Contemporary Management, 4th Edition

Contemporary Management is an integrated print and digital resource that enables different approaches to teaching and learning. Be it a traditional face-to-face delivery in a brick-and mortar classroom, blended, flipped or fully online mode, Contemporary Management can improve student engagement by presenting management concepts and their applications in multiple formats that cater to different types of learning and course delivery.

Contemporary Management has a modern, people-oriented approach. The authors explore the ‘art and science’ of management and shows the range of managerial contexts and settings. It has been updated to include new cases and examples from well-known companies and brands to which undergraduate students can relate.

This new edition provides more opportunities for students to think critically about management ideas and includes new vignettes on the ethical implications of management ideas and practices. Substantial revisions and updates have also been made to cater to the changing needs of management instructors and students.

MARY BARRETT BA (HON) MBA PHD is Professor of Management at the School of Management, Operations and Marketing at the University of Wollongong. UOW has campuses in Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as the coast of NSW between Sydney and the border of Victoria, and Mary has taught at several of them, especially in general management, business communication and human resource management. Mary has also taught at several Queensland universities, and worked for the Queensland Government and in the University of California system as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow.

She holds two Honours degrees, an MBA and a PhD, all from the University of Queensland. Mary has published and presented many refereed papers in management and entrepreneurship, especially gender issues, family business, communication, leadership and organisational learning in those fields. Her publications include four books: BCOM Asia Pacific Edition, 1e, (Cengage Learning, 2012), Women in Family Business Leadership Roles: Daughters on the Stage (Edward Elgar, 2009), Learning Family Business: Paradoxes and Pathways (Ashgate Publishing, also published in Korean by Hanul Publishing Group) and Working Communication (John Wiley, 2002).

BEVERLEY HONIG BA LLB MBA is the Chief Executive Officer of Honeylight Enterprises Pty Ltd, a worldwide leading edge business consultancy commissioned by corporations and governments to improve their organisational capabilities. She is an internationally qualified lawyer, and a board director and chairman of several high-profile public and private companies. Beverley is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and a judge on the Essential Services Commission Appeals Tribunal. She has been a senior sessional lecturer for the past 20 years in the University of Melbourne, the Queensland University of Technology and Monash University. Her publications include Making Contracts Work (Woodslane, 2010), and Project Management: A Managerial Process (McGraw-Hill Education, 2013). She has also contributed case studies to Organisational Behaviour 5e (McGraw-Hill Education, 2016).

Through Honeylight Enterprises, Beverley has delivered over 200 000 corporate training courses globally in the fields of leadership, management and business acquisition, and sourcing through disciplines such as project and contract management, across Asia, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, the UK and the US. She is the recipient of multiple multinational trade awards in recognition of her outstanding contribution to international trade links and was announced a winner of the prestigious `100 Women of Influence' award by the Australian Financial Review and Westpac Bank in 2015, and listed in the top 10 business entrepreneurs nationwide in that same year. In 2016 Beverley was listed in the esteemed Businesswomen's Hall of Fame.

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