Managing smart 325 high-performance tips every manager must know

Examines the challenges facing today's management and provides fast, practical answers for solving common workplace situations. It presents step-by-step instructions for mastering more than 300 key real-world management tasks.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milgram, Lynne
Other Authors: Spector, Alan, Treger, Matt
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houston, Tex. Cashman Dudley 1999
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Table of Contents:
  • Concepts
  • Are You Managerial Material?
  • The Essence of Good Management
  • Getting a Handle on Upper Management
  • Theories
  • The Peter Principle
  • Managing According to Theory X
  • Managing According to Theory Y
  • The Hawthorne Experiments
  • Herzberg's Job Maintenance and Motivational Factors
  • Applying the 80/20 Rule
  • Doing Research
  • Useful Resources--The American Management Association
  • Useful Resources--Harvard Business Review
  • Belonging to the Chamber of Commerce
  • SIC Classifications
  • Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
  • Management Tools
  • Management by Objectives (MBO)--Setting SMART Goals
  • Instituting Management by Objectives (MBO)
  • The Leadership Grid
  • Changing the Flow of Work
  • Strategic Use of Personality Typing
  • Plan, Do, Check, Act: The Deming or Shewhart Cycle
  • Approaching a Problem
  • The Gantt Chart
  • Organizational Charts
  • Writing a Business Plan
  • Approaching the Strategic Analysis of a Business
  • Charting a Life Cycle
  • Forecasting Demand
  • Establishing the Objectives of Forecasting
  • Understanding Statistical Terms
  • Calculating Productivity
  • Checking Your Company's Performance Against Others'
  • Encouraging Intrapreneurship
  • Making Flextime Work
  • Creating a Home Office
  • Key Business Concepts
  • Managing for the Short and Long Run
  • Business Ethics
  • Making Ethical Decisions in Business
  • Top Down versus Bottom Up
  • Supply and Demand
  • Taking Advantage of Economies of Scale
  • Law of Diminishing Returns.