Management

Enhance your personal and professional development

We live and work in complex times. To achieve life-long career success, you must adapt and grow with the demands of an ever-changing workplace, economy, and career environment.

With John Schermerhorn and Robert L. Holbrook, Jr.’s Personal Management Workbook, you’ll have a valuable collection of skill-building tools and learning resources to help you in the continual process of personal growth and career development.

With the Personal Management Workbook, you can:

Discover your personal strengths and weaknesses as a potential manager.

30 self-assessments give you the opportunity to explore your personal managerial tendencies and perspectives, such as managerial assumptions, diversity awareness, conflict management style, and more.

Build your own student portfolio.

A student portfolio builder offers a template for creating your own portfolio to display career credentials to potential employers.

Plan for future success.

The Workbook will help you establish goals in your personal and professional life, and create a comprehensive development plan that will guide the remainder of your academic experiences and the early portion of your career.

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New edition of a text that introduces the essentials of management as they apply within the contemporary work environment, with a focus on the dynamics of management in the context of a challenging and new work environment. Schermerhorn (management, Ohio U. College of Business) presents 18 chapters that cover management today; context (historical foundations, global dimensions, and ethical behavior and responsibility); planning, strategic management and entrepreneurship, and controlling; organization; and leadership. The included CD-ROM contains video cases. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. John R. Schermerhorn, Jr., is the Charles G. O'Bleness Professor of Management in the College of Business at Ohio University, and formerly served as Director of the Ohio University for Southeast Asian Studies. He earned a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Northwestern University, and an M.B.A. (with distinction) in management and international business from New York University. Dr. Schermerhorn previously taught at Tulane University, The University of Vermont, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he served as Head of the Department of Management and Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration.

A specialist in general management, organizational change and interorganizational cooperation, his clients have included Corning Glass Works, Pepsico, Inc., American Bankers Association, New England Hospital Assembly, Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, Petroleos de Venezuela, and the Vietnam Training Center for Radio and Television, among other organizations.