This affordable text includes student-friendly explanations, key definitions, self-test exercises and additional extension exercises, and the appendices include a glossary, a study guide covering academic skills, and a student answer key. This clear, straightforward textbook - which gives students everything they need to know about the principles of management theory - now comes with a growing suite of useful resources, including a book of Mandarin Learning Resources.

The Mandarin Learning Resources consist of an English-Mandarin Glossary and a Mandarin-language Study Guide. It features over 350 management words, terms and phrases translated into Mandarin, and these same terms are also explained in context in English. The Study Guide includes sections that cover: personal study habits; an overview of independent learning; information on different learning styles; hints on learning from experience; hints on purposeful reading hints; notes on reading skills; note-taking hints; information on assignment writing; suggestions on planning a study programme; and some wisdom on assignments/exam marks.