Management: Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World, 13th Edition by Thomas Bateman (Author) delves into the essential performance dimensions that determine organizational success in today’s competitive landscape: cost, quality, speed, innovation, service, and sustainability. This results-oriented textbook, published by McGraw Hill on January 18, 2018, with ISBN-10: 1259927644 and ISBN-13: 978-1259927645, provides a unique perspective for current and future managers. The authors consistently highlight the impact of these six dimensions on the bottom line through engaging marginal icons.

The 13th edition boasts outstanding pedagogy designed to immerse students in the challenges and opportunities of management. Key features include:

• Management in Action: Updated three-part cases with well-known companies like Amazon, Apple, Starbucks, General Motors, Uber, and PepsiCo, allowing students to apply learned concepts.
• The Digital World: Explores how companies leverage digital and social media.
• Multiple Generations at Work: Discusses chapter themes from multigenerational perspectives, based on data.
• Social Enterprise: Presents examples from outside the private sector.
• Comprehensive Learning Tools: Includes page-referenced key terms, concise responses to learning objectives, discussion questions for controversial issues, and experiential exercises.
• Concluding Cases: Reinforce chapter elements with disguised real-life situations, with supplementary cases available for deeper exploration.
• Additional Features: Manager’s Challenge, Management Snapshot, Manager as Person, Management Insight, and Ethics, Global, Diversity, and Information Technology Bytes.
• Manager’s Hot Seat videos: Challenge students to apply concepts to real-world managerial dilemmas.