A gamer is a person who plays interactive games, especially video games, tabletop role-playing games, and skill-based card games, and who plays for usually long periods of time. Some gamers are competitive, meaning that they compete in some games for money. There are many different gamer communities around the world.

Contemporary Approaches to Management provides a framework of management practices based on more recent trends, such as globalization, theory Z concepts, McKinsey's 7-S approach, excellence models, productivity and quality issues, etc.