The Manager's Casebook (Penguin Business)

by Mike Woods (Author), ElwynR.Thomas (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.28

  Offers an original and effective new approach to the management training manual. Covering all the skills needed for excellent management, it consists of about 50 training exercises based on accessible life of a real company, Vulcan Computers , and its management team. Each one starts in the fictional mode and with a particular problem, then the mode switches back to non-fiction. A range of possible ways to tackle the problem is set out and the reader is invited to choose the best solution.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $7.77

  This management guide consists of sketches based on everyday events in the life of a fictional company, Vulcan, and its management team. Each chapter opens with a description of a difficult situation one of Vulcan's managers has to face. A range of possible ways to tackle each problem is suggested at the end of every chapter and the reader is invited to choose the best solution, with the help of the author's comments. The book is an active management tool. It covers the following skills needed for good management: knowing yourself and adapting your job to your strength and weaknesses; communicating; leadership - motivating and delegating; shaping and nurturing a team; being a creative manager; handling change.