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1 online resource (648 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CRITICAL ROLE OF MANAGEMENT SKILLS -- The Importance of Competent Managers -- The Skills of Effective Managers -- What Are Management Skills? -- Improving Management Skills -- An Approach to Skill Development -- Leadership and Management -- Contents of the Book -- Organization of the Book -- Diversity and Individual Differences -- Summary -- SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL -- Diagnostic Survey and Exercises -- SCORING KEY AND COMPARISON DATA -- Personal Assessment of Management Skills |
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What Does It Take to Be an Effective Manager? -- SSS Software In-Basket Exercise -- PART I: PERSONAL SKILLS -- 1 DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS -- SKILL ASSESSMENT -- Diagnostic Surveys for Developing Self-Awareness -- Developing Self-Awareness -- SKILL LEARNING -- Key Dimensions of Self-Awareness -- The Enigma of Self-Awareness -- Understanding and Appreciating Individual Differences -- Important Areas of Self-Awareness -- SUMMARY -- SKILL ANALYSIS -- Cases Involving Self-Awareness -- SKILL PRACTICE -- Exercises for Improving Self-Awareness Through Self-Disclosure -- SKILL APPLICATION |
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Activities for Developing Self-Awareness -- SCORING KEYS AND COMPARISON DATA -- The Defining Issues Test -- Cognitive Style Indicator -- Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale -- Core Self-Evaluation Scale -- 2 MANAGING STRESS AND WELL-BEING -- SKILL ASSESSMENT -- Diagnostic Surveys for Managing Stress and Well-Being -- Managing Stress and Well-Being -- SKILL LEARNING -- Managing Stress and Fostering Well-Being -- Major Elements of Stress -- Managing Stressors -- Eliminating Stressors -- Developing Resiliency and Well-Being -- Temporary Stress-Reduction Techniques -- SUMMARY -- SKILL ANALYSIS |
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Cases Involving Stress Management -- SKILL PRACTICE -- Exercises for Long-Term and Short-Run Stress Management and Well-Being -- SKILL APPLICATION -- Activities for Managing Stress -- SCORING KEYS AND COMPARISON DATA -- Social Readjustment Rating Scale -- Sources of Personal Stress -- Flourishing Scale -- 3 SOLVING PROBLEMS ANALYTICALLY AND CREATIVELY -- SKILL ASSESSMENT -- Diagnostic Surveys for Creative Problem Solving -- Solving Problems Analytically and Creatively -- SKILL LEARNING -- Problem Solving, Creativity, and Innovation -- Steps in Analytical Problem Solving |
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Limitations of the Analytical Problem-Solving Model -- Impediments to Creative Problem Solving -- Multiple Approaches to Creativity -- Conceptual Blocks -- Review of Conceptual Blocks -- Conceptual Blockbusting -- International Caveats -- Hints for Applying Problem-Solving Techniques -- Fostering Creativity in Others -- SUMMARY -- SKILL ANALYSIS -- Cases Involving Problem Solving -- SKILL PRACTICE -- Exercises for Applying Conceptual Blockbusting -- SKILL APPLICATION -- Activities for Solving Problems Creatively -- SCORING KEYS AND COMPARISON DATA -- How Creative Are You?© |
| Summary |
Skills Development for Tomorrows managers In its Ninth Edition, Developing Management Skills has become the standard in hands-on management learning. Designed for students of all skill levels and learning styles, the text allows students to apply knowledge to real-world situations, connect concepts to their own lives, and experience management theory in a tactile and engaging way. Updated for tomorrows managers, this text features contemporary examples, new skill assessments and cases, updated research, and tangible, relevant goals for students to work toward. Focusing on ten essential |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical reference and index |
| Subject |
Management -- Study and teaching
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Management -- Problems, exercises, etc
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Management
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Management -- Study and teaching
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| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cameron, Kim S., author
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| ISBN |
9781292097497 |
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1292097493 |
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