Managing Today! FROM THE PUBLISHER
From active listening and conflict management to interviewing and trust building, Managing Today! provides the skills and knowledge you need to succeed in today's fast-paced and competitive managing environment. The Robbins contemporary management paradigm captures the reality of what today's managers do, including monitoring the environment, creating shared visions, organizing tasks, and empowering people. This paradigm integrates topics such as globalization, diversity, and ethics to give you a comprehensive understanding of the issues and challenges you'll face on the job.
SYNOPSIS
This unique,re-engineered management book defines and describes the new "paradigm" broughton by dramatic changes in the field of management in recent years. KEYTOPICS: Managing Today! redefines the traditional "functional"approach employed by previous management books to more accurately reflectrecent, fundamental changes in the economy and workplace that havesignificantly reshaped today's managers' jobs and present coverage in away that is designed specifically for today's readers.
FROM THE CRITICS
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Addresses the changing nature of the work world, which the author
suggests has become the dominant issue facing every manager, and
attempts to establish a new paradigm for studying management.
Arrangement is in five sections. The first provides an introduction,
followed by sections covering decisions and monitoring systems,
organizing tasks and shaping the organization's culture, leading and
empowering people, and organizational renewal.
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