Disciplines & Professions: Management

Web Sites

About.com's Management Directory
http://management.about.com/

A comprehensive management site offering everything from discussion forums on team work to management tips and how to gain an edge on competition.

Open Directory's Management Directory
http://dmoz.org/Business/Management/

Directory provides listing of over 2,800 sites dealing with management and offers visitors an additional subject heading under which more information may be located online.

Databases

Business & Management Practices (Responsive Database Services, available through OCLC FirstSearch)

Contains practical sources on how organizations plan for change, make decisions, and develop and implement new strategies. Some sources are how-to guides and case studies. 130,000 records from 1995 to the present.

Print Resources

Certo, Samuel C. Modern Management. 7th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Intended specifically for students planning to be managers. Provides a theoretical overview, an introduction to basic principles such as planning and organizing, and special emphasis topics.

Cohen, Allan R. The Portable MBA in Management. New York: Wiley, 1993.

This book is divided into chapters on personal and interpersonal frameworks and chapters on organizational frameworks. An index is included.

Montana, Patrick, and Bruce H. Charnov. Management. 2nd ed. New York: Barron's, 1993.

Intended largely as an overview of fundamental concepts of management for students. Chapters are organized topically. A glossary and index are included.

Rosenberg, Jerry M. Dictionary of Business and Management. New York: Wiley, 1993.

An alphabetical listing of more than 7,500 terms and concepts commonly used in business.

Warner, Malcolm, ed. International Encyclopedia of Business and Management. 6 vols. New York: Routledge, 1996.

A comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of management. Includes biographical entries for notable figures in business. Organized alphabetically. Final volume provides a cumulative index.

Warner, Malcolm, ed. Regional Encyclopedia of Business and Management. 4 vols. London: Business Press, 2000.

Each volume covers a geographic area and provides information on specialized management themes as well as profiles of countries. An index is included.