(Ebook) Human Relations: Strategies for Success by Lowell Lamberton, Leslie Minor, Demitrius Zeigler ISBN 9781264589302, 1264589301

(Ebook) Human Relations: Strategies for Success by Lowell Lamberton, Leslie Minor, Demitrius Zeigler ISBN 9781264589302, 1264589301

Throughout our years of teaching, administration,running small businesses, and consulting in the fields ofsocial science and organizational behavior, we havebecome increasingly aware of the need for a textbookthat is down to earth, experience based, and grounded insound research and theory. We believe strongly in theimportance of understanding the relationship betweenself-awareness and human relations, and, by extension,the relationship between human relations skills andongoing career success. We encourage building selfawareness,growth, and success skills inside the contextof the real world. What realistic strategies and techniquescan we teach our students to encourage their growth inhuman relations success, on and off the job site? Howcan students tap into the power that comes from workingwell in one-on-one situations, in groups, and inorganizations large and small?This text covers research-based social science andmanagement principles,as well as newer ideas in humanrelations drawn from management theory, group theory,personality theory, and relationship theory. Businessapplications of these theories are included in this text tobring attention to current best practices in these fields.More than ever, effective human relations skills arecrucial to business success when organizations grow andcompete in a global business environment, or when theyarise from small-scale entrepreneurial enterprises.Employees must have the knowledge and skill to adapt toa workplace where change is as frequent as it isinevitable.