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Building Management Skills: An Action-First Approach, 1st Edition

Richard L. Daft, Dorothy Marcic

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Building Management Skills: An Action-First Approach 1st Edition by Richard L. Daft/Dorothy Marcic

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.

Richard L. Daft

Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Professor Daft specializes in the study of organization theory and leadership; he is a fellow of the Academy of Management and has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Journal of Management Education. He was the associate editor-in-chief of Organization Science and served for three years as associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Professor Daft has authored or co-authored 14 books, including The Leadership Experience (Cengage/South-Western, 2018), Organization Theory and Design (Cengage, 2021), The Executive and the Elephant: A Leader’s Guide for Building Inner Excellence ( Jossey-Bass, 2010), and Understanding Management (with Dorothy Marcic; Cengage, 2020). He has also written dozens of scholarly articles, papers, and chapters in other books. His work has been published in Organizational Dynamics, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Accounting Organizations and Society, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, California Management Review, and Organizational Behavior Teaching Review. In addition, Professor Daft is an active teacher and consultant. He has taught management, leadership, organizational change, organizational theory, and organizational behaviour. Professor Daft has served as associate dean, produced for-profit theatrical productions, and helped manage a start-up enterprise. He has been involved in management development and consulting for many companies and government organizations.

Dorothy Marcic

Dorothy Marcic, Ed.D., M.P.H., is a professor at Columbia University and a former faculty member at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Marcic is also a former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Economics in Prague and the Czech Management Center, where she taught courses and conducted research in leadership, organizational behavior and cross-cultural management. She has taught courses at the Monterrey Institute of International Studies, the University of Economics in Prague, the Helsinki School of Economics, Slovenia Management Center, College of Trade in Bulgaria, City University of Slovakia, Landegg Institute in Switzerland, the Swedish Management Association, Technion University in Israel and the London School of Economics. She has also served on the boards of the Organizational Teaching Society, the Health Administration Section of the American Public Health Association and the Journal of Applied Business Research. Dr. Marcic has authored 16 books addressing organizational behavior, international management and the roles of women and men in organizations. Her book, MANAGING WITH THE WISDOM OF LOVE: UNCOVERING THE VIRTUE IN PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, was rated one of the top 10 business books of the year by Management General. Dr. Marcic has also written dozens of articles for professional publications, such as Journal of Management Development, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, Psychological Report and Executive Development. She has conducted hundreds of seminars on various business topics and consulted for executives at various companies. In addition, Dr. Marcic has written two successful musicals: RESPECT: A Musical Journey of Women (played in 92 cities) and SISTAS: The Musical, which played off-Broadway for nine years. She has also written a true-crime book, With One Shot, which was turned into the leading podcast, Manslaughter.
  • 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.
Part I: PERSONAL.
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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