This comprehensive, well-respected rigorous yet highly accessible text acknowledges management as a widespread human activity, exercised by people at all levels and in all types of organisations (i.e. not the specialist occupation of prominent people in commercial enterprises). It integrates both general topics and functional perspectives within a clear framework of management. The 2nd edition has been revised and updated to incorporate the latest research on the subject including new information on ethics and corporate social responsibility, the role of IT in management, as well as new information on globalisation and more on SME's.Undergraduate first course in management in departments of business/management; postgraduate or post experience level; certificate DMS and MBA courses; other degree courses with a management component engineering, accountancy, law, information technology; professional courses such as Chartered Institute of Marketing.