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Building Management Skills: An Action-First Approach, 1st Edition
Overview
Daft and Marcic's action-first approach turns the traditional learning model on its end. Instead of starting with concepts and moving to application, this text starts with application, an introductory problem or challenge that encourages students to first empty out their ideas so they are ready to understand new ideas and acquire new skills. Each chapter provides a menu of teaching resources for student challenges, engagement, applications, and learning, ample opportunity to fill students up with the spot-on management skills they'll need to be successful managers. This new learning philosophy leads students through a seven-step learning process: 1. Manager Challenge, 2. Initial Response, 3. Discover Yourself, 4. Discover Knowledge, 5. Action Learning Exercises, 6. Test Your Mettle, and 7. Personal Skills Log. Shorter, highly-focused chapters take students through each of these seven steps, allowing them to capture the essence and critical points for each topic. The mass of research material has been condensed and focused into discrete learning packages (chapters) designed specifically for student engagement.
BUILDING MANAGEMENT SKILLS offers a unique new set of Challenge Videos that are specifically designed to help develop your students' decision-making and thinking skills. After students watch the video challenge they are asked to respond to the challenge by solving the problem, helping them see the relevance of the chapter material and answering the question "Why do I need to know this material?". These innovative, decision-making Challenge Videos are also available in CengageNOW, making them an assignable and auto-gradable, out-of-class assignment.
Organized around a new learning philosophy, with new technology and a coherent learning package for students to acquire management skills through an active "first do, then learn" approach, Daft and Marcic have created a truly unique teaching and learning experience with BUILDING MANAGEMENT SKILLS.
- PROBLEM BASED LEARNING APPROACH: Based on the latest findings about how people learn, this unique text uses problem-based learning to have students "first do, then learn." Students start with a realistic problem scenario upon which they take action before learning a concept or skill. Action on the problem reveals to students their learning gap, how little they know, which opens students' minds to knowledge and synthesis, completing a learning cycle.
- LESS IS MORE: This skills text is highly focused and uses small bites. Sixteen shorter chapters capture the essence and critical points for each topic, condensing the mass of research material into discrete learning packages (chapters) for student engagement.
- COMPLETE PACKAGE: Instructors are provided a menu of teaching tools in the text and instructor's manual to guide each student's skills learning.
- CengageNOW FOR DAFT/MARCIC'S BUILDING MANAGEMENT SKILLS: This robust, online course management system gives you more control in less time and delivers better student outcomes NOW. CengageNOW for BUILDING MANAGEMENT SKILLS includes book-specific resources that can be assigned and graded automatically, along with a menu of multimedia tools for students. Flexible assignments, automatic grading and an exportable gradebook with reports save you valuable time. The Personalized Study Plan diagnostic tool empowers students to master concepts, prepare for exams, and become more involved in class. Because a modern eBook is automatically integrated within CengageNOW, you can provide your students with price flexibility for your course! Also, available upon request, CengageNOW can be integrated with a variety of Learning Management Systems (i.e. BlackBoard).
- INTEGRATED LEARNING SYSTEM WITH SEVEN BUILDING BLOCKS: Each chapter starts with a professional video incident to challenge students and reveal their personal knowledge gap. Students then proceed as assigned by their instructor with questionnaire feedback, text resources, deliberate practice and team exercises, action learning exercises, and writing down their takeaways. The building blocks are described below.
- MANAGER CHALLENGE AND INITIAL RESPONSE: The first section of each chapter is a learning challenge based on a real-world problem faced by a manager. These problems/incidents are provided as short videos that instructors can use to begin the class. Cases are also provided for instructors who prefer not to show videos. After students watch the original video challenge and/or read the associated case, the instructor allows students to solve the problem, either through written analysis, discussion, or role-play. Trying to respond correctly to the video challenge or "problem" immediately answers the question implicit in the students' mind: "Why do I need to know this material?" This challenge and the students' response to it also provides a benchmark of student skill for the students' later realization of how much they have learned.
- DISCOVER YOURSELF: A series of questionnaires allow students to better understand their personal style and competency concerning the subject matter of a particular chapter. When they are aware of their current tendencies, they are better able to internalize new concepts. Follow up "Interpret Your Score" boxes are included in the Discover Knowledge section of each chapter.
- DISCOVER KNOWLEDGE: Students are provided with research-based knowledge and ideas. Learning resources within this section of each chapter include text material, self-assessment interpretations, real-world examples, and various engaging boxed features. Students are exposed to multiple perspectives on how the current problem and future problems might be solved.
- ACTION LEARNING EXERCISES: Individual deliberate practice exercises, in-class team exercises, and field team exercises are provided so students can apply and test their new knowledge and skills. Action learning means learning by doing, individually or in teams both inside and outside the classroom.
- TEST YOUR METTLE: Students are enabled to apply their new skills to new problems and cases, including role-play exercises, case incidents, and video applications. Students can be challenged with new exercises and incidents to expand their learning even further. They can again learn based on their own actions rather than from text memorization.
- PERSONAL SKILLS LOG: Students have the opportunity to record what they have learned, capturing insights. By writing down their key learning takeaways, students crystallize what they have learned compared to their initial response to the opening management challenge. These takeaways can be aggregated and analyzed at the end of the course so students can make visible and appreciate their progress.
1. Your Manager Strengths and Weaknesses.
2. Learning About Yourself.
3. Managing Yourself to Get Things Done.
4. Creative Problem Solving.
5. How Managers Communicate.
6. Becoming an Ethical Manager.
Part II: INTERPERSONAL.
7. Motivating for Performance.
8. Getting Things Done Through Networks, Relationships, and Influence.
9. Develop People with Coaching and Feedback.
10. Handling Difficult Conversations, Conflict, and Negotiation.
11. Managing Your Boss.
Part III: MANAGING TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS.
12. Managing Teams.
13. Getting Things Done through Performance Management.
14. Managing Global Diversity.
15. Positive Leadership.
16. Managing Positive Change.
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- ISBN-10: 128551355X
- ISBN-13: 9781285513553
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MindTap Management, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Daft/Marcic's Building Management Skills: An Action-First Approach
ISBN: 9781285513553
MindTap Management for Daft/Marcic's Building Management Skills: An Action-First Approach MindTap Management is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. Access to this product is valid for 6 months of usage.