The Truth About Managing People...And Nothing But the Truth (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books) - Hardcover

Robbins, Stephen P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 013066927X ISBN 13: 9780130669278

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

In The Truth About Managing People, one of the world's leading management experts distills today's most important management research into over 60 proven "truths" you can use right now! Stephen P. Robbins rips away the hype, fads, and clich¿s that keep managers from seeing reality, delivering no-holds barred advice for hiring, motivation, leadership, communication, team-building, change and conflict management, performance evaluation, and much more.

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About the Author

DR. STEPHEN P. ROBBINS is the world's #1 best-selling textbook author in the areas of management and organizational behavior. His books have sold more than two million copies, are currently used by students at more than one thousand U.S. colleges and universities, and are widely read worldwide. Robbins' Organizational Behavior, Ninth Edition (Prentice Hall) is the market leader throughout Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, India, China, and Scandinavia. He is the author of Managing Today and co-author of both Management, Fifth Edition and Fundamentals of Management.

 

Robbins holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and has served in management roles for Shell and Reynolds Metals. Currently a member of the faculty at San Diego State University (Emeritus), Robbins' research interests have focused on conflict, power, and politics in organizations, as well as the development of effective interpersonal skills. His articles on these and other topics have appeared in Business Horizons, California Management Review, Business and Economic Perspectives, International Management, Management Review, The Journal of Management Education, and other leading journals.

 

An avid participant in masters' track and field, Robbins has set numerous indoor and outdoor age-group world sprint records since turning 50 in 1993. He has won more than a dozen indoor and outdoor U.S. national titles at 60m, 100m, 200m, and 400m, and has won five gold medals at the World Veteran Championships.

From the Back Cover

The Truth About Managing People ... and Nothing but the Truth rips away the hype, fads, and clich¿s that keep managers from seeing the world as it actually is. Stephen P. Robbins, the world's #1 selling management textbook author, has distilled the results of thousands of research studies on human behavior into over 60 proven "truths" that can transform how you manage people—and the results you achieve.
Drawing on the world's best research on the subject, Robbins delivers no-holds-barred advice and specific tactics for hiring, motivation, leadership, communication, team-building, coping with change, job design, performance evaluation, handling conflicts, and much more. From start to finish, The Truth About Managing People ... and Nothing but the Truth offers wisdom and techniques you'll be profiting from long after today's management fads are forgotten. Are happy employees better employees? Why satisfaction and effectiveness don't necessary correlateAre experienced leaders better leaders?When experience is relevant—and when it isn'tWhy "traits" don't predict employee success-and what doesHow you behave matters more than who you areWhy teams often create negative synergyHow to reduce the impact of "social loafing"—and build teams that really workDoes participatory management really work?Who wants to participate—and who doesn't?Four job-design changes that can dramatically improve productivityKey improvements you can start making right now
Peel off the hype and see the management world as it actually is....
The truth about hiring, motivating, and evaluating employees
The truth about teamwork, participatory management, and communication
The truth about coping with change, conflict, and layoffs
The truth about leadership and human behavior
What do we know—really know—about management? What's proven to work? What conventional wisdom has proven to be utterly worthless? In a nutshell, what's the best way to manage people to get the results you're after? Now, Stephen P. Robbins—one of the world's leading management experts and the world's #1 selling management textbook author—distills today's most important management research into 64 principles you can use right now!
Along the way, you'll discover how to overcome the real obstacles to teamwork; why too much communication can be as dangerous as too little; how to improve your hiring and employee evaluations; how to heal "layoff survivor sickness"; even how to "learn charisma."
This isn't just "someone's opinion"- It's the first, definitive, evidence-based guide to effective management. In The Truth About Managing People ... and Nothing but the Truth, Robbins delivers bedrock principles you can rely on, regardless of your organization, role, or title, throughout your entire management career.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013066927X
• ISBN 13: 9780130669278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240