Download or read book Principles of Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know written by Callie Daum and published by Vibrant Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first experience as a manager is often the most challenging. Often times, a productive employee does not have the right knowledge and experience to immediately transition into management. A way to quickly get up to speed on the basics of management is needed. Principles of Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know provides the core information to speed your transformation from an employee into a successful manager. That knowledge includes details in areas such as: · Management in an organization and understanding its functions and elements · Business responsibilities of a manager · Tools that can help you navigate your role as a manager · Managing employees and team relationships · Managing customer relationships Principles of Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know is part of the Self-Learning Management Series that helps working professionals moving into management roles. The series addresses every aspect of business from HR to finance, marketing, and operations. Each book includes fundamentals, important concepts, and well-known principles, as well as practical applications of the subject matter.
Download or read book Human Resource Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know written by Jaquina Gilbert and published by Vibrant Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of every company is its people, and Human Resources Management (HRM) is the key to handling all the complexities of human relations, compensation, conflict resolution, and much more. Strategies and tactics are needed to effectively manage the human resource potential that drives all companies to profitability and success. Human Resource Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know guides readers through the challenges and provides tools to address those challenges. It provides an understanding of areas including: · The concept of HRM · Performance management strategies · Legal and regulatory compliance · Organizational development · Conflict management · Payroll and compensation · Information technology in HRM · Health and safety · Personnel development Human Resource Management Essentials is part of the Self-Learning Management Series focused on working professionals. The series addresses every aspect of business from HR to finance, marketing, and operations. Each book includes fundamentals, important concepts, and well-known principles, as well as practical applications of the subject matter.
Download or read book Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know written by Callie Daum and published by Vibrant Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know prepares new managers and leaders with the building blocks of business strategy. You will learn how to define strategy, different levels of strategy for the business versus departments, and how to plan tactics to implement those strategies. You are given tools to assist you with some of the more challenging aspects of strategy such as environmental scanning, SWOT analysis, and strategy analysis. After you have learned how to execute some of these strategies, you will learn what organization structures fit best with specific strategies. These timeless elements of strategy will provide you the fundamentals with a 21st century point of view. Business Strategy Essentials is part of the Management Essentials series that helps working professionals moving into management roles. The series addresses every aspect of business from HR to finance, marketing, and operations. Each book includes fundamentals, important concepts, and well-known principles, as well as practical applications of the subject matter.
Download or read book Decision Making Essentials You Always Wanted to Know written by Vibrant Publishers and published by Vibrant Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes • Introduction to Decision Making • Scenario Planning and Prediction Markets • Group Mechanics • Heuristics and Programmed Decisions • Probability and Base Rate Neglect Decision Making Essentials You Always Wanted to Know prepares new managers and leaders to make those tough decisions they face by providing them with a tool box of decision analysis techniques to help them understand and analyze the decisions they make. The chapters describe key techniques of decision analysis, including: • Cognitive biases and Prospect Theory • Heuristics • Probability and Expected Value • Bayes Theorem • Multi-attribute decision making, including the SMART, Elimination by Aspects, and Even Swaps methods • Game Theory • Prediction Markets • Brainstorming and Groupthink • Black Swan Events. Each chapter provides clear examples of the decision making tools and includes practice examples to help train the reader in using these critical tools. About the Series Decision Making Essentials You Always Wanted to Know is part of the Self-Learning Management Series that helps working professionals moving into management roles. This Self Learning Management Series intends to give a jump start to working professionals, whose job roles demand to have the knowledge imparted in a B-school but haven’t got a chance to visit one. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret. About the Author Mark Koscinski is an assistant professor of accounting practice at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, where he teaches a graduate level Decision Analysis class and several advanced accounting classes. He is a certified public accountant, and holds a BA with high honors and MBA from Rutgers University and a doctorate from Drew University. Prior to joining the faculty at Moravian College, Mark was a chief financial officer of various public and private organizations in the defense contracting, toy, investment banking, and banking industries. He has over forty years of experience in the business world, and has supervised every operation of an organization including sales and marketing. Mark is passionate about sharing his knowledge with his students. His background and experience gives him a unique position to write on management topics that are easy to understand for non-MBA graduates. About Vibrant Publishers Vibrant Publishers is focused on presenting the best texts for learning about technology and business as well as books for test preparation. Categories include programming, operating systems and other texts focused on IT. In addition, a series of books helps professionals in their own disciplines learn the business skills needed in their professional growth. Vibrant Publishers has a standardized test preparation series covering the GMAT, GRE and SAT, providing ample study and practice material in a simple and well organized format, helping students get closer to their dream universities.
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Download or read book Time Management from the Inside Out written by Julie Morgenstern and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time management is a skill anyone can learn. Take control of your schedule, connect the activities of your daily life to your deepest big-picture goals, and live the life of your dreams. Julie Morgenstern shows you how.
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