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Management : a fresh approach / Roger Oldcorn.

By: Oldcorn, Roger.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Pan breakthrough books.Publisher: London : Pan, 1982Description: 396 p. : ill. ; 20cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0330265423 .Subject(s): ManagementDDC classification: 658
Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1: A starting point -- Who are the managers and what do they do? -- Part 2: Preparing for the future -- Setting long-term aims and objectives -- Analysing strengths and weaknesses -- Analysing trends in the outside world -- Choosing a strategy: how to get to the long-term objective -- Part 3: Making the rules -- Rules in marketing and sales -- Rules in buying and operations -- Rules in personnel and industrial relations -- Rules in money -- Part 4: Getting organized -- How organizations develop and grow -- Part 5: Everyday managing - getting the job done -- Motivating staff -- Making decisions and solving problems -- Managing change -- Part 6: Keeping things under control -- Key elements needed for good control -- Control in practice - examples in and out of business -- Part 7: Improving the manager's own performance -- Using time wisely -- Meetings - using time to save time -- Effective communications -- Managing with numbers - help or hindrance? -- Part 8: Management of tomorrow -- The package of skills for tomorrow's manager.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-390) and index.

Introduction -- Part 1: A starting point -- Who are the managers and what do they do? -- Part 2: Preparing for the future -- Setting long-term aims and objectives -- Analysing strengths and weaknesses -- Analysing trends in the outside world -- Choosing a strategy: how to get to the long-term objective -- Part 3: Making the rules -- Rules in marketing and sales -- Rules in buying and operations -- Rules in personnel and industrial relations -- Rules in money -- Part 4: Getting organized -- How organizations develop and grow -- Part 5: Everyday managing - getting the job done -- Motivating staff -- Making decisions and solving problems -- Managing change -- Part 6: Keeping things under control -- Key elements needed for good control -- Control in practice - examples in and out of business -- Part 7: Improving the manager's own performance -- Using time wisely -- Meetings - using time to save time -- Effective communications -- Managing with numbers - help or hindrance? -- Part 8: Management of tomorrow -- The package of skills for tomorrow's manager.