The top 50 management dilemmas : fast solutions to everyday challenges /: fast solutions to everyday challenges. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Top fifty management dilemmas
• Further Information: Note: Sona Sherratt and Roger Delves.
• Other Names: Sherratt, Sona; Delves, Roger
• Contents: Cover -- Contents -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Challenges with individuals -- Low motivation -- Lack of confidence -- Constantly rejects feedback -- Lack of competence -- Unethical behaviour -- Unobserved but reported disrespectful behaviour -- High performers who are high maintenance -- Personal turmoil -- Difficult and delicate conversations -- Delegation and letting go -- Dominant people -- Passionate or stubborn people -- Part 2: Challenges with teams -- An under-performing team -- Lack of trust -- Fear of allowing conflict in a team -- A team that avoids accountability -- Preferential treatment -- Silo mentality -- Managing a virtual team -- Meetings that stagnate -- Meetings that derail -- Part 3: Challenges with externals -- Their unrealistic expectations -- Elusive or unresponsive behaviour -- Patronising or arrogant styles -- Constantly changing goalposts -- Company merger or acquisition -- Part 4: Challenges around conflict -- Individuals who avoid conflict -- People who don't show emotion -- Emotional people -- Competitive behaviour -- Passive-aggressive behaviour -- Part 5: Challenges around change -- Covert resistance to change -- Overt resistance to change -- Denial -- People who are too comfortable -- Maintaining the team's high-energy change culture -- Part 6: Challenges around power, politics and influence -- Limited access to stakeholders -- Building your personal brand -- Getting a decision -- Organisational politics -- Managing up or across -- Being micro-managed -- Someone who is holding you back -- Part 7: Challenges for yourself -- Receiving difficult feedback -- Situations where you don't know the answer -- Dealing with your own mistakes and poor decisions -- Feeling under-equipped -- The loneliness of management -- Having your authority or ability questioned -- Asking for a raise or promotion -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Harlow, UK : Pearson Education
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume), illustrations
• Subjects: 658 23; Management; Supervision of employees; Decision making; Gestion; Personnel -- Supervision; Prise de décision; management; decision making; Decision making; Management; Supervision of employees
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780273794707; 0273794701
• Related ISBNs: 9780273792840
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.