These six e-booklets/Units are self contained and individually complete.
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Management and Managing
This e booklet/Unit looks to what management is all about. Roles, functions, developing working relationships with trade unions and the setting of priorities as well as chaos management are covered
The Contextual Environments of Management
To some extent we are all prisoners of our environment. The contexts may provide constraints and threats but they also offer opportunities.
Key Elements of Managing
Vital aspects of managing are covered here, including planning, decision-making, co-ordinating, organising and communicating. There may be some debate as to the importance/weighting of each element.
Controlling and Motivating
These two themes of motivating and controlling may look like strange bedfellows – but it is argued that they may be opposite sides of the same coin.
Group Working and Team Working
Unless you work on your own – like a truck driver or a writer – most people work in groups – real or imagined – so group-work and teamwork are important in themselves and for leadership as followership is part of leadership.
Leading
From followership to leadership is the subject of this volume. Mainstream ideas, such as contingency, are contrasted with more offbeat thoughts on leadership to cope with increasing organisational change and external environmental turbulence.
