Managing People [antikvár]

Preliminaries The manager is someone who has enormous influence in our society. Almost every part of our lives is touched in one way or another by the organisations he runs — whether they are businesses or the agencies of national or local government. We're affected as customers or users of their services, as employees, as managers ourselves (in which case we're still being managed by the people over us). So the way managers manage people isn't justa private matterof each organisation's internal workings. It's something that concerns us all. Managers have a big responsibility to the society that sustains their organisations, a duty to manage people well. How they can do that is the point this book explores. We aren't trying to argue that this is all there is to management, of course. This and the other books in this series aim to put together a broad view of what management is about — a view that is coherent, that makes practical sense for anyone in a management job from the supervisor upwards, and that is reasonably easy reading. It's a view on the manager's role from different angles: his management of work, of people and of money. The first book. What is a Manager? exp\a\ned why we're taking these as the three priorities of management, primarily 1