Managing people in a downturn
By: Adrian Furnham
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780230298545
Subjects: Supervision of employees; Management; Personnel management
Description: "A collection of engaging and thought-provoking essays looking at the world of business and management during a recession. Furnham takes a sideways look at some business issues that are often brushed under the carpet and examines recent academic contributions to business literature in an amusing and jargon-free style"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: A Paradox Resolved; title: Ability, Aspiration, Attitude; title: The Abnormal Boss; title: Achieving Staff Engagement; title: The Annual Conference; title: Anti-Management; title: Blind-Date and Speed Dating; title: Bridge Employment; title: Business and the Media; title: The Chain of Happiness; title: Changeability; title: City Survivors Guilt; title: Cock Ups and Cover Ups at Work; title: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate; title: Conspiracy at Work; title: Dark Triads and Toxic Triangles; title: Dealing with Opponents; title: Defending the Self; title: The Disaffected Worker; title: Divergent Thinking; title: Does Coaching Work?; title: Dysfunctional Credentialism; title: Elite Performers; title: Employ-Worthiness; title: Engagement isn't Enough; title: The Entrepreneurial Shift; title: Executive Derailment; title: Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad; title: The Gaff Prone Ceo; title: Good Advice; title: Half A Mo; title: Hire Positive People; title: How Management Style Leads Directly to Profit and Loss; title: How to be Happy; title: The Identification of High Flyers; title: Implicit Assumptions; title: Incentivising Presentism; title: Iq Testing at Work; title: Is Management Getting Harder; title: Life After Lay Off; title: Managerial Educability; title: Managerial In-Experience; title: Neuro-Everything; title: Nice Guys Come Second; title: The Normality of Silos; title: The Offsite Strategy Meeting; title: On the Other Hand; title: The Personality Of Interviewers; title: Political Skills; title: Process, Profit and People; title: Reassuringly Expensive; title: Restorative Justice at Work; title: Sack 'Em All; title: Segmenting the Sat Nav Market; title: Selecting a Prime Minister or President; title: Servant Leadership; title: Seven Steps to Happiness; title: Sex at Work; title: Shapers of Destiny; title: So What is Potential?; title: Spotting Leadership Potential; title: Strong Situations; title: Superego Vs. Super Ego; title: Taking An Hr Exam; title: Three As; title: Three Journeys; title: Time at Work; title: Time Perspectives; title: Time Watching; title: The Unethical Manager; title: Value Clashes; title: The Valuelessness of Knowledge; title: What's The Point of Theory; title: Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur; title: Working Abroad; title: The Young Ceo.