Effective Management

Developing Yourself, Others and Organizations
2020. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-352-00729-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 195 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 1056 g

This brand new textbook has been designed to help your students to acquire or enhance their abilities in leading and developing themselves, others, and organizations. Grounded in the findings of both classic and recent management and leadership research, it translates the theory into rigorous yet practical advice so that students will have the skills to manage effectively and sustainably. The book takes an innovative learner-centric approach, structured around different levels of management from individual effectiveness, through to interpersonal effectiveness, and then team and organizational effectiveness. With a global focus, lively writing style, and an eye on current and future developments, it provides a succinct, accessible, and engaging look at what it means to be a manager.

Thanks to its extensive features from thought-provoking questions to global case studies, this textbook will provide you with all the necessary tools to run an introductory management course which prepares students for the managerial challenges of the 21st century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sternad, Dietmar

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Berufe, Ausbildung, Karriereplanung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Coaching, Training, Supervision

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: ENHANCING PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS.- 1. The manager’s role and responsibility.- 2. Managing and developing yourself.- PART 2: ENHANCING INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS.- 3. Leading and developing others.- 4. Working in teams.- 5. Managing diversity across cultures.- PART 3: ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS.- 6. Effective decision-making.- 7. Managing strategy.- 8. The execution challenge.- PART 4: ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS.- 9. Achieving results.- 10. The entrepreneurial manager.- APPENDIX: A very brief history of effective management.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Dietmar Sternad is Professor of International Management and Program Director of the International Business Management master's degree at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences / Fachhochschule Kärnten (Austria). Dietmar teaches several management and leadership-related subjects at undergraduate, graduate, and executive level. He has also given lectures at universities and business schools in Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Slovenia, is an alumnus of the IMTA (CEEMAN) and GloColl (Harvard Business School) management teachers' programs, and has received several national and international awards for creating case-based teaching materials (e.g. from the Academy of Management and Emerald Publishing) and for teaching quality (he was the first management professor ever to receive the Austrian State Prize for Teaching Excellence “Ars docendi”).

In his prior managerial career, Dietmar was Managing Director and Publisher of one of Austria's leading trade book publishing groups and the CEO of Slovenia's highest-circulation daily newspaper. He also contributed to the founding of a market-leading cooking website. He is a strategy consultant and has developed and led several in-house executive leadership education programs for multinational enterprises.