For more than 25 years, Modern Management has helped to transform hundreds of thousands of students around the world like you into practicing managers. Over time, this book has established a reputation as a comprehensive text that synthesizes and integrates the most recent and influential management research. Modern Management discusses management research and concepts and helps you to develop the managerial skills necessary to succeed in the marketplace. Overall, this hook is a traditionally organized principles of management text that comprehensively integrates both useful management concepts and training in how to apply those concepts. To help you develop management skills, you will complete several types of innovative learning activities either in this text or online through a companion Web site at MvManagementl.ab.com. We?ve spent countless hours gathering and interpreting the opinions of other management professors around the country for ideas on how to develop our concepts and skills approach to this hook. In the following sections, we discuss some of the new concepts added to this edition as well as new text components designed to help you learn how to apply these concepts. The focus of this text is reflected in its complete name: Modern Management: Concepts and Skills.