Exploring Management or Implementation

Exploring Management

Author: John R Schermerhorn

Students have changed. Has your textbook kept up?

There are things your students can't wait to open. Their Principles of Management text should be one of them. Exploring Management in Modules, by John Schermerhorn, is an exciting and new approach to Principles of Management textbooks.

Written by an instructor who teaches Principles of Management every semester, Exploring Management is organized using an innovative modular approach that presents the material in manageable chunks. Students want to succeed and Exploring Management in Modules facilitates active student learning and assessment. A built-in study guide stops the student every 6-8 pages to review the material they just read while test prep at the end of each module allows students to assess their comprehension and feel confident about doing well on the next quiz or exam.

In addition, Exploring Management in Modules reaches your students just like you do in your classroom by using up-to-date examples, challenging yet fun exercises, self-assessments and an exclusive and free online casebook featuring companies like MySpace.com and Nike. This is a book that works with you as you build excitement about management.

Book review: Business Research for Decision Making or Building a Better Delivery System

Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland: or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, This Being a Saga of the Economic Development Administration as Told by Two Sympathetic Observers Who Seek to Build Mo

Author: Aaron B Wildavsky

Three substantial new chapters and a new preface in this third edition explore and elaborate the relationship between the evaluation of programs and the study of their implementation. The authors suggest that tendencies to assimilate the two should be resisted. Evaluation should retain its enlightenment function while the study of implementation should strengthen its focus on learning.

National Review

There are innumberable ways to profit from this fully documented yet highly readable tale of earnest but relatively unsuccessful ways of spending the taxpayers' money.

New Republic

They make an unimpeachable case for close attention to the modes of implementing policy, and . . . their chapters five and six constitute the first solid survey of the adminsitrative thickets through which future urban policies will have to make their way.

New York Times Book Review

Of universal application . . . this is an analysis of why the urban crisis has proved so intractable . . . . Nobody who reads this book will ever again be surprised by the gulf between promise and performance in a program to help revive or save or rebuild the country's cities.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Participants
Preface to the Third Edition: Implementation and Evaluation as Learning
Preface to the First Edition
1. Appearances
2. Formulating Policy
3. Trials of Implementation
4. Two Smaller Programs: Business Loans and the Health Center
5. The Complexity of Joint Action
6. Learning from Experience
7. Economic Theory and Program Implementation
8. Implementation as Evolution
9. What Should Evaluation Mean to Implementation?
10. Implementation as Mutual Adaptation
11. Implementation as Exploration
Appendix: EDA Chronology
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Authors Cited