managing

Becoming a Successful Manager : How to Make a Smooth Transition from Managing Yourself to Managing Others
$15.95
This book is excellent for first time managers. It really help with the transition from worker to supervisor.

Managing: A Competency-Based Approach
$220.95
I first read "Management" by Hellriegel and Slocum when I was doing my MBA in 1989. Management was one of my favourite subjects then since I needed practical guidance on how to effectively plan, lead, motivate, organise and control my large department in my organisation with large numbers of subordinates under me. I then found the book to be very useful, easy to understand and logical and I used it to achieve excellent results in the subject.

Some few years after graduation, I was back at the university, being a part time lecturer in Management. I again used the book as one of the recommended textbooks. I have since stopped lecturing and still find that the authors have kept the book updated and relevant to the current thinking and practice of management. For students doing an undergraduate course in management, I strongly recommend the book as it is comprehensive, properly structured to introduce the subject and then step-by-step develop it to the end. As a facilitator, I also find the Annotated Instructor's Edition to be very handy as it covers all the topics that are required at undergraduate level and help the instructor prepare and conduct classes. The various "Insights" are very important in highlighting some aspects of the topics. The numerous case studies are also very critical in reinforcing the practical application of the important and interesting subject of management.

What To Do When You Become The Boss: How new managers become successful managers
$24.95
Bob Selden put together a nice bundle of information, in an organized, if uninspired format. Still, anyone who suddenly finds themselves in a management capacity needs to use this book as a checklist, to help navigate them through the confusing sea of red tape, bureaucracy, employee morale, wrongful terminations, sexual harassment, and the litany of other topics for the 21st century boss to handle.

If you've been the boss for a long enough time, you probably would do well to not bother with this; however, there are enough bad bosses out there who need it, but don't realize it. If one day, this book suddenly appears in your in-box, you'll know you've got some disgruntled employees working under you; lighten up, and read it.

It may be a bit dry and somewhat pedestrian, however, it's of value for that good percentage of bosses who haven't quite figured everything out yet. This will help.

Managing
$26.95
MANAGING offers a review of the basics of the managing process, and comes from an author who observed nearly thirty different managers working in very different fields and settings. From job pace and too much activity to overwhelming responsibility, Mintzberg observed many of the shared pitfalls of all these managers - and used their experiences to develop a new model centering on management as a practice. College-level business libraries will relish this.