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Understanding and changing your management style : assessments and tools for self-development /
An update of the classic book that reveals the 6 keys to successful managementIn this new edition of his best-selling book, Robert Benfari explains that the best mangers are not born that way but share a mix of characteristics that can be analyzed, understood, and most importantly changed. He identi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand,
[2013]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Benfari, Robert C. J-B Warren Bennis Series ;
bk. 176. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Additional Content Available Online; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; About the Author; Introduction: What Leaders and Managers Need to Know About Human Nature; A Model of Human Nature; How the Brain Works and Constraints on Productivity; The Role of Emotion; Cognitive Flaws; The Six Building Blocks of Management Style; Putting It All Together; Chapter One: Assumptions, Perceptions, and Feelings; The Basis of Our Assumptions, Perceptions, and Feelings; How We Know What We Know; Assumptions: What We Take for Granted; Perception: How We Interpret Experience.
- Feelings: How We React to our PerceptionsAssumptions, Perceptions, and Feelings at Work: A Case Study; Changing Your Mind Changes Everything; Using Coping Mechanisms; Countering Negative Thoughts and Beliefs; Shifting your Perceptions as a Manager; Cognitive Restructuring and the Elements of Management Style; Conclusion; PRE
- CHAPTER 2 ACTIVITY: What Is My Psychological Type?; Chapter Two: Psychological Type; The Background; The Model; Using the Sixteen MBTI Types in Management; Strengthening and Developing Psychological Type; A Case of Balancing Psychological Type.
- Psychological Type and Key Management ActivitiesPsychological Type and Values; PRE
- CHAPTER 3 ACTIVITY: What Are My Needs?; Chapter Three: Needs; The Need for Needs; The Big Three: Overall Management Needs; More than the Sum: Combinations of Overall Management Needs; Managing Up and Down: Boss-Subordinate Needs; When Needs Collide: Fusion and Crossed Signals; Needs and the Psychological Types; A Case of Restructuring Needs; Conclusion; PRE
- CHAPTER 4 ACTIVITY: What Are My Power Bases?; Chapter Four: The Bases of Power; The Manager's Power Bases; Effective Use of Power.
- The Hermes Case-Misperceptions and PowerConclusion; PRE
- CHAPTER 5 ACTIVITY: What Is My Conflict Style?; Chapter Five: Conflict; Sources of Conflict in Organizations; Styles of Managing Conflict; What it Takes to Handle the Tasks of Conflict Resolution; Crisis at Ultra University: A Case in Point; Chapter Six: Values; Where do Values Come From?; Managers' Primary Values: Are They Enough?; Examining Our Assumptions About Life; Clarifying What's Most Important; Organizational Values: The Ideal and the Real; Clarifying Values in the Organization; Comparisons of Values Among Managerial Samples.
- Another View of Values: A Global Existential ApproachPRE
- CHAPTER 7 ACTIVITY: What Is My Stress Quotient?; Summary of the Stress Assessments; Chapter Seven: Stress; Challenges and Threats: Rethinking Stress; Stress at Work; Relaxation Techniques; Organizational Pains in the Neck: Stress Carriers; The Psychological Types and Stress; Coping Patterns for Stress Reduction: A Case Study; Conclusion; Chapter Eight: Management Scenarios; PHIL, CARLO, and LOIS; Luxor Case-Needs and Power; PHIL, CARLO, and LOIS Revisited; Luxor Case Conclusion; Chapter Nine: Integration of the Building Blocks.