This texts addresses the supervisory function of the first-line supervisor. Emphasis on decision making and problem solving using case studies and role playing. It is used in the Prince George's Community College course BMT 1550: Elements of Supervision, a course that provides students with a basic understanding of the role and responsibility of supervisors. It is intended for practicing or newly appointed managers and supervisors as well as those aspiring to these positions. The course examines the problems and challenges that supervisors face. Special emphasis is placed on developing solutions, including the potential results of each. Students explore management theories coupled with a “hands-on” approach to problem solving.

This text offers a unique perspective and set of capabilities for instructors. The authors designed this book with a “less can be more” approach, and by treating small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept. It is used in the Prince George's Community College course BMT 1570: Small Business Management, a course designed to acquaint students with the many diverse areas of entrepreneurship, including but not limited to: identifying a viable product or service, target markets, financial analysis, and ethics. Emphasis is placed on how aspiring entrepreneurs can develop their entrepreneurial mindset and opportunity recognition capabilities to develop winning entrepreneurial plans for future ventures.

Principles of Management teaches management principles to tomorrow’s business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: strategy, entrepreneurship and active leadership. It is used in the Prince George's Community College course BMT 1600: Principles of Management, a study of the role of the business manager and the decision-making process. Included are the identification of planning, organizing, leading and controlling functions of management. The development of management and organization theory is discussed. Subtopics include the role of the manager in today’s dynamic and diverse environments; tactical, strategic and contingency planning; elements of leadership; communications; and workforce diversity. Lastly, students examine the control process necessary to measure productivity

This text addresses financial planning concepts, their application and the risk factor in the management of finances. It is used in the Prince George's Community College course BMT 1620: Financial Planning and Investments, a course where students plan to increase their net worth by building a personal finance portfolio. Emphasis is on liquid asset management and investments such as stocks, bonds, personal property, etc. Additionally, students explore how financial planning impacts tax liability. Furthermore, students examine different types of insurance policies related to life, health, and home. Lastly, students study retirement planning and the components of estate planning.

This text examines the dynamics of exceptional customer service. Develops skills necessary in dealing with customers effectively, using creative techniques to improve communication skills to achieve customer satisfaction. It is used in the Prince George's Community College course BMT 1650: Customer Service, a course that examines the dynamics of exceptional customer service. Emphasis is placed on the role of customer service, customers in today’s business environment, dealing with customers effectively, the role of management, developing techniques to improve communication skills to achieve customer satisfaction, and the exploration of customer service trends.

This text is used in the Prince George's Community College course BMT 2400: Strategic Management, which introduces students to the strategic management process. Students learn how use information to select and modify strategies to compete effectively. Emphasis is on organizational structure and controls, strategic leadership and entrepreneurship, as well as the legal and ethical components and implications of corporate governance.

This text addresses the fundamental concepts of compensation management, theory of organizational reward systems, and methods of compensating employees. Topics include compensation objectives, employee benefits options, internal and pay structures, incentive programs, performance appraisals, union and government roles in compensation, and international pay systems. It is used in the Prince George's Community College course, BMT 2580: Compensation and Benefits Management.

In this textbook, students are introduced to practical organizational training and development in the workplace. Students begin by examining the different theories of development training. This serves as the basis for a needs assessment using a SWOT analysis. Students examine the cost-effectiveness of training and the benefits and challenges associated with the use of technology in organizational training. Additionally, students examine how to determine the appropriate training methods

This text presents the principles and practices of human resource management in the business organization. It is used in the Prince George's Community College course BMT 2610: Human Resource Management, a course which examines principles and practices of human resource management in the business organization. Emphasis is placed on trends in management; safety in the workplace; job analysis; employee training, development and performance; compensation and benefits; as well as HR goals and global developments.

This text It is used in the Prince George's Community College course BMT 2660: Conflict Management. It provides powerful techniques for dealing effectively and confidently with difficult situations in the workplace. The course further examines strategies to strengthen organizational efficiency and productivity by developing, building and strengthening more cooperative and productive working relationships. Subtopics include defining the causes and types of conflict and its impact on productivity, costs and profits. Students are taught the elements of emotional intelligence and its role

This text examines diversity in the workplace and the resulting challenges to corporate culture in developing an understanding of diversity. It is used in the Prince George's Community College course BMT 2720: Managing Workplace Diversity which examines distinct differences within the workplace. Emphasis is placed on diversity, diversity consciousness, individual success, social barriers, communication, teamwork, leadership and the resulting challenges to corporate culture in developing an understanding of diversity within the workplace.

This text is used in the Prince George's Community College course BPM 1010: Residential Property Management. It is designed to prepare students to manage multi-family properties. The management of rental property (apartments) is emphasized, but common interest realty associations (CIRA) and other residential property (manufactured and senior housing and single family homes) are also covered. Course topics include forms and goals of ownership; leasing; human resource management; property operations; resident policies; marketing, budgeting and planning; legal and risk management; and government regulations. Prepares students for entry-level positions as leasing consultants or assistant property managers, as well as for further professional training and certification.

This text is designed to prepare students to develop and implement maintenance systems for residential properties. Topics include the property manager’s role in maintenance; conducting inspections; developing and scheduling maintenance programs; budgeting for maintenance; staffing and contracting; energy management; customer service; government codes and regulations; and safety and security. It is used in the Prince George's Community College course BPM 1020: Maintenance for Residential Property Management.

Lean thinking, as well as associated processes and tools, have involved into a ubiquitous perspective for improving systems particularly in the manufacturing arena. With application experience has come an understanding of the boundaries of lean capabilities and the benefits of getting beyond these boundaries to further improve performance. Discrete event simulation is recognized as one beyond-the-boundaries of lean technique. Thus, the fundamental goal of this text is to show how discrete event simulation can be used in addition to lean thinking to achieve greater benefits in system improvement than with lean alone. Realizing this goal requires learning the problems that simulation solves as well as the methods required to solve them. The problems that simulation solves are captured in a collection of case studies. These studies serve as metaphors for industrial problems that are commonly addressed using lean and simulation.

While big data infiltrates all walks of life, most firms have not changed sufficiently to meet the challenges that come with it. In this course, you will learn how to develop a big data strategy, transform your business model and your organization.

This course will enable professionals to take their organization and their own career to the next level, regardless of their background and position.

Professionals will learn how to be in charge of big data instead of being subject to it. In particular, they will become familiar with tools to:

assess their current situation regarding potential big data-induced changes of a disruptive nature,
identify their options for successfully integrating big data in their strategy, business model and organization, or if not possible, how to exit quickly with as little loss as possible, and
strengthen their own position and that of their organization in our digitalized knowledge economy
The course will build on the concepts of product life cycles, the business model canvas, organizational theory and digitalized management jobs (such as Chief Digital Officer or Chief Informatics Officer) to help you find the best way to deal with and benefit from big data induced changes.

This is an entire course/e-textbook that was formerly the Boundless Business text that was purchased by Lumen Learning and maintained in its current form.

The material presented in this resource is generally accurate especially considering that it reflects standard business practices and concepts that have changed little. A few of the examples given in the text could be a bit dated, which indicates that its utility may come from linking to specific parts of the course rather than using it as an entire textbook substitute. There does not appear to be a great deal of bias with this work, since its positioning is relatively generic to the facts and figures and it typically steers clear of opinions and judgments. An instructor could easily remix this with more current, relevant, and culturally deeper examples.

The text includes detailed images and graphs that are well done and help drive home visual concepts. It is limited in terms of interactivity and is still a text heavy presentation. This material is published as CC-Sharealike so it can be remixed but not revised. Lumen has taken some responsibility for the fact that it can still be edited but likely not updated to increase its currency. Since Lumen owns this material, it is likely to be here in this state for a long while.

Most of the material is relevant to any Introductory Business course with concepts that would apply for a long period of time. This material generally ages well, it just needs to be paired with continually more updated and relevant examples as technologies and markets change. Student could likely meet their learning goals and interests with this material as a support (curated by the instructor) to an existing course but it likely does not standalone as a full course resource. It seems most useful for providing depth to key points with direct links to sub-pages within this course.

Building Relationships With Business Communication combines some of the best available open access content for introductory courses in business communication and supplements this content with new material on personal and social identity; rhetorical listening; inclusive language; storytelling; and territorial Land Acknowledgements. The textbook is focused on a Canadian audience of first-year Commerce students. H5P interactive content, the infusion of real world examples, and an engaging layout make this textbook highly readable for this audience.

The defining challenge facing business leaders is to develop and drive performance into the future.

For commercial firms, this generally means building profits and growing the value of the business.

Although their focus may be on non-financial outcomes, public services, voluntary groups, and other

not-for-profit organizations share the same central challenge—continually improving their

performance. When the causes of performance through time are not understood, management has

difficulty making the right decisions about important issues. Worse, entire organizations are led into

ill-chosen strategies for their future.

To overcome these problems, leaders need the means to answer three basic questions:

1. Why is business performance following its current path?

2. Where are current policies, decisions, and strategy leading us?

3. How can future prospects be improved?

These questions are the starting point for this book.

This is the first edition of the open text book Building a Competitive Investment Climate on First Nation Lands. This textbook is for students who are First Nation and tribal government employees or students who would like to work for or with First Nation and tribal governments. The purpose of this textbook is to help interested First Nation and tribal governments build a competitive investment climate. Work began on this text book in early 2012 with a generous grant from the Donner Canadian Foundation. Financial support was also provided by the First Nations Tax Commission and the Tulo Centre.

An intensive one-week introduction to leadership, teams, and learning communities. Introduction of concepts and use of a variety of experiential exercises to develop individual and team skills and develop supportive relationships within the Fellows class.