Description: An introduction to general management principles and practices intended for information professionals working in all types of organizations. Topics include planning, budgeting, organizational theory, staffing, leadership, organizational change, and decision making.
Textbook:
Manager's Toolkit: The 13 Skills Managers Need to Succeed (2004)
Harvard Business Essentials
Concepts:
- Introduction to Management
- Looking Back: Development of Management Theory
- Human Resources
- Personal Career Development
- Recruiting/Retaining
- Hiring
- Coaching/Mentoring/Evaluating
- Firing
- Looking Ahead
- Decision Making
- Inbox Exercise
- Planning
- Disaster Planning
- Budgeting
- Grant Writing
- Organization
- Change Management
- Other People
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Interpersonal Skills
- Personality
- Leadership
- Ethics
- The End
- Looking to the Future