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A revised, updated overview of the entire field of management. This highly flexible text treats traditional topics, such as planning, organizing, and controlling, as well as production/operations management and organizational behavior. Offers timely coverage of such issues as international management, human resource development, and quality of work life. Also provides new material on motivation to manage, use of power and authority, ERG theory, and the psychological basis for effective job design. Learning aids include margin notes, chapter exercises and cases, and chapter outlines.