Developing Management Skills - Softcover

Whetten, David A; Cameron, Kim S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131747428 ISBN 13: 9780131747425

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

For undergraduate/graduate Principles of Management and Management Skills courses.

 

Whetten/Cameron teaches students the ten essential skills all managers should possess in order to be successful.

 

About this title

From the Back Cover

With Whetten and Cameron's unique five-step model, learn the skills that turn good ideas into accepted practice―and good management!

Skills-based, interactive, and cross-cultural, David Whetten and Kim Cameron's newest edition of Developing Management Skills will help you bridge the gap between learning management skills and applying those skills to the managing job at hand. Filled with experiential exercises, examples, and the latest in technology, this book clearly focuses on the skills aspect of management.

The authors present a five-step process in each chapter for assessing, learning, analyzing, practicing, and applying your own abilities to build the foundation for effective management practice. Building on your personal, interpersonal, and group skills, Developing Management Skills is an interactive tool based on the authors' extensive and updated research on effective managers in private and public companies.

Here are a few of the highlights of this fifth edition:

• Material on nine fundamental management skills, organized into three categories, to help you master the skills you'll use in managing people:
  • Personal (Developing Self-Awareness; Managing Stress; Solving Problems Creatively)
  • Interpersonal (Coaching, Counseling, and Supportive Communication; Gaining Power and Influence; Motivating Others; Managing Conflict)
  • Group Skills (Empowering and Delegating; Building Effective Teams and Teamwork)
• New material on cross-cultural perspectives, including a useful framework for comparing cultural values and providing examples of how people with different cultural values use different communication styles, influence strategies, or conflict management approaches.
• Three updated supplemental sections on applied communications skills―"Making Oral and Written Presentations," "Conducting Interviews," and "Conducting Meetings"―to help prepare you for the various types of communication required of managers.
• NEW! Part-Ending Skills Video segments featuring key management skills topics that focus on a fictional Internet company. Each segment offers a scenario with two options from which students select and evaluate their choices.
• NEW! myPHLIP Internet site at www.prenhall.com/whetten offers chapter-specific current events, Internet exercises, and downloadable supplements―plus interactive assessment tests.

Synopsis

For undergraduate/graduate Principles of Management and Management Skills courses.Whetten/Cameron teaches students the ten essential skills all managers should possess in order to be successful. This guide to effective managerial behavior shows readers what they need to know to perform well as managers, synthesizes a large body of scholarly research related to each skill topic, and uses a proven learning methodology. Emphasizing the basic human skills that lie at the heart of effective management, it combines academic knowledge with real world practicality, the key to this book's proven durability. Assisting readers in improving their management skills, this book covers the following topics: personal skills such as developing self-awareness, managing stress, and solving problems creatively; interpersonal skills such as communicating supportively, gaining power and influence, motivating others, and managing conflict; group skills such as empowering and delegating, building effective teams and leading positive change; and oral and written presentations, and conducting interviews and meetings

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131747428
• ISBN 13: 9780131747425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 625