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Business in Action, 2/E
Courtland L. Bovee, Professor of Business Communication, C. Allen Paul Distinguished Chair, Grossmont College
John V. Thill, Communication Specialists of America
Barbara E. Schatzman, Keller Graduate School of Managment

ISBN-10: 0130466190
ISBN-13: 9780130466198

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 480 pp
Published: 01/21/2003

This item has been replaced by Business in Action with Real Time Updates, 4/E.

For Introduction to Business courses.

This text's user-friendly format, manageable length, and up-to-date real world examples enable students to experience business firsthand. Business in Action takes students on an engaging exploration of the fundamentals, strategies, and dynamics that make the business world work. This exciting text offers numerous resources to simplify teaching, promote active learning, and stimulate life-long critical thinking skills.

How many chapters do you have time to cover in your course?

NEW - Concise presentation—The new edition has been streamlined to coincide with a fifteen-week course.
- Provides essential material now in fourteen chapters and four appendices.

Do you want a text that focuses on just the basics?

Student focused design and layout—Very brief text with an open, student friendly design.

How do you engage your students and show them the practical side of business?

NEW - Current issues—The new edition discusses recent business challenges and developments concerning insider trading, accounting trickery, securities fraud, including the latest about Enron, Arthur Andersen, World Com, terrorism, economic woes, and more.
- Includes up-to-date, real-world examples that provide students with a dimension of reality unmatched by any other textbook.

Are there additional topics that you cover in more depth?

NEW - Building Your Personal Stock Portfolio— Contains weekly cumulative lessons for the students to follow.
- Students learn the basics of investing, from understanding risk to researching and trading stocks. Worksheets guide students through the process of analyzing information, making decisions, and monitoring their stock portfolio. Teaching Notes appear on this text's website.

Building Your Personal Career Portfolio— Students build their individualized career portfolio through the process of self-assessment, matching career opportunities, initiating the job search, using the latest Internet-based search vehicles.
- Helps students prepare all job-search related documents, and build interview skills. Upon completion of this workbook, students will have a career portfolio they can use and build on as their career progresses.

Building a Business Plan featuring Business Plan Pro Software — Step by step lessons with actual case studies that prepares students to write a business plan.
- Upon completion of all the cumulative lessons, each student will have created a polished and professional business plan, whether he or she chooses to do so by hand or with Palo Alto's Business Plan Pro Software. Teaching Notes appear on this text's website.

Business Ethics in Uncertain Times — Covers management's accountability, corporate governance, accounting practices, stakeholder relations, and ethical decisions and behavior.
- Provides students with a thorough foundation of business ethics. Dedicated sections analyze ethics at Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom. Teaching Notes appear on this text's website.

Concise presentation—The new edition has been streamlined to coincide with a fifteen-week course.
- Provides essential material now in fourteen chapters and four appendices.

Current issues—The new edition discusses recent business challenges and developments concerning insider trading, accounting trickery, securities fraud, including the latest about Enron, Arthur Andersen, World Com, terrorism, economic woes, and more.
- Includes up-to-date, real-world examples that provide students with a dimension of reality unmatched by any other textbook.

Building Your Personal Stock Portfolio— Contains weekly cumulative lessons for the students to follow.
- Students learn the basics of investing, from understanding risk to researching and trading stocks. Worksheets guide students through the process of analyzing information, making decisions, and monitoring their stock portfolio. Teaching Notes appear on this text's website.

I. CONDUCTING BUSINESS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.

1. Understanding the Fundamentals of Business and Economics.

Appendix A. Reviewing Internet and E-Commerce Fundamentals.

2. Practicing Ethical Behavior and Social Responsibility.

3. Competing in the Global Economy.

II. STARTING AND ORGANIZING A SMALL BUSINESS.

4. Starting, Financing, and Expanding a Small Business.

5. Selecting the Proper Form of Business Ownership and Exploring Business Combinations.

III. MANAGING A BUSINESS.

6. Understanding the Functions and Roles of Management.

7. Organizing and Working in Teams.

8. Producing Quality Goods and Services.

IV. MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES AND EMPLOYEE RELATIONS.

9. Motivating Employees and Handling Employee-Management Relations.

10. Managing Human Resources.

V. DEVELOPING MARKING STRATEGIES TO SATISFY CUSTOMERS.

11. Developing Product and Pricing Strategies.

12. Developing Distribution and Promotional Strategies.

VI. MANAGING FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES.

13. Analyzing and Using Financial Information.

14. Understanding Banking and Securities.

Appendix B. The U.S. Legal System.

Appendix C. Business Plan.

Appendix D. Careers in Business and the Employment Search.

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