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How to deal with your manager

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Overview:: This free textbook can only be downloaded when you provide your email address. The book serves as an introduction to workers to help them understand what a manager does. The book covers the functions and activities that a manager performs so that workers can see how a team cooperates.
Type of Material:: Open Textbook
Recommended Uses:: - Use it as a discussion tool - Use it as a template for application and then a reflection exercise - Use it for a writing assignment or video assignment (video of showing a technique in practice)
Technical Requirements:: Download entire book as PDF from this site.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: - Learn about communication approaches in the workplace - Learning about management techniques - Learning to apply relationship building skills - Understand how to work best with managers
Target Student Population:: - This resource would be useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in management - Would be a strong resource for employee development groups.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: A general understanding of business and management is useful, though not required. Comfort in working with PDF documents is required.

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Strengths:: - Great summary of techniques, in a step by step type of format - Good illustrations of certain techniques where a visual aid is helpful - Shows really good references for follow-up materials if a student wants them - PDF file has clear bookmark section titles. - Material is highly useful across various industries and fields of study.
Concerns:: - Does not identify any specific technique to a resource/reference - Can be high level, needs practical exposure before asking a student to use it - Summary level, may not be to the level for a student to go USE in the workplace right away without context - Slightly dated references

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Strengths:: - Once you provide context in the classroom, this could be a good guide for practical application assignments - Good step by step instructions on models - Very efficient read - a student will not be overloaded by information - Very clear content, provides a lot of lists/ bullet points, a few diagrams for clarity, and clear intention of the material. - The material provided is easily transferable into various tasks and assignments.
Concerns:: - Faculty will have to connect to learning objectives - Faculty will have to provide context for the material in some cases, depending on how much exposure a student has had to the workplace - Faculty will have to make sure that students are getting relationships of conceptual material - The limited visual supports may make some material difficult to grasp.

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Strengths:: - The material is in a simplified format for students and a quick read - The material is visually appealing and has good illustrations - Accessibility is good from a download perspective - The material is crafted in an outline format, which allows for quick access, through the bookmarks, for content. - The tone of the writing is very conversational and avoids complex terminology.
Concerns:: - There are no ADA alternatives for the material - It is not interactive online - no supporting video or audio - Might be a challenge to use without direction from the faculty - As it is a PDF, it is a general assumption that this book is compatible with text to speech and other software.

Other Issues and Comments:: Can be downloaded without a subscription and you do not have to confirm newsletter subscription to download. The only reason you need to confirm your email is if you want to get future notifications of downloads
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