Management Skills Development (5th Edition)

Author: David A. Whetten
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Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The book "Management Skills Development" (5th Edition) by David A. Whetten and Professor Kim S. Cameron bridges the gap between learning management skills and applying them. It focuses on the behavioral skills that are available in management and provides numerous practical exercises, cases, and new technologies. Based on the authors' extensive and new research on effective managers across various types of businesses, the book comprehensively explores management skills from three aspects: individual, interpersonal, and group skills. Using a scientific empirical approach, the book investigates over 400 experienced and highly effective managers. Through carefully designed questionnaires and surveys, it extracts key skills for management success and identifies ten major management skills through large-sample empirical analysis. These skills are: verbal communication (including listening), time and stress management, individual decision management, identifying, defining, and solving problems, motivating and influencing others, empowerment, goal setting and clarifying vision, self-awareness, team building, and conflict management. In each chapter, the authors provide a five-step learning model to help readers assess, learn, analyze, practice, and apply management/leadership skills. This book is suitable for practicing managers and can also serve as a textbook for management professionals, scholars, and students.