Name: Business, 4th Edition
SKU: NFic-016
Availability: InStock

Description

This best-selling book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of all the important functions of business. Each edition has introduced cutting-edge firsts while ensuring the underlying principles that guided its creation. This eighth edition focuses on the broad range of developments–economic, social, and political–re-shaping some long-established business practices. A five-part organization covers the contemporary business environment, the dynamics of managing, the principles of marketing, managing operations and information, and understanding financial issues. For individuals starting out – and continuing to compete – in the 21st century world of business.

From the Back Cover

Key Benefit: One of the most comprehensive yet readable surveys of all major facets of business operations and management, this best-selling book moves from broad, general perspectives to focused coverage of specific business functions. Key Topics: A carefully orchestrated variety of boxes, cases, vignettes, illustrations, quotes, a running field trip, interactive questions, and an informal first-person narrative all work together to draw readers dynamically into the real world of contemporary business .

About the Author

Ricky W. Griffin serves as Distinguished Professor of Management and Blocker Chair in Business at Texas A&M. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Houston. He served as editor of the Journal of Management and as an officer in the Southwest Regional Division of the Academy of Management, the Southern Management Association, and the Research Methods Division and the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Griffin spent three years on the faculty at the University of Missouri (Columbia) before moving to Texas A&M University in 1981. His research interests include workplace violence, employee health and well-being in the workplace, and workplace culture. A well-respected author recognized for his organizational behavior and management research, Dr. Griffin has written many successful textbooks, including: Management, Organizational Behavior, HR, Management Skills, Introduction to Business, and International Business.