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About this book
In this new collection of articles on managing and being managed, Adrian Furnham, author of Bad Apples, offers an engaging and witty look into the world of being an engaging manager. Based on strong research this book offers a substantial introduction to the joy of management.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- A good send-off
- A victim of downsizing
- A work prenup
- Acting the part
- Action and reaction
- Alumni activities
- Assessing management potential
- Boss intolerance
- Capacity and performance
- Change
- Computer pains
- Cupid among the cubicles
- The dark side of happiness
- Don't feed the trolls
- Double demotivation
- Early adopters
- Entrepreneurial managers
- Expatocracy
- Fashion victims
- Female negotiators
- Gendered wording in job ads
- Green work places
- Hourly payments
- How to get a job
- Hypocrisy at work
- I'm OK
- The importance of conscientiousness
- Journeys to work
- Leap year antics
- The marshmallow test
- Motivating your staff
- Mystery shoppers
- Negotiation skills
- Off duty
- Passive aggressiveness
- Pathetic prizes
- Pay at work
- The personalities of referees
- The power of priming
- Real merit pay
- Relationship building
- Religion at work
- Retail detail
- Rigor versus relevance
- Safety at work
- Sconceable offenses
- Self-awareness
- Serious assessment
- Sex at work
- Silo-itis
- Smells at work
- Splitting at work
- Staff surveys
- Survey results
- Switching off after work
- They mess you up, your supervisor and boss
- Truth in interviews
- Under- and over-staffed
- The undeserving rich
- Why go to university?
- Why change programs don't work
- Willpower
- Work and longevity
- Workaholism
- You're so vain