Strategic Management by Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University

Principles of Management by David S. Bright

This book online Principles of Management by David S. Bright and others covers the following topics related to Management and Leadership : Managing and Performing, Managerial Decision-Making, The History of Management, External and Internal Organizational Environments and Corporate Culture, Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, and Sustainability, International Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Analysis: Understanding a Firm’s Competitive Environment, The Strategic Management Process: Achieving and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, Organizational Structure and Change, Human Resource Management, Diversity in Organizations, Leadership, Work Motivation for Performance, Managing Teams, Managerial Communication, Organizational Planning and ControllingManagement of Technology and Innovation.

Author(s): David S. Bright, and others

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Project Management for Instructional Designers

The book is well-designed for the intended audience of instructional designers. Topics covered includes: Introduction to Project Management, Project Profiling, Project Phases and Organization, Understanding and Meeting Client Expectations, Working with People on Projects, Communication Technologies, Starting a Project, Project Time Management, Managing Project Quality, Managing Project Risk .

Author(s): Geri Clements, Jeffery Drysdale, Jenifer Francis, Buck Harrison, Joseph Rino, Jared Robinson and Aaron Snyder

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Strategic Management I Lecture Notes

This note focuses on some of the important current issues in strategic management. It will concentrate on modern analytical approaches and on enduring successful strategic practices. It is consciously designed with a technological and global outlook since this orientation in many ways highlights the significant emerging trends in strategic management.

Author(s): Rohan Sahani and Prof. Arnoldo Hax

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Management Information Systems

This book covers the following topics: The World Of E-Business, Business Models, e-Business Relationships, Governance Structures, e-Business Technological Infrastructure, XML -The Enabling Technology, e-Markets, e-Procurement, Business Networks, Intermediaries In The Value Systems, e-Business Modeling, Approaches To Middleware, Enterprise Application Integration, e-Business Integration and Loosely Coupled e-Business Solutions.

Author(s): Seoul National University

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The Theory of Operations Management

This note focuses on theoretical work for studying operations planning and control problems. Also reviews the quantitative models and theoretical tools underlying some of the customer-driven operational practices of these cutting-edge companies.

Author(s): Prof. Jeremie Gallien

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Advanced Communication for Leaders

This note introduces interactive oral and interpersonal communication skills critical to leaders, including strategies for presenting to a hostile audience, running effective and productive meetings, active listening, and contributing to group decision-making.

Author(s): Prof. Neal Hartman

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Project Management from Simple to Complex

The text provides an overview of project management and uses the industry standard definitions of the divisions of project management knowledge as described by the Project Management Institute (PMI) to provide grounding in traditional project management concepts. Topics covered includes: Project Profiling, Project Phases and Organization, Understanding and Meeting Client Expectations, Working with People on Projects, Communication Technologies, Starting a Project, Project Time Management, Estimating and Managing Costs, Managing Project Quality, Managing Project Risk, Project Procurement and Closure.

Author(s): Saylor Academy

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Practical Leadership

This note covers the following topics: Leadership Frameworks, Communication, Situational Leadership, Influencing Others and Decision-making.

Author(s): Pat Bentley

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Managing Transformations in Work, Organizations, and Society

The course note focuses on skills managers need to adapt to current sweeping changes in the nature of work and the workforce, in business organizations and their roles in society, and in the institutions that interact with work, particularly the labor market, community and family centered groups.

Author(s): Prof. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Prof. Thomas A. Kochan and Prof. Wanda Orlikowski

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Managing Groups and Teams

In this book, the author take a challenge based approach to dealing with groups. Many other books provide conceptual and descriptive treatments of groups and teams. Here we will take a prescriptive perspective, one that focuses on the how to of managing a group or a team. This prescriptive perspective, however, will be rooted in social science.

Author(s): wikibooks.org

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