The Truth About Managing People: Proven Insights to Get the Best from Your Team - Brossura

Robbins, Stephen P., Ph.D.

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ISBN 10: 0134048431 ISBN 13: 9780134048437

Casa editrice: Ft Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Most management guides just don't work. Either they're too complex and academic, or they rely primarily on opinion and anecdote, not tested evidence. The Truth About Managing People, Fourth Editionisradically different – and that's why it's so remarkably useful. Top management author Stephen P. Robbins has distilled thousands of research studies, meta-analyses, and Big Data investigations into a set of 63 proven, tested solutions for today's toughest management problems. Each solution is presented quickly and concisely, in just 2-3 pages, so you can absorb them fast, and use them immediately. You'll find proven, up-to-date truths for hiring the right people and building winning teams; designing high-productivity jobs and rewarding the right behaviors; managing diversity, change, conflict, turnover, and staff cuts; overcoming self-serving bias, groupthink, and digital distractions, and much more. Updated throughout, this edition contains nine all-new chapters, covering the crucial importance of people skills, building emotional intelligence, loyalty expectations, employee engagement and mentoring, managing face-to-face vs. virtual teams, overcoming the downsides of teams, handling unacceptable workplace behavior, promoting creativity and innovation, and more. This is simply today's best and most enduring thinking on being a great manager: a set of truths you can and will use, every single day.

Discover today's quick, practical, proven guide to overcoming "killer" management problems and succeeding brilliantly as a leader! Unlike other management books, The Truth About Managing People, Fourth Edition is 100% practical and completely based on tested evidence, not mere anecdote or opinion. Top management author Stephen P. Robbins has distilled thousands of research studies, meta-analyses, and Big Data investigations into a set of 63 proven, tested solutions for today's make-or-break management challenges. Each solution is presented quickly and concisely, in just 2-3 pages, so you can absorb them fast, and use them immediately. Robbins' fully updated truths cover every key aspect of management, including hiring the right people and building winning teams; designing high-productivity jobs and rewarding the right behaviors; managing diversity, change, conflict, turnover, and staff cuts; overcoming self-serving bias, groupthink, and digital distractions, and much more. This edition adds nine all-new chapters, covering the crucial importance of people skills, building emotional intelligence, loyalty expectations, employee engagement and mentoring, managing face-to-face vs. virtual teams, overcoming the downsides of teams, handling unacceptable workplace behavior, promoting creativity and innovation, and more. Whatever your management role, Robbins has compiled indispensable practical truths you can and will apply, every single day.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Stephen P. Robbins, Ph.D., professor emeritus of management at San Diego State University, is the world’s best-selling author of textbooks in management and organizational behavior. His books have sold more than six million copies and been translated into 20 languages. A member of USA Masters’ Track & Field Hall of Fame, he holds the current world record at 100 meters for men 65 and over.

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PRACTICAL INSIGHTS INTO MANAGING PEOPLE AT WORK
THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
SELECTING THE BEST FROM THOUSANDS OF STUDIES TO CREATE 62 SHORT, JARGON-FREE CHAPTERS 

 

You can become a world-class manager and lead your team to outstanding performance

• The truth about motivating and evaluating subordinates
• The truth about supercharging creativity and innovation
• The truth about employee engagement, loyalty, and corporate culture

PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITIONS

 

Stephen Robbins translates what researchers currently know about managing people into clear and useful prescriptions . It should be the benchmark for anyone seeking advice on how to manage people.
Thomas C. Cummings, Professor and Chair, Department of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, USC

What a service! Stephen Robbins lays out the rock-solid foundation for managing people: those central truths that are consistently supported by research. Ignore them at your peril!
Kenneth W. Thomas, Professor Emeritus of Management, Naval Postgraduate School

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Ft Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0134048431
• ISBN 13: 9780134048437
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 271
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile