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These links are ready-made searches in the Library Catalog for Mentoring Program topics.  

If you are using a City computer and having difficulty reaching the Catalog, please call the Help Desk at 2900 for assistance. 

• Mentoring
• Supervision of Employees
• Leadership
  This link is a subject search that you can narrow yourself; there are even more aspects to leadership than there are leaders.
• Organizational Politics
  • see Office Politics
  • see Organizational Behavior
  • see Bureaucracy
• Employee Development
  • see Career Development
  • see Employees, Training of
• Delegation
  • Delegation of Authority
  • Employee Empowerment
  • Decentralization in Management
• Budget
  • Tempe Budget page on the intranet: http://www1.tempe.gov/budget/
  • Tempe's Office of Management and Budget on public web page /budget/
  • Books about appropriations and expenditure (all levels of government)
• Projecting/Forecasting
  This link is a subject search that you can narrow yourself; there are a lot of different aspects to projecting and forecasting.
• Networking and Relationships
  • Business Networks (among people)
  • Social Networks
  • Other kinds of "networking" to consider:
    • Interorganizational Relations
    • Bureaucracy
• Time Management
• Prioritizing Workflow and Multi-Tasking
  these are examples of jargon used in the field but not in Library of Congress subject listings.  Try Efficiency or Productivity, instead.

Book Alert

An annotated listing of recently published, work-related reading for City of Tempe employees

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