Towards Personal Excellence

Psychometric Tests and Self-Improvement Techniques for Managers
2. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3504-9
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

From the Foreword by Udai Pareek, ‘Even though the need for self-development and increasing the level of excellence and effectiveness is high, people do not have enough time for self-study, nor for attending courses being offered. Moreover, people may like to go at their own pace, select the time they can find to devote to self-development, and choose the areas more relevant to them at that time.

The present volume seems to fulfil these needs—to help the readers to pick up the areas they are more concerned with…. Seema Sanghi has simplified the various concepts and theories in the form of practical hints for increasing excellence of various personal and interpersonal skills. Howsoever busy an individual may be, he or she can use the book to review his/her level of effectiveness, and use the tips to enhance it.’

The second edition of this enormously successful book is packed with more ways to maximize your potential with added sections on self-evaluation. This edition contains more ‘mirror image’ questionnaires covering a wider scope of multiple managerial competencies, including creativity and innovation. The book contains six pilot-tested modules each with a cluster of skills and a self-assessment questionnaire (with response sheets), which enables the reader/user to record individual strengths and weaknesses to keep track of the process of learning. The author covers the following areas:

– Managerial Skills

– Communication Skills

– Group Dynamics Skills

– Environment Management Skills

– Self-enhancement Powers

– Career Planning

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanghi, Seema

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Professor Udai Pareek
Preface
Introduction
Section A - Managerial Skills
Section B - Communication Skills
Section C - Group Dynamics Skills
Section D - Environment Management Skills
Section D - Environment Management Skills
Section F - Career Planning

Über Autor(innen)

Sanghi, Seema
Seema Sanghi is Managing Director at Styrax Consultants, a firm set up by her in the human resource solution space, which is focused on developing processes and people. It offers consul-tancy in competency mapping, assessment centre, psychometric testing and development, assessment tool development, training and development, mentoring and coaching and HR processes and interventions. She was formerly Director at FORE School of Management

She received the Mother Teresa Award in 2003 and the Excellence in Education Award in 2004. She has been a recipient of three gold medals and national scholarships for academic excel¬lence. Books authored by her include Towards Personal Excellence (also available in Chinese), Organizational Behaviour and Essentials of Organizational Behaviour (co-authored with Stephen Robbins and Timothy Judge) and Institutional Governance. Her co-authored book Organizational Behaviour was highly appreci¬ated by His Excellency Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, then President of India. Human Resource Management, authored by her, received ISTD Book Award from the Indian Society of Training and Development (ISTD), Ministry of HRD. She has over 100 psy-chometric tests, research papers and articles published in national and international journals and magazines.

She has been an international consultant to UNDP for developing competency framework and assessment centre design for Public Service Commission. She has been associated with development of selection tests for central government and several state governments in India. She has assessed and trained several thousand professionals on competency mapping and assessment centre. She has trained numerous executives and offered consultancy across various sectors in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Saudi Arabia

Her interests are in the area of competency mapping, assess¬ment centre, tool development, psychometric testing, mentoring, coaching, cross-culture issues, ethics and motivational complexities related to environmental issues. Her hobbies include oil painting and interior designing.