[.ca] Management (with InfoTrac® Printed Access Card) (ISBN 0324537700)

pretty decent textbook:
has some interesting parts. not too boring. i recommend.

I like it, BUT...:
I am taking a college class, where this book is the required textbook. I am also a person that prefers to read things on screen than on the paper. This book came with a CD-ROM and with an InfoTrac subscription. And so I decided I would try out the CD and see what it has to offer. I was looking forward to browsing through the full text of the book, especially since I paid a lot of money for it, and well, WAS I IN FOR A HUGE SURPRISE!!! The entire CD is empty, except of a tiny (52KB) html file which redirects the user to the company webpage. WHAT A WASTE! A tiny floppy disk would have been enough, but NO it has to be a CD, since that looks better on the cover... Anyways, I would recommend the book for anybody wanting to learn about Management the old way, on paper. If you, like me, enjoy using the new technologies, I would rather look further until I found a book that came with a CD that is actually worth the effort of putting it in the drive... TL

GREAT for Starters and Juniors on Business Administration !!:
I am doing well as a Senior Software Engineer working for a multinational in Europe, but I have NO knowledge about Business Administration at all :( . I have recently started a MBA course and Daft's "Management" is the first book that we are working on, in the class. The structure of this book really helps a lot people who may be good Engineers with an analytical way of thinking, but have no idea about Management and BA. Easy-reading, with contemporary real-life examples, contains TQM, MBO and all the latest trends in Management. The Summaries and Case Studies at the end of each chapter are very handy. Starts with the simples and gradually takes you to much deeper in BA. If you alreay have a career and want to change your path to a more managerial (and less engineering) level in the market, then this is the book for you...

Daft keeping pace with changes !:
I have come across the new edition of R. Daft's "Management" during lecturing MBA students in the Long Distance course of the University of Leicester, U.K (working in Athens, Greece with Icon International Ltd) The structure and overall philosophy of the book keeps the well tested and succesful character that made it a must as a studying and teaching aid so many years now. There is a steady persistance upon the strategical aspect of managerial decision making within a dramaticaly changing business world. There is also a tendency to structure the book as a "palempseston" of succesive layers of introduction, theory, exhibits, case studies and reviews that make it so interesting that someone tends to disregard the number of pages. What distinguishes the new edition from the previous one is not only the cover. It is rather an effort to adress the current concerns of managers who encountered the massive loss of dreams, during the previous two years. Yet, a light in the darkness of the busines world comes through focusing into the new shape of the working environment. After many dissapointments regarding expansion and growth in the e-business sphere and in the K(nowledge)-economy, many jobs lost and many projects abandoned, managers can return to the foundamentals of the every days work. As a matter of fact management is mainly doing work with others and it is there that things changed recently. Daft offers a good opportunity for students and managers to rethink about their changing role instead of the changing paradigm of management that was his focus in the previous edition. Very succesful approach and recommended to both pofessional and academics.