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MindTapV2.0 Management, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Griffin's Fundamentals of Management, 8th Edition

Ricky Griffin

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MindTapV2.0 Management, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Griffin's Fundamentals of Management 8th Edition by Ricky Griffin

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MindTapV2.0 Management, 8th Edition, is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today\u2019s students into critical thinkers with the ultimate goal of getting students to THINK and ACT like managers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.\n\nAs an instructor using MindTap, you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, all in an interface designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course structure. The control to build and personalize your course is all yours, focusing on the most relevant material while also lowering costs for your students. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course. MindTap for Management has been completely revised and updated to incorporate a suite of new digital resources designed to facilitate and measure student success. Students can synchronously work together in experiential exercises to create videos, write papers, and deliver presentations, with the goal of developing critical interpersonal skills. Interactive Self Assessments help students engage students by learning about their own management skills and how to apply management theories in life. Simulations put students in decision making positions that help apply concepts. Our adaptive learning solution provides customized questions, text, and video resources based on student proficiency to help students efficiently and effectively master course material.

Ricky Griffin

Dr. Ricky W. Griffin is Distinguished Professor of Management and the Blocker Chair in Business in Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Houston in 1978, Dr. Griffin joined the faculty at the University of Missouri for three years before moving to Texas A&M in 1981. His research on task design and dysfunctional work behavior has appeared in the leading professional journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management. He has served as editor of the Journal of Management and has been program chair and division chair of the Organizational Behavior Division and Program Chair of the Research Methods Division of the Academy, Program Chair and President of the Southwest Academy of Management and a member of the Board of the Southern Management Association. He is a fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association. Dr. Griffin has taught organizational behavior, human resource management, international management and research methods at all levels and has won several teaching awards. He is a frequent speaker to executive audiences and is the author of several widely used textbooks. Dr. Griffin was director of the Center for Human Resource Management at Texas A&M and just returned to the faculty at Mays after 11 years of full-time appointments as Management Department Head, Executive Associate Dean and Interim Dean. His current research interests include workplace culture, managerial skills development and decision making during times of crisis.
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Chapter 07 Self-Assessment: Innovation and Learning Styles- This self-assessment is designed to help you identify your learning style.

Chapter 07: Organization Change and Innovation: Reading-Explore the e-book here.
Assignments:

Chapter 07: Assignment: Organization Change and Innovation- You will solve problems on the management of organization change and innovation.

Chapter 07 Skill Building: Organization Change and Innovation- These assignments will help you hone your management skills.

Chapter 07 Writing Assignment: Organizational Change- This assignment will help you to improve your writing skills using Write Experience.

Chapter 07 Group Project: Group Innovation- Work with your group to complete this project using the YouSeeU™ app.

Chapter 07: Quiz- In this quiz you will check your understanding of everything that you have learned in this chapter.
Videos:

Chapter 07: Concept Clips: Change Process- This video helps to explain chapter concepts.

Chapter 07: Concept Clips: Resistance to Change- This video helps to explain chapter concepts.

Chapter 07: Concept Clips: Need for Change- This video helps to explain chapter concepts.

Chapter 07: On the Job Video: Honest Tea: Innovation- Watch this video to see how chapter concepts are used in the real world.

Chapter 07: Unit Study Center- As you work through your assignments in your MindTap course, Knewton’s adaptive learning technology determines the concepts you have mastered and delivers personalized recommendations for optimal learning.
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  • ISBN-10: 1337278629
  • ISBN-13: 9781337278621
  • RETAIL $99.95

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  • ISBN-10: 1285849043
  • ISBN-13: 9781285849041
  • RETAIL $299.95

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FOR STUDENTS

Fundamentals of Management

ISBN: 9781285849041
Provide your students with the strong theoretical and functional framework needed for success in management today with this brief option that gives you the flexibility to integrate your own cases, exercises and projects throughout your course. FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT, 8E from respected management author Ricky Griffin invites students into the study of management with a dynamic approach efficiently organized around the functions of management. Students strengthen their management skills with a proven balance of theory and practice as well as numerous, engaging learning features. New and revised \"First Things First\" opening vignettes draw students into each chapter, while clear learning objectives and chapter outlines, summaries of key points and key terms, and numerous student-oriented skill applications and new cases keep students focused and actively learning. \"You Make the Call\" end-of-chapter features bring the students back to the opening case with the newfound knowledge they have gained after reading the chapter. New \"Building Skills\" exercises and \"Skills Self-Assessment Instruments\" equip future managers to handle some of today's most critical business situations. Following our state of the art, Engage, Connect, Perform, and Lead model, students truly learn to think and act like managers.