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Accroître sa résilience: Comment réussir en période de changement

Accroître sa résilience: Comment réussir en période de changement

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Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership

Publication Date: 12-MAR-2012

Insert Date: 28-DEC-2012

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La résistance au changement fait partie de la nature humaine. Particulièrement lorsque ce changement s'accompagne d'une épreuve, d'une déception ou d'un rejet. Cependant, en améliorant leur résilience, les gestionnaires peuvent non seulement survivre au changement, mais aussi apprendre, grandir, et se développer. Effectivement, il est essentiel pour un gestionnaire de développer de la résilience. La résilience aide les gestionnaires à réduire la pression et l'incertitude inhérentes au rôle actuel de direction au sein d'un organisme. Ce guide défi nit la résilience et explique pourquoi...

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Managing people for the first time

Managing people for the first time

By:  Infinite Ideas

Publisher: Infinite Ideas

Publication Date: 14-FEB-2012

Insert Date: 25-DEC-2012

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Have you just been promoted and are now responsible for staff for the very first time? Does the thought of managing your colleagues and friends worry you? How will you deal with conflict? How will you give praise and criticism? Managing people for the first time is written for all new managers who suddenly have the responsibility for staff management thrust upon them. It offers no-nonsense techniques to enable you to make an immediate positive impact on your staff and to hit the ground running in your new managerial career. Quickly learn how to: understand the manager's role; prepare for...

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Business Communication for Managers

Business Communication for Managers

By: Payal Mehra

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Publication Date: 03-FEB-2012

Insert Date: 23-DEC-2012

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Business Communication for Managers is a student-friendly, practical and example-driven book that gives students a thorough knowledge of business communication, covering all the major communication topics included in MBA syllabi across the country. The book teaches students how to communicate effectively and efficiently with the help of a chapters on communication theories, numerous exhibits, anecdotes, extensive role plays, hundreds of end-of-chapter questions, etc. The lucid language and the easy-to-follow structure of the book make this an invaluable resource for the MBA student. ...

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How to Design an Effective System for Developing Managers and Executives

How to Design an Effective System for Developing Managers and Executives

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Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership

Publication Date: 01-OCT-1996

Insert Date: 20-DEC-2012

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Managers and executives do not typically become more effective as the result of a single training program or other intervention. Rather, development requires a range of ongoing and integrated activities. Drawn from CCL's "Tools for Developing Successful Executives" program, the six-step model described in this report provides the basics for designing a system that works. The steps, each covered in its own section, range from "Find and use organizational support for creating a process" to "Define and communicate the critical role of the manager." The sections contain commonsense information...

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Preventing Derailment: What to Do Before It's Too Late

Preventing Derailment: What to Do Before It's Too Late

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Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership

Publication Date: 01-DEC-1989

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This report examines how derailment can be prevented by looking at it from an individual and organizational perspective. ...

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Managerial Communication

Managerial Communication

By: J. Johnson

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 04-DEC-2012

Insert Date: 09-DEC-2012

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The metaphor of dosage offers us a rich organizing principle for managers. It focuses our efforts on fundamental, pragmatic communication issues such as amount, frequency, delivery system, sequencing, interaction with other agents, and contraindications. It suggests compelling new answers to fundamental problems that all managers must face, with an appreciation of basic issues beyond our conscious awareness: How much communication should we engage in to pursue our projects? Inside this book, the author focuses on the dosage metaphor as a way of confronting this question—what level of...

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Leading and Managing the Lean Management Process

Leading and Managing the Lean Management Process

By: Gene Fliedner

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 10-DEC-2011

Insert Date: 09-DEC-2012

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This book develops a new model for lean management. The intent is to demonstrate a model framework consisting of four critical components: leadership, culture, team and tools. The development of the model and these four components will be built from empirical theories reported in the research literature and in successful applications. This framework will offer a path to develop lean leaders with practical, actionable guidelines. The model framework is suited to broad applications offering practical guidelines for manufacturing and service environments alike. The lean model will develop...

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The Employer Bill of Rights: A Manager's Guide to Workplace Law

The Employer Bill of Rights: A Manager's Guide to Workplace Law

By: Jonathan T. Hyman

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 21-NOV-2012

Insert Date: 08-DEC-2012

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Any employee can sue any employer at any time, and for just about any reason. There is no such thing as a bulletproof personnel decision. It's no wonder businesses fear lawsuits from employees—they are costly in terms of time, money, and distraction. But fear not. The Employer Bill of Rights: A Manager's Guide to Workplace Law is a practical handbook designed to help managers and business owners navigate the ever-changing maze of labor and employment laws, rules, and regulations. Following its practical guidelines will help you deter most lawsuits and place you in the best possible...

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Unlocking the Ivory Tower: How Management Research Can Transform Your Business

Unlocking the Ivory Tower: How Management Research Can Transform Your Business

By: Eric R. Ball; Joseph A. LiPuma

Publisher: Kauffman Fellows Press

Publication Date: 16-OCT-2012

Insert Date: 08-DEC-2012

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Management is a discipline that can be learned from study. A large and diverse set of academic management research, often accessible only to academics, has practical, actionable implications to help in managing an organization today. Unlocking the Ivory Tower addresses the major components of academic business literature: strategy, leadership, entrepreneurship, organizational theory, international business, innovation, and finance.  Doctors Ball and LiPuma act as field guides and interpreters, bridging the divide between scholarship and practice, and distilling each research...

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The Employer's Handbook 2012-13, 9th Edition

The Employer's Handbook 2012-13, 9th Edition

By: Barry Cushway

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-JUN-2012

Insert Date: 04-DEC-2012

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The Employer's Handbook has established itself as a source of reliable, unambiguous guidance for for all small- to medium-sized employers, clearly identifying the legal essentials and best-practice guidelines for effective people management. The book is a comprehensive source of hands-on advice on the increasingly complex legal framework now governing UK employment law, including guidelines on age discrimination legislation and the latest employment tribunal procedures. Coverage includes: recruitment, contracts, benefits, performance management, maternity and paternity rights,...

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The Handbook of European Intellectual Property Management, 3rd Edition

The Handbook of European Intellectual Property Management, 3rd Edition

By: Adam Jolly; Jeremy Philpott

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-MAY-2012

Insert Date: 04-DEC-2012

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When managed well, intellectual property (IP) puts enterprises in a position to lock in an advantage and command a premium. But in Europe, the process of commercializing IP remains fraugt with difficulties, with significant differences existing in the application and interpretation of these rights in each national jurisdiction. Drawing on a wide range of expertise - including editorial support and input from the European Patent Office - The Handbook of European Intellectual Property Management is a practical and easy-to-follow guide that reveals exactly how IP...

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How to Manage People

How to Manage People

By: Michael Armstrong

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-NOV-2010

Insert Date: 04-DEC-2012

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How to Manage People is a practical book from bestselling author Michael Armstrong. It provides advice to managers and team leaders on how to manage people in their teams - getting the best results from them and dealing with any people problems that may arise. Many managers have to do their job without HR advice and this book is particularly designed to meet their needs. It covers every aspect that involves getting things done through people, including: leadership, motivating people, team building, delegating, interviewing, managing performance, developing and rewarding people, managing...

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Tales for Change

Tales for Change

By: Margaret Parkin

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-OCT-2010

Insert Date: 04-DEC-2012

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storytelling is not just the province of children, stories can be used to re-frame and re-size problems and provide useful metaphors for the boardroom, office and individual. Showing you how and when to use stories to maximum effect, Tales for Change will immediately help managers, trainers, educators and coaches to reinforce key messages or stimulate fresh thinking. The book includes 50 tried and tested tales that can be used in a change management context. These tales can be used to communicate ideas, aid memorable learning, encourage brainstorming sessions, develop training and...

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Internalizing Strengths: An Overlooked Way of Overcoming Weaknesses in Managers

Internalizing Strengths: An Overlooked Way of Overcoming Weaknesses in Managers

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Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership

Publication Date: 01-JUN-1999

Insert Date: 01-DEC-2012

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Because executives tend to be problem solvers, they typically focus on weaknesses when they want to improve their performance. This approach can be helpful but there is another that can be just as effective: recognizing strengths. A senior manager whom the author interviewed said this about a top person: "If he saw his own strengths and internalized them, a lot of his weaknesses would go away." In this report, the author explains why it is critical to recognize strengths in order to improve performance and why it is often difficult to get that notion across to executives. For practicing...

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Achieving Excellence in Management

Achieving Excellence in Management

By: Andrew Kilner

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 05-FEB-2010

Insert Date: 28-NOV-2012

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This book adopts a fresh approach identifying reasons for bad management which are backed up by case studies from real life business situations. The sound management principles so developed can subsequently be applied to a broad range of settings for personal careers in traditional firms or in entrepreneurial or global ventures. Also, to establish role models and mentor topics for individuals and companies, and for handling many problems in the current uncertain international business environment....

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Successful Cross-Cultural Management

Successful Cross-Cultural Management

By: Parissa Haghirian

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 06-JAN-2012

Insert Date: 28-NOV-2012

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This book outlines the particulars of cross-cultural management and is a guidebook for international managers. The book not only discusses the general aspects of how cultures can differ, it also shows which effects these differences can haveon business processes and business success....

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Drivers of Successful Controllership

Drivers of Successful Controllership

By: Jürgen Weber; Pascal Nevries

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 20-JAN-2011

Insert Date: 28-NOV-2012

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This book is about drivers of successful controllership. Successful controllership services provide an imperatively required support to managers, especially in times of change...

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A Stakeholder Approach to Issues Management

A Stakeholder Approach to Issues Management

By: Robert Robert Boutilier

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 09-DEC-2011

Insert Date: 28-NOV-2012

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The book will appeal to corporate managers who must manage issues and controversies involving outside groups and organizations The book shows practitioners how to ground their strategic advice on the kind of empirical research that reveals the socio-political dynamics of the issue. It is the first book to approach issues management from a blended application of advances in institutional theory, social movement theory, stakeholder theory and social network analysis....

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Conversations About Job Performance

Conversations About Job Performance

By: Michael E. Gordon; Vernon Vernon Miller

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 11-JAN-2012

Insert Date: 28-NOV-2012

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Organizational appraisals systems are often ineffective and result in unnecessary spending on the part of a company and unnecessary anxiety on the part of employees. Written for practitioners and advanced students, this book presents an alternative approach to the performance appraisal process that focuses on communication rather than evaluation. In this communication-centered approach to performance, the appraisal process is designed to facilitate meaningful and open interaction between employees and their supervisors....

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Cross-Cultural Management

Cross-Cultural Management

By: Veronica Velo

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 08-DEC-2011

Insert Date: 23-NOV-2012

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If you are employed or studying cross-cultural management—what is culture and to what extent is it important in international business—then you will need to have this book, as it answers these questions through an exploration of the major theories that have been developed in the fields of business anthropology and international management. Dr. Velo also discusses the application of previously analyzed cultural frameworks as a basis for the elaboration of new ideas relating to current issues in organizational behavior. International organizations often deal with relationships between the...