Developing Management Skills: A comprehensive guide for leaders Paperback – 23 March 2012

Develop the personal, interpersonal and group skills vital to achieving outstanding success in today’s workplace with Developing Management Skills: A Comprehensive Guide for Leaders, 5th edition.

Using the hallmark five-step learning approach―assessment, learning, analysis, practice and application―each module helps you tailor your study to the areas you need to focus on. In-text exercises and role-playing assignments are further supported by a companion website that includes self-assessment exercises and an additional online module.

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‘An excellent mix of theory and practical reality. I congratulate the authors for their valuable and ongoing contribution to management education and development in the Asia–Pacific region.’

Peter J. Dowling, PhD, LFAHRI, FANZAM
La Trobe University , Melbourne

During the past twenty years he has worked on projects for numerous Australian and international corporations, such as Rio Tinto, Vodafone, the ABC, Westpac and Deloitte – and most recently in the areas of organisational and management development and strategy implementation and planning. He regularly conducts programs in organisational and personal change, strategy and technology implementation, creativity and strategy design, communication and interpersonal skills, and organisational behaviour.

James has published many articles and several books on various socio-technical issues and is a regular contributor to the Australian Financial Review BOSS magazine.

Graham Andrewartha is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the School of Management at the University of South Australia (UniSA). He is also a clinical and organisational psychologist and Director of the psychological and consultancy management organisation, McPhee Andrewartha.

For over 30 years, Graham has provided executive coaching, leadership and management skills development training, performance and change management, strategic planning, workplace investigation, and mediation for numerous national and international universities and organisations within both the public and private sectors, including the Asian Development Bank and AusAID. Graham is an author of a leading managerial textbook, along with several other books and articles on communication and human resource management, and has developed an online leadership and communication tool that is utilised in and overseas.