Becoming a Master Manager: A Competing Values Approach - Softcover

Quinn, Robert E.; Bright, David; Faerman, Sue R.; Thompson, Michael P.; McGrath, Michael R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118582586 ISBN 13: 9781118582589

Publisher: Wiley, 2015

Synopsis

Becoming a Master Manager is appropriate for management and organizational behavior courses that emphasize critical management skills that yield sound organizational results.

Developed from both theory and empirical evidence, the text provides a compelling case for why managerial and leadership competencies are essential for employee engagement, effective communication, and sustainable organizational success.

The competing values framework offers future managers a foundation for analyzing, understanding and executing the behavior that will achieve positive performance, productivity and profitability. 

About this title

About the Author

Robert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliott Tracy Collegiate Professor in Business Administration & Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan. He has published many papers and books on management and organization, but Professor Quinn is particularly interested in issues concerning leadership, vision and change. He has an applied orientation and has 25 years of experience in working with executives on issues of organizational change. He has been involved in the design and execution of numerous large-scale change projects. He has worked with a large percentage of the Fortune 500 companies. He teaches in both the MBA and Executive Education Programs at the University of Michigan and is known for innovative instructional efforts. Professor Quinn is also a fellow of the World Business Academy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118582586
• ISBN 13: 9781118582589
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 352