BOSSHANDBOOKS® is a publishing house dedicated to producing user-friendly, practice oriented management training materials for today’s busy manager. This material is suitable for use in corporate-based management training programs, orienting new managers, as a supplemental college text book, or as a supplement to management training seminars presented by professional trainers.

WHY WE EXIST

The average US company spends 50% of its budget on personnel, yet most managers doing personnel supervision have had no significant training in how to do their jobs. Most people promoted into management are recognized and rewarded for their professional competence and then left to their own devices to “figure it out.”

How a company uses its human resources can have a significant impact on the quality of its products and services, the level of productivity, company image, and the bottom line. Personnel are a brain trust, which when properly used, becomes the company’s most critical asset. They interact with customers, hear their concerns, learn about moves made by competitors, all of which are valuable sources of intelligence gathering that keep a company competitive.

The standard of management practice for years has been “top-down.” Top level executives often make decisions without critical information that would greatly improve the quality of their decisions. As a behavioral scientist, Macek has practiced collaborative management through his 30 years in management, mining the wisdom and knowledge of his personnel.

BOSSHANDBOOKS® is devoted to increasing an understanding of how organizations can take advantage of the pooled expertise of their personnel and use that expertise to make their organization thrive.

BOSSHANDBOOKS® will become a resource for busy managers seeking practical, concise, and easy-to-read personnel management information.