Instant Manager: Managing Resources
Published on 26. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-340-94737-1 (ISBN)
Description
Whether you are building your career as a manager by taking professional qualifications or you simply want to enhance your management skills this Instant Manager title, based on one of the six UK national occupational standards for managers, is exactly what you need! Including a fascinating interview with Dianne Thompson CBE, former head of Camelot, this is an inexpensive, concise but above all authoritative guide to getting results, particularly in the key areas of finance and sustainability. Based on ten key questions, each chapter ends with a summary and action checklist to crystallize what you have learnt. The portable format allows you to carry the book wherever you go and to fit learning and development into your busy work life.
Instant Manager: Managing Resources provides a readable and practical introduction to the subject, including:
How can I manage a budget and arrange finance?
How is technology best used and promoted?
How can I ensure Health & Safety requirements are met?
What impact on the environment does my work have and how to I minimize negative impact?
How can I make the right decisions?
Backed by the authority of the Chartered Management Institute, this is an essential addition to the manager's library.
Instant Manager: Managing Resources provides a readable and practical introduction to the subject, including:
How can I manage a budget and arrange finance?
How is technology best used and promoted?
How can I ensure Health & Safety requirements are met?
What impact on the environment does my work have and how to I minimize negative impact?
How can I make the right decisions?
Backed by the authority of the Chartered Management Institute, this is an essential addition to the manager's library.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
241 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-94737-1 (9780340947371)
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Bernice Walmsley is trained in psychology and specialises in business, management, careers, education and self-help. She has written many successful books on a wide range of topics.
The CMI is the only chartered professional body that is dedicated to management and leadership. They are committed to raising the performance of business by championing management and to ensuring managers have the confidence and knowledge to do their job to the best of their ability, to equip them with the necessary skills to deal with the challenges and decisions they face throughout their career and to realise the full potential of managers and their organisations.
The CMI is the only chartered professional body that is dedicated to management and leadership. They are committed to raising the performance of business by championing management and to ensuring managers have the confidence and knowledge to do their job to the best of their ability, to equip them with the necessary skills to deal with the challenges and decisions they face throughout their career and to realise the full potential of managers and their organisations.
Content
: Foreword (by Ruth Spellman, CMI)
: Chapter 1: Introduction; the skills needed to manage resources
: Chapter 2: How can you manage a budget and arrange finance?*
: Chapter 3: How is technology best used and promoted?
: Chapter 4: How can you ensure Health & Safety requirements are met?
: Chapter 5: How can you manage physical resources?
: Chapter 6: What impact on the environment does your work have?
: Chapter 7: How can you make the right decisions?
: Chapter 8: How can you manage knowledge and information?
: Chapter 9: How can you support team working?
: Chapter 10:How can you find the right suppliers?
: Chapter 11: When should you outsource parts of the business?
: Chapter 12: The Companion Interview: Dianne Thompson on managing activities and resources
: Chapter 1: Introduction; the skills needed to manage resources
: Chapter 2: How can you manage a budget and arrange finance?*
: Chapter 3: How is technology best used and promoted?
: Chapter 4: How can you ensure Health & Safety requirements are met?
: Chapter 5: How can you manage physical resources?
: Chapter 6: What impact on the environment does your work have?
: Chapter 7: How can you make the right decisions?
: Chapter 8: How can you manage knowledge and information?
: Chapter 9: How can you support team working?
: Chapter 10:How can you find the right suppliers?
: Chapter 11: When should you outsource parts of the business?
: Chapter 12: The Companion Interview: Dianne Thompson on managing activities and resources