The Effective Manager
The Effective Manager
Skills and Strategies
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Bind: Paperback
Year: 2017
Pages: 240
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Inch
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
The new-age manager has come to occupy the centrestage with the whole business revolving around him. He needs to be a professional who can lead, and foster creativity and innovation with a clear focus on stakeholder value maximization.
The Effective Manager: Skills and Strategies deals with the roles of a manager at three levels: at the individual level, working level and at the leader's level. Various skills required at each level have been presented in a lucid, simple and down-to-earth style with easy-to-follow suggestions listed out. The skills covered range from the traditional to the contemporary, finally leading to the new age. With no complex theoretical concepts, it certainly is not yet another book on executive skills but a different repository altogther with new insights
Target Audience:
Professionals and Management Students.
Contents:
Foreword • Preface • Acknowledgements
Section 1: Manager's Personality
Effectiveness Personified • Effectiveness through Indian Scriptures • The Ethical Manager • The Criticality of Creativity • The Winning Streak • Basic Business Etiquette • Introspection and Manager • Diverse Skills of a Manager • Manager as a Consultant • Manager with a Thinking Cap
Section 2: Manager's Working Relations
Presentation as a Basic Skill • The Great Art of Listening • Counselling to Help • Managerial Decision-Making • Change with Conviction • Manager and Strategy • The Give and Take of Negotiations • Boss, You are Right ... Then • Manager's Time and Stress: The Inseparables • Say 'No' When You Have To
Section 3: Leadership Skills of a Manager
Manager and Leader: A Perfect Combination • Working in a Team for Results • Planning and Organizing Skills • Bonhomie at Workplace • The Rough Weather Manager • Networking and the Manager • Manager and CSR • The Entrepreneurial Manager • The Global Manager • Sense of Humour for a Managerial Leader
Bibliography
About the Author:
Dr V.R.K. Prasad has Master's degrees in business administration and environmental sciences. Trained as an electronics engineer, he also holds postgraduate qualifications in personnel management and industrial relations, apart from an M.Phil. in labour studies. He received doctoral honours in business management from Osmania University. He served in the telecom branch of the Indian Army for 27 years, followed by a stint in the industry and a long period of academic research. His publications include more than sixty papers and articles, five edited books and an authored book The Business of HR in Business Schools.Dr (Col) Prasad has been the Dean of IBS, Hyderabad, founder Director of ISHRD an exclusive HR school, and is presently the Pro Vice Chancellor of a private university.
