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Management Practice Essentials

About the Book Series

This series of shortform textbooks has been developed to align with and support the Level 7 Senior Leader Master’s Degree Apprenticeship (SLMDA). Each book concentrates on a key element of the SLMDA Standard and therefore covers a core essential of management practice. The series is centred around critical reflection on the underlying assumptions the individual leader or manager might make and their current practice, and collectively designed to enhance leadership knowledge, skills and behaviours. An ideal approach for any executive education course delivered through blended learning, and a useful alternative or supplement to traditional textbooks for a range of postgraduate Business & Management modules, the books:

  • Combine theory and practice – providing students with knowledge and critical understanding of the theories, concepts and principles of leading organisations and focusing on the practical application and execution of these concepts;

  • Are experience-led - providing students with the opportunity to develop their intellectual, practical and transferable skills and behaviours necessary to successfully analyse, develop and manage organisations.

  • Include features to aid learning and understanding, such as chapter objectives, summaries, reflective questions and additional PowerPoint slides and cases available online.

4 Series Titles


Strategic Commercial Management

Strategic Commercial Management

1st Edition

By David Lowe
June 30, 2025

Commercial acumen is a critical skill that underpins the realisation of successful and high-value trading relationships. This concise textbook provides knowledge of the principles of strategic commercial management together with a framework for critically understanding commercial practice within ...

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

1st Edition

By Mike Kennard
October 07, 2024

The effective management of innovation and entrepreneurship is vitally important for managers, organisations and governments. This concise textbook examines strategic approaches and concepts relevant for the effective management of innovation and entrepreneurship, supported by practical insights ...

Managing Projects

Managing Projects

1st Edition

By Alec Waterworth, Carl Gavin
May 15, 2024

Managing Projects serves as a comprehensive guide to the practice of project management, offering insights and methodologies useful to both novices and seasoned practitioners. Each chapter is dedicated to a key component of project management, taking the reader through each stage involved in ...

Reflexive Leadership in Context

Reflexive Leadership in Context

1st Edition

By Paul Evans
May 31, 2023

This concise textbook seeks to unpack the real-life complexities of leadership by examining the theories and models surrounding it and encouraging self-analysis in the individual’s own contexts. The book: Provides an outline  of the various perspectives of leadership theory; Develops a ...

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