The Mansis System: Common Sense Management For Everyone

                            by Robert H. Kent, Ph.D., CMC

                 Published by Pragma Press, 1996, 320 pages.

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

For the first time, a unique management system is explained in detail in: The Mansis System: Common Sense Management for Everyone.  This new management book was written especially for practicing managers, executives and organizational leaders who want practical answers and proven techniques for successfully implementing their initiatives. The Mansis System is an integrated performance management system, developed from years of research and experience and is currently used in many manufacturing, service and government organizations in Canada.

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

Contents include:

• A universal performance management model;
• tools for result-based and behavior-based direction including role clarification;
• employee self-monitoring processes;
• 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, team building, and TQM;

The Mansis System is a performance management system that any organization, from small and large businesses and government to volunteer agencies can use to organize and manage its people. With this powerful tool, you can eliminate the guesswork about what's expected from people and how they are performing. Management will have effective tools to reward and coach employees to high levels of performance. Use The Mansis System to make sure your organization is progressing according to plan.

Developed from two decades of field research, The Mansis System is made up of processes, interpersonal procedures, supplementary tools, as well as specially designed forms for helping all members of your organization clarify performance expectations, resolve and prevent performance problems, successfully perform their day-to-day duties, and maintain a proper data base of employee performance.

More significantly, The Mansis System can be a powerful instrument of change, involving all members of your organization in defining and creating its future, while at the same time providing an effective process for balancing the inherent tensions between empowerment and personal accountability, between top-down direction and creativity, and between personal freedom and achieving organizational goals.

Sample Reviews:

"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

Order your own copy now and begin to learn how common sense management principles and procedures can make the job of management easier and more effective.

Cost: $129.00 plus GST (includes shipping). Please send cheque or money order payable to:

The Mansis Development Corporation

18 Chatsworth Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada   R2J 3K9

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