Management Skills for Everyday Life: The Practical Coach
Autor Paula J. Capronien Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780136109662
ISBN-10: 0136109667
Pagini: 445
Dimensiuni: 185 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:3Nouă
Editura: Prentice Hall
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
ISBN-10: 0136109667
Pagini: 445
Dimensiuni: 185 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:3Nouă
Editura: Prentice Hall
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
Descriere
For undergraduate and graduate level Management Skills, and Organizational Behavior courses, as well as for Executive Education for beginning through mid-level managers and professionals.
This text's engaging and practical, yet research-based style is designed to help students achieve the success they desire. Specifically, the ideas, tools, and techniques help students enhance their effectiveness (ability to achieve results), career potential (e.g., marketability, salaries, promotions, job satisfaction and job choice), and general well-being (e.g., happiness, health, work-life "balance").
This text's engaging and practical, yet research-based style is designed to help students achieve the success they desire. Specifically, the ideas, tools, and techniques help students enhance their effectiveness (ability to achieve results), career potential (e.g., marketability, salaries, promotions, job satisfaction and job choice), and general well-being (e.g., happiness, health, work-life "balance").
Caracteristici
For undergraduate and graduate level Management Skills, and Organizational Behavior courses, as well as for Executive Education for beginning through mid-level managers and professionals.
This text's engaging and practical, yet research-based style is designed to help students achieve the success they desire. Specifically, the ideas, tools, and techniques help students enhance their effectiveness (ability to achieve results), career potential (e.g., marketability, salaries, promotions, job satisfaction and job choice), and general well-being (e.g., happiness, health, work-life "balance").
This text's engaging and practical, yet research-based style is designed to help students achieve the success they desire. Specifically, the ideas, tools, and techniques help students enhance their effectiveness (ability to achieve results), career potential (e.g., marketability, salaries, promotions, job satisfaction and job choice), and general well-being (e.g., happiness, health, work-life "balance").
- "Developing Ethical, Sustainable Power and Influence." This chapter presents a strong case and specific techniques for developing power, influence, and political savvy.
- Helps students understand (1) that their professional success and personal well-being depends on their ability to develop power and influence and (2) there are many ethical ways to build power and influence.
- Helps students understand (1) that their professional success and personal well-being depends on their ability to develop power and influence and (2) there are many ethical ways to build power and influence.
- Chapter 1: "What Predicts Success"
- Provides engaging information about why IQ doesn't predict success and how one's analytical and cognitive intelligence can actually inhibit high performance and career success. This discussion motivates students, regardless of their academic performance or personal histories, to take control of their future and use the skills presented in this book to achieve the success they desire.
- Explicitly addresses the recent high-profile executive scandals, and provides students with a framework for understanding why some highly successful people derail themselves—and how this can be prevented.
- Provides engaging information about why IQ doesn't predict success and how one's analytical and cognitive intelligence can actually inhibit high performance and career success. This discussion motivates students, regardless of their academic performance or personal histories, to take control of their future and use the skills presented in this book to achieve the success they desire.
- Section on positive organizational leadership—In the chapter on "Building Trust."
- Keeps students up-to-date with recent movement among academics and management practitioners to focus on how positive emotions and behaviors in organizations enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Notably, Harvard Business Review recognized the positive organizational scholarship movement initiated by the Michigan Business School as one of the top 20 breakthrough ideas of 2004.
- Keeps students up-to-date with recent movement among academics and management practitioners to focus on how positive emotions and behaviors in organizations enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Notably, Harvard Business Review recognized the positive organizational scholarship movement initiated by the Michigan Business School as one of the top 20 breakthrough ideas of 2004.
- Focus on diversity—Both the chapter content and references incorporate diversity.
- Enables all students, regardless of their backgrounds, to read about issues that are important to them and to see people with similar backgrounds reflected in the textbook. Students will welcome the author's attention to providing leadership examples and researcher concepts representing diverse cultures.
- Enables all students, regardless of their backgrounds, to read about issues that are important to them and to see people with similar backgrounds reflected in the textbook. Students will welcome the author's attention to providing leadership examples and researcher concepts representing diverse cultures.
- Timely and relevant material—Each chapter integrates diversity, globalization, and technology as taken-for-granted and normal aspects of everyday work life.
- Helps students understand and succeed in today's global, diverse, technologically-driven social and economic environment.
- Students see the book concepts and examples as relevant to their lives.
- Helps students understand and succeed in today's global, diverse, technologically-driven social and economic environment.
- Up-to-date—Content is based on very recent (and some classic) management theory from top journals in organizational behavior and other management fields.
- Provides students with fresh ideas and different perspectives.
- Provides students with fresh ideas and different perspectives.
- Critical thinking focus–The author encourages students to debate the concepts presented in the textbook and to integrate their own experience and knowledge as relevant and useful.
- Encourages students to read management theory with a critical eye—to become wise consumers of managerial knowledge.
- Encourages students to read management theory with a critical eye—to become wise consumers of managerial knowledge.
- Work/Life "Balance"—This is the only management skills book that devotes a full chapter to work/life "balance."
- (1)Helps students develop a plan for integrating their personal and professional lives and (2) introduces students to the research on what predicts happiness, flow, good health (including longevity), and family well-being.
- (1)Helps students develop a plan for integrating their personal and professional lives and (2) introduces students to the research on what predicts happiness, flow, good health (including longevity), and family well-being.
- Self-Assessments in each chapter—Many classic and new self-assessments, including self-monitoring assessment, proactive personality, independent/interdependent self-concept, personal network analysis, Social Styles (e.g., driver, expressive, amiable, analytic), cultural assessments, flow assessment, and more.
- Presents many new self-assessments that help students assess their styles, strengths, weaknesses, and equally important, how they are perceived by others.
- Presents many new self-assessments that help students assess their styles, strengths, weaknesses, and equally important, how they are perceived by others.
- Web Links—Many chapters suggest links to useful web sites with self-assessments and readings.
- Assists students' continued learning.
- Assists students' continued learning.
- Concise—Shorter than most textbooks.
- Helps students focus by presenting only the most critical and engaging material.
- Helps students focus by presenting only the most critical and engaging material.
- Facilitators' Guide—Includes relevant Web sites, online assessments (there are many of them and many are free), videos, and simulations.
- Provides students with many supplementary resources.
- Provides students with many supplementary resources.