Pierce: The Manager's Bookshelf 10th Edition

Sample the best of the best philosophies, views, and theories in management.

The Manager’s Bookshelf: A Mosaic of Contemporary Views is a collection of objective summaries from a broad sampling of bestselling business books. Presenting readers with a collage of information to improve their knowledge of management practices, this text introduces the philosophies, views, and experiences of several authors whose works have captivated the attention of today's management community.

The tenth edition of The Manager’s Bookshelf introduces a fresh new set of readings into the book. A dozen new best sellers are included, replacing numerous other books that had become somewhat dated. The goal of this (and previous) revisions was to make The Manager’s Bookshelf an undeniably comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of highly readable book summaries.

For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Introduction to Management or Organizational Behavior.

Key Features

• No time? No problem: A significant number of students and professionals would benefit from reading about evidence-based management, vision, self-directed work teams, ethics, fun at work, organizational politics, and/or spirituality–but, most often, these individuals lack the time to read an entire book on these topics. To help, authors Pierce and Newstrom have gathered these ideas to create a brief, easy-to-read text that’s ideal for professional, educational, and personal reference.
• Staying current: This text introduces a fresh new set of articles that have been included from eighteen new bestselling titles on management.
• Seeing it from a bird’s-eye-view: The Manager’s Bookshelf does not express the views of just one person, nor just one side of the idea. Instead, this text was constructed from a variety of classic and contemporary sources to provide readers with the full-spectrum of managerial theories.
• Sparking insight and discussion: Overall, this text provides useful insights that work to evoke self-reflection, and spark stimulating dialogue with colleagues about the management of today's organizations.

New to This Edition

• In response to user feedback, the authors abbreviated and streamlined Part 1.
• The authors have gradually expanded the size of the Best Seller “Classics" section, as additional books prove themselves to be enduring across time in their popularity.
• A new section has been inserted, Part III, to provide solid perspectives on the important topic of Organizational Culture.
• At the urging of reviewers, the authors created a section on Teams and Teamwork.
• The thrust of Part XI has been changed to capture both the rational and intuitive perspectives on Managerial Decision-Making.
• A new Part XIII on Social Technologies at Work is not included.
• Part 16, “Contemporary Thinking about Management,” was expanded to include Henry Mintzberg’s unique perspectives on Managing, as well as Thomas Friedman’s thoughts on how the world is changing.
• Other new inclusions in this edition accent themes of leadership transparency, Mojo, collaboative intelligence, super crunchers, and irrationality.

Contents

Part I. INTRODUCTION

• Reading 1: Understanding and Using the Best Sellers
• Reading 2: Reflections on the Best Sellers and A Cautionary Note

Part  II. BEST-SELLER “CLASSICS”

• Reading 1: The Practice of Management
• Reading 2: The One Minute Manager
• Reading 3: Out of the Crisis
• Reading 4: The Human Side of Enterprise
• Reading 5: Maslow on Management
• Reading 6: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
• Reading 7: The Fifth Discipline
• Reading 8: Competitive Advantage

Part III: HIGH- AND LOW-PERFORMING ORGANIZATIONS

• Reading 1: Good to Great
• Reading 2: Big Winners and Big Losers
• Reading 3: How the Mighty Fall

Part IV. ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY AND EXECUTION

• Reading 1: Higher Ambition 
• Reading 2: Responsible Restructuring

Part V. ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

• Reading 1: Organizational Culture and Leadership
• Reading 2: Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

Part VI. MOTIVATION

• Reading 1: The Enthusiastic Employee
• Reading 2: Psychological Capital
• Reading 3: Why Pride Matters More Than Money
• Reading 4: Mojo

Part VII. LEADERSHIP AND POWER

• Reading 1: Positive Leadership
• Reading 2: Bad Leadership
• Reading 3: Power

Part PART VIII. TEAMS AND TEAMWORK

• Reading 1: Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems
• Reading 2: Beyond Teams

Part IX. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

• Reading 1: Building the Bridge as You Walk on It
• Reading 2: A Sense of Urgency

Part X. "UNDISCUSSABLE" ISSUES AT WORK

• Reading 1: Workplace Survival
• Reading 2: The No-Asshole Rule
• Reading 3: It’s All Politics

Part XI. MANAGERIAL DECISION-MAKING

• Reading 1: Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Reading 2: Super Crunchers
• Reading 3: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

Part XII. ETHICS AND AUTHENTICITY IN THE WORKPLACE

• Reading 1:Blind Spot
• Reading 2: Authentic Leadership

Part XIII. EMOTIONS: POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, AND IRRATIONAL

• Reading 1: Prisoners of Our Thoughts
• Reading 2: Toxic Emotions at Work
• Reading 3: The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Part XIV. SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES AT WORK

• Reading 1: Groundswell
• Reading 2: Content Rules

Part XV. MANAGEMENT FABLES: LESSONS FOR SUCCESS

• Reading 1: Who Moved My Cheese? 
• Reading 2: Fish!
• Reading 3: The Fun-Minute Manager

Part XVI. CONTEMPORARY THINKING ABOUT MANAGEMENT

• Reading 1: What Were They Thinking?
• Reading 2: Managing
• Reading 3: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
• Reading 4: Hot, Flat, and Crowded
• Glossary of Terms
• Bibliography of Inclusions
• Index

Book Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 10 edition (c2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0133043592
• ISBN-13: 978-0133043594
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.4 inches
• List Price: $122.40

Tags: Management