For undergraduate courses in Human Relations, Applied Psychology, Human Relations in the Workplace, Career Development; also appropriate for a course in Interpersonal Skills Training. Accomplished author and national speaker, Andrew J. DuBrin brings his expertise of Human Relations and Business Psychology to this exciting Twelfth edition. Focusing on today's work environment, the book takes a two-pronged approach that improves interpersonal skills by first presenting basic concepts and then by featuring a heavy component of skill development and self-assessment. Human Relations: Job-Oriented Skills 12e is not just a textbook. The twelfth edition includes a wealth of experiential exercises, including new cases and self-assessment quizzes that can be completed in class or as homework. This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. Here's how: * Relate Concepts to What's Happening Today, Personally and in the Workplace: Give students hands-on ways to develop practical human relations skills and stay involved in class.* Reinforce Concepts and Build Skills: Proven pedagogy, exercise sets, and end-of-chapter material are all geared towards ensuring students grasp the concepts. * Keep your Course Current and Relevant: New examples, research findings, and examples appear throughout the text. Twelve of the case openers and twenty-four cases are new.

Discusses the use of effective political techniques for surviving in the corporate world, offering proven strategies for gaining power and visibility and examples of courses of action and solutions for various office scenarios.

The eighth edition of LEADERSHIP helps you understand leadership principles and hone your own leadership skills through a thoughtful balance of essential theory and real-world applications. The text provides a strong practical foundation by introducing leaders you can relate to and reinforcing your knowledge with frequent skill-building activities. Key updates include new opening vignettes and end-of-chapter cases, numerous additional skill-building exercises, and new research findings presented in each chapter. In addition, LEADERSHIP is available with MindTap for the first time. A fully online learning solution, MindTap combines all of a student's learning tools-interactive self-assessments, readings, multimedia, activities, and assessments-into a singular Learning Path that guides the student through the curriculum.

A practical, skill-building approach to teaching leadership, LEADERSHIP provides an ideal balance of essential theory and real-world applications.