The best operations management ensures that a business's infrastructure and processes balance efficiency with effectiveness, using the right resources to maximum effect. Using the series' trademark ...mix of checklists and thinker profiles, CMI experts guide the reader through the fundamentals of some key operational issues: quality control and management; change and project management; the supply chain and monitoring and control. Topics covered include: getting TQM to work, benchmarking, project risk assessment, outsourcing, inventory and purchasing, strategic risk management. business continuity planning and much more.
Clear and effective communication within and beyond organisations has always been a crucial business driver, and as communication channels proliferate and the speed of communication increases, ...getting your message across has never been more important. Using the series' trademark mix of checklists and thinker profiles, the guide looks at different types of business communications - written, verbal and external - and also focusses on the challenges of cross-cultural and virtual communication, and websites and social media. Topics covered include: report writing, running meetings, presentations, negotiation, PR and media interview planning, influencing, crisis communications and much more.
Managing Strategy provides a series of checklists designed to help managers get to grips with analysing their organisations and developing and implementing strategic plans and options. It covers a ...range of topics, including: Understanding organisational culture Performing SWOT and PEST analyses Researching new markets Corporate mission and values Setting objectives Performance measurement and balanced scorecard Strategic options The combination of action-oriented checklists and handy pen-portrait profiles of key thinkers, including Charles Handy, Henry Mintzberg and Michael Porter, will help you master the crucial skills you need to further your career as a manager.
Managing Strategy provides a series of checklists designed to help managers get to grips with analysing their organisations and developing and implementing strategic plans and options.
It covers a ...range of topics, including:
Understanding organisational culture
Performing SWOT and PEST analyses
Researching new markets
Corporate mission and values
Setting objectives
Performance measurement and balanced scorecard
Strategic options
The combination of action-oriented checklists and handy pen-portrait profiles of key thinkers, including Charles Handy, Henry Mintzberg and Michael Porter, will help you master the crucial skills you need to further your career as a manager.
Managing Yourself Institute, Chartered Management
2013, 2013-07-01
eBook
The experts' guide to how to manage the most important person you are responsible for: yourself. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to your ...personal performance as a manager, on such topics as: Starting a new job; Fitting in and getting on; Handling workplace relationships; Developing your network; Making an impact; Succeeding as a new manager; Handling the politics; Testing for personal effectiveness; Personal development planning; Working out a career plan; Writing your CV; Managing your time effectively; Handling information and avoiding overload; Solving problems; Stress management, and putting yourself first; Emotional intelligence; Marketing yourself; Managing (your relationship with) your boss; and Networking. It is all here, from the basics to the more nuanced and difficult to get right, and included among the essential checklists are profiles of leading management thinkers on key topics.
Modern day’s organizations are facing fierce competitions and are in need of high-quality employees with high competencies. This has become a greater challenge for organizations. Recruitment and ...selection of a right talent is getting tougher, and tougher even there are many qualified. High performance work practices bring competitive advantage to such organizations. Extensive training is one such high performance work practice. This study aims to provide a working definition for extensive training. Extensive training is endowed with knowledge, skills and attitudes of employee continuously with the intention of covering a boarder scope without restricting to a one particular job. A scale to measure the construct of extensive training through conceptualization and operationalization is also provided as a part of the study. As a part of the study examples from the military context were also provided.
The new edition of the Chartered Management Institute's Open Learning Programme has been updated to include the latest management concepts and methodologies. It includes current management concepts, ...the changing legal framework in which managers operate and the impact of technology in the work environment. The scope of the workbooks has been broadened to enable more generic and stand-alone use of the materials Each workbook has a new introduction that places the subject area within the context of the managerial role and the end of each section now has a learning summary. The final summaries from the first editions have been replaced with a section entitled Toolkits for Busy Managers that includes links to other workbooks in the series, links to relevant BH / CMI textbooks, further reading, website addresses, and trade journals User & mentor guides are now a downloadable resource from BH website.
Managing Others Institute, Chartered Management
2013, 2013-07-01
eBook
This book contains checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to the processes behind how you get the most from those you have to manage and work with, and how you ...deal with them when things go wrong. The checklists include: Planning the recruitment process; Managing staff turnover and retention; Managing part-time employees; Performance management; Using 360 degree feedback; Evaluating training and learning; Talent management; Training needs analysis; Succession planning; Devising a coaching programme; Understanding organisational culture; Employee engagement; Managing creativity; Implementing flexible working hours; Implementing a diversity management programme; Redundancy: managing the survivors; and Enabling work-life balance. It is all here, from the basics to the more nuanced and difficult to get right, and included among the essential checklists are profiles of leading management thinkers on key topics.
The new edition of the Chartered Management Institute's Open Learning Programme has been updated to include the latest management concepts and methodologies. It includes current management concepts, ...the changing legal framework in which managers operate and the impact of technology in the work environment. The scope of the workbooks has been broadened to enable more generic and stand-alone use of the materials Each workbook has a new introduction that places the subject area within the context of the managerial role and the end of each section now has a learning summary. The final summaries from the first editions have been replaced with a section entitled Toolkits for Busy Managers that includes links to other workbooks in the series, links to relevant BH / CMI textbooks, further reading, website addresses, and trade journals User & mentor guides are now a downloadable resource from BH website.
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