If youre having trouble motivating your employees, need to resolve a conflict, or want to learn how to better monitor your employees performance, this straight-forward guide will take you step by step through every aspect of managing. Packed with expert advice on team-building, communication skills, identifying talented employees, and letting go of staff, Managing for Dummies takes the stress out of what can be an intimidating and high-pressured job. The book will be adapted from the current US edition of Managing for Dummies. Existing content will be revised to reflect essential UK information including: UK-specific case studies, including references to recognisable UK businesses UK business practice, including ethics, employee and employers rights and responsibilities, hiring and firing – with reference to UK law UK websites UK financial information
Book Details:
- Author: Richard Pettinger
- ISBN: 9781119992486
- Year Published: 2010
- Pages: 400
- BISAC: BUS041000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Management
About the Book and Topic:
If youre having trouble motivating your employees, need to resolve a conflict, or want to learn how to better monitor your employees performance, this straight-forward guide will take you step by step through every aspect of managing. Packed with expert advice on team-building, communication skills, identifying talented employees, and letting go of staff, Managing for Dummies takes the stress out of what can be an intimidating and high-pressured job. The book will be adapted from the current US edition of Managing for Dummies. Existing content will be revised to reflect essential UK information including: UK-specific case studies, including references to recognisable UK businesses UK business practice, including ethics, employee and employers rights and responsibilities, hiring and firing – with reference to UK law UK websites UK financial information
Being a good manager is a vital skill in todays office culture, but it can be intimidating and challenging. A lot falls on a managers plate hiring, firing, training and supervising employees; determining a budget; goal-setting and measuring performance; answering to ones own supervisors; delegating responsibility and much more. With the small to medium size business sector booming in the UK, reaching 4.3 million individual business enterprises at the start of 2004, many new, and experienced, managers may be struggling to keep up with the many demands of the job. It can be difficult to achieve and maintain a work/life balance, which is why trusted advice on easing the work part of the equation is so indispensable.
The market for books on management is large and stable the top-ten best-selling management books have generated over £2.3million in the UK since 2002, and almost £1.2million in the last year alone. There were 70,135 management studies in the 2004/05 academic year A prominent author is on board, combining academic credibility and a proven track record as an author of management books The UK business market responds well to the Dummies brand as highlighted by the success of Starting a Business For Dummies, with 19,270 copies leaving the warehouse since July 2004. Managing For Dummies will be a key title to add to the list. The US version of Managing for Dummies has done extremely well, with over 10,000 copies leaving the warehouse since February 2003 (correct at 04/06). A local edition with UK-specific case studies, policies and employee-employer laws is likely to achieve even higher sales.
About the Author
Richard Pettinger is a lecturer in Business Management at University College London where he teaches a wide range of courses, including foundation, undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and international courses. Richard is the author of over thirty business and management books and textbooks and he is series editor for the Macmillan Palgrave Business and Management Masters series. Bob Nelson, PhD is President of Nelson Motivation Inc., and author of 1001 Ways to Reward Employees. Peter Economy is Associate Editor of Leader to Leader magazine. Nelson and Economy are also the authors of Consulting For Dummies.