Understanding and Changing Your Management Style
Assessments and Tools for Self-Development
2nd Edition
Published on 20. June 2013
352 pages
978-1-118-42207-6 (ISBN)
Description
An update of the classic book that reveals the 6 keys tosuccessful management In this new edition of his best-sellingbook, Robert Benfari explains that the best mangers are not bornthat way but share a mix of characteristics that can be analyzed,understood, and most importantly changed. He identifies the sixcharacteristics 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 showhow anyone can use personality-specific strategies for resolvingconflicts, solving problems, managing stress, handling difficultsituations at work, and positively influencing others.
* Includes a proven pathway for becoming an effectivemanager
* 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 blocksto successful management
This research-based book offers the tools leaders need toimprove their management style and succeed in the workplace.
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Robert C. Benfari
Understanding and Changing Your Management Style
Assessments and Tools for Self-Development
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09/2013
2nd Edition
Jossey-Bass
€37.50
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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 HumanNature 1
1 Assumptions, Perceptions, and Feelings: How They InfluencePerformance 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
