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Summary: Competent Managing Skills
Review: Although reading this book may not guarantee your success in becoming a manager, it definitely takes you through all aspects of being a manager. The book takes you through eight different aspects of effective management. These are the roles of director, producer, mentor, facilitator, coordinator, monitor, innovator, and broker. We may not realize just how many modules and skills are necessary in becoming a competent manager. I found the book to be very interactive with the self quizzes and the examples provided. This allowed its readers to build the skills necessary for competence and also find out just what kind of manager each is. The book seemed to provide the latest theories and developments in our ever changing work environments. I think this book would be most effective with a supplement or in combination with another management book.
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Summary: Competent Managing Skills
Review: Although reading this book may not guarantee your success in becoming a manager, it definitely takes you through all aspects of being a manager. The book takes you through eight different aspects of effective management. These are the roles of director, producer, mentor, facilitator, coordinator, monitor, innovator, and broker. We may not realize just how many modules and skills are necessary in becoming a competent manager. I found the book to be very interactive with the self quizzes and the examples provided. This allowed its readers to build the skills necessary for competence and also find out just what kind of manager each is. The book seemed to provide the latest theories and developments in our ever changing work environments. I think this book would be most effective with a supplement or in combination with another management book.
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Summary: Book review assignment
Review: Becoming a Master Manager has been a good textbook. The structure has been very easy to utilize and understand. The division of managing competencies into 8 roles really helps to organize the skills necessary for managing in today's society. It has been a very easy to read book. I feel like it has done an excellent job of explaining business concepts to non-business minded person such as myself. I have really liked the practical Assessments in each chapter. Each role has several competencies, and each competency provides an Assessment at the beginning. These Assessments have been very helpful while I have been organizing my portfolio. They have given me some artifacts to describe me as a manager and my abilities. The book also offers many in-class activities to go hand-in-hand with the reading. As a future educator, I think that is a great asset to the book and to the teacher's benefit as well. Overall I think that the book has been good. I would have like to seen more color in the book. That may seem strange, but I often found myself distracted when trying to read because other things caught my attention. A few more pictoral examples and some brighter colors would possibley have kept my attention more. Larinee Sileven
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Summary: Book review assignment
Review: Becoming a Master Manager has been a good textbook. The structure has been very easy to utilize and understand. The division of managing competencies into 8 roles really helps to organize the skills necessary for managing in today's society. It has been a very easy to read book. I feel like it has done an excellent job of explaining business concepts to non-business minded person such as myself. I have really liked the practical Assessments in each chapter. Each role has several competencies, and each competency provides an Assessment at the beginning. These Assessments have been very helpful while I have been organizing my portfolio. They have given me some artifacts to describe me as a manager and my abilities. The book also offers many in-class activities to go hand-in-hand with the reading. As a future educator, I think that is a great asset to the book and to the teacher's benefit as well. Overall I think that the book has been good. I would have like to seen more color in the book. That may seem strange, but I often found myself distracted when trying to read because other things caught my attention. A few more pictoral examples and some brighter colors would possibley have kept my attention more. Larinee Sileven
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Summary: Becoming a Master Manager
Review: Becoming a Master Manager is used as a textbook at Harlaxton College in Grantham, England for the Introduction to Management class. This text explores Management through management models. These models explore the eight roles of a manager. This text gives you in depths look in to the roles of managers as a mentor, facilitator, monitor, coordinator, director, producer, broker and innovator. The authors have broken up each role into several competencies that need to be looked at in order to perform has an effective manager. Inside of each competency there is a section on assessment, learning, analysis, practice, and application. The section on assessment focuses on assessing the student's ability and understanding the competency that is being discussed as a part of the role. This assessment normally takes the form of a self-graded quiz. The learning section of the competency is where the authors discuss the important aspects and theories of the competency. The following three sections analysis, practice and application are the sections in which the student is asked to put into use what they have just learned through cases, real life scenarios and hypothetical questions. The use of this break down allows the student to fully understand the competencies in addition to the importance and proper function of each role in a manger's duties. This text is a wonderful resource on theories and duties of a productive manager for a first time management student. This book is not only limited to students, it would be a good resource for employees and managers in the workplace. Overall, I recommend this book because of its cases and explanations that will help any manager in understand their duties, which will in turn create a great manager.
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Summary: BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER: A BOOK REVIEW
Review: BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER, the textbook currently used in my Introduction to Management class, does not effectively convey the important fundamentals of business management. The book is structured around eight 'roles' of an effective manager, and each role is further broken down into a number of competencies that are functions of that particular role. While I appreciate the effort to organize a relatively broad subject, I do not feel that the book is necessarily easy to follow. The reading is constantly being interrupted by assessments and applications for each competency, and while meant well, they are usually skipped over in an attempted to finish the reading and they seem to me to be a large waste of paper. Furthermore, BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER stresses models and theories of management that I find useless without the necessary fundamentals of management, which are not adequately presented in the textbook. Some of the models and theories have merit and should be discussed more in depth, but in a more advanced level of business management. And while BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER is the official textbook for my management class, I have relied heavily on a different textbook for my information, and only the eve of a test do I bother to look over BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER, I do not recommend this textbook for an introductory class at all.
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Summary: BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER: A BOOK REVIEW
Review: BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER, the textbook currently used in my Introduction to Management class, does not effectively convey the important fundamentals of business management. The book is structured around eight 'roles' of an effective manager, and each role is further broken down into a number of competencies that are functions of that particular role. While I appreciate the effort to organize a relatively broad subject, I do not feel that the book is necessarily easy to follow. The reading is constantly being interrupted by assessments and applications for each competency, and while meant well, they are usually skipped over in an attempted to finish the reading and they seem to me to be a large waste of paper. Furthermore, BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER stresses models and theories of management that I find useless without the necessary fundamentals of management, which are not adequately presented in the textbook. Some of the models and theories have merit and should be discussed more in depth, but in a more advanced level of business management. And while BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER is the official textbook for my management class, I have relied heavily on a different textbook for my information, and only the eve of a test do I bother to look over BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER, I do not recommend this textbook for an introductory class at all.
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Summary: Becoming a Master Manager
Review: I felt that this was a very good book for a beginning management student. It tounched on the basics but did not go very in depth on any on the theroies. This text book touched on the various roles of managers which was very good but it failed to go any further than that. I would not reccommend this text book for classes that need to go in depth into the subject of management.
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Summary: Becoming a Master Manager
Review: I felt that this was a very good book for a beginning management student. It tounched on the basics but did not go very in depth on any on the theroies. This text book touched on the various roles of managers which was very good but it failed to go any further than that. I would not reccommend this text book for classes that need to go in depth into the subject of management.
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Summary: Becoming A Master Manager - Book Review
Review: I found that the book, Becoming A Master Manager, to not be very helpful in an Introduction to Management course. Although the idea behind this book is good and for the most part helpful, it is not adequate for the type of course I am currently taking. The idea of having each chapter focus on the different managerial roles is one that could potentially be very helpful. Since each section contains various compentencies that focus on different aspects of these roles, this book could be helpful for a course that was structured differently. However, since our class is structured toward the basic fundamentals of management, this book is somewhat useless. To be honest, I did not really look at this book extensively because I had another book that worked better for this class. I just felt it was not worth my time to continue with this book, since it did not help me in my studies.
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