Leadership and Management: Theory and Practice,
8th Edition

Kris Cole, Jill Noble, Tim Rule, Kim Slingo, Billy Worth

Leadership and Management: Theory and Practice
ISBN-13: 9780170453653
Copyright 2023 | Published
1120 pages | List Price: USD $80.25

Leadership & Management: Theory & Practice, 8e presents the current theory, research and practical application of management and leadership concepts in everyday language and in a context that makes it easy to understand. You will learn models and frameworks that you can use in leadership and management situations, as well as leading-edge information about the science and art of management that you can put into practice in your own way. This market-leading textbook provides you with rigorous information while balancing the key topics with a practical approach, through real-life case studies, examples and problem-solving techniques. The text addresses a comprehensive range of industry types and identifies the transferable skills of leaders and managers. This is a resource for your professional reference library that you will refer to for many years to come.

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Part 1 Understanding your organisation
1. The changing world of work
2. The internal environment
3. The formal organisation
4. The informal organisation

Part 2 Managing yourself
5. Strengthening your personal skills
6. Communicating with influence
7. Presenting information and negotiating persuasively
8. Building effective working relationships
9. Managing your personal productivity

Part 3 Leading and managing others
10. Understanding leadership
11. Understanding engagement motivation and retention
12. Assigning work and delegating duties
13. Building productive work teams
14. Leading today's teams
15. Providing formal and informal performance guidance
16. Managing underperformance

Part 4 Managing operations
17. Managing budgets and financial plans
18. Providing quality and engaging with customers
19. Increasing performance and productivity with the five keys, continuous improvement and innovation
20. Developing, managing and monitoring operational plans
21. Planning and managing projects
22. Identifying and managing risks
23. Managing for sustainability
24. introducing and leading change

Part 5 Workplace practice
25. Leading and attending meetings
26. Solving problems and making decisions
27. Using systematic, analytical tools and techniques
28. Recruiting and inducting and onboarding employees
29. Encouraging a learning environment and developing employees
30. Ensuring a safe and healthy workplace
31. Managing for psychological safety and well being
32. Moving from diversity to inclusion

  • Kris Cole

    Kris Cole is a management consultant, keynote speaker and is an authority on productivity, performance management, leadership and effective communication. Her qualifications include Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Industrial Psychology, a postgraduate Diploma in Manufacturing Technology, and a graduate Certificate in Adult Education. Kris has held management and human resources positions in the engineering, oil, food, and education industries, and established BAX Associates consulting company, providing management training programs to business, government organisations and not-for-profit organisations throughout Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia.

  • Jill Noble

    Jill is an experienced facilitator, author, coach and trainer with over 20 years of international experience in HR, business and in consulting. Her primary focus is personal, professional and career development with new managers, team leaders and leadership groups. Jill has worked with a diverse range of teams and organisations including CAE, Box Hill TAFE, Holmesglen TAFE, Swinburne Professional, City of Greater Bendigo, City of Wellington, Toyota Boshoku, Melbourne Airport, and Melbourne Water. Jill is a keynote speaker and published author of three books which were written for audiences in South Africa, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Jill has also developed content, assessments and facilitated VET qualifications including the Cert IV in Training and Assessment and Cert IV in Career Development and is a currently VET assessor for Swinburne Professional.

  • Tim Rule

    Tim is currently an instructional designer at Swinburne Online, and has previously written learner guides and assessments for RTOs in diverse qualifications. His specialist teaching areas in the VET sector include Business, Business Administration and Management.

  • Kim Slingo

  • Billy Worth

    Billy Worth has worked in business management and ownership globally in a number of industries, including entertainment, hospitality, film-making and tertiary education. He has created learning and assessment resources and end-to-end training solutions for the Australian Tertiary sector for the past fifteen years, and his qualifications are in Hospitality Management, Retail Management, Leadership and Management, Training and Assessment, and Training Design and Development.

  • Content and examples updated to reflect the current environment

  • NEW Premium PowerPoints are included in the Instructor Resource Pack to assist lesson planning and course delivery

  • NEW Transferable skills framework

  • Chapter 22 on Risk Management comprehensively updated to current standard

  • Reflects the current working environment with many new and contemporary examples and statistics. This speaks to the relevance of content for students and saves teachers time in researching

  • Incorporates a transferable skills framework that aligns with the underpinning theme of the text and strengthens the application of the content for students from a range of industry sectors

  • Detailed grids aligning the content of the text with the structure of the competencies addressed

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