Applied Management Practice: A Wide Spectrum Outlook

The structure of the book is a wide spectrum overview of personally experienced situations of a professional manager with wide experience in manufacturing industries and academia, in the course of managing multivarious situations which are unlikely to be covered in classroom sessions, so that the challenges likely to be faced by students of management in their prospective employment are given a preview to make them more confident. The chapters of the book are presented in two sections being corporate expectations and workplace challenges. An overview of corporate expectations from the perspectives of the employer, employee and placement officer are discussed in corporate expectations section. The workplace challenges section contains typical situations of managing tricky, difficult, dangerous, risky, catastrophic and disastrous nature and as well of managing situations with intuition and management by common sense, apart from an exposition of theoretical knowledge gained from applied management practice, in the chapters of management of mistakes and managing inconsistent bosses. It also includes a scenario-based response model for assessment of preparedness of persons to meet corporate expectations on employment at higher management level. The contents of the book would enhance employability of students of management, and facilitate the faculty teaching management, professional recruiters, employer organisations, corporate trainers and practicing managers aspiring for career progression.