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Developing Management Skills for Leadership

Developing Management Skills for Leadership

by Chris Parker and Brian Stone
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/11/2002

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For advanced undergraduate courses in Business Skills, Management, Skills Development and Manager Development The fundamental premise of this text is to equip advanced undergraduate business students with the skills to survive and succeed in management. This is the first book to tackle these issues for a higher level academic audience and backs up its practical emphasis with the scholarly foundations of the discipline. *Aims - To provide scholars who already have the basic skills of listening, presenting, report writing and group working with more complex skills such as cultural awareness, power politics, managing relationships, persuasive campaigning and negotiating. *Practical Exercises - Both group and individual exercises are provided at the end of each chapter to enable the student to apply the techniques and skills they have learnt to real world situations. *Suggested Projects - Both long and short term projects, which will help students actively build up their skills base as they progress through the book. *Companion Web Site - Answers questions posed in the book and provides further exercises which can be carried out on-line.
*Learning Objectives - are outlined at the beginning of each chapter, followed at the end by a check-list for practical use in advanced management skills development. *Relevant Quotations - Numerous appropriate quotations can be found throughout the text to help the student understand and retain information. *Further reading sections - Each chapter contains a further reading section to enable the student to pursue related topics and help to place the material in context and stimulate further reading. *Diagrams - Illustrate each chapter and provide the student with the tools to digest complex information with ease illustrate each chapter. *Answers business needs - Companies are increasingly concerned with a students practical skills as well as their academic ability, the following are now considered essential: initiative, leadership, thinking and problem solving, communication skills, working as part of a team, creativity and priority setting. All are addressed in the text to provide the student with the best possible tools to gain employment.
*Experienced author team - The authors have worked in both the academic and business world and as a result are aware from first hand experience how companies are structured and the forms of training/skills they value and encourage.
ISBN:
9780273646181
9780273646181
Category:
Management & management techniques
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-11-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pearson Education Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
344
Dimensions (mm):
246x189x19mm
Weight:
0.68kg
Chris Parker

Chris Parker is one of New Zealand's most prominent comedians, and an active voice of the LGBTQ community in Aotearoa. Chris has featured as both a writer and actor on numerous television comedy shows.Chris is also a regular face on comedy panel shows like 7 Days and Have You Been Paying Attention.

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