LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Business Management

Open Textbooks

General Business

Business Communication for Success (University of Minnesota Libraries)
This text provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.
Exploring Business (University of Minnesota Libraries)
The goal of this textbook is simple: introduce students to business in an exciting way.
Fundamentals of Business (Virginia Tech Libraries)
A introductory business text covering a broad range of business fundamentals.
Introduction to Business (OpenStax)
Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change.

Entrepreneurship

Entreneurial Behavior Transforming an Innovative Idea into an Entrepreneurial Product (Textbook Equity)
This book aims to provide readers with opportunities to consider and reflect on the personal aspects involved in transforming an innovative idea into an entrepreneurial product.
Small Business Management in the 21st Century (Saylor Foundation)
Small Business Management in the 21st Century offers a unique perspective and set of capabilities for instructors. The authors designed this book with a “less can be more” approach, and by treating small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept.

Management and Leadership

Principles of Management (OpenStax)
Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach.
Principles of Management (University of Minnesota Libraries)
This text teaches management principles to tomorrow’s business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: strategy, entrepreneurship and active leadership.

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management (University of Minnesota Libraries)
This text teaches HRM strategies and theories that any manager—not just those in HR—needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people.
Organizational Behavior (University of Minnesota Libraries)
This text bridges the gap between theory and practice with a distinct ”experiential“ approach.

Marketing and Selling

Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time (Saylor Foundation)
This text is written for advertising and promotion courses taught to students in the business school and journalism & mass communication students.
The Power of Selling (Saylor Foundation)
This text teaches students how to apply the tenets of selling to how to sell themselves and get the job they want, with the same process professional sales people learn (or brush up) on their own selling skills.
Principles of Marketing (University of Minnesota Libraries)
This text teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing - not just the vocabulary.

Business Law and Ethics

Business Ethics (OpenStax)
Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives.
Business Law and the Legal Environment (Saylor Foundation)
This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple.
The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business (Saylor Foundation)
This book streamlines the presentation of material to ensure that every page is relevant, engaging, and interesting to undergraduate business students, without losing the depth of coverage that they need to be successful in their academic journeys and in their professional careers.

International Business

Fundamentals of Global Strategy (Saylor Foundation)
Crafting a global strategy requires making decisions about which strategy elements can and should be globalized and to what extent, and de Kluyver's Fundamentals of Global Strategy can help you illuminate these facts to your students.

Multimedia

TED-Ed Business
Build a lesson around any TED-Ed Animation, TED Talk or YouTube video.

Courses

General Business

Boundless Business (Boundless/Lumen Learning)
Introduction to Business (Saylor Academy)
Get an introduction to business concepts and current business issues while expanding your vocabulary, improving your critical and analytical thinking skills, and refining your business decision-making in this introductory course.

Entrepreneurship

Small Business Management (Saylor Academy)
Learn how to plan and operate a small business as a manager or entrepreneur by writing a business plan, launching a new venture, identifying market opportunities, creating a marketing plan, and financing your business.

Management and Leadership

Boundless Management (Boundless/Lumen Learning)
Management Communication for Undergraduates (MIT Open Courseware)
The goal of this course is to help students learn to communicate strategically within a professional setting. Students are asked to analyze their intended audience, the purpose of their communication, and the context in which they are operating before developing the message.
Management Leadership (Saylor Academy)
Learn effective management and leadership techniques, with topics including leadership theory, change management, decision making, and the distinction between leadership and management.
Principles of Management (Saylor Academy)
Learn the fundamentals of modern business management as you explore how business management practices evolved from the rise of large corporations in the late 1800s to today.

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management (Saylor Academy)
Examine business practices and laws that help business managers create a better and more effective working environment. Subjects include job analysis, recruitment, training, performance measurement, compensation, safety, and labor relations.
Organizational Behavior (Saylor Academy)
Study how individuals and groups behave and interact in the workplace, and the key factors that affect organizational behavior. Topics include how to manage individuals, understanding group dynamics, how to manage conflict, and how to initiate change.

Marketing and Selling

Boundless Marketing (Boundless/Lumen Learning)
Principles of Marketing (Saylor Academy)
Explore the entire marketing process, from identifying and targeting your customer base to creating value that will appeal to your consumers and marketing and distributing your product.

Business Law and Ethics

Business Law (Saylor Academy)
Learn about the laws that business managers must follow to protect their consumers, employees, and overall operations. Explore conflict management strategies and legal issues, such as torts, contracts, property law, intellectual property, and employment law.

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