This is a practical skills text with a sound theoretical base and activities to unleash students' potential as they face the challenges of the world.

Dr Eric CCK Chan, Regent's University London

Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students is extremely clear, well considered, and covers a very good range and variety of key skills areas, with a very friendly approach.

Joel Arnott, University of Sunderland

This is a very useful, practical textbook which covers a variety of relevant concepts and skills. It delivers theoretical overviews alongside the opportunity to engage through practical activities.

Dr Epaminondas Koronis, University of Westminster

Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students is a comprehensive, one-stop guide to the skills needed to bring you success, both throughout university and in your future career. Covering all the core areas associated with business and management degrees, this text offers a unique focus on employability to guide your development into a future employee who can lead but who is also a team player, who is flexible and creative, well-versed in problem-solving skills, and who is self-aware and resilient under pressure - all skills that employers are looking for in today's business world. Now in its fourth edition, a new chapter on wellbeing makes this text more relevant than ever. This chapter guides your development of healthy mental and physical resilience, which are needed both at university and in the world of work. The importance of critical reflection is also emphasized by a new 'Stop and Reflect' feature, which acts as a checkpoint to help you absorb the content on a more personal and practical level. Packed with individual and group activities and 'skills examples', as well as the real insights into the professional world offered by the 'practitioner viewpoints', the focus of this text is firmly on active experimentation and thoughtful, guided reflection. Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students remains unparalleled as a resource to support, encourage, and develop business and management students throughout their time at university and beyond. An exciting development for this new edition, the enhanced e-book offers an even more flexible and engaging way to learn: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks This book is accompanied by the following online resources: For students Self-test multiple choice questions with formative feedback Selected activities from the text (including templates to complete online) Answer guidance for selected activities and exercises in the book Additional resources including practical worksheets, a critical incidents log, and an Excel workbook to provide additional support in areas such as constructing pie charts, bar charts, and line charts. Guidance for using Excel in data analysis Web links Flashcard glossary For lecturers PowerPoint presentations
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Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students is the only skills companion text for business and management students to blend practical, hands-on advice with a sound theoretical underpinning to enhance your success throughout university and beyond.
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Introduction: Setting the scene: study, workplace, and development skills 1: Developing skills for business and management students 2: Understanding how you learn 3: Time management and personal development planning 4: Communication principles 5: Teamwork skills 6: Reading and searching for information 7: Developing a critical approach 8: Writing essentials: preparation, layout and structure 9: Presentation skills 10: Measurement and management - quantitative data and its presentation 11: Creativity 12: Wellbeing: looking after yourself and others 13: Career preparations
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Dr Kevin Gallagher is an Associate Lecturer at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University.
Highly accessible, hands-on, and user-friendly, with the theoretical rigour required to help students make the transition from school to university quickly and effectively. Features a multitude of individual and group activities which follow on from examples in the text to further support students to apply their understanding in practical ways. Focuses upon the process of becoming a graduate as well as developing skill sets, to help students look forward and prepare for entering the job market. Links study skills with the development and enhancement of emotional intelligence, leading students to more well-rounded, personal development. The book's reflective approach nurtures confidence and promotes independent learning.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198809883
Publisert
2022
Utgave
4. utgave
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
643 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
190 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
370

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Biografisk notat

Dr Kevin Gallagher is an Associate Lecturer at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University.