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This comprehensive course on Management covers a wide array of topics essential for understanding modern management practices and theories, spread across 18 chapters:

1. Managing and Performing: Explores the roles of managers, major characteristics of a manager's job, and the nature of managerial work.
2. Managerial Decision-Making: Discusses the process of decision-making, how the brain processes information, types of decisions, barriers to effective decision-making, and group decision-making.
3. The History of Management: Traces the evolution of management from early origins, through the Italian Renaissance and Industrial Revolution, to modern management theories.
4. External and Internal Organizational Environments and Corporate Culture: Examines the organization's external environment, organizational designs and structures, internal organization, and corporate cultures.
5. Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, and Sustainability: Covers business ethics, ethical principles in decision-making, leadership ethics, corporate social responsibility, and emerging trends in ethics and compliance.
6. International Management: Focuses on the importance of international management, cultural frameworks, stereotyping, cross-cultural assignments, global expansion strategies, and the necessity of global markets.
7. Entrepreneurship: Discusses entrepreneurship, characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, small business management, and trends in entrepreneurship and small-business ownership.
8. Strategic Analysis: Understanding a Firm’s Competitive Environment: Introduces strategic analysis tools like SWOT, PESTEL, Porter's Five Forces, and discusses strategic positioning.
9. The Strategic Management Process: Explores strategic management, firm vision and mission, strategic analysis, planning firm actions, and measuring strategic performance.
10. Organizational Structure and Change: Examines organizational structures and design, organizational change, and managing change.
11. Human Resource Management: Covers human resource management, performance management, employee motivation, talent development, and succession planning.
12. Diversity in Organizations: Addresses workplace diversity, its impact on companies, challenges, key theories, and managing diversity.
13. Leadership: Discusses the nature of leadership, leadership processes, trait and behavioral approaches, situational approaches, and modern leadership needs.
14. Work Motivation for Performance: Focuses on motivation theories, content and process theories of motivation, and recent research in the field.
15. Managing Teams: Explores teamwork in the workplace, team development, managing teams, team diversity, and multicultural teams.
16. Managerial Communication: Covers the process of managerial communication, types of communication, factors affecting communication, and the major channels of management communication.
17. Organizational Planning and Controlling: Discusses the importance of planning, the planning process, types of plans, management by objectives, and planning and controlling approaches.
18. Management of Technology and Innovation: Examines the importance of managing technology and innovation, developing technology, internal and external sources, and skills needed for effective management.

Each chapter includes an introduction, key terms, a summary of learning outcomes, chapter review questions, management skills application exercises, managerial decision exercises, and a critical thinking case, providing a thorough understanding of management principles and their practical applications.