Developing Management Skills

by David A . Whetten (Author), KimS.Cameron (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Management Skills and for faculty who want a more skills based approach in Principles of Management and Organizational Behavior.

  This skills-based approach to management uses a unique five-step model and is filled with interactive exercises and examples and the latest in technology. Whetten and Cameron succeed in helping students understand, correct, practice, and give them numerous opportunities to translate correct practice into common practice. With a focus on the skills aspect of management, each chapter uses a 5-step process for assessing, prescribing, acquiring, and fine-tuning students' aptitudes. The book covers personal, interpersonal and group skills in an interactive way, and Whetten and Cameron include the latest research that reflects today's organizations, most of which rely on streamlined organizational structures and self-directed teams.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $15.89

  This challengingly interactive book constantly encourages the reader to reassess his or her approach to management behaviour through a blend of theory and practical examples. Cases are drawn from businesses in Europe, the United States and Japan to back up the personal, interpersonal and communication skills theory covered. Each chapter of this book follows a five-step formula of skill preassessment, skill learning, skill analysis, skill practice and skill application, allowing the book to be used both by the management student and the practising manager. Included are activities which allow the reader to assess and practise management skills, discussions of underlying behavioural guidelines, examples of effective and ineffective applications of behavioural principles and simulations and role-playing scenarios.