Changing Your Management Style: How to Evaluate and Improve Your Own Performance [Hardcover]

Robert C. Benfari (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0029026350 | ISBN-13: 978-0029026359 | Publication Date: June 15, 1995 | Edition: 1

An organizational pscyhologist helps readers learn to overcome such liabilities as confronting problems, dealing with conflict, and learning new skills, by evaluating and changing their management style. He identifies 16 personality types and 15 workplace motivators that together shape a manager's style, and explains how to modify one's style to fit a particular corporate culture.

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Much management literature has been devoted to change and its effect on organizations and the individuals within them, but little has been said about the need for managers to adapt their individual management styles to those changes. In Understanding Your Management Style (1991), Benfari laid the groundwork for changing one's management style. He notes now that identifying and understanding one's style is the first step toward change. Next, one must look for strengths and weaknesses and discover which aspects of one's style are successful and in what situations. Benfari, an organizational psychologist, synthesizes various views on behavior modification to offer techniques that lead to more consistent positive results. Along the way he provides a battery of diagnostic tests that identify 16 personality types and 15 workplace motivators to aid in assessment of self and organization. David Rouse

Product Details

• Hardcover: 253 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (June 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0029026350
• ISBN-13: 978-0029026359
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,112,540 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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