Developing Management Skills: What Great Managers Know and Do Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is essential for any business library. As a consultant I often use this book as a reference before starting a new engagement. The material is current and the toolkits provide useful tips for making a project run smoothly both within my team and with while interfacing with the client. The layout of the book allows for easy navigation a quick refreshers.

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Developing Management Skills by Baldwin/Bommer/Rubin distinguishes itself by exclusively focusing on teaching relevant skills, its learner-centered writing and its evidence-based foundation. This text's problem-based approach draws students in with several fundamental and specific questions or challenges in the Manage What? feature opening every chapter. The learner-centered writing style and the focus on the actual skills that matter to career success as well as the chapter ending Tool Kits make this text a keeper.

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Interpersonal Skills in Organizations Review

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(More customer reviews)This book covers the important topics in organizational behavior, and the writing style is concise and readable. What distinguishes this text from many other OB offerings is the excellent exercises at the end of each chapter. I've used this book in leadership training sessions with working managers, and the class participants have been very happy with it, as have I.

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Interpersonal Skills in Organizations by de Janasz, Dowd, and Schneider takes a fresh, thoughtful look at the key skills necessary for personal and managerial success in organizations today. Exploding with exercises, cases, and group activities, the book employs an experiential approach suitable for all student audiences. The book is organized into 4 distinct sections (Understanding Yourself, Understanding Others, Understanding Teams, and Leading) that can be used collectively or modularly depending on the instructors' preferences and students' needs. The emphasis in this edition focuses on making the text more current along with making the text pedagogically effective for students and instructors.

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Leadership (Mcgraw-Hill International Editions) Review

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(More customer reviews)Can a textbook be delightfully written? This one is. Authors Richard L. Hughes, Robert C. Ginnett, and Gordon J. Curphy explore every aspect of leadership and smoothly weave research conclusions into the narrative. Examples abound, from Colin Powell to Walt Disney. The authors are all psychologists who specialize in leadership issues. They have written conversationally and intelligently, using plenty of sidebar material (even famous cartoons) to bring their reporting to life. We [...] recommend this classic (now in its third edition) to everyone interested.


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"Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience, 4e", was written for the general student to serve as a stand-alone introduction to the subject of leadership. The text consists of 13 chapters and a final section on Basic and Advanced Leadership Skills. Authors Hughes, Ginnett, and Curphy have drawn upon three different types of literature: empirical studies; interesting anecdotes, stories and findings; and leadership skills to create a text that is personally relevant, interesting and scholarly. The authors' unique quest for a careful balancing act of leadership materials will help students apply theory and research to their real-life experiences.

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Negotiation Review

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(More customer reviews)In my work as an attorney and mediator, and as a lecturer in negotiation and negotiation competition coach, I have read all of the "great" negotiation books written since "Getting to Yes". This 5th edition of "Negotiation" is head and shoulders above the rest of the crowd in a very crowded field.
The book is well-organized and well-researched, with and exellent bibliography and index. Of probably the greatest interest to most readers is Part 1, consisting of separate paragraphs treating in depth the nature of negotiation, the strategy and tactics of distributive bargaining, the strategy and tactics of integrative bargaining and negotiation strategy and planning. By looking at distributive and integrative bargaining as separate processes with their own goals and preparations, the authors have given us a useful diagnostic tool in appraching a negotiation situation.
I also appreciated the excellent treatment given to negotiation subprocesses and contexts and insights into rezolving the inevitable differences that arise in a negotiation.
Even though it is only 526 pages, this is a negotiation tome. I have read the entire book and re-read many portions. There is so much interesting and useful information that unless the book is read deliberately and without undue delay it will be easy to forget most of what is covered. For a refresher, the reader should consider "Essentials of Negotiation" by the same authors.

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Negotiation is a critical skill needed for effective management. Negotiation 5/e explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution. It is relevant to a broad spectrum of management students, not only human resource management or industrial relations candidates..

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Negotiation: Readings, Exercises, and Cases Review

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(More customer reviews)This falls between the average "how to" and academic journal type articles. Great for classroom use, or for enterprising individuals who want to teach themselves about negotiation. Nearly all the authorities in organizational behavior and negotiation are included here. Nice variety of approaches to the subject. Exercises cover the range and include material on natural environment and on international negotiation. International material needs more, but gives good beginning frameworks. Exercises need teacher's manual (forthcoming?).

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Negotiation is a critical skill needed for effective management. Negotiation: Readings, Exercises, and Cases 6e takes an experiential approach and explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation and the dynamics of interpersonal and inter-group conflict and its resolution. It is relevant to a broad spectrum of management students, not only human resource management or industrial relations candidates. The Readings portion of the book is ordered into seven sections:(1) Negotiation Fundamentals, (2) Negotiation Subprocesses, (3) Negotiation Contexts, (4) Individual Differences, (5) Negotiation across Cultures, (6) Resolving Differences, and (7) Summary.The next section of the book presents a collection of role-play exercises, cases, and self-assessment questionnaires that can be used to teach negotiation processes and subprocesses.

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