Becoming a Master Manager: A Competing Values Approach

by Robert E. Quinn, Sue R. Faerman, Michael P. Thompson

Practical strategies for building strong managerial skills!

With the new Fourth Edition of Becoming a Master Manager: A Competency Framework, you can build practical skills in every area of managerial competency--skills you'll need to thrive in the diverse situations and challenges of the new millennium! The text guides you through eight interactive learning modules covering different leadership roles, including director, producer, mentor, facilitator, coordinator, monitor, innovator, and broker.

Features designed to help you become a master manager:
* The text's Competing Values Framework helps you develop new ways of thinking about the competing tensions and demands that are placed on managers.
* The authors' unique skills-based approach prepares you for today's management challenges.
* A highly effective five-step learning model (assessment, learning, analysis, practice, and application) helps you develop core leadership competencies.
* Real-world managerial examples illustrate key concepts and offer insight into the roles that managers play in real companies.
* Coverage of timely topics such as emotional intelligence, mentoring/coaching, and life balance will help you keep pace with today's rapidly changing workplace.

Genres: Leadership, Nonfiction, Management, Reference, Business, School

Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Jenifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was tremendously useful to me as I worked with my supervisor to develop a curricular framework for our organization's professional development program. Quinn, Faerman, Thompson and McGrath open with a survey of the models of management that have prevailed in U.S. organizations since the turn of the 20th century. They propose and outline eight roles in which the modern manager must function well, namely mentor, facilitator, monitor, coordinator, director, producer, broker, and innovator. Associated with each role, Quinn et al. identify three essential competencies and describe how each competency evidences itself. Following a discussion of each competency, the authors provide a variety of tools (e.g., assessments, applications) to assist the reader in his/her personal and professional growth. The authors provide extensive references.

[Chris Wilson-minich · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very applicable instruction on developing management skills that is transferable to workplace, community service or personal environment.

[Carey Radican · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started out interesting, but never peaked my interest.