The talented manager
Subtitle: 67 gems of business wisdom
By: Adrian Furnham, Professor of Psychology, University College London, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780230369740
Subjects: Business etiquette; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management; Success in business; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Etiquette; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Communication / General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture; Business communication
Description: "In this new collection of articles on talent acquisition and retention, Adrian Furnham, author of The Elephant in the Boardroom, offers an engaging and witty look into the world of the talented manager. Based on solid research, this book offers a substantial introduction to the importance of talent in the workplace"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: A Walk in the Woods; title: Aberrant Self-Promotion at Work; title: Aesthetics at Work; title: All the Questions and All the Answers; title: Appraisal Systems; title: Beware of Creatives; title: Blame Storming; title: Career Success; title: Change; title: Charlatan Detection; title: Could do Better; title: Different Perspectives; title: Does Coaching Work?; title: Evidence at Work; title: Expansion; title: Faking It; title: Face-ism and Shape-ism at Work; title: Food at Work; title: Gender and Job Satisfaction; title: Hating HR; title: How Management Style Leads Directly to Profit and Loss; title: Improving References; title: Incentive Schemes; title: Inspirational Teachers; title: Interview Techniques; title: Lie Detectors; title: Loafers, Suckers and Free-Riders; title: The Obsolescent CEOM; title: Market Research; title: Mentoring at Work; title: Money as a Motivator; title: Nutters at Work; title: Peanuts and Monkeys; title: Power and Status in Organisations; title: Processes, Profit and People; title: Protecting Vulnerable Customers; title: Quant Jocks and Qual Jills; title: Recognition Programmes that don't Work; title: Religion at Work; title: Resilience and Hardiness; title: Resistance to Change; title: Seven Lessons for Appraisal; title: Showing off the CEO; title: Smart Arses; title: Spirituality at Work; title: Striving for Power; title: Surveillance at Work; title: Taking Care and Taking Charge; title: Taking Offence; title: The Catch Phrase Technique; title: The Content of Job Advertisements; title: The Dangers of Forecasting; title: The Drive for Money; title: The Emotional Contract at Work; title: The Leader Profit Chain; title: The Legacy Problem; title: The Narcissistic Manager; title: The Hyper-moral Obsessive; title: The Scientific Understanding of the Public; title: The Work EthicTo do a PhD; title: What is Conscientiousness?; title: Whistle Blowing at Work; title: Wit at Work; title: Writing as Therapy; title: Writing Your Own Obituary.