This is a skills-focused introductory textbook on supervisory management. The text and supplements are organized around the learning objectives to create a comprehensive teaching and testing system--an integrated learning system. Also, at the end of each chapter are three skills applications.

Supervision: Concepts and Practices of Management

Business & Money

Leonard, Edwin C.

Hilgert, Raymond L.

Human Resources

South-Western College Pub.

Supervision: Concepts and Practices of Management, 9th Edition provides the skills and knowledge base that students need to become supervisors in today's changing work environment. The text focuses on practical skills in examining the functions of management and how they are applied to both individuals and teams. The authors avoid using confusing terminology or multiple perspectives, instead presenting the tools that are clearly most appropriate for the task at hand. Change in the workplace and the world at large constantly present supervisors with new challenges. Supervision, 9th edition prepares supervisors to successfully address these demands.

Management & Leadership

SUPERVISION: CONCEPTS &amp; PRACTICES OF MANAGEMENT, 10e presents a study of traditional management principles, theories and practices along with skill-building applications that prepare students to understand the role and responsibilities of a supervisor. The new edition expands coverage of hot topics like crisis management, exporting of America's jobs, protected class issues and ethics; and introduces new discussions of appreciative inquiry, quality issues in the marketplace, and improved communication. The new, highly-effective cases incorporate role-playing components to maximize in-class participation and retention.

SUPERVISION: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES OF MANAGEMENT, 11E helps readers develop the key supervisory skills that will make the difference in today's rapidly changing business world. This comprehensive, single source for supervision success combines proven, traditional management principles and up-to-the-minute leadership insights with innovative, everyday practices and proven skill-building applications. The latest edition taps into the author's wealth of first-hand business experience to explore some of today's most pressing business topics, including globalization, managing through economic turbulence, transitional and temporary workers, virtual employees, technology and its effects on supervision, outsourcing and downsizing, diversity, and ethics. Readers experience, rather than simply read about, today's supervisory challenges as captivating cases as well as new video cases from actual well-known organizations throughout the text place students into the role of supervisor. Exercises and memorable examples help them better understand and refine interpersonal communication, decision-making, conflict resolution and the other supervisory skills most important for leading individuals and teams to success.

Labor Agreement Negotiations, 7e contains all the material necessary for a labor-management negotiation. Specifically, it includes suggestions for simulation scheduling participant roles, company and union background, collective bargaining agreement, statistical data and other information. This simulation was developed to provide participants with an experience in labor negotiations; help participants understand the skills necessary to successfully negotiate a union contract (preparation, communication, problem-solving, and process management); give participants experience in developing negotiation strategies and consensus-building; determine interests and role-play from a particular perspective - labor or management; and reflect upon and evaluate negotiation strategies as to participants' effectiveness in achieving goals.

Labor Agreement Negotiations

Kilian, Claire McCarty

Economics

Cengage Learning'

This text is an introductory human resources management text that can be used in a variety of ways: 1. The book may be used as a stand-alone introductory human resource (HR) management text, providing an overview of the basics of HR. In addition, an abundance of current references and web site links enable the student to expand his or her knowledge of critical HR theory, practice and issues. 2. The text may be used to supplement an introductory human resource management text which covers the HR functions in great detail from cover to cover. Leonard and Cook's text fills in the gaps that exist in traditional texts by providing cases, skills applications, skill development modules, and experiential exercises that require students to analyze situations and apply skills about which they have read. 3. The text helps students develop HR skills they can really use. While learning about important HR management concepts, students will learn how to apply skills and knowledge to real-world situations.

Human Resource Management: 21st Century Challenges

Education & Teaching

Cook, Roy A.

Schools & Teaching

Differentiate yourself in a competitive marketplace with SUPERVISION: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT, 12th Edition. A blend of traditional management concepts and emerging insights, the book draws from the author's firsthand business experience to deliver the leadership skills hiring managers want, but rarely find, in new recruits. This comprehensive single source for supervisory management expertise addresses the most critical challenges in business today, including globalization, economic turbulence, transitional and temporary workers, virtual employees, technology, outsourcing, downsizing, and much more. Hands-on and practical, SUPERVISION: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT, 12th Edition complements chapter readings with skill-building techniques and captivating video cases from well-known organizations, letting you experience supervisory roles for yourself. Special attention to diversity and ethics also helps you develop a sense of the real world, and enhances the book's ample coverage of communication, decision-making, conflict resolution, and other essential supervisory skills.

About the Author\nDr. Leonard is Professor Emeritus of Marketing and Management at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (I.P.F.W.). During his forty-year tenure, he held various faculty and administrative positions, including Chair of the Management and Marketing Department. Currently part of the Core Leadership Faculty, Master of Science in Leadership at Trine University, he develops and teaches courses in organizational behavior, leadership, human resources, industrial relations, and strategic management. Dr. Leonard also delivered full-service consulting for thirty years, and conducted seminars for thousands of executives. Well published, his research on employee involvement and motivation, organizational culture, climate and leadership, human resource interventions, and case development has appeared in various journals, earned numerous awards, and contributed to five textbooks. Dr. Leonard received his Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate Degrees from Purdue University.\nDr. Trusty received her bachelor's degree from Purdue University, her master's degree from Ball State University, and her doctorate degree from the Western Michigan University School of Public Affairs and Administration. Dr. Trusty began her career as an elementary school teacher; she later moved into the nonprofit sector, operated a nonprofit business, and after 20 years made the natural transition to the world of higher education. She has received numerous awards and recently returned to her alma mater, Western Michigan University, to teach in the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Trusty's enthusiasm, technological expertise and life-long journey of proving what it takes to be successful in a supervisory role make her real-world experiences resonate with students.

Supervision: Concepts and Practices of Management, Loose-Leaf Version

Trusty, Kelly A.

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Supervision: Concepts and Practices of Management

Supervision: Concepts and Practices of Management

Supervision: Concepts and Practices of Management

Supervision: Concepts and Practices of Management

Labor Agreement Negotiations

Human Resource Management: 21st Century Challenges

Supervision: Concepts and Practices of Management

Supervision: Concepts and Practices of Management, Loose-Leaf Version

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