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About this book
Bestselling author and psychologist, Adrian Furnham, takes a critical view of the jargon and fads in management contained in manifestos and mission statements and shows how these often obscure and mystify. He considers atmospherics, compulsory training, fundamentalist gurus, integrity tests, personality of organizations and uncertainty avoidance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- MANAGEMENT MUMBO-JUMBO
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Ability and ambition
- Above the line
- All interventions are equally effective
- Atmospherics
- Awards, citations and gongs
- The blame culture
- Breaking bad news
- The bright boss
- Casuistry, sophistry and spin
- Choosing management courses
- Compulsory training
- Correcting cock-ups
- The curse of perfectionism
- Damned if you do and . . . don’t
- Dom and sub
- Energy at work
- Engagement to divorce
- Evangelists at work
- Everyone is a winner
- Family business
- From private to public
- Fundamentalist gurus
- The gullible executive
- How not to use consultants
- Human remains
- Incommunicado
- The incubation period
- Inoculating the workforce
- Integrity tests
- Job fit in plain speak
- Living in Sweden
- Managing the post-materialist employee
- Management psychiatry
- Money as a motivator
- Nepotism, corruption and incompetence
- Networming
- Nyet: stopping progress
- Odd places: university management
- Orality at work
- Organizational defense mechanisms
- Passive–aggressive bureaucrats
- The personality of organizations
- Professional recruiters
- Protecting your legacy
- A psychological MOT
- Rank sensitivity
- Recruitment to betrayal
- A rock and a hard place
- Seeking the savior
- Shift work
- Space exploration
- Specialists and generalists
- Speeches, sermons and seminar presentations
- Striking a balance
- The task and the process
- Telephone tell-tales
- Titular realities
- Trust at work
- Uncertainty avoidance
- Understanding understatement
- Why would anyone want to work for you?
- Workplace spirituality
- Conclusion
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