Synopses & Reviews
The purpose of this book is to show you how you can become more effective in your work and personal life through developing your human relations skills. A major theme of this text is that career and personal success are related. Success on the job often enhances personal success, and success in personal life can enhance job success. Though this text is designed to fit human relations courses taught in colleges, career schools, and vocational-technical schools, managerial, professional, and technical workers who are forging ahead in their careers will also find this book immediately useful in improving their workplace and personal relationships.
Outstanding Features:
Integrated Self-Assessment Exercises
Self-assessment exercises are integrated into the text where the topic is discussed providing an opportunity to explore your own opinions, feelings, and behavior patterns.
Wealth of Case Applications
Each chapter contains three cases: a chapter opener sets the stage and two end of chapter scenario-based case assignments where you are asked to “make the call”.
Human Relations in Practice Boxes
These features present a human relations business practice in a real company.
Skill Building Emphasis
End of chapter materials include critical thinking and skill-building exercises that focus on developing skills that you can use today on the job and in your personal life.
Web Resources:
Companion Website
Go to www.prenhall.com/dubrin to find additional web exercises, links to resources and self-grading quizzes for each chapter.
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Review
“The hallmark of this text is the use of many real world examples of human relations issues and practices.”
Darlean McClure, College of the Sequoias
“The self-assessment quizzes are excellent.”
Jim Wilhelm, South Plains College
“I really like …. knowing oneself before you can begin to understand others and the environment around you.”
Jewel Cherry, Forsyth Technical and Community College
“One strength is the readability, second strength is the practical approach, third strength is the summary section, fourth strength concerns the case studies…..” Reginald St. Clair, Mountain Empire Community College
Synopsis
The most significant and expanded revision of it’s history, Human Relations for Career and Personal Success, 8th edition will show readers how they can become more effective in their work and personal life through developing their human relations skills. A major theme of this book is that career and personal success are related. Success on the job often enhances personal success, and success in personal life can enhance job success. Formal and informal communication channels; Interpersonal communication and relationship building; Personality Disorders; Service-Oriented Organizational Citizenship behaviors; Culturally diverse teams; Microinequities; Anger Management; Crisis Management. Managerial, professional and technical workers who are forging ahead in their careers will find this book immediately useful in improving their workplace and personal relationships.
Synopsis
Human Relations for Career and Personal Success: Concepts, Applications, and Skills, Ninth Edition, shows how you can become more effective in your work and personal life through developing your human relations skills. Emphasizing different aspects of human relations, the text covers such topics as career advancement, developing good work habits, and managing stress and personal problems. Though designed to fit human relations courses taught in colleges, career schools, and vocational-technical schools, the text is also ideal for managerial, professional, and technical workers who want to improve their workplace and personal relationships as they forge ahead in their careers.
About the Author
An accomplished author, Andrew J. DuBrin, Ph.D., brings to his work years of research experience in human relations and business psychology. His research has been reported in Entrepreneur, Psychology Today, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Small Biz, and over 100 national magazines and local newspapers. He has published numerous articles, textbooks, and well-publicized professional books. Dr. DuBrin received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and is professor emeritus at the College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology where he has taught organizational behavior, leadership and career management at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Table of Contents
Part I: UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING YOURSELF
Chapter 1: Human Relations and You
Chapter 2: Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence
Chapter 3: Self-Motivation and Self-Discipline
Chapter4: Emotional Intelligence, Attitudes, and Happiness
Chapter 5: Values and Ethics
Chapter 6: Problem Solving and Creativity
Part II: DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH PEOPLE
Chapter 7: Personal Communication Effectiveness
Chapter 8: Communication in the Workplace
Chapter 9: Getting Along with Your Manager, Coworkers, and Customers
Chapter 10: Managing Conflict
Chapter 11: Becoming an Effective Leader
Chapter 12: Motivating Others and Developing Teamwork
Chapter 13: Diversity and Cross-Cultural Competence
Part III: DEVELOPING CAREER THRUST
Chapter 14: Getting Ahead in Your Career
Chapter 15: Learning Strategies, Perception, and Coping with Lifespan Changes
Chapter 16: Developing Effective Work Habits
Part IV: STAYING EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY HEALTHY
Chapter 17: Managing Stress and Personal Problems