With a practical hands on approach, this book provides a functional perspective to supervisory management with an emphasis on empowering and developing employees to be more productive. It is organized around the basic management functions: planning, organizing, leading, human resource management, and control.
I had to purchase this book (which mind you, was a freaking nightmare to find) as part of a management course at NYU. There is some great stuff in here, and it really did teach me some fundamentals of management theory. Which, although sounds totally boring, was really useful at my job.