Introduction to Management

Sarah Birrell Ivory is a Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and Business Strategy at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She has four degrees in business and management, and spent almost a decade as a manager prior to moving into academia. She was a recipient of a prestigious 2019 Aspen Institute Ideas Worth Teaching educational award, for the establishment of the first year UG compulsory course 'Global Challenges for Business'.Emma Macdonald is Charles Huang Chair in International Business and Director of the Stephen Young Institute at the University of Strathclyde, as well as Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management. Her research is on organisations and how they can collaborate with each other and their customers to improve sustainability. With a background in marketing, she has delivered executive and MBA programmes at University of Warwick, Cranfield University and Australian Graduate School of Management.

In an age where technology, disruption, diversity and responsibility are taking centre stage, this text is appropriately positioned to introduce management in the context of this reality. The text provokes critical thinking in an encouraging way for those new to learning about management, and challenges the mindsets of those more familiar with management theory and practice.

• David Paulson: Running case study Part One Managing in context 1: Sarah Birrell Ivory and Emma Macdonald: Understanding management 2: Sarah Birrell Ivory and Emma Macdonald: Exploring organizations 3: Sarah Birrell Ivory and Emma Macdonald: Managing through disruption Part Two Managing an Organization 4: Simon Brooks and Sarah Birrell Ivory: The external environment 5: Simon Brooks and Sarah Birrell Ivory: The internal environment: strategy and planning 6: Emily Yarrow and Sarah Birrell Ivory: Organizational culture and change management Part Three Managing People 7: Catherine Berrington and Emma Macdonald: Human resource management 8: Ishbel McWha-Hermann and Emma Macdonald: Designing work well 9: Thomas Calvard, Sarah Birrell Ivory, and Emma Macdonald: Teams and organizational behaviour 10: Sarah Woolley and Emma Macdonald: Leading and influencing Part Four Managing through the Value Chain 11: Farah Arkadan and Emma Macdonald: Marketing 12: Anthony Alexander and Emma Macdonald: Operations and supply chain 13: Alexander Glosenberg and Emma Macdonald: Entrepreneurship and innovation