Principles Of School Business Management

A must-read for anyone involved in school business management, this comprehensive textbook addresses a broad range of topics—from the basics of accounting principles to strategic planning, legal liability, taxation, purchasing, budgeting, and management information systems. Chapters focus on such key issues as total quality management, site-based management, and the future of school business management. Each chapter is designed to serve as a stand-alone teaching unit or as a reference to an area of particular interest.

Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.

Provides students and researchers with easy-to-understand entries on hundreds of important terms, principles and concepts allow readers to develop a deeper understanding of the field. Principles of Business: Management provides students and researchers with a solid understanding of the most important aspects of management, from leadership and operations to project management and entrepreneurship.

This textbook of 24 chapters provides administrators and students with information on the role, activities, and responsibilities of the school business administrator. The independently authored chapters are titled as follows: (1) "Introduction to School Business Management" (F. Mike Miles); (2) "Legal Context of the Public School District" (Paul W. Thurston); (3) "Theories of Modern Management" (W. Hal Knight); (4) "Taxation for Education" (Thomas H. Jones); (5) "Educational Accounting Procedures" (Sam B. Tidwell); (6) "Educational Budget Preparation: Fiscal and Political Considerations" (Ellen Kehoe); (7) "Quantitative Decision Making" (Grover H. Baldwin); (8) "Management Information Systems in Educational Organizations" (Frederick L. Dembowski); (9) "School District Financial Management and Banking" (Frederick L. Dembowski and Robert D. Davey); (10) "Planning and the School Business Office" (A. P. Johnston and Kenneth Hood); (11) "The Personnel Function: Practitioners, Practices and Participants" (Donald L. Robson); (12) "Legal and Managerial Aspects of Collective Negotiations" (Thomas N. Jones and Grover H. Baldwin); (13) "Risk Management" (L. Nathan Randal); (14) "Foodservices at School" (Dorothy Van Egmond-Pannell); (15) "Public School Transportation: State Aid and Current Issues" (Patricia Anthony and Deborah Inman); (16) "School Desegregation and Student Busing" (Richard A. King); (17) "Legal Liabilities of Administrators" (Julie Underwood); (18) "School District Purchasing" (Joseph L. Natale); (19) "Fiscal Equity Challenges" (Richard G. Salmon, Mary Jane Connelly, and M. David Alexander); (20) "Reduction in Force" (R. Craig Wood); (21) "Capital Outlay and Bonding" (R. Craig Wood); (22) "School Closings" (R. Craig Wood and Wayne M. Worner); (23) "Facility Planning and Management" (Glen I. Earthman); and (24) "The Political Economy of Education Finance: Legacies of Largess Lumbering toward an Uncertain Future" (Maureen W. McClure). Each chapter provides endnotes citing the reference sources used. The book also contains a preface by the executive editor, brief profiles of the editor and the authors, and a three-part index to personal names, subjects, and court cases referred to in the text. (PGD)

The Business Student’s Guide to Sustainable Management has become a core textbook for business undergraduates. With a full introduction to sustainable management, the textbook covers all subject areas relevant to business students. This second edition features fully updated chapters on how to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into accounting, marketing, HR and other subjects in management and business studies. Furthermore, this second edition offers brand new chapters on how to teach the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) in any business discipline, how to explore new business models designed to support sustainable development and how to crowdsource for sustainable solutions. The book contains over 40 ready-made seminars/short workshops which enable teachers and students to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into every discipline in business, including economics, operations, marketing, HR, and financial reporting. Each chapter follows the same easy-to-use format. The Business Student’s Guide to Sustainable Management provides a true treasure chest of materials to support staff wanting to integrate sustainability into their teaching and provides support to effectively embed sustainability in the curriculum. The chapters also offer a starting point in developing teaching units for Masters and MBA students. The material is not just useful to people in business schools, but to those involved in wider scale curriculum change, and those looking to make links between different disciplines (for example, how to teach system thinking, corporate peace-making and the crowdsourcing of sustainable solutions). Online Teaching Notes to accompany each chapter are available on request with the purchase of the book.

Fully revised and thoroughly updated, this Second Edition of this classic book brings together many leading international authors on educational leadership, with brand new chapters from leaders in the field – Ken Leithwood, Paul Begley, Allan Walker and Alma Harris. Providing an overview of essential topics within the field, this book adopts an international perspective and offers conceptual and empirical insights.

The ebook is fully Open Access. Written by many of the key influencers at the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), the book focuses on advancing sustainable development into education, research and partnerships at higher education institutions and, specifically, at business schools, with the purpose of educating responsible leaders for today and tomorrow. The book serves as a concrete source of inspiration for universities and other stakeholders in higher education on structures, processes and content for how to advance responsible management education and sustainable development. It articulates the importance of key themes connected with climate change, gender equality, anti-corruption, business for peace, anti-poverty and other topics that are related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book emphasizes the significance of local–global interaction, drawing on local action at management schools in combination with global knowledge exchange across the PRME community. In addition, the book clearly demonstrates the background, key milestones and successful achievements of PRME as a global movement by management schools in collaboration with a broader community of higher education professionals. It exemplifies action in various local geographies in PRME Chapters, PRME Working Groups and the PRME Champions work to advance responsible management education. The authors of the book are all globally experienced deans, professors, educators, executives and students with a global outlook, who are united to advance responsible management education locally and globally. The book will be invaluable reading for university leaders, educators, business school deans and students wanting to understand and embed responsible management education approaches across their institutions and curricula. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.