An excellent primer for a new manager or a refresher for the old dogs who forgot that sincere caring is the foundation for good management and good employee performance. The authors, Spencer Johnson and Kenneth H. Blanchard, combine this with three fundamental ways to interact with your subordinates that are of short duration, but over time create healthy and rewarding relationships yielding high performance. Buy Book
A
collection of eight individual reprints of Harvard Business Review
articles written by a different author(s) exploring common management
issues, offer research and analysis on common conceptions about
managing people. The eight wide ranging topics are easy to read
and to which the manager will readily relate. Buy Book
Management 
An excellent primer for a new manager or a refresher for the old dogs who forgot that sincere caring is the foundation for good management and good employee performance. The authors, Spencer Johnson and Kenneth H. Blanchard, combine this with three fundamental ways to interact with your subordinates that are of short duration, but over time create healthy and rewarding relationships yielding high performance. 
A
collection of eight individual reprints of Harvard Business Review
articles written by a different author(s) exploring common management
issues, offer research and analysis on common conceptions about
managing people. The eight wide ranging topics are easy to read
and to which the manager will readily relate.