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Skills of Management and Leadership: Managing People in Organisations

Autor W. David Rees, Christine Porter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2015
Skills of Management and Leadership is a concise introductory text focusing on the core skills of managing people in organisations. With a strong emphasis on people management, it addresses the needs of those in managerial and leadership roles, and identifies the skills needed to handle the growing range of managerial responsibilities such as prioritization, delegation, disciplinary and performance handling, and negotiation. Packed with real-life examples of management in practice, this text explores the key original concepts of the managerial escalator, the hybrid manager and the managerial gap.

Key benefits:

• Clearly and accessibly written
• Lively case studies reveal the reality of management today
• Filled with engaging learning features such as end of chapter questions and appendices to help readers with self-development

This is the ideal introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate management students.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137325617
ISBN-10: 1137325615
Pagini: 372
Ilustrații: 12 figures, 5 black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:2015
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Engaging and accessible

Concise enough for onesemester courses

Takes a problemsolving approach which encourages students to identify, prioritise and diagnose problems before embarking on any action

Each chapter has the following structure:
  Opening Case Study with questions to consider while reading the chapter
  Short Vignettes examples to highlight a practical realworld problem
  Reflective Questions to encourage students to consider a contentious issues or ethical problem 
  Boxed 'Pen Portraits' of Key Theorists to add a human dimension and bring theory to life
   Opening Case Study Revisited offering a possible solution or likely outcome to the case and suggested 'answers' to the questions posed at the start of the chapter
  'Taking it Further' Section annotated further reading to direct students to additional sources/journal articles to gain a deeper insight to the topic
  End of Chapter Activities chapter review questions; an essay question; an assignment; an employability skills task; and a roleplay per chapter
  ESL Vocabulary Checklist a list of challenging words for students to look up

Practical and realworld focused

Up to date and relevant case studies and vignettes


Notă biografică

W. David Rees, formerly a Principal Lecturer at the University of Westminster Business School, is now an independent consultant.
 
Christine Porter is Head of the HRM Department at the University of Westminster Business School, UK.


Cuprins

1. Managers And Their Backgrounds
2. Identifying The Manager's Job
3. The Manager And The Organization
4. Managerial And Leadership Style
5. Delegation
6. Motivation And Stress
7. Reward
8. Communication
9. Recruitment And Selection
10. Appraisal
11 . Training And Development
12 . Workplace Counselling
13 . Disciplinary Handling And Dismissal
14 . Negotiating Skills
15 . Meetings, Chairing And Team Building
 


Descriere

Skills of Management and Leadership is a concise introductory text focusing on the core skills of managing people in organisations. With a strong emphasis on people management, it addresses the needs of those in managerial and leadership roles, and identifies the skills needed to handle the growing range of managerial responsibilities such as prioritization, delegation, disciplinary and performance handling, and negotiation. Packed with real-life examples of management in practice, this text explores the key original concepts of the managerial escalator, the hybrid manager and the managerial gap.

Key benefits:

• Clearly and accessibly written
• Lively case studies reveal the reality of management today
• Filled with engaging learning features such as end of chapter questions and appendices to help readers with self-development

This is the ideal introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate management students.


Textul de pe ultima copertă

Skills of Management and Leadership is a concise introductory text focusing on the core skills of managing people in organisations. With a strong emphasis on people management, it addresses the needs of those in managerial and leadership roles, and identifies the skills needed to handle the growing range of managerial responsibilities such as prioritization, delegation, disciplinary and performance handling, and negotiation. Packed with real-life examples of management in practice, this text explores the key original concepts of the managerial escalator, the hybrid manager and the managerial gap.

Key benefits:

• Clearly and accessibly written
• Lively case studies reveal the reality of management today
• Filled with engaging learning features such as end of chapter questions and appendices to help readers with self-development

This is the ideal introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate management students.