Simple, Sensible Management:
The Principles and Practice of Managing People

by Robert H. Kent, Ph.D.

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   a pdf format e-text published by Pragma Press, 2009, 373 pages.

Need To Improve Your Organization's Productivity and Ability to Execute?
Here's a remarkably practical book that gives management
the tools to do it successfully!!

Simple Sensible Management was written for anyone who wants practical answers and proven techniques for successfully implementing their initiatives, executing their plans and managing their people.  This text details the Mansis Performance Management System, an integrated systematic approach towards performance management, developed from years of research and experience and currently used in many manufacturing, service and government organizations.

This book explains the background principals and then the application of this practical management model, so that the reader can actually go out and do it.  Rather than another flavour of the month, this is the fundamental core of management missing in so many organizations.

Contents include:

• the principles of managing people
• a universal performance management model;
• tools for result-based and behavior-based direction including role clarification;
• detailed "how to do it" coaching skills for resolving any performance problems;
• unique performance feedback and review processes;
• documentation processes and sample forms;
• detailed guides for implementing the System into your organization;
• examples of applications such as employee empowerment and team building.

Sample Reviews of previous editions:

"This is essential reading for all entrepreneurs and people managers. I enjoyed the logical process of The Mansis System and the way in which Dr. Kent weaved in the powerful elements of managing individual behaviors. Our employees are hidden balance sheet items, and properly guided and coached, significantly impact a successful income statement. The Mansis System is the tool to guide us all."

-- Dennice M. Leahey, Senior Vice President, Royal Bank of Canada

"This book is a significant piece of reading for all managers. Although the book is not written in an academic style, the concepts are all scientifically sound.  I like the fact that the text places the emphasis for better management on managers themselves, and not on employees.  All too often I find that managers want some easy answer to "fix" a particular employee.  This text puts responsibility right where it belongs — on the shoulders of the manager."

-- Dr. Jerry L. Gray, Dean of the Faculty of Management, University of Manitoba

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