Practical strategies for building strong managerial skills! With the new Fourth Edition of Becoming a Master Manager: A Competency Framework, you can build practical skills in every area of managerial competency--skills you'll need to thrive in the diverse situations and challenges of the new millennium! The text guides you through eight interactive learning modules covering different leadership roles, including director, producer, mentor, facilitator, coordinator, monitor, innovator, and broker. Features designed to help you become a master manager: * The text's Competing Values Framework helps you develop new ways of thinking about the competing tensions and demands that are placed on managers. * The authors' unique skills-based approach prepares you for today's management challenges. * A highly effective five-step learning model (assessment, learning, analysis, practice, and application) helps you develop core leadership competencies. * Real-world managerial examples illustrate key concepts and offer insight into the roles that managers play in real companies. * Coverage of timely topics such as emotional intelligence, mentoring/coaching, and life balance will help you keep pace with today's rapidly changing workplace.

Becoming a Master Manager: A Competing Values Approach

Business & Money

Quinn, Robert E.

Faerman, Sue R.

Thompson, Michael P.

St. Clair, Lynda S.

McGrath, Michael

Management & Leadership

wiley

This fifth edition emphasizes the importance of developing management skills or admitted that learning about management concepts was not the same as learning how to apply those concepts in practice. It is built on a solid foundation of theory and empirical evidence that provides a compelling case for why specific competencies are important. The framework offers managers an enduring foundation for analysing what types of behaviors are most appropriate to achieve organisational goals in light of the existing environment. This edition overall gives a strong background in management skills and concepts needed on the job.

Developments in the areas of the global economy and computing and telecommunications technology have forced companies to rethink how they do business. This outstanding, up-to-date text is designed to enhance managerial leadership capacities, recognizing that today's managers need to be both technically and interpersonally competent. Describes the highly successful Competing Values Model which is used in management education and executive development programs around the world with impressive results.

Becoming a Master Manager: A Competency Framework

Becoming a Master Manager is an effective tool for stimulating thinking and building management skills. The book takes you through some of the social and intellectual challenges that managers encounter everyday, the most prominent being pulled by competing demands and having to play many roles simultaneously. This book uses the Competing Values Framework, a comprehensive map on which competing demands can be located and placed in context. 
Becoming a Master Manager includes: <ul>
<li>Managerial examples from real organizations that illustrate new concepts using relevant examples.</li> <li>Learning models such as, mini-lectures, individual presentations, group simulations, small group and full class discussion activities, to expand knowledge of management and real organizations.</li> <li>A hands-on approach.</li> <li>An assessment, learning, analysis, practice, and application approach with each competency.</li> </ul>

The Catholic Church and Catholic Schools in Northern Ireland examines three major themes of Catholic education in Northern Ireland. The author analyzes the Catholic authorities' efforts to maintain clerical control of Catholic schools in Northern Ireland from 1921 to the Education (Northern Ireland) Order of October 1993, concentrating upon the events surrounding the major education laws of 1923, 1925, 1930, 1947 and 1968 and the Orders in Council of 1989 and 1993. He also assesses the impact of the 'Gaelic' features of Catholic schools upon education policy, to determine whether national issues influenced the decisions of either the Catholic authorities or the devolved government. The book will demonstrate that, while these topics were central for some nationalists and unionists, they were minor issues for the senior Catholic clergy and the education officials of the devolved government. It then studies the Catholic authorities' response to the success of the campaign in recent decades for integrated schools, educating Catholic and Protestant children in 'shared schools'. It also explains the reasons for dwindling Unionist and Protestant enthusiasm for integrated schools. The author shows how the Catholic authorities' fear of the education committees created by the 1923 Act primarily explains their refusal to transfer control to the education committees. He also estimates the financial and educational price paid by Northern Ireland's Catholics to maintain a network of autonomous denominational schools, showing that the advent of mass secondary education after the Second World War led to a major contrast in the opportunities available to Catholic and Protestant children.

Catholic Church and Catholic Schools in Northern Ireland: The Price of Faith

History

Europe

Irish Academic Press

Africa, our way as God's people

Religion & Spirituality

Mission Book Service

One Month.A lot can happen in a short space of time. There were thirty-one days in July 2014 like there are in all Julys - Limerick was no different. From the outside, Dolly Roche, Dillon Keyes and Abby Carey lead lives no different from other people either. But just how far can a seemingly common life push the boundaries of the human condition? Behind the quiet eyes of the everyday, how spectacular can those fireworks shine in the mind of the beholder? Drawing influence from Modernist and Post-Modernist literature, The Clock Tower is a journey through our everyday experience of reality and the surreal - displaying that within the mind of every person, a colourful and expansive narrative is forever unfolding.

The Clock Tower

Literature & Fiction

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

THE LOST WISDOM OF THE IRISH DRUIDS.\nBook spammed by US Far Right!\n(WARNING: Reader, please ignore the evil work of a US-based hacker who has set out to destroy my book page here by interfering with the star ratings, as well as writing up an ugly "review" that Amazon has taken down it was so rotten - he/she is actively hacking and spamming this page with a vengeance - thank you for your support - Michael McGrath, author)\nThe great cairn of Newgrange is more advanced than all the other cairns of Europe - though it was built about 3000 BC, five thousand years ago now. This great temple of the Irish has a layout and structure that allows the path of the rising sun’s rays to beam through the ‘skylight’ above the entrance door and penetrate into the centre of the cruciform deep within the circular cairn.\nThis shaft of sunlight, polarised by the crystal glass panes that were originally in the window box, comes from the rising sun only at the midwinter solstice around 21st December every year.\nDeep within Newgrange the enigmatic drawing of the Triple Spiral is carved at the only place on Earth within the sacred bowels of Ireland. Here the author peers beyond the triple spiral to examine the very origin of the Irish Nation and all we have contributed to western thought and the development of civilization.\nThe Wisdom of the Druids is an original study of our Ancient Wisdom Tradition, It unlocks the secrets of what was going on in Ireland during as it examines the metaphysics of our ancient druidry. For our druids were seers and healers, cosmologists and astro mathematicians, expressing the Oneness between human beings, nature and the living spirit.\nBut this book is not all in the past, not all history, philosophy or metaphysics. It goes straight in and describes a magical evocation in an ancient Ireland cathedral that stands today on the mound of the druids in an ancient Irish city, the Mound of the Guardian Druid, the last refuge of the Irish druids on the run.\nIt outlines the practice of Druidcraft today after tracing The Fiery Conversion of Ireland. It outlines the Psychic Fires of Ireland, how our druids manipulated the telluric force of earth energies across the land. It ends with awesome chapters about the Atlantis Archipelago out there in the great western ocean and how the druids carried all that ancient science into the ancient world only for it all to be repressed by an old superstitious church that read it all wrong. The Wisdom of the Irish Druids offers enlightened explanations.\nArchdruid McGrath proves that the subtle energies that bind all nature and all living things were widely understood and utilised, as he shows herein, by our ancient druids. For they had an instinctive understanding of the currents that run through the Earth and affect all nature. The author’s radical decoding of these ancient earth energies and their integral connection to the enigmatic and mysterious legacy of our druids is explored. Our druid ancestors knew the flow of energy from the sun is the life force and that sunspot activity influences human life - and, by the way, climate change!\nWARNING, THIS TITLE'S RATING IS BEING HACKED AND SPAMMED BY A US TROLLER.\nThis book is a true revelation of the ancient wisdom tradition of our Irish Nation. It shows how we must at all costs protect that sacred culture, the great intellectual foundations of our unique island nation and come to realise that the current globalist ideology emanating from Brussels and from UN headquarters in New York are alien to us and have nothing to offer us but further destitution, pain and national distress.\nThere is also devastating evidence presented here of an earlier holocaust of druids, based upon the ancient Irish manuscript, FELIRE OENGUSSO , by a monkish chronicler in 800 AD as he describes the great sites of the pagans ' ever in burning'.

The Wisdom of the Irish Druids

Ancient Civilizations

Druid Press

All about Town

Genre Fiction

Limerick Writers' Centre

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by McGrath, Michael. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by McGrath, Michael