Introduction to management

Up-to-date in content and approach, this comprehensive yet accessible text will be invaluable to all levels of management students, on both competence-based and conventional academic programmes, including business degree courses. It will also prove useful for practicing managers wishing to update existing skills, since it includes the most recent management concepts, theories and best practice. The book addresses all of those competencies specified by the Management Charter Initiative and indicates them at the beginning of each chapter. The text is extensively illustrated with tables, diagrams and charts for easy access of data and information. The author is a senior lecturer at the Liverpool Business School, John Moores University and has previously lectured at the University of Liverpool. He has provided business and management consultancy for several major organisations.