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Leadership and Management: Theory and Practice, 8th Edition | AU/NZ

Kris Cole, Jill Noble, Tim Rule, Kim Slingo, Billy Worth

  • Copyright 2023
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Leadership and Management: Theory and Practice 8th Edition by Kris Cole/Jill Noble/Tim Rule/Kim Slingo/Billy Worth
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Overview

Leadership & Management: Theory & Practice focuses on addressing the core management units within the Diploma of Leadership and Management, BSB50420, and Certificate IV in Leadership and Management, BSB40520. This market-leading textbook provides students with rigorous information while balancing the key topics with a practical approach, through real-life case studies, examples and problem-solving techniques. It uses everyday business terms and language, putting management in a context that makes it easy to understand for all types of learners.

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Meet the Authors

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Kris Cole

Kris Cole has held significant management and human resources positions in the engineering, oil, food and education industries. She has created and led management training programs and helped organisations in all sectors in Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia to improve their workplace effectiveness, performance and productivity.

Jill Noble

Jill Noble is an experienced facilitator, author, coach and trainer with over 20 years of international experience in HR, business and in consulting. Her primary focus is personal, professional and career development with new managers, team leaders and leadership groups. Jill has worked with a diverse range of teams and organisations including CAE, Box Hill TAFE, Holmesglen TAFE, Swinburne Professional, City of Greater Bendigo, City of Wellington, Toyota Boshoku, Melbourne Airport, and Melbourne Water. Jill is a keynote speaker and published author of three books which were written for audiences in South Africa, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Jill has also developed content, assessments and facilitated VET qualifications including the Cert IV in Training and Assessment and Cert IV in Career Development and is a currently VET assessor for Swinburne Professional.

Tim Rule

Tim Rule is currently an instructional designer at Swinburne Online, and has previously written learner guides and assessments for RTOs in diverse qualifications. His specialist teaching areas in the VET sector include Business, Business Administration and Management.

Kim Slingo

Kim Slingo has led teams successfully in office and retail environments before transitioning her leadership and management experience to the vocational education & training sector, applying her leadership experience and innovative mindset to create and deliver bespoke training solutions to assist individuals and organisations reach their full potential.

Billy Worth

Billy Worth has worked in business management and ownership globally in a number of industries, including entertainment, hospitality, film-making and tertiary education. He has created learning and assessment resources and end-to-end training solutions for the Australian Tertiary sector for the past fifteen years, and his qualifications are in Hospitality Management, Retail Management, Leadership and Management, Training and Assessment, and Training Design and Development.

What's New

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  • Content and examples updated to reflect the current environment
  • NEW Premium PowerPoints are included in the Instructor Resource Pack to assist lesson planning and course delivery
  • NEW Transferable skills framework
  • Chapter 22 on Risk Management comprehensively updated to current standard

Features

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  • Reflects the current working environment with many new and contemporary examples and statistics. This speaks to the relevance of content for students and saves teachers time in researching
  • Incorporates a transferable skills framework that aligns with the underpinning theme of the text and strengthens the application of the content for students from a range of industry sectors
  • Detailed grids aligning the content of the text with the structure of the competencies addressed
  • Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform - the personalised eLearning solution. MindTap is a flexible and easy-to-use platform that helps build student confidence and gives you a clear picture of their progress. MindTap for Cole's, Leadership and Management, 8e is full of innovative resources to support critical thinking, and help your students move from memorisation to mastery! Includes: Cole's, Leadership and Management, 8e eBook, branching activities, polling questions and concept quizzes. MindTap is a premium purchasable eLearning tool. Contact your Cengage learning consultant to find out how MindTap can transform your course.
  • Instructor Resource Pack. Premium resources that provide additional instructor support are available for this text, including Cognero Test Bank, PowerPoints, artwork from the text and cases. These resources save you time and are a convenient way to add more depth to your classes, covering additional content and with an exclusive selection of engaging features aligned with the text. The Instructor Resource Pack is included for institutional adoptions of this text when certain conditions are met. The pack is available to purchase for course-level adoptions of the text or as a standalone resource. Contact your Cengage learning consultant for more information.

Table of Contents

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Part 1 Understanding your organisation
1. The changing world of work
2. The internal environment
3. The formal organisation
4. The informal organisation

Part 2 Managing yourself
5. Strengthening your personal skills
6. Communicating with influence
7. Presenting information and negotiating persuasively
8. Building effective working relationships
9. Managing your personal productivity

Part 3 Leading and managing others
10. Understanding leadership
11. Understanding engagement motivation and retention
12. Assigning work and delegating duties
13. Building productive work teams
14. Leading today's teams
15. Providing formal and informal performance guidance
16. Managing underperformance

Part 4 Managing operations
17. Managing budgets and financial plans
18. Providing quality and engaging with customers
19. Increasing performance and productivity with the five keys, continuous improvement and innovation
20. Developing, managing and monitoring operational plans
21. Planning and managing projects
22. Identifying and managing risks
23. Managing for sustainability
24. introducing and leading change

Part 5 Workplace practice
25. Leading and attending meetings
26. Solving problems and making decisions
27. Using systematic, analytical tools and techniques
28. Recruiting and inducting and onboarding employees
29. Encouraging a learning environment and developing employees
30. Ensuring a safe and healthy workplace
31. Managing for psychological safety and well being
32. Moving from diversity to inclusion

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This Cengage solution can be seamlessly integrated into most Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and more) but does require a different ISBN for access codes. Please work with your Cengage Learning Consultant to ensure the proper course set up and ordering information. For additional information, please visit the LMS Integration site.

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  • ISBN-10: 0170456196
  • ISBN-13: 9780170456197
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  • ISBN-10: 0170495221
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Cengage provides a range of supplements that are updated in coordination with the main title selection. For more information about these supplements, contact your Learning Consultant.

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ISBN: 9780170456197
Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform - the personalised eLearning solution. MindTap is a flexible and easy-to-use platform that helps build student confidence and gives you a clear picture of their progress. We partner with you to ease the transition to digital – we're with you every step of the way. The Cengage Mobile App puts your course directly into students' hands with course materials available on their smartphone or tablet. Students can read on the go, complete practice quizzes or participate in interactive real-time activities. MindTap for Cole's, Leadership and Management, 8e is full of innovative resources to support critical thinking, and help your students move from memorisation to mastery! Includes: Cole's, Leadership and Management, 8e eBook, Branching activities, polling questions and concept quizzes. MindTap is a premium purchasable eLearning tool. Contact your Cengage learning consultant to find out how MindTap can transform your course.