Dlabay/Kleindl's PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS, 10th EDITION, provides complete instruction in business concepts and skills students need in today's competitive environment. This market-leading introductory business text offers extensive coverage in major business concepts, including finance, marketing, operations and management. Students gain valuable information and skills for the workplace, as well as preparation for success in competitive events like DECA, FBLA and BPA. This edition correlates 100% to the Precision Exams Business Concepts Exam. MindTap for Dlabay/Kleindl's PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS,10th EDITION, is the digital learning solution that helps teachers engage and transform today’s students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. MindTap for this course includes the full, interactive eBook as well as auto-graded reading activities throughout the eBook for each lesson. Plus, it has student tools like flashcards, practice quizzes and auto-graded homework and tests.
Unit I: BUSINESS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT.
1. Economic Decisions and Systems.
2. Economic Activity.
3. Business in the Global Economy.
4. Social Responsibility of Business and Government.
Unit II: BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT.
5. Business Organization.
6. Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management.
7. Management and Leadership.
8. Human Resources, Culture, and Diversity.
9. Career Planning and Development.
Unit III: BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY.
10. Marketing.
11. Business and Technology.
12. Financial Management.
13. Production and Business Operations.
14. Risk Management.
Unit IV: PERSONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT.
15. Consumers in the Global Economy.
16. Money Management and Financial Planning.
17. Banking and Financial Services.
18. Consumer Credit.
19. Savings and Investment Strategies.
20. Insurance.
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Les Dlabay
Les R. Dlabay, Ed.D. is Professor of Business in the Department of Economics and Business at Lake Forest College in Illinois. He has taught more than 30 different business courses in high school, community college, university, teacher preparation, and adult education programs. Dr. Dlabay has presented more than 300 teacher workshops and seminars emphasizing interactive learning strategies, including team projects and field research activities. His "hobbies" include a cereal package collection (from over 100 countries) and banknotes from 200 countries; these are used to teach economic, cultural, and political aspects of global business. In an effort to prepare students to do business in varied economic settings, Professor Dlabay makes extensive use of class assignments related to world hunger, poverty, micro-finance, and micro-enterprise.
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Brad Kleindl
Brad A. Kleindl, Ph.D., is dean of the School of Business at Park University in Kansas City, Missouri. He previously served as dean and professor of marketing of The Robert W. Plaster College of Business Administration at Missouri Southern State University. He has authored and co-authored six books and more than 60 articles and conference papers. Dr. Kleindl has served twice as a Senior Fulbright Scholar, during 2007 in Austria and 2003 in South Africa. He has taught courses in consumer behavior, marketing research, principles of marketing, Internet marketing, international marketing, and has presented at conferences and industry meetings across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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PLANNING A CAREER IN presents the needed skills, education, work experience and industry opportunities for a variety of business-related career paths. Interactions & Connections is an experiential learning activity at the end of each chapter that gets students active in their community or online.
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WORK AS A TEAM allows students to experience dynamics that enhance the learning process and learn the benefits and concerns of shared decision-making.
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Features such as BUSINESS VISION, LIFE_SPAN PLAN, BUSINESS IMPROVING SOCIETY, and A QUESTION OF ETHICS provide the link between theory and the real world of business.
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DOING BUSINESS IN highlights various countries and provides a basic knowledge of international business activities that are vital for living and working in the global economy.
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DOING BUSINESS IN highlights various countries and provides a basic knowledge of international business activities that are vital for living and working in the global economy.
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This edition is correlated 100% to the Precision Exams Business Concepts Exam (200). See the Knowledge Standards for this Exam here:
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The 10th Edition helps teachers show the relevance of the Intro to Business course in the high school curriculum. It will help teachers with a wealth of updated content and practical activities. Because it addresses a variety of learning styles, Principles of Business will make the course accessible to all students. Our market-leading business education content, features, activities and informational resources are strategically designed to meet student learning needs.
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The text covers the market's demands for instruction on life skills, real-world applications, project-based learning, technology, Internet, ethics and academic connections. More coverage of E-Commerce is included, as well as International Business and career-oriented features.
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