Guide to Functional-Area Readings
Eighteen functional-area reading curricula are outlined below. Items listed beneath each heading represent titles of specific essays in the EoM.
1. CORPORATE PLANNING AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
- Aggregate Planning
- Brainstorming
- Business Continuity Planning
- Business Plan
- Capacity Planning
- Decision Making
- Decision Rules and Decision Analysis
- Decision Support Systems
- Diversification Strategy
- Divestment
- Downsizing and Rightsizing
- Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope
- Exporting and Importing
- Franchising
- Free Trade Agreements and Trading Blocs
- Futuring
- Gap Analysis
- Generic Competitive Strategies
- Globalization
- Goals and Goal Setting
- Group Decision Making
- Location Strategy
- Macroenvironmental Forces
- Make-or-Buy Decisions
- Manufacturing Resources Planning
- Market Share
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Miles and Snow Typology
- Multiple-Criteria Decision Making
- New Product Development
- Open and Closed Systems
- Operations Strategy
- Opportunity Cost
- Order-Winning and Order-Qualifying Criteria
- Porter's 5-Forces Model
- Product Life Cycle and Industry Life Cycle
- Production Planning and Scheduling
- Strategic Planning Failure
- Strategic Planning Tools
- Strategy Formulation
- Strategy Implementation
- Strategy in the Global Environment
- Strategy Levels
- SWOT Analysis
- Synergy
- Zero-Based Budgeting
2. EMERGING TOPICS IN MANAGEMENT
- Activity-Based Costing
- Affirmative Action
- Angels and Venture Capitalists
- Artificial Intelligence
- Assessment Centers
- Balanced Scorecard
- Bar Coding and Radio Frequency Identification
- Business Continuity Planning
- Business Process Reengineering
- Cafeteria Plan—Flexible Benefits
- Cellular Manufacturing
- Chaos Theory
- Coalition Building
- Complexity Theory
- Concurrent Engineering
- Consulting
- Contingency Approach to Management
- Contingent Workers
- Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Trends
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Creativity
- Customer Relationship Management
- Decision Support Systems
- Diversity
- Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer
- Empathy
- Empowerment
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Entrepreneurship
- Ergonomics
- Ethics
- Expatriates
- Expert Systems
- Five S Framework
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Futuring
- Government-University-Industry Partnerships
- Handheld Computers
- Health Savings Accounts
- Human Resource Information Systems
- Innovation
- Instant Messaging
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Intrapreneurship
- Longitudinal Scenarios
- Multiple-Criteria Decision Making
- Non-Compete Agreements
- Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Popular Press Management Books
- Quality of Work Life
- Robotics
- Spirituality in Leadership
- Succession Planning
- Telecommunications
- Vendor Rating
- Women and Minorities in Management
- Work-Life Balance
3. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Angels and Venture Capitalists
- Balance Sheets
- Brainstorming
- Break-Even Point
- Budgeting
- Business Plan
- Business Structure
- Cafeteria Plan—Flexible Benefits
- Case Method of Analysis
- Competitive Advantage
- Consumer Behavior
- Cost Accounting
- Creativity
- Customer Relationship Management
- Diversification Strategy
- Domestic Management Societies and Associations
- Due Diligence
- Economics
- Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope
- Effectiveness and Efficiency
- Financial Issues for Managers
- Financial Ratios
- First-Mover Advantage
- Futuring
- Gap Analysis
- Generic Competitive Strategies
- Income Statements
- Initial Public Offering
- Innovation
- Intellectual Property Rights
- International Business
- International Management Societies and Associations
- Intrapreneurship
- Inventory Management
- Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Workers
- Leveraged Buyouts
- Licensing and Licensing Agreements
- Location Strategy
- Macroenvironmental Forces
- Make-or-Buy Decisions
- Market Share
- Marketing Concept and Philosophy
- Marketing Research
- Miles and Snow Typology
- Mission and Vision Statements
- New Product Development
- Non-Compete Agreements
- Organizational Development
- Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Patents and Trademarks
- Planning
- Poison Pill Strategies
- Popular Press Management Books
- Porter's 5-Forces Model
- Pricing Policy and Strategy
- Problem Solving
- Process Management
- Product Design
- Product Life Cycle and Industry Life Cycle
- Profit Sharing
- Research Methods and Processes
- Resumes and Cover Letter Trends
- Scenario Planning
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Shareholders
- Stakeholders
- Strategic Planning Tools
- Strategy Levels
- Succession Planning
- SWOT Analysis
- Synergy
- Technology Transfer
- Value Creation
- Venture Capital
- Virtual Organizations
4. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTING ISSUES
- Activity-Based Costing
- Angels and Venture Capitalists
- Balance Sheets
- Balanced Scorecard
- Break-Even Point
- Budgeting
- Business Continuity Planning
- Capacity Planning
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Cost Accounting
- Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
- Debt vs. Equity Financing
- Domestic Management Societies and Associations
- Due Diligence
- Economics
- Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer
- Employee Benefits
- Employee Compensation
- Executive Compensation
- Financial Issues for Managers
- Financial Ratios
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Income Statements
- Initial Public Offering
- Internal Auditing
- International Management Societies and Associations
- International Monetary Fund
- Inventory Types
- Leveraged Buyouts
- Licensing and Licensing Agreements
- Make-or-Buy Decisions
- Management Control
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Opportunity Cost
- Patents and Trademarks
- Profit Sharing
- Purchasing and Procurement
- Risk Management
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Stakeholders
- Succession Planning
- Venture Capital
- Zero-Based Budgeting
5. GENERAL MANAGEMENT
- Aggregate Planning
- The Art and Science of Management
- Autonomy
- Balanced Scorecard
- Brainstorming
- Budgeting
- Business Plan
- Business Structure
- Chain of Command Principle
- Communication
- Competitive Advantage
- Competitive Intelligence
- Contingency Approach to Management
- Contingent Workers
- Continuous Improvement
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Creativity
- Decision Making
- Delegation
- Diversity
- Divestment
- Downsizing and Rightsizing
- Economics
- Effectiveness and Efficiency
- Electronic Commerce
- Empowerment
- Financial Issues for Managers
- Financial Ratios
- Forecasting
- Generic Competitive Strategies
- Globalization
- Goals and Goal Setting
- Human Resource Management
- Innovation
- International Cultural Differences
- International Management
- Knowledge Management
- Leadership Styles and Bases of Power
- Leadership Theories and Studies
- Line-and-Staff Organizations
- Logistics and Transportation
- Management Control
- Management Functions
- Management Information Systems
- Management Science
- Management Styles
- Management Thought
- Managing Change
- Mission and Vision Statements
- Motivation and Motivation Theory
- Operations Management
- Organization Theory
- Organizational Analysis and Planning
- Organizational Behavior
- Organizational Chart
- Organizational Culture
- Organizational Learning
- Organizational Structure
- Organizational Development
- Organizing
- Participative Management
- Patents and Trademarks
- Pioneers of Management
- Planning
- Process Management
- Quality and Total Quality Management
- Reactive vs. Proactive Change
- Strategy Formulation
- Strategy Implementation
- Strategy in the Global Environment
- Strategy Levels
- Succession Planning
- Training Delivery Methods
- Trends in Organizational Change
6. HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- Affirmative Action
- Apprenticeship Programs
- Artificial Intelligence
- Assessment Centers
- Attribution Theory
- Autonomy
- Body Language
- Brainstorming
- Cafeteria Plan—Flexible Benefits
- Chain of Command Principle
- Coalition Building
- Communication
- Contingent Workers
- Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Trends
- Creativity
- Discrimination
- Diversity
- Downsizing and Rightsizing
- Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer
- Empathy
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Employee Benefits
- Employee Compensation
- Employee Evaluation and Performance Appraisals
- Employee Handbook and Orientation
- Employee Screening and Selection
- Employment Law and Compliance
- Empowerment
- Ergonomics
- Executive Compensation
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Group Dynamics
- Health Savings Accounts
- Human Resource Information Systems
- Human Resource Management
- International Cultural Differences
- Japanese Management
- Job Analysis
- Knowledge Workers
- Listening
- Meeting Management
- Mentoring
- Morale
- Motivation and Motivation Theory
- Nepotism
- Non-Compete Agreements
- Organizational Behavior
- Organizational Chart
- Organizational Culture
- Performance Measurement
- Personality and Personality Tests
- Professional Readings for Managers
- Quality of Work Life
- Reinforcement Theory
- Resumes and Cover Letter Trends
- Safety in the Workplace
- Sensitivity Training
- Stress
- Succession Planning
- Sweatshops
- Task Analysis
- Teams and Teamwork
- Theory X and Theory Y
- Theory Z
- Time Management
- Training Delivery Methods
- Videoconferencing
- Virtual Organizations
- Women and Minorities in Management
- Work-Life Balance
7. INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bar Coding and Radio Frequency Identification
- Communication
- Competitive Intelligence
- Complexity Theory
- Computer Networks
- Computer Security
- Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
- Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
- Data Processing and Data Management
- Decision Making
- Decision Rules and Decision Analysis
- Decision Support Systems
- Delegation
- Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer
- Experience and Learning Curves
- Expert Systems
- Forecasting
- Handheld Computers
- Innovation
- The Internet
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Workers
- Management Information Systems
- Product Design
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique and Critical Path Method
- Project Management
- Robotics
- Technological Forecasting
- Technology Management
- Technology Transfer
- Telecommunications
- Virtual Organizations
8. INTERNATIONAL/GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
- Apprenticeship Programs
- Competitive Advantage
- Contingent Workers
- Diversity
- European Union
- Expatriates
- Exporting and Importing
- First-Mover Advantage
- Franchising
- Free Trade Agreements and Trading Blocs
- Futuring
- Globalization
- International Business
- International Cultural Differences
- International Management
- International Management Societies and Associations
- International Monetary Fund
- Japanese Management
- Licensing and Licensing Agreements
- Location Strategy
- Macroenvironmental Forces
- Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Patents and Trademarks
- Popular Press Management Books
- Professional Readings for Managers
- Profit Sharing
- Strategy in the Global Environment
- Sweatshops
- Transnational Organization
- Value-Added Tax
- Vendor Rating
- Virtual Organizations
- World-Class Manufacturer
9. LEADERSHIP
- The Art and Science of Management
- Assessment Centers
- Attribution Theory
- Business Continuity Planning
- Communication
- Contingency Approach to Management
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Delegation
- Domestic Management Societies and Associations
- Entrepreneurship
- Executive Compensation
- Expert Systems
- Goals and Goal Setting
- Human Resource Management
- International Management Societies and Associations
- Japanese Management
- Job Analysis
- Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Workers
- Leadership Styles and Bases of Power
- Leadership Theories and Studies
- Line-and-Staff Organizations
- Listening
- Management and Executive Development
- Management Functions
- Management Levels
- Management Styles
- Management Thought
- Managing Change
- Mechanistic Organizations
- Mentoring
- Mission and Vision Statements
- Morale
- Motivation and Motivation Theory
- Open and Closed Systems
- Operant Conditioning
- Organizational Culture
- Participative Management
- Personality and Personality Tests
- Pioneers of Management
- Problem Solving
- Reinforcement Theory
- Sensitivity Training
- Span of Control
- Spirituality in Leadership
- Strategy Formulation
- Succession Planning
- Teams and Teamwork
- Theory X and Theory Y
- Theory Z
- Women and Minorities in Management
10. LEGAL ISSUES
- Affirmative Action
- Business Continuity Planning
- Cafeteria Plan—Flexible Benefits
- Computer Networks
- Computer Security
- Contingent Workers
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Discrimination
- Diversity
- Downsizing and Rightsizing
- Due Diligence
- Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Employee Benefits
- Employee Compensation
- Employee Evaluation and Performance Appraisals
- Employee Screening and Selection
- Employment Law and Compliance
- Ethics
- Executive Compensation
- Human Resource Management
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Job Analysis
- Leveraged Buyouts
- Management Audit
- Management Control
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Nepotism
- Non-Compete Agreements
- Patents and Trademarks
- Personality and Personality Tests
- Quality of Work Life
- Risk Management
- Safety in the Workplace
- Stress
- Succession Planning
- Sweatshops
- Technology Transfer
- Women and Minorities in Management
11. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- Balanced Scorecard
- Bar Coding and Radio Frequency Identification
- Complexity Theory
- Computer Networks
- Computer Security
- Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
- Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
- Data Processing and Data Management
- Decision Rules and Decision Analysis
- Decision Support Systems
- Distribution and Distribution Requirements Planning
- Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer
- Handheld Computers
- Human Resource Information Systems
- The Internet
- Management Information Systems
- Management Science
- Manufacturing Resources Planning
- Models and Modeling
- Multiple-Criteria Decision Making
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Operations Management
- Operations Scheduling
- Scenario Planning
- Statistical Process Control and Six Sigma
- Technological Forecasting
- Technology Management
- Technology Transfer
12. MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH
- Bar Coding and Radio Frequency Identification
- Business Process Reengineering
- Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
- Concurrent Engineering
- Decision Rules and Decision Analysis
- Decision Support Systems
- Distribution and Distribution Requirements Planning
- Expert Systems
- Location Strategy
- Logistics and Transportation
- Maintenance
- Make-or-Buy Decisions
- Manufacturing Resources Planning
- Models and Modeling
- Multiple-Criteria Decision Making
- New Product Development
- Operations Management
- Operations Scheduling
- Operations Strategy
- Product Design
- Production Planning and Scheduling
- Productivity Concepts and Measures
- Product-Process Matrix
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique and Critical Path Method
- Project Management
- Purchasing and Procurement
- Quality and Total Quality Management
- Research Methods and Processes
- Reverse Supply Chain Logistics
- Scenario Planning
- Service Operations
- Service Process Matrix
- Simulation
- Statistical Process Control and Six Sigma
- Statistics
- Systems Analysis
- Technology Transfer
- Warehousing and Warehouse Management
- World-Class Manufacturer
13. PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND ASSESSMENT
- Activity-Based Costing
- Balance Sheets
- Balanced Scorecard
- Benchmarking
- Break-Even Point
- Budgeting
- Continuous Improvement
- Cost Accounting
- Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
- Cycle Time
- Debt vs. Equity Financing
- Due Diligence
- Effectiveness and Efficiency
- Executive Compensation
- Financial Issues for Managers
- Financial Ratios
- Forecasting
- Gap Analysis
- Goals and Goal Setting
- Management Audit
- Management Control
- Management Information Systems
- Market Share
- Multiple-Criteria Decision Making
- Nepotism
- Order-Winning and Order-Qualifying Criteria
- Performance Measurement
- Pricing Policy and Strategy
- Profit Sharing
- Simulation
- Stakeholders
- Value Analysis
- Value Chain Management
- Value Creation
- Vendor Rating
- Zero-Based Budgeting
- Zero Sum Game
14. PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR MANAGERS
- The Art and Science of Management
- Body Language
- Brainstorming
- Coalition Building
- Communication
- Consulting
- Contingency Approach to Management
- Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Trends
- Continuous Improvement
- Creativity
- Customer Relationship Management
- Delegation
- Diversity
- Empathy
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Empowerment
- Entrepreneurship
- Facilitator
- Feedback
- Goals and Goal Setting
- Group Dynamics
- Intrapreneurship
- Knowledge Workers
- Leadership Styles and Bases of Power
- Listening
- Managing Change
- Meeting Management
- Mentoring
- Morale
- Motivation and Motivation Theory
- Multimedia
- Organizing
- Participative Management
- Personality and Personality Tests
- Planning
- Popular Press Management Books
- Problem Solving
- Professional Readings for Managers
- Profit Sharing
- Reactive vs. Proactive Change
- Resumes and Cover Letter Trends
- Safety in the Workplace
- Sensitivity Training
- Spirituality in Leadership
- Strategic Planning Tools
- Stress
- Succession Planning
- SWOT Analysis
- Teams and Teamwork
- Time Management
- Trends in Organizational Change
- Value Creation
15. PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Activity-Based Costing
- Aggregate Planning
- Bar Coding and Radio Frequency Identification
- Benchmarking
- Break-Even Point
- Bundled Goods and Services
- Business Process Reengineering
- Cellular Manufacturing
- Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
- Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
- Concurrent Engineering
- Continuous Improvement
- Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
- Decision Rules and Decision Analysis
- Decision Support Systems
- Distribution and Distribution Requirements Planning
- Domestic Management Societies and Associations
- Economic Census
- Five S Framework
- Flexible Manufacturing
- Focused Factory
- Forecasting
- Government-University-Industry Partnerships
- Industrial Relations
- International Management Societies and Associations
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Types
- Japanese Management
- Layout
- Lean Manufacturing and Just-in-Time Production
- Location Strategy
- Logistics and Transportation
- Maintenance
- Make-or-Buy Decisions
- Management Awards
- Manufacturing Resources Planning
- Market Share
- New Product Development
- Operations Management
- Operations Scheduling
- Operations Strategy
- Order-Winning and Order-Qualifying Criteria
- Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Participative Management
- Poka-Yoke
- Popular Press Management Books
- Porter's 5-Forces Model
- Production Planning and Scheduling
- Productivity Concepts and Measures
- Product-Process Matrix
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique and Critical Path Method
- Project Management
- Purchasing and Procurement
- Quality and Total Quality Management
- Quality Gurus
- Reverse Supply Chain Logistics
- Robotics
- Safety in the Workplace
- Service Factory
- Service Industry
- Service Operations
- Service Process Matrix
- Simulation
- Statistical Process Control and Six Sigma
- Statistics
- Supply Chain Management
- Synergy
- Teams and Teamwork
- Technological Forecasting
- Technology Management
- Technology Transfer
- Theory of Constraints
- Time-Based Competition
- Warehousing and Warehouse Management
- World-Class Manufacturer
16. QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
- Communication
- Customer Relationship Management
- Domestic Management Societies and Associations
- Five S Framework
- Gap Analysis
- Goals and Goal Setting
- Innovation
- International Management Societies and Associations
- Japanese Management
- Management Awards
- Manufacturing Resources Planning
- Marketing Research
- Operations Strategy
- Opportunity Cost
- Order-Winning and Order-Qualifying Criteria
- Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Participative Management
- Popular Press Management Books
- Productivity Concepts and Measures
- Professional Readings for Managers
- Quality and Total Quality Management
- Quality Gurus
- Quality of Work Life
- Statistical Process Control and Six Sigma
- Strategic Planning Tools
- Teams and Teamwork
- Value Analysis
- Value Creation
- Vendor Rating
- World-Class Manufacturer
17. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
- Activity-Based Costing
- Business Process Reengineering
- Capacity Planning
- Cellular Manufacturing
- Coalition Building
- Communication
- Competitive Advantage
- Competitive Intelligence
- Computer Networks
- Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Customer Relationship Management
- Cycle Time
- Decision Support Systems
- Distribution and Distribution Requirements Planning
- Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope
- Effectiveness and Efficiency
- Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Expert Systems
- Group Dynamics
- Industrial Relations
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Types
- Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
- Lean Manufacturing and Just-in-Time Production
- Location Strategy
- Logistics and Transportation
- Make-or-Buy Decisions
- Manufacturing Resources Planning
- Market Share
- Multiple-Criteria Decision Making
- New Product Development
- Operations Management
- Operations Scheduling
- Operations Strategy
- Organic Organizations
- Organizing
- Poka-Yoke
- Problem Solving
- Process Management
- Product Design
- Product Life Cycle and Industry Life Cycle
- Production Planning and Scheduling
- Productivity Concepts and Measures
- Product-Process Matrix
- Purchasing and Procurement
- Quality and Total Quality Management
- Reverse Supply Chain Logistics
- Risk Management
- Span of Control
- Stakeholders
- Teams and Teamwork
- Vendor Rating
- Warehousing and Warehouse Management
18. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Apprenticeship Programs
- Artificial Intelligence
- Assessment Centers
- Autonomy
- Business Continuity Planning
- Concurrent Engineering
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Consulting
- Contingency Approach to Management
- Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Trends
- Continuous Improvement
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Creativity
- Delegation
- Domestic Management Societies and Associations
- Downsizing and Rightsizing
- Employee Evaluation and Performance Appraisals
- Employee Handbook and Orientation
- Goals and Goal Setting
- Government-University-Industry Partnerships
- Group Decision Making
- Human Resource Management
- Innovation
- Instant Messaging
- International Cultural Differences
- International Management Societies and Associations
- Job Analysis
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Workers
- Listening
- Management and Executive Development
- Management Audit
- Marketing Communication
- Meeting Management
- Mission and Vision Statements
- Morale
- Motivation and Motivation Theory
- Multimedia
- Multiple-Criteria Decision Making
- Organizational Culture
- Organizational Learning
- Organizing
- Participative Management
- Personality and Personality Tests
- Popular Press Management Books
- Problem Solving
- Professional Readings for Managers
- Project Management
- Safety in the Workplace
- Sensitivity Training
- Simulation
- Stress
- Succession Planning
- SWOT Analysis
- Teams and Teamwork
- Training Delivery Methods
- Videoconferencing
- Virtual Organizations
- Women and Minorities in Management
- Work-Life Balance