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Book & CD. To improve on an award-winning book poses a major challenge to its authors. The authors of this book took the challenge head-on by conducting a major research study to determine what exactly the outcomes are that managers at different levels must deliver in contemporary organisations in South Africa, and the rest of Africa. The findings of this study, which dealt with current and near-future management issues, as well as classical and contemporary thinking about management, were used as the blueprint for the updating of this book. After placing management in context, the authors deal with the knowledge, skills and dispositions required of managers to perform the management functio...
This book is the first Southern African edition of Stephen P. Robbins's Organizational Behaviour, the best-selling organisational behaviour textbook worldwide.
The challenges presented by the fast-changing business environment require that organisations find new and innovative ways to respond in order to improve performance. The contemporary manager has to integrate new information technology, manage diversity, accommodate stakeholders' often conflicting claims, deal with the threat that HIV/AIDS poses to the workforce and comply with charters such as the Mining Charter. The list of challenges has become almost endless. As well as exposing the reader to the traditional management functions, namely planning, organising, leading and controlling, this edition also deals with the most recent challenges that managers have to face. As a response to the i...
The world is in a constant state of flux, and this influences the operations of every business and organisation. Business Management: A Contemporary Approach deals with these changes by covering the functions of a business or an organisation and then addressing the contemporary issues that affect them. These issues include globalisation, corporate entrepreneurship and citizenship, credit, diversity and HIV/AIDS. Every student of business and business manager needs to understand the importance of these issues and their influence on the operations of a business. Business Management: A Contemporary Approach also highlights the interdependency between the various business functions. This interdependency is very important for a business or organisation to operate as a whole.
Contains information on : Economic systems; entrepreneurship; productivity; planning; marketing.
N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have found increasing use as reagents for a range of organic transformations and in asymmetric organocatalysis. The performance of these molecules can be improved and tuned by functionalisation. Functionalised carbenes can anchor free carbenes to the metal site, introduce hemilability, provide a means to immobilise transition metal carbene catalysts, introduce chirality, provide a chelate ligand or bridge two metal centres. NHC can be attached to carbohydrates and campher, derived from amino acids and purines, they can be used as organocatalysts mimicking vitamin B1 or as weak “solvent” donors in lanthanide chemistry. Functionalised N-Heterocyclic Carbene C...