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Becoming a Master Manager: A Competency Framework

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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.

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.

I read this book two years ago when I was a student of CEIBS as a MBA student. I have really learned a lot from this book, with time going on (I have graduated), I have found that this book is getting more and more important for me. When I met problems in my work, often I can find a method in it. When I read it the second time, I find it would be more useful if the author could privide answer to discussion questions. I wish the third edition would adopt my suggestion. Anyway, it is really a valuable book.

This is one book I believe all managers should read. Talking to several people in the business world, they don't see where they fit in as a manager. Many of them are too much of one thing or not enough of another.

After taking a Competing Values Management Practices Survey, then reading this book, and taking the survey again, you can see on the "spider-web graph" where in the circle you fit it to these eight values that include the Mentor Role, Innovator Role, Broker Role, Producer Role, Director Role, Coordinator Role, Monitor Role, and Facilitator Role.

This book is very easy to read, I'm a young college senior who doesn't like to read complcated textbooks. I'm spending the $50 to keep this book. It's one that I plan on referring back to at least once a year to see how my managment style has changed.

This book, as it gets around, will become the next 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.

This book is a great way to learn about managerial roles and what it takes to be a manager in today's workforce. By starting the book with a general overview, then breaking it up into more specific roles, and then ending with a final overview, I think it helps give the reader an introduction to what they will be learning about, and then closer and review of material they have covered. I especially liked the way the text includes competencies. This enables the reader to apply what they are learning about to themselves. Instead of just reading and wondering what style of leadership applies to them, or what type of leader they are, they can actually see. However, I do not think that this is a good book for an introduction course. Unless, of course, it is supplemented with another text. This is because I do not think the authors go into enough detail about describing some aspects of management. A person with no management background, would not benefit solely from this book.

Overall, it is a great book. It not only teaches you a lot about management, but a lot about yourself. I would reccomend it!

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.

I found this book to be very helpful. I really enjoyed the way the chapters were divided up into the eight different roles. Inside the chapters, the division of different competencies made it easier to focus on each different aspect in the chapters. Both the way the chpaters were set up and divided up seemed to make the information much easier to read and retain. Also, all of the activities and applications could be a very helpful tool in mastering the information given in the chapters. This book is a great learning tool and I think that it can be used even outside the classroom in the workplace for employees and their managers.

I found that this book was a great supplement to other textbooks. I would advise against using this book as a main course staple. While this textbook does offer many helpful tecnigues for becoming the master manager, it should only be used for a personal leason. I found that using this textbook as my main course matrial did not work well, as I was often using other textbooks. There are many parts that tend to be dry and lead a reader to skim the matrial rather than read throughly.

This book has a good basis of knowledge, and communicates well on a very basic level. I had no trouble understanding the methods, but thought that it would be appropriate for an intro business course. It also ties in well with any Interpersonal Communications books. Following the same format and giving examples of how gain the competencies it discusses. Overall this is a good basic book for people just starting into the field of business and people skills.

I have found that Becoming A Master Manager has been a great book; however, I do not feel that the title is correct for the book. Even though the book does cover many different area's of management I do not feel that it is completely accurate to real life situations. I do think that this book is a great tool for learning and provides students with ample amounts of interaction. I felt the book gave me many opertunities to do exercises that other books don't provide. However, at times I felt that the assessments areas where not a good representation of real life situations or practical and some times hard to follow. For the most part it did provide me with a chance to interact, in a way,with the book. One of the biggest problems was at times the book was extremely boaring; however, many books run into a boaring stage. I also feel that the book could have been arranged a bit better, but I am not an expert on Management so I would trust that the author would have a better idea of how the book should be laid out. Overall, I feel this was a good book that gave me a well rounded look at management, but would not make me a master manager.