Managing to Manage: The Essential Guide to People Management
- 3h 4m
- Derek Torrington
- Kogan Page
- 2013
This book is not for HR professionals, but for scientists and engineers, for lawyers and accountants, for nurses and police officers, for technical advisers and school teachers, for social workers, for librarians and actuaries, perhaps even for authors and lecturers -- those who may not see managing people as their main job. Managing to Manage aims to give them the essentials to cope with the core demands of people management when their expertise is in a completely different area of business.
Torrington splits his book into two parts: what it takes to be a great manager and how to become that manager. The first part deals with the main aspects of managing people in an organizational context. The second part has a series of much shorter "How to" guides, to help do specific things that are essential features of work in the first part of the book. He explains the crucial matters that managers need to understand, such as how their particular organization works, how they can use it to produce positive results, how people learn and getting the right people in the right place. Managing to Manage explains the skills needed to make the right decisions for both the people involved and the business itself.
About the Author
Derek Torrington has been a personnel manager in an engineering company and later Dean of Management Studies in a major university as well as Professor of Human Resource Management and currently Emeritus Professor of Management. He is the author of 51 HR and management titles, including the bestselling Human Resource Management, now in its 8th edition.
In this Book
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Being a Manager: The Role, What you Do and How you Do it
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Being Part of a Business: you are Not Alone
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How Businesses Work: Strategy, Policy, Procedures and Targets
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Organization Structure: The Whole Thing, your Bit of it and you
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Organization: The Culture you Work in
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Communication: Understanding and Being Understood
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Selecting Team Members
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Discipline and Grievance: Sorting Things out When they Go Wrong
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Training: How People Learn and How to Teach them
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Performance: Getting the Right Results From the People You Work With
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How to Analyse your Management Job
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How to Develop your Network
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How to Organize your Department
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How to Cope With Committees
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How to Make a Presentation
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How to Write a Report
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How to Conduct a Disciplinary Interview
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How to Conduct a Selection Interview
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How to Do Performance Appraisal
