Stephen Robbins: Truth About Managing People, The: Proven Insights to Get the Best from Your Team, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Most management guides just don't work. Either they're too complex and academic, or they rely primarily on opinion and anecdote, not tested evidence. ***The Truth About Managing People, Fourth Edition***isradically different - and that's why it's so remarkably useful. Top management author Stephen P. Robbins has distilled thousands of research studies, meta-analyses, and Big Data investigations into a set of 63 proven, tested solutions for today's toughest management problems. Each solution is presented quickly and concisely, in just 2-3 pages, so you can absorb them fast, and use them immediately. You'll find proven, up-to-date truths for hiring the right people and building winning teams; designing high-productivity jobs and rewarding the right behaviors; managing diversity, change, conflict, turnover, and staff cuts; overcoming self-serving bias, groupthink, and digital distractions, and much more. Updated throughout, this edition contains nine all-new chapters, covering the crucial importance of people skills, building emotional intelligence, loyalty expectations, employee engagement and mentoring, managing face-to-face vs. virtual teams, overcoming the downsides of teams, handling unacceptable workplace behavior, promoting creativity and innovation, and more. This is simply today's best and most enduring thinking on being a great manager: a set of truths you can and will use, every single day.