Guide to Functional-Area Readings

AuthorMarilyn Helms
Pagesxxi-xxix

Eighteen functional-area reading curricula are outlined below. Items listed beneath each heading represent titles of specific essays in the EoM.

1. CORPORATE PLANNINGAND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Aggregate Planning

Brainstorming

Business Continuity Planning

Business Plan

Capacity Planning

Decision Making

Decision Rules and Decision Analysis

Decision Support Systems

Diversification Strategy

Divestment

Downsizing and Rightsizing

Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope

Exporting and Importing

Franchising

Free Trade Agreements and Trading Blocs

Futuring

Gap Analysis

Generic Competitive Strategies

Globalization

Goals and Goal Setting

Group Decision Making

Location Strategy

Macroenvironmental Forces

Make-or-Buy Decisions

Manufacturing Resources Planning

Market Share

Mergers and Acquisitions

Miles and Snow Typology

Multiple-Criteria Decision Making

New Product Development

Open and Closed Systems

Operations Strategy

Opportunity Cost

Order-Winning and Order-Qualifying Criteria

Porter's 5-Forces Model

Product Life Cycle and Industry Life Cycle

Production Planning and Scheduling

Strategic Planning Failure

Strategic Planning Tools

Strategy Formulation

Strategy Implementation

Strategy in the Global Environment

Strategy Levels

SWOT Analysis

Synergy

Zero-Based Budgeting

2. EMERGING TOPICS IN MANAGEMENT

Activity-Based Costing

Affirmative Action

Angels and Venture Capitalists

Artificial Intelligence

Assessment Centers

Balanced Scorecard

Bar Coding and Radio Frequency Identification

Business Continuity Planning

Business Process Reengineering

Cafeteria Plan—Flexible Benefits

Cellular Manufacturing

Chaos Theory

Coalition Building

Complexity Theory

Concurrent Engineering

Consulting

Contingency Approach to Management

Contingent Workers

Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Trends

Corporate Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility

Creativity

Customer Relationship Management

Decision Support Systems

Diversity

Electronic Commerce

Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer

Empathy

Empowerment

Enterprise Resource Planning

Entrepreneurship

Ergonomics

Ethics

Expatriates

Expert Systems

Five S Framework

Flexible Spending Accounts

Futuring

Government-University-Industry Partnerships

Handheld Computers

Health Savings Accounts

Human Resource Information Systems

Innovation

Instant Messaging

Intellectual Property Rights

Intrapreneurship

Longitudinal Scenarios

Multiple-Criteria Decision Making

Non-Compete Agreements

Outsourcing and Offshoring

Popular Press Management Books

Quality of Work Life

Robotics

Spirituality in Leadership

Succession Planning

Telecommunications

Vendor Rating

Women and Minorities in Management

Work-Life Balance

3. ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Angels and Venture Capitalists

Balance Sheets

Brainstorming

Break-Even Point

Budgeting

Business Plan

Business Structure

Cafeteria Plan—Flexible Benefits

Case Method of Analysis

Cash Flow Analysis and Statements

Competitive Advantage

Consumer Behavior

Cost Accounting

Creativity

Customer Relationship Management

Diversification Strategy

Domestic Management Societies and Associations

Due Diligence

Economics

Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope

Effectiveness and Efficiency

Financial Issues for Managers

Financial Ratios

First-Mover Advantage

Futuring

Gap Analysis

Generic Competitive Strategies

Income Statements

Initial Public Offering

Innovation

Intellectual Property Rights

International Business

International Management Societies and Associations

Intrapreneurship

Inventory Management

Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Workers

Leveraged Buyouts

Licensing and Licensing Agreements

Location Strategy

Macroenvironmental Forces

Make-or-Buy Decisions

Market Share

Marketing Concept and Philosophy

Marketing Research

Miles and Snow Typology

Mission and Vision Statements

New Product Development

Non-Compete Agreements

Organizational Development

Outsourcing and Offshoring

Patents and Trademarks

Planning

Poison Pill Strategies

Popular Press Management Books

Porter's 5-Forces Model

Pricing Policy and Strategy

Problem Solving

Process Management

Product Design

Product Life Cycle and Industry Life Cycle

Profit Sharing

Research Methods and Processes

Resumes and Cover Letter Trends

Scenario Planning

Securities and Exchange Commission

Shareholders

Stakeholders

Strategic Planning Tools

Strategy Levels

Succession Planning

SWOT Analysis

Synergy

Technology Transfer

Value Creation

Venture Capital

Virtual Organizations

4. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTAND ACCOUNTING ISSUES

Activity-Based Costing

Angels and Venture Capitalists

Balance Sheets

Balanced Scorecard

Break-Even Point

Budgeting

Business Continuity Planning

Capacity Planning

Cash Flow Analysis and Statements

Corporate Social Responsibility

Cost Accounting

Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

Debt vs. Equity Financing

Domestic Management Societies and Associations

Due Diligence

Economics

Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer

Employee Benefits

Employee Compensation

Executive Compensation

Financial Issues for Managers

Financial Ratios

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Accounts

Income Statements

Initial Public Offering

Internal Auditing

International Management Societies and Associations

International Monetary Fund

Inventory Types

Leveraged Buyouts

Licensing and Licensing Agreements

Make-or-Buy Decisions

Management Control

Nonprofit Organizations

Opportunity Cost

Patents and Trademarks

Profit Sharing

Purchasing and Procurement

Risk Management

Securities and Exchange Commission

Stakeholders

Succession Planning

Venture Capital

Zero-Based Budgeting

5. GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Aggregate Planning

The Art and Science of Management

Autonomy

Balanced Scorecard

Brainstorming

Budgeting

Business Plan

Business Structure

Chain of Command Principle

Communication

Competitive Advantage

Competitive Intelligence

Contingency Approach to Management

Contingent Workers

Continuous Improvement

Corporate Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility

Creativity

Decision Making

Delegation

Diversity

Divestment

Downsizing and Rightsizing

Economics

Effectiveness and Efficiency

Electronic Commerce

Empowerment

Financial Issues for Managers

Financial Ratios

Forecasting

Generic Competitive Strategies

Globalization

Goals and Goal Setting

Human Resource Management

Innovation

International Cultural Differences

International Management

Knowledge Management

Leadership Styles and Bases of Power

Leadership Theories and Studies

Line-and-Staff Organizations

Logistics and Transportation

Management Control

Management Functions

Management Information Systems

Management Science

Management Styles

Management Thought

Managing Change

Mission and Vision Statements

Motivation and Motivation Theory

Operations Management

Organization Theory

Organizational Analysis and Planning

Organizational Behavior

Organizational Chart

Organizational Culture

Organizational Learning

Organizational Structure

Organizational Development

Organizing

Participative Management

Patents and Trademarks

Pioneers of Management

Planning

Process Management

Quality and Total Quality Management

Reactive vs. Proactive Change

Strategy Formulation

Strategy Implementation

Strategy in the Global Environment

Strategy Levels

Succession Planning

Training Delivery Methods

Trends in Organizational Change

6. HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Affirmative Action

Apprenticeship Programs

Artificial Intelligence

Assessment Centers

Attribution Theory

Autonomy

Body Language

Brainstorming

Cafeteria Plan—Flexible Benefits

Chain of Command Principle

Coalition Building

Communication

Contingent Workers

Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Trends

Creativity

Discrimination

Diversity

Downsizing and Rightsizing

Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer

Empathy

Employee Assistance Programs

Employee Benefits

Employee Compensation

Employee Evaluation and Performance Appraisals

Employee Handbook and Orientation

Employee Recruitment

Employee Screening and Selection

Employment Law and Compliance

Empowerment

Ergonomics

Executive Compensation

Flexible Spending Accounts

Group Dynamics

Health Savings Accounts

Human Resource Information Systems

Human Resource Management

International Cultural Differences

Japanese Management

Job Analysis

Knowledge Workers

Listening

Meeting Management

Mentoring

Morale

Motivation and Motivation Theory

Nepotism

Non-Compete Agreements

Organizational Behavior

Organizational Chart

Organizational Culture

Performance Measurement

Personality and Personality Tests

Professional Readings for Managers

Quality of Work Life

Reinforcement Theory

Resumes and Cover Letter Trends

Safety in the Workplace

Sensitivity Training

Stress

Succession Planning

Sweatshops

Task Analysis

Teams and Teamwork

Theory X and Theory Y

Theory Z

Time Management

Training Delivery Methods

Videoconferencing

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