INSTRUCTORS MANUAL EXPLORING STRATEGY TEXT AND CASES TWELFTH EDITION RICHARD WHITTINGTON GRADED A+ NEWEST VERSION.

INSTRUCTORS MANUAL EXPLORING STRATEGY TEXT AND CASES TWELFTH EDITION RICHARD WHITTINGTON GRADED A+ NEWEST VERSION.1. Introduction Exploring Strategy represents one of the most comprehensive packages of material and support for teachers and students of strategy. The following materials and assistance are now available: • The text with improved design and layout to assist readers – including objectives for each part of the book and chapter learning outcomes, concept definitions, chapter summaries, additional reading and much more. • Over seventy illustrations and fifteen Thinking Differently sections, each including questions to facilitate their use as mini cases or class discussions. • Sixteen end-of-chapter case examples with specific relevance to the content of the chapter and with questions relating to the major learning issues in the chapter. • End-of-chapter work assignments, which provide further opportunities for student assessment, additional work or self-assessment. • Thirty case studies (text and cases version only) together with comprehensive teaching notes (in this manual and on the website). The case collection contains a rich mixture of material, including long and short cases from many different sectors and different countries. • A number of ‘classic cases’ from past editions (where they are not carried forward into the twelfth edition but are still useful to tutors and students). • The Strategy Experience simulation gives students hands-on experience of strategic analysis and decision making. The simulation can be used by individual students, or as part of a wider classroom exercise. For students: • Revision aids (flashcards, key concepts and glossary (in six languages)) • Multiple-choice questions, work assignments and grade book • Help with case studies (web links, FT articles and advice on analysing cases). For tutors: • This Instructor’s Manual • PowerPoint slides • Tutors’ workshops led by the authors are held annually. These are practical days concerned with how teachers might gain most advantage from the book and associated materials. They also act as a forum in which to meet other strategy teachers. Details on all of these items and extensive tutors’ debriefs of work assignments, illustrations, case examples and case studies are included in this manual. Many of these materials are also relevant to our shorter version, Fundamentals of Strategy. This shorter version has the advantage of consistent definitions and frameworks and the same illustrations and end-of-chapter case examples. It should therefore be very easy for teachers using Exploring Strategy or Fundamentals of Strategy to switch between these two texts according to the needs of a particular course. 2. Using this manual This manual is designed for the assistance of teachers of strategy in planning how to gain maximum advantage from the text Exploring Strategy and the associated teaching and learning materials. It should provide help with: • planning a teaching approach to suit the type of participants, time available, etc.; • deciding on how to use the text, illustrations, case examples, readings and case studies in a teaching scheme; • choosing additional material to include in a course; • using the work assignments for the illustrations, case examples and those at the end of each chapter; • preparing to teach the case studies; • using the Exploring Strategy website. The next two sections are intended to be of particular use to teachers who are relatively new to teaching strategy or are designing new courses. Experienced teachers may wish to pass over Sections 3 and 4.