{"product_id":"management-thomas-j-norman-ph-d-9798996378180","title":"Management: Optimizing Talent for Organizational Effectiveness (Black-and-White Student Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat if the manager's whole job could be understood as one idea? Organizations succeed when they optimize talent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eManagement: Optimizing Talent for Organizational Effectiveness\u003c\/i\u003e reframes the principles of management around the original DART model - \u003cb\u003eD\u003c\/b\u003eirecting \u0026amp; Deploying, \u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003ettracting \u0026amp; Assessing, \u003cb\u003eR\u003c\/b\u003eewarding \u0026amp; Retaining, and \u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003eeaching \u0026amp; Transforming talent. Every core management topic is here - planning and strategy, decision making and ethics, organizational structure and design, human resource management, culture and change, motivation and communication, leadership and teams, control and quality, innovation and entrepreneurship - each grounded in how real organizations attract, reward, develop, and keep the people who do the essential work.\u003cbr\u003eWritten for today's students, the text pairs classic management thought - Taylor to Drucker, Maslow to Mintzberg, the Hawthorne studies to the learning organization - with fully current coverage: a dedicated section on generative and agentic AI in every chapter, a capstone treatment of how AI is reclassifying work itself, and evidence drawn from 2025-2026 sources including the World Economic Forum's jobs projections and PwC's AI Jobs Barometer. The book's intellectual range runs wider than most: chapters open with paired epigraphs from classical voices - Plato, Confucius, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca - alongside modern management thinkers, a reminder that people have been solving the problems of organizing human effort for a very long time.\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter ends with an original case study that puts students inside a real managerial dilemma - a warehouse where productivity metrics are destroying teamwork, a hiring push that cut corners, a dashboard that glowed green while the truth decayed - with discussion questions, applied exercises, and, in several cases, the student cast as the decision maker advising the leader. Features drawn from business, film, and literature - Toyota and Netflix, WeWork and Wells Fargo, \u003ci\u003eThe Karate Kid\u003c\/i\u003e and Jane Austen - make the ideas stick. A simple economic through-line (Value ≈ Alignment × Engagement × Talent Value) shows why the four talent functions multiply rather than add - and why the gap between well-managed and poorly managed organizations widens so fast. Seventy-two professionally designed exhibits, a full glossary, and chapter-by-chapter DART Connections tie the framework together, and the final chapter turns the model on the reader: a personal development plan for managing the first talent you'll ever be responsible for - your own.\u003cbr\u003eDesigned for principles of management, management theory, and organizational behavior courses at the undergraduate and MBA-foundation level. A complete instructor package - instructor's manual, test bank with AACSB\/NACE\/SHRM alignment, lecture slides, and student activities - accompanies the text. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas J. Norman, Ph.D.\u003c\/b\u003e (University of Minnesota) is Professor of Management at California State University, Dominguez Hills, past Department Chair, Acting Associate Dean, and faculty founder of the CSUDH Innovation Incubator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas J. Norman Ph. D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996378180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Organizational Leadership Effectiveness Lab\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.58d","brand":"Thomas J. Norman Ph. D.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174317924607,"sku":"9798996378180","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/management-thomas-j-norman-ph-d-9798996378180","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}