Gregory Wood

Comprehensive coverage of developments in the real world of IT management, provides a realistic and up-to-date view of IT management in the current business environment Information Technology for Management provides students in all disciplines with a solid understanding of IT concepts, terminology, and the critical drivers of business sustainability, performance, and growth. Employing a blended learning approach that presents content visually, textually, and interactively, this acclaimed textbook helps students with different learning styles easily comprehend and retain information. Throughout the text, the authors provide real-world insights on how to support the three essential components of business process improvements: people, processes, and technology. Information Technology for Management integrates a wealth of classroom-tested pedagogical tools, including 82 real-world cases highlighting the successes and failures of IT around the world, interactive exercises and activities, whiteboard animations for each learning objective, high-quality illustrations and images, boxed sections highlighting various job roles in IT management and giving examples of how readers will use IT in their career as a marketing, accounting, finance, human resource management, productions and operations management, strategic management, or information technology professional, or as an entrepreneur, and illustrative innovative uses of information technology. Now in its thirteenth edition, this leading textbook incorporates the latest developments in the field of IT management, based on feedback from practitioners from top-tier companies and organizations. New topics include Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), hybrid cloud, cryptocurrency, intent-based networking, edge analytics, digital twin technology, natural language generation, and many more. New “How will YOU use IT” boxes directly inform students in all majors about how IT will impact their careers. Equipping readers with the knowledge they need to become better IT professionals and more informed users of IT, Information Technology for Management, Thirteenth Edition, is the perfect textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses on computer information systems or management information systems, general business and IT curriculum, and corporate-in-house-training or executive programs in all industry sectors. AN INTERACTIVE, MULTIMEDIA LEARNING EXPERIENCE This textbook includes access to an interactive, multimedia e-text. Icons throughout the print book signal corresponding digital content in the e-text. Videos and Animations: Information Technology for Management integrates abundant video content developed to complement the text and engage readers more deeply with the fascinating field of information technologyWhiteboard Animation Videos help bring concepts to life, one for each learning objective throughout the text.Real World News Videos support content in every chapter. Cutting-edge business video content from Bloomberg provides an application of learned content to actual business situations. Interactive Figures, Charts & Tables: Appearing throughout the enhanced e-text, interactive figures, process diagrams, and other illustrations facilitate the study of complex concepts and processes and help students retain important information.Interactive Self-Scoring Quizzes: Concept Check Questions at the end of each section provide immediate feedback, helping readers monitor their understanding and mastery of the material.

Information Technology for Management provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the latest technological developments in IT and the critical drivers of business performance, growth, and sustainability. Integrating feedback from IT managers and practitioners from top-level organizations worldwide, the International Adaptation of this well-regarded textbook features thoroughly revised content throughout to present students with a realistic, up-to-date view of IT management in the current business environment. This text covers the latest developments in the real world of IT management with the addition of new case studies that are contemporary and more relevant to the global scenario. It offers a flexible, student-friendly presentation of the material through a pedagogy that is designed to help students easily comprehend and retain information. There is new and expanded coverage of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Quantum Computing, Blockchain Technology, IP Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, IT Service Management, DevOps, etc. It helps readers learn how IT is leveraged to reshape enterprises, engage and retain customers, optimize systems and processes, manage business relationships and projects, and more.

Information Technology for Management, 12 Edition provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the latest technological developments in IT and the critical drivers of business performance, growth, and sustainability. Integrating feedback from IT managers and practitioners from top-level organizations worldwide, the newest edition of this well-regarded textbook features thoroughly revised content throughout to present students with a realistic, up-to-date view of IT management in the current business environment. The text offers a flexible, student-friendly presentation of the material through a pedagogy that is designed to help students with different learning styles easily comprehend and retain information. This blended learning approach combines visual, textual, and interactive content--featuring numerous real-world case studies of how businesses use IT to increase efficiency and productivity, strengthen collaboration and communication, and maximize their competitive advantage. Students learn how IT is leveraged to reshape enterprises, engage and retain customers, optimize systems and processes, manage business relationships and projects, and more.

In Clearing the Air, Gregory Wood examines smoking's importance to the social and cultural history of working people in the twentieth-century United States. Now that most workplaces in the United States are smoke-free, it may be difficult to imagine the influence that nicotine addiction once had on the politics of worker resistance, workplace management, occupational health, vice, moral reform, grassroots activism, and the labor movement. The experiences, social relations, demands, and disputes that accompanied smoking in the workplace in turn shaped the histories of antismoking politics and tobacco control. The steady expansion of cigarette smoking among men, women, and children during the first half of the twentieth century brought working people into sustained conflict with managers' demands for diligent attention to labor processes and work rules. Addiction to nicotine led smokers to resist and challenge policies that coldly stood between them and the cigarettes they craved. Wood argues that workers' varying abilities to smoke on the job stemmed from the success or failure of sustained opposition to employer policies that restricted or banned smoking. During World War II, workers in defense industries, for example, struck against workplace smoking bans. By the 1970s, opponents of smoking in workplaces began to organize, and changing medical knowledge and dwindling union power contributed further to the downfall of workplace smoking. The demise of the ability to smoke on the job over the past four decades serves as an important indicator of how the power of workers' influence in labor-management relations has dwindled over the same period.

As life spans expanded dramatically in the United States after 1900, and employers increasingly demanded the speed and stamina of youth in the workplace, men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs—the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity. Longer life threatened manhood as men confronted age discrimination at work, mandatory retirement, and fixed incomes as recipients of Social Security and workplace pensions. They struggled to somehow sustain manliness in retirement, a new phase of life supposedly defined by the absence of labor. Ironically, retiring men pursued ways to stay “productive”: retirees created new daily routines of golf and shuffleboard games, tinkered with tools in garages, attended social club meetings, armed themselves for hunting and fishing excursions, and threw themselves into yard work. Others looked for new jobs or business ventures. Only unending activity could help to ensure that the “golden years” would be good years for older men of the twentieth century.