Becoming a better boss : why good management is so difficult
by
 
Birkinshaw, Julian M.

Title
Becoming a better boss : why good management is so difficult

Author
Birkinshaw, Julian M.

ISBN
9781118645468

Personal Author
Birkinshaw, Julian M.

Physical Description
xxii, 154 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents
Why management matters -- So what is good management really? -- Getting inside the minds of your employees: what makes them tick? -- Seeing the world through the eyes of your employees -- Doing what we know we should: managing as an unnatural act -- Experimentation: functioning in a broken system -- The future of management?

Abstract
"Whereas most books on managing people approach the subject from the perspective of a manager of an idealised organisation, Becoming a Better Boss takes a real-world approach, looking at the topic from the perspective of an employee in a real-world organisation{u2014}dysfunctions, warts, and all. Focusing on the choices individual employees make every day in getting work done, this book reinvents the practice of management one employee at a time"--Amazon.com.

Subject Term
Personnel management.


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IIEMSAGeneral Books33168025750809658.3 B619B 20131