Strategic Organization Design - Designing Organization Structures: An Overview - Assessing Structural Alternatives - Weighing Contingency Factors - Matching Strategy and Structure - Promoting Innovation: Using Structural Means to Enhance Prospects - 11. Basic Elements of Organization Structure - The Nature of Organization Structure - Job Design - Types of Departmentalization - Methods of Vertical Coordination - Promoting Innovation: Methods of Horizontal Coordination - 10. Planning and Decision Aids - Forecasting - Project Planning and Control Models - Other Planning Techniques - Quantitative Aids for Decision Making - Part 3. Managerial Decision Making - The Nature of Managerial Decision Making - Managers as Decision Makers - Steps in an Effective Decision-Making Process - Overcoming Barriers to Effective Decision Making - Group Decision Making - Promoting Innovation: The Creativity Factor in Decision Making - Supplement to Chapter 8. Managing Innovation and Change - The Nature of Change and Innovation - Organizational Life Cycles - Promoting Innovation: The Change and Innovation Process - Key Organizational Change Components - Organizational Development - 8. Strategic Management - The Concept of Strategic Management - The Role of Competitive Analysis in Strategy Formulation - Formulating Corporate-Level Strategy - Formulating Business-Level Strategy - Formulating Functional-Level Strategy - Strategy Implementation - 7. Establishing Organizational Goals and Plans - The Overall Planning Process - The Nature of Organizational Goals - How Goals Facilitate Performance - Linking Goals and Plans - Management by Objectives - 6. Social Responsibility and Ethics in Management - Organizational Social Responsibility - Organizational Social Responsiveness - Being an Ethical Manager - Managing an Ethical Organization - Part 2. Understanding External and Internal Environments - Types of External Environments - Analyzing Environmental Conditions - Managing Environmental Elements - The Internal Environment: Organizational Culture - 4. Pioneering Ideas in Management - The Birth of Management Ideas - Classical Viewpoint - Behavioral Viewpoint - Quantitative Management Viewpoint - Contemporary Viewpoints - Promoting Innovation: Contributions of the Major Viewpoints - 3. The Challenge of Management - Management: An Overview - What Managers Actually Do - Managerial Knowledge, Skills, and Performance - Managerial Job Types - Learning to be an Effective Manager - 2. Includes bibliographical references and indexesĪcademic Reviewers - Part 1.