
Understanding and Changing Your Management Style
Assessments and Tools for Self-Development
Robert C. Benfari(Author)
Jossey-Bass (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 27. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-118-39946-0 (ISBN)
Description
An update of the classic book that reveals the 6 keys to successful management In this new edition of his best-selling book, Robert Benfari explains that the best mangers are not born that way but share a mix of characteristics that can be analyzed, understood, and most importantly changed. He identifies the six characteristics of successful managers (Psychological Type; Needs/Motivation; Use of Power; Conflict Style; Our Basic Values; and Our Reaction to Stress) and uses these building blocks to show how anyone can use personality-specific strategies for resolving conflicts, solving problems, managing stress, handling difficult situations at work, and positively influencing others.
* Includes a proven pathway for becoming an effective manager
* Contains new information on management style and leadership, human nature and neuroscience, and the dark side of management
* Includes a self-assessment for each of the six building blocks to successful management
This research-based book offers the tools leaders need to improve their management style and succeed in the workplace.
More details
Series
Edition
2. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 204 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
657 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-39946-0 (9781118399460)
Schweitzer Classification
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Robert C. Benfari
Understanding and Changing Your Management Style
Assessments and Tools for Self-Development
E-Book
06/2013
1st Edition
Jossey-Bass
€25.99
Available for download

Robert C. Benfari
Understanding and Changing Your Management Style
Assessments and Tools for Self-Development
E-Book
06/2013
2nd Edition
Jossey-Bass
€25.99
Available for download
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Robert C. Benfari
Understanding and Changing Your Management Style
Book
09/1999
1st Edition
Jossey-Bass
€25.90
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Person
Robert C. Benfari, AB, MBA, PhD, MSPH, is a multidiscipline behavioral scientist who has spent most of his career in teaching, research, and practice as a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Division of Continuing Education. Benfari also consults to industry and government and conducts workshops on developing one's management style.
Content
Preface v
About the Author vii
Introduction: What Leaders and Managers Need to Know About Human Nature 1
1 Assumptions, Perceptions, and Feelings: How They Influence Performance 17
Pre-Chapter 2 Activity: What Is My Psychological Type? 51
2 Psychological Type: A Cognitive Approach 63
Pre-Chapter 3 Activity: What Are My Needs? 115
3 Needs: Our Pathways to Competence 125
Pre-Chapter 4 Activity: What Are My Power Bases? 145
4 The Bases of Power: The Uses and Abuses of Influence 153
Pre-Chapter 5 Activity: What Is My Conflict Style? 181
5 Conflict: Getting to Resolution 193
6 Values: Our Compass in Life 223
Pre-Chapter 7 Activity: What Is My Stress Quotient? 243
7 Stress: Responding to Pressure 255
8 Management Scenarios 289
9 Integration of the Building Blocks 317
Bibliography 331
Index 337