Management Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World Thomas Bateman 13th Edition – Test Bank

Written from the viewpoint of a present or future manager, the thirteenth edition of Leadership: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive Environment focuses on six crucial performance dimensions that determine a company’s success in comparison to its competitors: value, quality, speed, innovation, service, and sustainability. Throughout the text, the authors highlight these dimensions and their impact on profitability using special icons. This results-driven approach is a key feature of this text. New questions further underscore the importance of profitability, with solutions available in the instructor’s manual.
The text includes effective pedagogy that gives students a practical understanding of the challenges and opportunities ahead and how they can influence profitability. It involves students with:
– Leadership in Action, a stand-out feature at the beginning of each chapter’s unfolding three-part scenarios (Manager’s Brief, Progress Report, Onward), allowing students to apply their knowledge about contemporary business leaders and organizations. Many of these scenarios have been updated or revised to address well-known companies such as Amazon, Apple, Starbucks, General Motors, Uber, and PepsiCo.
– The Digital World provides unique examples of how companies and customers leverage digital and social media to capitalize on various concepts in each chapter.
– Various Generations at Work sections explore chapter themes from multigenerational perspectives, focusing on data rather than stereotypes, with the aim of improving potentially strained workplace relationships.
– Social Enterprise examples have been updated and offer instances that illustrate chapter themes beyond the private sector.
– Elements include page-referenced key terms; Retaining What You Learned, providing clear, concise answers to the learning objectives; Discussion Questions seeking opinions on controversial issues; and Experiential Exercises that make key concepts tangible.
– Concluding Cases use disguised but real-life scenarios to reinforce key chapter points and themes. Additional Cases are available for instructors who wish to delve deeper into each subject.
– Other text features include Manager’s Challenge and Leadership Snapshot; Manager as Individual; Leadership Perception; and Ethics, Global, Diversity, and Information Technology Bytes.
– Manager’s Hot Seat videos require students to apply critical-thinking skills to real challenges in a managerial context.
– Campus enables instructors and students to access all McGraw-Hill Higher Education materials with a single sign-on, along with various free resources like flashcards and narrated presentations.