Basic Managerial Skills for All, 8th ed., McGrath

The Eighth Edition of this well-established text, while retaining the basic contents and style of the earlier editions, brings in a more logical and more systematic approach to the subject. The assumption of the book is that the human person is by nature a manager and has leadership and managerial skills that can and should be continually developed. These basic skills are: reading, writing, learning, speaking, interviewing, being authentic, training, deciding, problem-solving, managing conflict, and motivation. And in this book, Fr. McGrath, with his masterly skills and wealth of experience, tells how these skills can be fully developed and mastered.

Constant use of pointers, tips, exercises and questionnaires, supplemented by hand drawings, make this book exceptionally reader friendly.

What’s New to this Eighth Edition

 More cohesive and logically ordered presentation of skills ranging from those that are strictly personal, those that explicitly involve other people, to those that are formally managerial.

 Additional exercises and inputs are given in eight sections, most

notably the four new presentation cases and exercises relating to the management of anger and stress.

What the Reviewers Say

Hundreds of managers, teachers, and HRD personnel and others in India and abroad have benefited from this storehouse of practical wisdom, lucidly and creatively written. McGrath is a name, fondly remembered by thousands.

—T.A. MATHIAS, Professor and Former Editor,

Management and Labour Studies, XLRI

Fr. McGrath presents an exhaustive set of skills that I consider absolutely critical for any individual to successfully ‘manage’ life, in general, and his/her profession, in particular. This comprehensive and extremely reader-friendly text is the perfect reference for all types of managers,….

—ARUP VARMA, Associate Professor, Loyola University, Chicago

Extremely good and useful...one of the best in the genre... a great service….

—V. GIRIRAJ, IAS

Basic Managerial Skills is an excellent handbook for young managers and management students. It’s useful reading material for every beginner who aspires to a career in management.

—Prof. BISWAJEET PATTANAYAK, Former Professor, IIM Indore

Fr. McGrath’s book on Basic Managerial Skills has value-addition for Behavioural Scientists for moulding students into ‘thinking induced change behaviour’.

—Prof. PARTHO SAROTHY SENGUPTA, IBAT School of Management