Project Management: A Managerial Approach by Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel Jr.

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Synopsis

The use of project management to accomplish the goals of society’s varied organizations continues to grow.  Insight into human behavior, knowledge of organizational issues, and skill with quantitative methods are all necessary for successful project management.

Meredith and Mantel have drawn from personal experiences in the workplace to develop a text that teaches the reader how to build upon skills necessary for selecting, initiating, operating, and controlling all types of projects.

Suitable for students and professionals alike, Project Management 7e equips the reader with the tools essential for effective project management. 

Booknews

A textbook for a course at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level in which scholars of operations management Meredith (Wake Forest U.) and Mantel (U. of Cincinnati) look at project management from the perspective of the larger discipline of management, rather than the more usual cookbook, treatise on special areas, or collection of loosely associated articles. The material should be suitable for classes on managing service, product, or engineering projects, and in this addition is augmented to include managing information system projects. It also extends the treatment of scheduling, earned value analysis, and risk management, and emphasizes more strongly the sources of conflict in projects. No dates are cited for earlier editions. The disks supply a trial version of project software. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Biography

Jack Meredith is currently Professor of Management & Broyhill Distinguished Scholar & Chair in Operations at the Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University.  Dr. Meredith's research has focused on the strategic and operational problems that managers face, particularly those concerning the management of advanced technology.  He received his BS and BSME at Oregon State University and his MBA and PhD at the University of California at Berkeley.  Dr. Meredith has written eight books on operations management, project management and management science, including "Project Management" and "Operations Management for MBAs." He serves as outgoing editor in chief of the Journal of Operations Management. He received the school's inaugural Cowan Research Prize in 2002, the Academy of Management's 2003 Distinguished OM Scholar Award, and was inducted into the Oregon State University Engineering Hall of Fame in 2004.