Jones/Haddad - Essentials of Contemporary Management, "Makes Management Real" for students. The Fifth Canadian edition presents management in a way that makes its relevance obvious even to students who may lack exposure to a "real-life" management context. Jones relates management theory to real life examples and drives home the message that management matters. Management matters because it determines how well organizations perform, and because managers and organizations affect the lives of people who work inside and the people outside the organization, such as customers, communities, and shareholders.
Essentials of Contemporary Management, Fifth Canadian edition, provides a concise offering of current management theories and research. Through a variety of real world examples from small, medium, and large companies, students learn how those ideas are used by practicing managers. The organization of the Jones text follows the mainstream functional approach of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, but the content is flexible. The important themes of diversity, ethics, globalization, and information technology are integrated throughout with examples, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, personalities, and problems to provide this context.
Jane W. Haddad received her Honours B.A. from Queen’s University, Ontario, in 1984 followed by her M.A from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in 1986. She has taught in the faculties of Sociology and Education at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, and in the Salem International University distance M.B.A. program. In addition to teaching Liberal Studies, Humanities, and Management theory for 20 years, Jane also leads and develops new course curricula as a Professor and Course Director in the School of Business Management at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, Toronto, Ontario. Professor Haddad coordinated a SSHRC funded Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) grant at Seneca from 2000 to 2005 and currently sits on Seneca’s Research Ethics Review Board. Professor Haddad’s research interests include youth training and labour markets and barriers to accessing post secondary education. She has presented several academic papers at Learned Society and other conferences across Canada and published her work in journals such as Canadian Women’s Studies Journal and The College Quarterly.
Gareth Jones received a B.A. in economics psychology and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Lancaster, United Kingdom. He currently is a professor of management in the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University. Dr. Jones pursues research interests in strategic management and organizational theory and is well-known for his research that applies transaction cost analysis to explain many forms of strategic and organizational behavior. He also studies the complex and changing relationships between competitive advantage and information technology in the 2010s. He has published many articles in leading journals and his research has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of International Business Studies, and Human Relations. His books are widely recognized for their innovative, contemporary content and for the clarity with which they communicate complex, real-world issues to students.
Jennifer George received a B.A. in psychology and sociology from Wesleyan University, an M.B.A. in finance from New York University, and a Ph.D. in management and organizational behavior from New York University. She is professor of management in the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University and also the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. Dr. George specializes in organizational behavior and is well known for her research on mood and emotion in the workplace, their determinants, and their effects on various individual and group-level work outcomes. She is a fellow in the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and is a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior.
