Building Teams, Building People: Expanding the Fifth Resource

by Thomas R. Harvey, Bonita M. Drolet

Overview

Here is an update of the previous edition, more relevant for the new millennium. The classic resources in management and team building are people, money, facilities and time. Increasingly, though, the fifth resource_energy_is becoming more crucial. Each chapter of this book deals with one of the five building blocks or resources and concludes with suggested activities and events that managers can use to build that resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578861415
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/18/2004
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Thomas R. Harvey is a professor of Organizational Leadership in the doctoral program at the University of La Verne in La Verne, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He has been the dean of Organizational Management and chairman of the Department of Educational Management for 14 years. He has consulted with over 400 businesses, schools, and public institutions, as well as having been a City Councilman for 20 years. Harvey is the author of Strategies for Significant Survival, Checklist for Change (1995, ScarecrowEducation), and co-author of The Practical Decision Maker (1997, ScarecrowEducation).

Bonita Drolet is an assistant superintendent of Educational Services for the Encinitas Union School District in San Diego County, California. Previously, she was an elementary principal in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District in Orange County, California. She honed her passion for improving education while serving as a principal in Ontario, California and Charter Oak, California before moving to Bryant Ranch School. At Bryant Ranch, a National Blue Ribbon School, she was able to actualize the creation and implementation of the ideas and strategies found in Building Teams, Building People.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Note to the Reader Chapter 3 1 Premises Chapter 4 2 Characteristics of Effective Teaching Chapter 5 3 Setting Norms Chapter 6 4 Managing Conflict Chapter 7 5 Dealing with Difficult People Chapter 8 6 Teams and Politics Chapter 9 7 Endowing People with Power Chapter 10 8 Inspiring Intrapreneurship Chapter 11 9 Connecting the Blocks Chapter 12 Appendix: Belief and Vision Statement Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 About the Authors