About the book: 2014 / By typing “Job description of a manager” into a search engine, leading online bookstores will give you a dozen and a half collections of standard job descriptions managers and specialists, written in dry, formal language. In most cases, such literature will be useful for personnel service workers to quickly print out the necessary document at the time of inspection by the labor inspectorate. Purpose of the book: Dmitry Kuvshinov, a practicing manager, founder of his own business, one of the few authors who set out to write a book about how create an informal job description for a manager, useful specifically for management purposes. What's new: When talking about the functions of a manager, educational literature usually refers readers to a management cycle consisting of four (maximum six) blocks. In this book, the author, drawing on his many years of practice, breaks down the work of a manager into eighteen specific management functions, strictly linking them together into a strict sequence of the “managerial eight”. On the pages of this book you will also learn about that side of a manager’s work that usually not covered in textbooks - about the fight against turnover, accidents and events that disturb the management process, in the fight against which a real manager spends a lot of his working time. This is precisely the barrier that in many cases prevents a person from growing up and making his way to the next management level. Who and why is it useful to read: This publication will be very useful for novice department heads, being for them the “first lesson” of management, showing them the path for self-improvement and career growth. For top managers and middle managers, the book will help manage line managers more effectively, tell them which management functions to delegate to them and which ones to keep, assess the completeness and quality of management work. For heads of personnel management services, this book will not only help organize work on the introduction of “really working” job descriptions at the enterprise, but will also allow you to take a fresh look at your role in the management of the company, increase your status in the eyes of the general director, really helping him build up management processes.