Making the Team: A Guide for Managers - Softcover

Thompson, Leigh L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130143634 ISBN 13: 9780130143631

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

For a graduate management OR undergraduate management course in Organization Behavior, Group Dynamics, or Teamwork.

Making the Team unites cutting-edge research on groups with practical management principles. Making the Team organizes the art and science of teamwork in 3 primary tasks for the leader/manager: (1) Accurately assessing and improving team performance: (2) Managing the internal dynamics of teams (diversity, conflict, creativity within the team): and (3) Optimally leveraging the team within the larger organization. Making the Team is a great core book for a course or a supplement book for the course. The instructor's manual contains exercises for challenging in-class exercises and experimental learning. Managers-in-training as well as the seasoned executive will find the clear, step-by-step approaches offered in this book useful, provocative, and refreshing. This book is a perfect marriage of theory and practice.

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Making The Team - A Guide For Managers

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About the Book

Making the Team is for leaders, managers, and executives―anyone who has to work with people and teams. Making the Team gives leaders answers to hard questions and provides proven solutions to some of management's greatest challenges:

• Dealing with conflict productively
• Increasing creativity
• Managing diversity
• Evaluating and rewarding team performance
• Leveraging the team within the organization
• Managing global teamwork
• Motivating and leading people

The Kellogg Culture

The Kellogg School of Management is known throughout the world for its culture of teamwork. Kellogg students are exceptional in their simultaneous ability to lead as well as be team players. Student input is essential to the faculty's teaching methods at Kellogg. The faculty of the Management and Organizations Department at Kellogg brings their world-class research on teamwork into the classroom to create a powerful and interactive group learning experience. The strong Kellogg culture of teamwork inspired the writing of this book, whose key purpose is to expose some of the winning strategies of a teamwork culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130143634
• ISBN 13: 9780130143631
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336