope and even thrive within today's rapidly changing, highly competitive, international environment. Featured organizations include BP, Disney/Pixar, Volvo, Barnes & Noble, and Cisco Systems. Fascinating detailed examples, contemporary case studies and proven learning features bring organization concepts to life while helping you develop the skills and insights that will leave you well equipped to meet the challenges of today's business world.

I have an earlier edition and I'm getting this one as an update. If you're interested in the subject matter, this is the best text I've found on this important topic. If you don't enjoy the subject matter, it is sure to cure insomnia. The text covers this very important topic thoroughly and represents the latest thinking on several approaches to common problems in organization design.

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Hardcover: 688 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 11 edition (March 21, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1111221294
ISBN-13: 978-1111221294
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 9.7 inches

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Managerial Economics & Business Strategy 7th Edition, Michael Baye

2013-02-27T03:30:00.001-08:00

Baye’s Managerial Economics and Business Strategy remains the best-selling managerial economics textbook in which it continues to provide students with the tools from intermediate microeconomics, game theory, and industrial organization to make sound managerial decisions. Baye is known for its real-world examples, frontier research, inclusion of modern topics not found in other managerial books, as well as balanced coverage of traditional and modern microeconomic tools. The Seventh Edition retains all of the key signature features of previous editions and incorporates new features to enhance students’ learning experiences and make it easier to teach from the book. These include updated headlines, new and updated inside business applications, and new end-of-chapter material.

Used this book in my master program Econ class, very good examples & study Q's! My professor raves about the book & author!

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Hardcover: 656 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 7 edition (October 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393000397
ISBN-13: 978-0073375960
ASIN: 0073375969
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 1.2 x 10.1 inches

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Management : Leading & Collaborating in the Competitive World 10th Edition, Thomas Bateman

2013-02-23T08:40:00.000-08:00

Bateman and Snell’s Management: Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World is a text with a fully modernized functional approach. This text is maintaining the four traditional functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, while modernizing and re-visioning the concepts as delivering strategic value, building a dynamic organization, mobilizing people, and learning and changing.

Bateman/Snell’ results-oriented approach is a unique hallmark of this textbook. In this ever more competitive environment there are five essential types of performance, on which the organization beats, equals, or loses to the competition which are cost, quality, speed, innovation, service and sustainability. These six performance dimensions, when done well, deliver value to the customer and competitive advantage to you and your organization. Throughout the text Bateman & Snell remind students of these five dimensions and their impact on the “bottom line” with marginal icons contributing to the leadership and collaboration theme, which is the key to successful management. People working with one another, rather than against, is essential to competitive advantage.

This book has a lot of great case studies and I like the end of chapter summaries. However, I don't feel if flows very well. There are a lot of comments about learning about another subject in a later chapter, but it feels like we need to know that information in the current chapter. I have a hard time reading more than a couple pages at a time as it doesn't hold my attention well.

Overall, it is about what I expect for a college class.

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Hardcover: 784 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 10 edition (January 17, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0078029333
ISBN-13: 978-0078029332
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 1.3 x 11.5 inches

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Operations and Supply Chain Management 13th Edition, F. Robert Jacobs

2013-02-23T08:29:00.000-08:00

Operations and Supply Chain Management, as the title indicates, provides increased emphasis on supply chain management in the 13th Edition. The 13th Edition continues its market leading up-to-date coverage of service operations as well. The text includes solved examples and problems, enough cases for MBA courses to use without supplementing, and the industry leading technology support suite.

If you anticipate a lot of homework in your class, DO NOT buy the international edition. Until now, I have had no problems with the international editions of many of my textbooks. I bought the international edition of this text for my class. So far, I have had many of my homework problems (about 30% in each submission) corrected when returned to me until I realized that it was not my mistake but that the data given for those homework problems was different in my textbook compared to that of the standard edition. Thankfully, my professor and TA were understanding and thus, got full credit. It might not be so with other professors.

Other than the above mentioned problem and few case studies missing in the international edition, the text is great. It's easy to understand and the chapters are short and manageable.

I got this book for my manufacturing class at James Madison University and it was great. It is a very detailed and well informing book. It has been "dumbed" down because it is being used by business schools so it is not has math intensive has previous versions.

It does not come with online material

Comes with a CD of companies that are talked about in the book and are used as examples.

Overall a good book, I am keeping it to use for another class.

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Hardcover: 832 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 13 edition (March 9, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073525227
ISBN-13: 978-0073525228
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 1.3 x 11 inches

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Management 10th Edition, Richard L. Daft

2013-02-21T18:47:00.000-08:00

Readers discover the confidence to manage and develop the ability to lead with innovative solutions in today's rapidly changing business environment with Daft's marketing-leading MANAGEMENT, 11E. Daft explores the emerging themes and management issues most important for managers in businesses today. Future and current managers learn to look beyond traditional techniques and ideas to tap into a full breadth of management skills. With the best in proven management and new competencies that harness creativity, Daft defines Management.

This undergraduate textbook explores the environment of management, approaches to planning and organizing, theories of leadership, and the controlling function of management. A note-worthy chapter considers managerial ethics and corporate social responsibility. The sixth edition adds sections on Internet start-ups, multi-cultural teams, and emotional intelligence. The CD-ROM contains video clips and quizzes. Color photographs.

This book does a great job of starting a chapter with a real world situation, outlining important aspects of management, pointing out major learning aspects, and bringing back the opening story to make connections throughout the chapter.

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The Leadership Experience 5th Edition, Richard L. Daft

2013-02-21T18:42:00.002-08:00

Equip students with the critical leadership skills and solid understanding of today's theory they need to become effective business leaders in today's turbulent times. With Daft's THE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE, 5E, your students explore the latest leadership theory as well as contemporary practices in organizations throughout the world. This edition more closely connects theory to recent world events, such as the Wall Street meltdown, ethical scandals, and political turmoil. Students examine emerging topics, including enhancing emotional intelligence, leading virtual teams, and open innovation. Packed with memorable examples and unique insights into leadership decisions, this edition reinforces the book's inviting presentation with new full-color visuals. Proven applications, specifically designed for today's leadership theory and applications course, and a solid foundation grounded in established scholarly research make leadership come alive.

Students have a wealth of information in each chapter coming at them from different directions and in different formats. I particularly like the Leadership Bookshelf and Consider This box segments. As self-learning professionals, several of my students have commented that they have gone online and purchased books discussed in the Leadership Bookshelf boxes to augment their leadership libraries.

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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 5 edition (February 26, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 143904211X
ISBN-13: 978-1439042113
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 0.8 x 9.8 inches

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Strategic Management: Text and Cases 6th Edition, Gregory Dess

2013-02-21T18:34:00.000-08:00

Strategic Management: Text and Cases, sixth Edition, by the prestigious authors Dess/Lumpkin/Eisner and new co-author Gerry McNamara provide solid treatment of traditional topics in strategic management as well as thorough coverage of contemporary topics such intellectual assets, entrepreneurship, innovation, knowledge management, Internet strategies, crowdsourcing, environmental sustainability, businesses’ use of blogs and social networking sites and more. The text is rounded off by rich, relevant, and teachable cases. This text’s accessible writing style and wealth of new and updated illustrations, which clarify the most difficult topics, make this text the best resource for your students.

The new case selections emphasize variety, currency, and familiar company names. The cases are up-to-date in terms of both financial data and strategic issues. This group of cases gives both instructors and students unparalleled quality and variety. Based on consistent reviewer feedback, these selections combine comprehensive and shorter length cases about well known companies.

The book was a required book for class so had to be purchased. There are cases in the back of the book that correlate with the chapters and give deeper understanding of the concepts and course objectives.

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Hardcover: 912 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 6 edition (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0078029317
ISBN-13: 978-0078029318
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 3.8 x 10.2 inches

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Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases: Competitiveness and Globalization 10th Edition, Michael A. Hitt

2013-02-20T08:52:00.000-08:00

Introduce strategic management using the market-leading text that sets the standard for the most complete, relevant presentation. Written by highly respected experts and prestigious scholars, Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson's STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, CONCEPTS AND CASES, 10E provides an intellectually rich, yet thoroughly practical analysis of strategic management today. This unique text is the only one to integrate the classic industrial organization model with a resource-based view of the firm to give readers a complete understanding of how today's businesses use strategic management to establish a sustained competitive advantage. The authors present cutting-edge research and strategic management trends within a strong global focus, using memorable examples from more than 600 companies. A wealth of learning features and selection of 30 all-new compelling cases prepare your students to face the broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary managers. Engaging video cases, CengageNOW online teaching tools, and a complete electronic business library keeps study current and relevant.

The text is arranged in a very straightforward manner. The content can be a little redundant, but the authors have done well to re-emphasize their points without the monotony of saying it the same way. There were a few typos and regarding their take on the strategy of one international bank, they were not well informed. Out of all of the points, thoughts and content, there was only that. I would recommend the book for those who regard themselves as thought leaders and want to develop their mental capital. Everyone else, keep reading Dilbert.

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Hardcover: 952 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 10 edition (January 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1111825874
ISBN-13: 978-1111825874
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 9.7 inches

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