Practical Management for the Digital Age An Introduction for Engineers, Scientists, and Other Disciplines

• Main Authors: Baumers, Martin, Dominy, John
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milton CRC Press 2022; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Building Project Management; BUSINESSnetBASE; Construction Business Management; Construction Management; Engineering Project Management; ENGnetBASE; Environmental Management; GENERALENGINEERINGnetBASE; INFORMATIONSCIENCEnetBASE; Management; Management of Technology; MANAGEMENTnetBASE; Project management; PROJECTMANAGEMENTnetBASE; SCI-TECHnetBASE; STMnetBASE; Cost Volume Profit Analyses; ERP; Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor; Mvp; MTO; Demand Curve; Vice Versa; Cog; Breakeven Analysis; Question Type; Cash Flow Forecast; Cumulative Cash Flow; Fictitious Businesses; Platform Business Model; Events Network; Work Breakdown Structure; Correct Labels; Life Cycle Thinking; Accounting Cycle; Accounting Period; Supply Chain Structure; Product Process Matrix; Business Model Canvas; Cash Flow; Gross Profit
• ISBN: 9781032041865; 9781032120713; 1032120711; 1032041862
• DOI: 10.1201/9781003222903

This book is an accessible and comparatively compact text that can comfortably be read cover-to-cover over the course of a semester. It has been written for readers with little or no prior knowledge of the concepts of management or experience as professional managers. It forms an academically rigorous, accurate, and consistent treatment of a subject that draws on a wide field rife with competing definitions, methodological variety, conceptual fuzziness, and inconsistent naming conventions. The book places a clear emphasis on the impact of information technology on the business world, drawing on recent literature. Similarly, it highlights how environmental aspects are interwoven with management decision-making, addressing a further theme of great importance in contemporary management. Features: Forms a self-contained treatment of management for those without prior knowledge of management or commerce to provide a broad foundation and explains how management principles and methods draw on rationality-based models of human behavior. Places special attention on explaining the connections and linking ideas between the various fields of management to help build practically useful management knowledge. Shows, throughout the book, how different themes in management relate to digital technologies and environmental impacts. Presents practical techniques for financial planning, financial analysis, evaluation of cash flows occurring over time. Practical Management for the Digital Age: An Introduction for Engineers, Scientists, and Other Disciplines is aimed at a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students in a variety of fields, as well as practitioners. This includes students and practitioners in engineering, science, computer science, medicine, pharmacy, social sciences, and more. It is written to help readers engage confidently in managerial situations in their careers and during project work in the final parts of their degree courses. For instructors, who may not have a management background, this book offers content for a self-contained year-long course in management at the intermediate undergraduate level. In addition, it is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses with accreditation requirements that include a taught element in management, such as the UK Engineering Council's Accreditation of Higher Education (AHEP) framework.