"Taking it to the Net" Exercises
"Taking it to the Net" exercises return for the Sixth Edition. These
EXTREMELY popular text boxes provide students a variety of optional
end-of-chapter exercises. Students choosing to take on the extra practice
will be encouraged to take their research to the Web where they will be
rewarded with real company information and data.
In-Text Boxes Bring Concepts to Reality.
- The ever popular "From the Pages of Business Week Magazine"
boxes return to bring interesting stories and real business data to
UB6E.
- "Spotlight on Small Business" boxes appear throughout the text and
provide extensive coverage of small- to mid-sized firms. These smaller
firms represent the fastest-growing segment of the global economy and
these kinds of entrepreneurial ventures offer students tremendous opportunities.
- "Legal Briefcase" boxes are scattered throughout the text
and highlight important legal issues facing today’s business world.
In addition, the UB6E appendices "Working within the Legal Environment
of Business" and "Managing Risk," provide context for
these business challenges.
- "Reaching Beyond our Borders" boxes provide students with
important context vis a vis the global nature of business today. In
addition to this thematic coverage, UB6E includes numerous in-text examples
as well as a full chapter on Competing in Global Markets.
- "Making Ethical Decisions" is a boxed feature that places
students in the middle of real ethical dilemmas and demonstrates how
businesspeople must be prepared to deal with ethical challenges. Chapter
4 provides the in-depth foundations of ethics that professors have told
us are critical to their students’ success.
Developing Workplace Skills SCANS
Learning aids have been engineered to provide real skills-based learning
opportunities for students based on SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving
Necessary Skills).
SCANS identifies five workplace competencies that students need to develop:
resources, interpersonal skills, information, systems, technology. UB6E
has learning tools designed to cultivate these SCANS competencies: Critical
Thinking exercises throughout each chapter, Making Ethical Decisions boxes
in each chapter, Developing Workplace Skills exercises, Practicing Management
Decisions (cases), Taking It To The Net (internet exercises).
