MBA Handbook, The: Academic and Professional Skills For Mastering Management, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (December 31, 2020) © 2021

  • Sheila Cameron Open University Business School
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Get the best value out of your MBA studies with this practical course companion

The MBA Handbook, 9th Edition, by Cameron, is a vital resource for MBA and other postgraduate management students to gain maximum learning benefits from their programme. This clearly structured handbook addresses the specific challenges of management study and the transferable skills required to meet these, including:

  • Managing self-time, stress and the risks associated with study
  • Learning and professional development, including reflective and action learning, critical reading and thinking and using data and other evidence
  • Working with others, including teamwork and leadership, group creativity and problem-solving
  • Demonstrating learning, including academic writing for assignments and exams, making presentations, building portfolios, and assessing for and during employment
  • Consultancy, research and project management

With real-life case studies, business examples, new activities and exercises in every chapter, this successful text is designed to prepare and support you early in your studies, at key points during the programme, and well into your subsequent career. It also aids distance learning students and covers issues relating to EFL and ESL students.

Praise for The MBA Handbook

"A practical and thorough handbook, that prepares MBA students to balance work and study." Harriet Richmond, Subject Leader of HRM and Organisational Behaviour, University of Northampton

"The MBA Handbook appropriately introduces theoretical concepts and real-life examples to underpin practice-based exercises and thinking."
Jayne Mothersdale, National Teacher Fellow, Leeds Beckett University

"The main strength is the generic nature of the book. This makes it a very useful "one-stop"resource for MBA students." Dr Angela McGrane, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University

Preface

Acknowledgements

Guided tour

Part 1 Understanding the challenge

  1. Orientation to postgraduate management learning and the role of the handbook
  2. Theory, practice and ethics in management learning

Part 2 Transferable personal skills

  1. Managing yourself and other stakeholders
  2. Managing your time

Part 3 Transferable learning skills

  1. Managing your learning
  2. Professional development
  3. Critical use of ideas and information
  4. Diagrams and infographics
  5. Teamwork, communication and leadership
  6. Case studies, complexity and consultancy
  7. Information from numbers

Part 4 Skills for assessment

  1. Assessment methods, stakeholders and grades
  2. Writing for business and assessment
  3. Effective presentations
  4. Examinations

Part 5 Completing your qualification and using it

  1. Academic and work-based projects, and dissertations
  2. Applying your skills to your career

References and bibliography

Index

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