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.

• PART 1: ENHANCING PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS1. The manager’s role and responsibility2. Managing and developing yourselfPART 2: ENHANCING INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS3. Leading and developing others4. Working in teams5. Managing diversity across culturesPART 3: ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS6. Effective decision-making7. Managing strategy8. The execution challengePART 4: ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS9. Achieving results10. The entrepreneurial managerAPPENDIX: A very brief history of effective management.

This highly practical book is relevant to today's dynamic work environment where change, empowerment, leadership, and the entrepreneurial role of managers are core themes. The case studies, insights, and illustrative examples alongside the findings from research make this text a perfect fit for any practice-oriented management course!