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Management: Tools for Being a Better Manager

“Management” is such a broad and vague term, but at its core management entails the fine art of supervising other people. Whether you’re a high-level executive, run a small business, or work in middle or lower management, the job of managing people involves many pitfalls and challenges. In this Web Guide we recommend the best places on the Internet to get general management advice. You’ll learn about hiring and firing, explore motivation and team building, and find some great blogs and forums on management.

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General Management Advice

As a manager, you have your work cut out for you: you have to build a workforce, cultivate it, ... read more »

Interviewing and Hiring Employees

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Promoting, Firing, and Performance Evaluations

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Employee Motivation

One of the most important talents a manager can have is the ability to motivate his or her workers and create a more enjoyable and productive workplace. Learn how to create cohesion through team building exercises and potent managing with the Web sites on employee motivation we recommend below.

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There are plenty of companies that specialize in team building, and you can purchase their services. Some of the sites in this section do, in fact, offer such services or other products, but all the sites below have great free information available.

A manager is a leader. If you search the Internet for sites on becoming a better leader, you’ll likely encounter some valuable information for your vocation.

First, Break All the Rules is a valuable book examining the practices of successful managers in all kinds of industries and levels, with great insight on motivation and leadership.

Wooden on Leadership, by John Wooden, discusses how to cultivate your leadership skills as a manager and how to instill a powerful work ethic in your employees.

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Harvard Business School explains the main reason workers become dissatisfied with their jobs. Discover the steps managers must take to alleviate the common drop in employee morale after the first six months at a new job.

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AllBusiness.com offers “Ten Tips on Improving Employee Motivation.” After reading this helpful introduction, explore some related articles, blogs, videos and forums listed below the main article.

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Accel-Team provides a number of Web pages on employee motivation. Read about the theories and theorists behind worker motivation and team building, from individuals such as Douglas McGregor and Abraham Maslow. Learn how to implement some of these strategies, how to manage employee rewards, and more. Use the “Next” links on the bottom of each page to read on.

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GovLeaders.org is dedicated to making better leaders and managers in public service, but even those who work in the private sector can probably glean valuable information from this source. Find articles on leadership, employee motivation, and “leading from the middle.” Also read some “inspiring stories of leadership” and find quotes from accomplished individuals.

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Inc.com is loaded with articles about motivating workers, organized into six sections: “Corporate Culture,” “Morale Boosters,” “Recognition,” “Non-Cash Incentives,” “Motivation by Compensation,” and “Creating a Fun Workplace.” Find a number of articles written by a variety of respected authors in the field.

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