Management mumbo-jumbo: a sceptics' dictionary
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2006
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| Item Description: | "This book contains about 60 short essays or thought-pieces on management"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XII, 166 S. |
| ISBN: | 1403987025 9781403987020 |
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Preface xi
INTRODUCTION
Fads in
Management science?
Management
Assumptions about people
Conclusion
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
Dom
Energy at work
Engagement to divorce
Evangelists at work
Everyone is a winner
Family
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
Shiftwork
Space exploration
Specialists and generalists I34
Speeches, sermons and seminar presentations
Striking a balance I39
The task and the process
Telephone tell-tales I43
Titular realities I45
Trust at work I47
Uncertainty avoidance I49
Understanding understatement
Why would anyone want to work for you?
Workplace spirituality
CONCLUSION
Manifestos I57
Mantras
Missions
Best-selling author and psychologist, Adrian Furnham, takes a critical
and challenging view of the jargon and current fads in management |
contained in manifestos, mantras and mission statements, and shows
how these often obscure and mystify, in his latest book he turns his
skeptical attention to such topics as atmospherics, blame culture,
compulsory training, fundamentalist gurus, integrity tests, networming,
personality of organizations and uncertainty avoidance.,,«,
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Contents
Preface xi
INTRODUCTION
Fads in
Management science?
Management
Assumptions about people
Conclusion
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
Dom
Energy at work
Engagement to divorce
Evangelists at work
Everyone is a winner
Family
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
Shiftwork
Space exploration
Specialists and generalists I34
Speeches, sermons and seminar presentations
Striking a balance I39
The task and the process
Telephone tell-tales I43
Titular realities I45
Trust at work I47
Uncertainty avoidance I49
Understanding understatement
Why would anyone want to work for you?
Workplace spirituality
CONCLUSION
Manifestos I57
Mantras
Missions
'Best-selling author and psychologist, Adrian Furnham, takes a critical
and challenging view of the jargon and current fads in management |
contained in manifestos, mantras and mission statements, and shows
how these often obscure and mystify, in his latest book he turns his
skeptical attention to such topics as atmospherics, blame culture,
compulsory training, fundamentalist gurus, integrity tests, networming,
personality of organizations and uncertainty avoidance.,,«, |
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