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Published
June 2025
Page Count
540
ISBN (Digital)
979-8-88794-461-6

Principles of Management

Version 6.0
By Talya Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, and Jeremy Short

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Key Features

  • Organized around three key themes:
    • Strategic thinking with explicit focus on determinants of superior organizational performance
    • Entrepreneurial thinking that goes beyond a traditional definition of “manager” to encompass strategic innovation and effect necessary change
    • Active management that emphasizes personal effectiveness and decision-making practices needed to succeed in an increasingly competitive job market and a constantly shifting business environment
  • Emphasizes the “triple bottom line”—the idea that successful economic performance should consider social and environmental impacts of the firm when evaluating outcomes.
  • Each chapter is structured around the respected P-O-L-C framework:
    • Planning—setting objectives and determining courses of action
    • Organizing—developing an organizational structure and allocating human resources to achieve objectives
    • Leading—inspiring others to act in response to social and informal sources of influence
    • Controlling—ensuring consistent behaviors that achieve objectives by creating and enforcing standard processes and procedures
  • Over 70 embedded links to streaming videos engage students, stimulate curiosity, and enrich hybrid and online courses
  • Strong focus on ethics and using critical thinking to address ethical dilemmas
  • Rich and useful learning structure:
    • Chapter-Opening Tables describe how the P-O-L-C framework applies to the chapter that follows
    • Chapter Learning Objectives provide an overview of the chapter to come
    • Learning Objectives start each main section to preview the coming discussion and prepare students to learn
    • NEW—Leveraging AI for POM feature in every chapter provides helpful perspectives on how to get the most out of AI in management contexts
    • Key Takeaway at the end of every main section summarizes just-encountered information while it is still fresh to encourage retention
    • Discussion Questions at the end of every main section provide critical thinking opportunities for individual students or topics for group interactions
    • Case in Point are chapter-ending cases that illustrate concepts discussed in the preceding chapter in real-world contexts
    • Case Discussion Questions provide structured opportunities for discussion and analysis of the associated Case in Point. Answer guidelines are provided in the instructor’s manual
    • NEW—Ethical Dilemma at the end of every chapter poses ethics questions related to a key chapter topic
  • Customizable

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Principles of Management is suitable for courses usually called Management, Principles of Management, Management Principles, Introduction to Management or similar titles taught at the undergraduate level in both two- or four-year colleges and universities. 


Principles of Management provides a comprehensive, action-oriented, and concisely written explanation of management fundamentals to prepare learners for the rapidly evolving business environment. The book’s distinct learning strategy weaves three consistent themes throughout: strategic thinking, entrepreneurial thinking, and active management. Each chapter is constructed around the well-established P-O-L-C framework (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling) that helps instructors organize the course more efficiently and that makes the material more memorable and readily applied by students, particularly learners who are less well prepared for college-level work. The result is a logically written, accessible, and engaging text that clearly communicates the latest findings and best practices needed to truly understand the core principles of management.

 

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  • NEW—Leveraging AI for POM feature in every chapter provides helpful perspectives on how to get the most out of AI in management contexts
  • NEW—Ethical Dilemma at the end of every chapter poses ethics questions related to a key chapter topic
  • Streamlined to make key points more quickly and powerfully than ever before
  • Greater focus on application to bring concepts to life for students and stimulate classroom discussions
  • All end-of-chapter cases either written or rewritten to reflect the most current management topics and contemporary management challenges, such as communicating in the current social media environment
  • Greater diversity of examples, significant global change, and a specific focus on challenges posed by managing social media
  • Features new businesses and business examples throughout
  • Numerous podcast examples added throughout the book. For example, every chapter links to one or more podcasts from the Freakonomics Radio Network

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Talya Bauer

Talya Bauer

Portland State University

Talya Bauer (PhD, Purdue University) is the Cameron Professor of Management and Affiliated Professor of Psychology at Portland State University. She is an award-winning teacher and researcher and recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Distinguished Teaching Award, the Academy of Management HR division’s Innovations in Teaching Award, and the Academy of Management HR division's Herbert Heneman, Jr. Award for Career Achievement. She conducts research about relationships at work throughout the employee life cycle, including recruitment, applicant reactions to selection, onboarding, and leadership. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as the SHRM and SIOP foundations, and has been published in research outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Personnel Psychology. She has worked with dozens of government, Fortune 1000, and start-up organizations and has been a Visiting Scholar in France, Italy, Singapore, Spain, the UK, and at Google Headquarters, and she has delivered keynote addresses in Australia, Greece, Spain, the UK, and across the United States. She serves in elected positions, including both the Organizational Behavior and HRM Executive Committees of the Academy of Management and Member-at-Large for SIOP. In 2018–2019 Talya served SIOP as its president. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology (and a former editor of Journal of Management). Her work has been discussed in Business Week, Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She is a fellow of SIOP, the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and International Association of Applied Psychology. Her textbooks are in use around the world and have been recognized multiple times for awards by the Textbook Authors Association.

Berrin Erdogan

Berrin Erdogan

Portland State University

Berrin Erdogan (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago) is the Express Employment Professionals Professor of Management at Portland State University and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. Berrin’s research focuses on two themes. First, she examines leaders through the relationships they build with their employees, and the implications of manager-employee relationships for employee effectiveness, retention, and well-being. Second, she is interested in understanding person-job fit and misfit, with a focus on why and how employees find themselves overqualified for their jobs and its consequences. She conducted studies and shared results with organizations in manufacturing, retail, health care, education, information technology, construction, and banking among others, in the United States, the UK, China, Turkey, Vietnam, France, and India. To date, she has published over 60 journal articles and book chapters, coauthored the textbooks Organizational Behavior and Principles of Management published by FlatWorld, Psychology and Work published by Routledge, and co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Leader-Member Exchange. Her work has been discussed in media outlets including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, BBC Capital, and Wall Street Journal, among others. She is a fellow of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Association for Psychological Sciences. She served as an associate editor for European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and Personnel Psychology and was recently the Editor-in-Chief of Personnel Psychology. Berrin is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and served as a visiting scholar and gave invited talks in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Iceland, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and across the United States. Her textbooks are in use around the world and have been recognized multiple times for awards by the Textbook Authors Association.

Jeremy Short

Jeremy Short

University of North Texas - Denton

Jeremy Short is the G. Brint Ryan Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of North Texas. His award-winning teaching includes classes on principles of management, strategic management, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and research methods. Dr. Short’s research focuses on the determinants of performance in organizations ranging from start-ups, social ventures, family firms, and large organizations. He has published more than one hundred articles in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Academy of Management Learning and Education, and Journal of Management Education, among others. He serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Family Business Review, and Organizational Research Methods. He also coauthored the first Harvard Business School case in graphic novel format as well as other graphic texts such as Atlas Black: The Complete Adventure. Short’s work has been highlighted in outlets such as Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Public Radio, Morning Brew, Scientific American Mind, and Franchise Times. A recent study highlighting the citation count of scholarly publications placed Jeremy’s scholarly impact among the top 2% of all management scholars in the world.

Additions & Errata

6/16/25: Chapter 12.5 Case Discussion Questions updated.

  1. Based on what you read in this case, would you find working at Chihuly Studios motivating? If so, which aspects of working at Chihuly Studios would motivate you? Which aspects would you find to be personally challenging?
  2. Do you believe that working in such an environment affords employees with increased levels of autonomy? What else do you think should be in place to support autonomy at work?
  3. What do you think Chihuly Studios does to ensure that employees experience a sense of meaning in their work?
  4. What do you think would be the challenges of managing the performance of large teams of glassblowers, such as though at Chihuly Studios?
  5. What are your thoughts about Chihuly Studios’ policy of having all work signed and credited to Dale Chihuly? Do you believe this policy affects employee motivation? In what ways?

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