Becoming a Master Manager: A Competency Framework

Developments in the areas of the global economy and computing and telecommunications technology have forced companies to rethink how they do business. This outstanding, up-to-date text is designed to enhance managerial leadership capacities, recognizing that today's managers need to be both technically and interpersonally competent. Describes the highly successful Competing Values Model which is used in management education and executive development programs around the world with impressive results.

Managerial Strategies for Successful Leadership Build skills in every area of managerial competency as you explore the diverse situations and challenges that managers face today! This text will take you through eight interactive learning modules to develop the skills you need to be an effective director, producer, mentor, facilitator,coordinator, monitor, innovator, and broker! Become a Master Manager with:

• The Competing Values Model: an integration of four "conflicting" management perspectives, to display how different theories can be combined to form a more comprehensive foundation in management.
• A five step learning model: Assessment, Learning, Analysis, Practice and Application, that helps you develop the leadership competencies needed in today's business world.
• Managerial examples from real organizations that illustrate new concepts using relevant examples.
• Learning models such as, mini-lectures, individual presentations, group simulations, small group and full class discussion activities, to expand knowledge of management and real organizations.
• Revised competencies that reflect the latest developments in managerial theory and the changing work environments.