Business Essentials

Ebert/Griffin focuses on the four ways to approach business-- as an employee, as an owner or a boss, as a customer, or as an investor-- to help students understand the relevance of studying business to their own lives.
Each chapter opens with a “What’s In It for Me?” section that highlights the key aspects of the chapter, and how these concepts are relevant to students' future careers in business.
Exercising Your Ethics allows students to explore ethical dilemmas and use critical thinking skills to help solve them.
Team Exercises have been added to each chapter to give students the experience of working collaboratively to tackle ethics issues.
A new chapter on leadership and decision-making has been added to the book. This chapter covers the most up-to-date leadership approaches, discussing such topics as strategic leadership, ethical leadership, virtual leadership, examining leaders as coaches, as well as gender and cross-cultural issues in leadership.
An all new chapter covering the effect of IT on business has been added to the book. This chapter explores not only the effects of IT, but also the IT resources have and the threats and challenges that these resources present.