Effective Management: Developing yourself, others and organizations

ISBN-13: 9781352007299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 446 str.

Dietmar Sternad

Opis

This brand new textbook has been designed to help your students to acquire or enhance their abilities in leading and developing themselves, others, and organizations. Grounded in the findings of both classic and recent management and leadership research, it translates the theory into rigorous yet practical advice so that students will have the skills to manage effectively and sustainably. The book takes an innovative learner-centric approach, structured around different levels of management from individual effectiveness, through to interpersonal effectiveness, and then team and organizational effectiveness. With a global focus, lively writing style, and an eye on current and future developments, it provides a succinct, accessible, and engaging look at what it means to be a manager. Thanks to its extensive features from thought-provoking questions to global case studies, this textbook will provide you with all the necessary tools to run an introductory management course which prepares students for the managerial challenges of the 21st century.

Spis treści

PART 1: ENHANCING PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS 1. The manager’s role and responsibility 2. Managing and developing yourself PART 2: ENHANCING INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS 3. Leading and developing others 4. Working in teams 5. Managing diversity across cultures PART 3: ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS 6. Effective decision-making 7. Managing strategy 8. The execution challenge PART 4: ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS 9. Achieving results 10. The entrepreneurial manager APPENDIX: A very brief history of effective management.

O autorze

Dr. Dietmar Sternad is Professor of International Management and Program Director of the International Business Management masterʼs degree at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences / Fachhochschule Kärnten (Austria). Dietmar teaches several management and leadership-related subjects at undergraduate, graduate, and executive level. He has also given lectures at universities and business schools in Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Slovenia, is an alumnus of the IMTA (CEEMAN) and GloColl (Harvard Business School) management teachersʼ programs, and has received several national and international awards for creating case-based teaching materials (e.g. from the Academy of Management and Emerald Publishing) and for teaching quality (he was the first management professor ever to receive the Austrian State Prize for Teaching Excellence “Ars docendi”). 

In his prior managerial career, Dietmar was Managing Director and Publisher of one of Austriaʼs leading trade book publishing groups and the CEO of Sloveniaʼs highest-circulation daily newspaper. He also contributed to the founding of a market-leading cooking website. He is a strategy consultant and has developed and led several in-house executive leadership education programs for multinational enterprises.