Description
For undergraduate and graduate level Management Skills, and Organizational Behavior courses, as well as for Executive Education for beginning through mid-level managers and professionals.
This text's engaging and practical, yet research-based style is designed to help students achieve the success they desire. Specifically, the ideas, tools, and techniques help students enhance their effectiveness (ability to achieve results), career potential (e.g., marketability, salaries, promotions, job satisfaction and job choice), and general well-being (e.g., happiness, health, work-life 'balance').
Features
For undergraduate and graduate level Management Skills, and Organizational Behavior courses, as well as for Executive Education for beginning through mid-level managers and professionals.
This text's engaging and practical, yet research-based style is designed to help students achieve the success they desire. Specifically, the ideas, tools, and techniques help students enhance their effectiveness (ability to achieve results), career potential (e.g., marketability, salaries, promotions, job satisfaction and job choice), and general well-being (e.g., happiness, health, work-life 'balance').
- 'Developing Ethical, Sustainable Power and Influence.' This chapter presents a strong case and specific techniques for developing power, influence, and political savvy.
- Chapter 1: 'What Predicts Success'
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Provides engaging information about why IQ doesn't predict success and how one's analytical and cognitive intelligence can actually inhibit high performance and career success. This discussion motivates students, regardless of their academic performance or personal histories, to take control of their future and use the skills presented in this book to achieve the success they desire.
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Explicitly addresses the recent high-profile executive scandals, and provides students with a framework for understanding why some highly successful people derail themselves—and how this can be prevented.
- Section on positive organizational leadership—In the chapter on 'Building Trust.'
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Keeps students up-to-date with recent movement among academics and management practitioners to focus on how positive emotions and behaviors in organizations enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Notably, Harvard Business Review recognized the positive organizational scholarship movement initiated by the Michigan Business School as one of the top 20 breakthrough ideas of 2004.
- Focus on diversity—Both the chapter content and references incorporate diversity.
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Enables all students, regardless of their backgrounds, to read about issues that are important to them and to see people with similar backgrounds reflected in the textbook. Students will welcome the author's attention to providing leadership examples and researcher concepts representing diverse cultures.
- Timely and relevant material—Each chapter integrates diversity, globalization, and technology as taken-for-granted and normal aspects of everyday work life.
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Helps students understand and succeed in today's global, diverse, technologically-driven social and economic environment.
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Students see the book concepts and examples as relevant to their lives.
- Up-to-date—Content is based on very recent (and some classic) management theory from top journals in organizational behavior and other management fields.
- Critical thinking focus–The author encourages students to debate the concepts presented in the textbook and to integrate their own experience and knowledge as relevant and useful.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 What Predicts Success?
CHAPTER 2 Developing Self-Awareness
CHAPTER 3 Building Trust
CHAPTER 4 Communicating Effectively
CHAPTER 5 Gaining and Using Sustainable, Ethical Power and Influence
CHAPTER 6 Managing Relationships with Your Direct Reports, Bosses, and Peers
CHAPTER 7 Managing Cultural Diversity
CHAPTER 8 Creating High-Performing Teams
CHAPTER 9 Diverse Teams and Virtual Teams: Managing Differences and Distances
CHAPTER 10 Crafting a Life: Your Guide to the Good Life
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