The Effective Manager

A comprehensive, up-to-date compendium of key articles, this lively and thought-provoking reader is an ideal introduction to management and organisational behaviour. It brings together some of the most interesting and accessible pieces written on the art and science of management, deliberately counterposing them to highlight alternative perspectives in a world where there are seldom 'single right answers' to complex problems.

The focus of the book is on the ideas and theories which a manager can use to become more effective. Six sections explore important aspects of the manager's job:

• management, leadership and conflict
• motivation and stress at work
• organisational culture
• decision making and teams
• staff development
• diversity in organisations

In each section the reader will find articles that reflect major ideas or debates within the area, including thise that challenge traditional views and ways of doing things. Does money motivate? Are teams useful? Does organisational culture exist? What role does sexuality play in the workplace? These are some of the questions asked. Throughout, the book underlines the need for managers to take into account the different contexts of time and culture in which they act.

The Effective Manager will be an invaluabel resource for both students and professionals in general management, organisational behaviour, work psychology and human resource management.

1. There's nothing so practical as a good theory: how can theory help managers become more effective?
   Jon Billsberry
• Part 1: Management, leadership and conflict
2. Men and women in transition
   Nigel Nicholson and Michael West
3. Chocoloate eggs and Chester Barnard
   Iain Mangham
4. The Chinese contract
   Charles Handy
5. Can leaders change their styles?
   Andrzej Huczynski and David Buchanan
6. How can I win if you don't loose? Games where the winner doesn't take all
   Judith Knelman
7. The £5 auction
   Charles Handy
• Part 2: Motivation and stress at work
8. Profit-related pay: a retrospective
   Greg Clark
9. Does money motivate?
   Adrian Furnham
10. Job features and excessive stress
    Peter Warr
11. Prevention and management of work stress
    Lawrence R. Murphy
12. Stressed?
    Kevin Daniels
• Part 3: Organisational culture and the changing nature of organisational entry
13. Corporate tibes: identifying the cultures
    Terrence Deal and Allen Kennedy
14. Gender cultures: women's choices and strategies at work
    Su Maddock and Di Parkin
15. Managing organisational culture: fantasy or reality?
    Emmanuel Ogbonna
16. Phases and levels of organisational change
    Nicholas S. Rashford and David Coghlan
17. The short list, or principles of selection
    C. Northcote Parkinson
18. Hiring for the organisation, not the job
    David E. Brown, Gerald E. Ledford Jr and Barry R. Nathan
19. When does the recruitment and selection process end? The organisational entry and a horticultural metaphor
    Jon Billsberry
• Part 4: Decision making and teams
20. Satisficing
    Irving L. Janis and Leon Mann
21. Limited rationality
    James March
22. Groupthink
    Irving L. Janis
23. Reaping the benefits of teamwork
    Adrian Furnham
24. Team roles and a self-perception inventory
    R. Meredith Belbin
25. Teams: old myths and a new model
    Peter Herriot and Carole Pemberton
26. The trouble with teams
    The Economist
• Part 5: Developing staff
27. The Peter Principle
    Lawrence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
28. How managers can become developers
    Alan Mumford
29. Special needs, different situations
    Alan Mumford
30. Appraisal: an idea whose time has gone?
    Clive Fletcher
31. Managing individual behaviour: bringing out the best in people
    Stephen L. Fink
• Part 6: Diversity in organisations
32. The cultural relativity of organisational practices and theories
    Geert Hofstede
33. Communicating across cultural barriers
    Nancy Adler
34. Actions speak louder than words
    Rosemary Thomson
35. Diversity: more than just an empty slogan
    Rajvinder Kandola and Johanna Fullerton
36. Sex
    David Sims, Stephen Fineman and Yannis Gabriel
37. Professional and openly gay: a narrative study of the experience
    David Shallenberger
38. Taking actions on harassment
    Kerry Hawkins
• Postscipt
39. A new deal for middle managers
    Peter Herriot and Carole Pemberton

You ain't supposed to review old school books, but this one is useful to read at the beginning of an education.