Adrian Furnham (UK University College London)

The 3D Manager

Dangerous, Deranged and Derailed

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is not uncommon to come across managers who can't manage and who are a liability to themselves, their staff and their companies. This text is for those who deal with them and takes the form of short essays on managerial dilemmas arranged as in a dictionary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 233mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781861562517
• ISBN-10: 1861562519
• Artikelnr.: 54608549

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Introduction.

A

Ageism in business

Assessment centres.

B

Business-babble and politicalcorrectness.

Business consultants as psychotherapists.

C

Career counselling.

Competencies in the newmillennium.`

Conferences.

Creating the right impression.

Creative workers.

D

Detecting liars.

E

Emotionality atwork.

Employee theft: causes and cures.

The equity contract.

The ethical business person.

Experience is a poor teacher.

The ex-pat.

F

Fads and fashions in business.

Feedback, not feedbag.

Fight the good fight.

Focus groups.

G

Going absent.

H

Help in a crisis: the bystander effect

How to be a good client.

Humour at work.

I

Intelligence at work

J

Job satisfaction.

K

Key result areas.

M

Meetings.

Money and happiness.

N

Nothing works: the wisdom of fatalism.

O

Organizational betrayal.

Organizational surveys.

Over and under-staffing: big companies, small company.

P

Place-dropping.

Playing your cards right.

Pleasing parents at work?

Pluralistic ignorance.

The psychology of change.

Q

Questionnaires.

R

Rating scales.

Research.

S

Self-esteem: too much and too little.

Serious selection.

Spiritual intelligence.

Sweatshop to virtual organization.

T

The toxic boss.

The trauma of retirement.

U

Under-performers and how to manage them

The uptake of innovation.

V

Values at work.

Virtual teams at virtual work.

W

Wastebasketry, shredding and recycling.

What is O.B.?

Why England.

Work ethic.

Work rage.

Working for monsters.

Writers die young.

X

Xmas parties.