Effective Management: Developing Yourself, Others and Organizations

PART 1: ENHANCING PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS.- 1. The manager's role and responsibility.- 2. Managing and developing yourself.- PART 2: ENHANCING INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS.- 3. Leading and developing others.- 4. Working in teams.- 5. Managing diversity across cultures.- PART 3: ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS.- 6. Effective decision-making.- 7. Managing strategy.- 8. The execution challenge.- PART 4: ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS.- 9. Achieving results.- 10. The entrepreneurial manager.- APPENDIX: A very brief history of effective management.

Dr. Dietmar Sternad is Professor of International Management and Program Director of the International Business Management master's degree at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences / Fachhochschule Kärnten (Austria). Dietmar teaches several management and leadership-related subjects at undergraduate, graduate, and executive level. He has also given lectures at universities and business schools in Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Slovenia, is an alumnus of the IMTA (CEEMAN) and GloColl (Harvard Business School) management teachers' programs, and has received several national and international awards for creating case-based teaching materials (e.g. from the Academy of Management and Emerald Publishing) and for teaching quality (he was the first management professor ever to receive the Austrian State Prize for Teaching Excellence "Ars docendi"). In his prior managerial career, Dietmar was Managing Director and Publisher of one of Austria's leading trade book publishing groups and the CEO of Slovenia's highest-circulation daily newspaper. He also contributed to the founding of a market-leading cooking website. He is a strategy consultant and has developed and led several in-house executive leadership education programs for multinational enterprises.