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- ISBN-10 : 0132913003
- ISBN-13 : 978-0132913003
- Author: L Karakowsky
Understanding the Canadian Business Environment is the only ground-up Canadian text that emphasizes an analytical approach using case orientation to understanding the core material students need to be successful post-graduation.
The text takes the reader on a journey that explores the environment within which business operates–both within the Canadian context and within the global context. The reader will be introduced to a variety of perspectives, theories, and concepts that shed light on real business issues.
Table contents:
Part 1 A Framework for Study
1 Exploring Canadian Business: A Critical Approach: What Are the Major Challenges Facing Business?
Learning Objectives
THE BUSINESS WORLD: CAN CANADIAN TIRE FLOURISH IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING BUSINESS CONTEXT?
The Internal Context of Business
TALKING BUSINESS 1.1 Changing GM’s Organizational Structure
The External Context of Business
The Canadian Context: How’s Business in Canada, Eh?
TALKING BUSINESS 1.2 Growth in Provincial Labour Productivity: A Problem from Coast to Coast
TALKING BUSINESS 1.3 Jobs, Productivity, and Innovation: How Health Care Drives the Economy
CHAPTER SUMMARY
CHAPTER LEARNING TOOLS
CONCEPT APPLICATION: FACEBOOK: WHEN YOUR FRIENDS ARE WORTH A BILLION!
Part 2 The Internal Challenges
2 The Employee–Employer Relationship: What Responsibilities Do Bosses Have to Their Employees?
Learning Objectives
THE BUSINESS WORLD: IS WORKING FOR FREE ILLEGAL?
The Labour Environment and Canadian Society
TALKING BUSINESS 2.1 Are Unpaid Interns “Employees”?
The Labour Context in Canada: Where Are We Now?
TALKING BUSINESS 2.2 The State of Canadian Unions—Down but Not Out
TALKING BUSINESS 2.3 Are Unions Relevant in Canada Today?
Dismissing Employees
Current Issues in the Workplace: Managing Workforce Diversity
TALKING BUSINESS 2.4 Organizations Seeing the Light about Faith at Work
TALKING BUSINESS 2.5 He Says, She Says: Gender Gap Persists in Attitudes Toward Women’s Advancement in the Workplace
TALKING BUSINESS 2.6 Aboriginal Workers: Integral to Canada’s Ongoing Competitiveness and Performance
TALKING BUSINESS 2.7 Ontario Employers Have a New Tool to Improve Accessibility for People with Disabilities
TALKING BUSINESS 2.8 Employment Equity Resources
TALKING BUSINESS 2.9 Immigrants Make Significant Contributions to Innovation
CHAPTER SUMMARY
CHAPTER LEARNING TOOLS
CONCEPT APPLICATION: IMMIGRANTS ARE SOMETIMES UNSURE ABOUT THEIR LABOUR RIGHTS
3 Managing the Workforce: How Can Business Leaders Best Manage their Employees?
Learning Objectives
THE BUSINESS WORLD: LEARNING HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE LEADER: LESSONS FROM THE EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE
Why Study Management Thought?
What Do Managers Do ?
TALKING BUSINESS 3.1 The Visionary Leader: Steve Jobs
TALKING BUSINESS 3.2 Conflict Management: The Toxic Employee
Management Philosophies
Classical Approaches to Management
TALKING BUSINESS 3.3 Leading Teams in a New Direction
TALKING BUSINESS 3.4 Is Weber Alive and Well?
Behavioural Approaches to Management
TALKING BUSINESS 3.5 The High Costs of Workplace Harassment
The Best Management Philosophy? Contingency Approach
TALKING BUSINESS 3.6 The Myths and Realities of Motivation
The Critical Importance of Trust in the Workplace
TALKING BUSINESS 3.7 How One Canadian Company Earns Trust
TALKING BUSINESS 3.8 How Teams Learn at Teleflex Canada
CHAPTER SUMMARY
CHAPTER LEARNING TOOLS
CONCEPT APPLICATION: KICKING HORSE COFFEE
4 Establishing the Structure of a Business: What Does Organizational Design Have to Do with Business Success?
Learning Objectives
THE BUSINESS WORLD: HOW GOOGLE DESIGNED ITSELF FOR SUCCESS
The Changing Nature of Organizations
TALKING BUSINESS 4.1 Atlantic Canada’s Overseas Playground?
Thinking About Organizations
The Anatomy of an Organization
What Determines Organizational Structure? A Rational Perspective
TALKING BUSINESS 4.2 Canada’s Trade in a Digital World
Reengineering
TALKING BUSINESS 4.3 The Credit Agency
TALKING BUSINESS 4.4 Former Outsourcer Describes How Job Destruction Works
Toward a Virtual Organization
TALKING BUSINESS 4.5 Out-of-Control Outsourcing Ruined Boeing’s Beautiful Dreamliner
Downsizing
TALKING BUSINESS 4.6 Loblaw Cuts 700 Head Office Jobs
TALKING BUSINESS 4.7 What Every Leader Should Know About Survivor Syndrome
CHAPTER SUMMARY
CHAPTER LEARNING TOOLS
CONCEPT APPLICATION: PIXAR: NO MICKEY MOUSE ORGANIZATION!
5 Business Strategy: How Do Businesses Generate a Successful Strategy?
Learning Objectives
THE BUSINESS WORLD: TIM HORTONS: IS ITS STRATEGY “ALWAYS FRESH”?
What Is Strategic Management?
Analyzing the External Environment
TALKING BUSINESS 5.1 Changes in Global Food Sector Call for Canadian Food Strategy
TALKING BUSINESS 5.2 Foresight and Innovation: Today’s Science Fiction, Tomorrow’s Reality?
Analyzing the Internal Environment
TALKING BUSINESS 5.3 Groupon
Different Levels of Strategies
TALKING BUSINESS 5.4 Dollarama Cashing in on Penny-Pinching Canadians
TALKING BUSINESS 5.5 FROGBOX: a sustainable franchising success
TALKING BUSINESS 5.6 American Airlines Merges with US Airways
TALKING BUSINESS 5.7 Loblaw Gets into the Mobile Phone Market
TALKING BUSINESS 5.8 Starbucks Buys Its First Coffee Farm in Costa Rica
TALKING BUSINESS 5.9 Understanding the Deal: Shoppers Drug Mart and Loblaw
CHAPTER SUMMARY
CHAPTER LEARNING TOOLS
CONCEPT APPLICATION: LULULEMON: FOR THE LOVE OF YOGA
Part 3 The External Challenges
6 Economic Forces: Oh Canada, What Is Your Economy Like?
Learning Objectives
THE BUSINESS WORLD: CANADIANS ON THE MOVE
The Economic Environment
TALKING BUSINESS 6.1 Canada’s People Advantage
Analyzing the Economy: Two Approaches
TALKING BUSINESS 6.2 Growing Gap of Truck Drivers Will Be Costly to Canadian Economy
Types of Economic Systems
Competition and the Economy
TALKING BUSINESS 6.3 Better Farm Management Separates the Wheat from the Chaff
TALKING BUSINESS 6.4 Don’t Blame Professional Athletes for High Ticket Prices
Goals of Canada’s Economic System
TALKING BUSINESS 6.5 The US Subprime Mortgage Crisis and Recession
TALKING BUSINESS 6.6 Canada’s World-Class Economy
TALKING BUSINESS 6.7 Canada’s Productivity Challenge
TALKING BUSINESS 6.8 Canada’s Growing but “Invisible” Trade: Services
TALKING BUSINESS 6.9 Today’s High Youth Unemployment: A Solution for Skill Shortages?
CHAPTER SUMMARY
CHAPTER LEARNING TOOLS
CONCEPT APPLICATION: SASKATOON: CANADA’S FASTEST-GROWING ECONOMY
7 Competitive and Technological Forces: How Do Industries Evolve Over Time?
Learning Objectives
THE BUSINESS WORLD: FROM PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO NEWSPAPERS: TECHNOLOGY AND CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
The Industry Life-Cycle Model
TALKING BUSINESS 7.1 The Birth of Biotech
TALKING BUSINESS 7.2 The Early Years of the Automobile Industry
TALKING BUSINESS 7.3 The Anti-Aging Industry
TALKING BUSINESS 7.4 Gray Goo and the Promising Future of the Nanotechnology Industry
TALKING BUSINESS 7.5 The Smartphone Industry
TALKING BUSINESS 7.6 The Aging Personal Computer Industry
TALKING BUSINESS 7.7 Are Mobile Devices Killing The Video Game Console Industry?
Innovation and Technology
TALKING BUSINESS 7.8 Is Canada on the Leading Edge?
TALKING BUSINESS 7.9 The Linked World: How ICT Is Transforming Societies, Cultures, and Economies
TALKING BUSINESS 7.10 Embracing Disruption: Lessons from Building the First Quantum Computer
Technology and the Changing Workplace
TALKING BUSINESS 7.11 Will Technology Replace Middle-Class Jobs?
CHAPTER SUMMARY
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