Good People, Bad Managers

How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-065239-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 133 mm x 207 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

Reihe: OXFORD UNIV PR

What's worse than a bad manager who everybody knows is bad? A bad manager who is well-intentioned and considered to be good. Yet these well-intentioned bad managers make up the bulk of management today. How did that happen? How did so many of today's managers end up with a self-preservation mindset that doesn't always translate to a productive and mission-oriented environment? How did so many good people become wedded to a work culture that saps morale, well-being and performance at both the individual and organizational levels?

an the well-intentioned doling it out realize. and even In Good People, Bad Managers: How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions, author Samuel A. Culbert sheds a light on the bad habits that are routinely followed by these well-intended managers. Managers need to understand the causes of their misguided practices. They need to become more aware of the damage they inflict, and the hollowness of the rationales they use to justify what they do. Company leaders, CEOs, and top-tier managers must become aware of how they have gone astray as a first step in implementing the truly beneficial management mentality that their companies, their managers and their employees require to succeed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Culbert, Samuel A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Kognitivismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Humanistische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Behaviourismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword by Henry Dubroff

- PART I: What's Going On?

- Chapter 1 Time to Face It: Bad Management is the Norm

- Chapter 2 Doublethink: How Managers Convince Themselves Bad Behavior is Good Managing

- Chapter 3 What People Skills Do Managers (Actually) Acquire?

- PART II: Is Bad Management Here to Stay?

- Chapter 4 Why Managers Feel So Very Vulnerable

- Chapter 5 How Managers Self-Protect

- Chapter 6 What Prevents Good Management

- PART III: What Can Be Done?

- Chapter 7 Overcoming Cultural Resistance to Good Management

- Chapter 8 Getting Company Supports for Good Management

- Chapter 9 Consciousness-Raising to Promote Other-Directedness in Management

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel A. Culbert is an award winning author, researcher, and professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. His laboratory is the world of work where he puts conventional managerial assumptions under a microscope to uncover and replace dysfunctional practices. Widely recognized as a candid speaking expert and theoretician, he is author most recently of Get Rid of the Performance Review and Beyond Bullsh*t. SmartMoney Magazine named Beyond Bullsh*t to its 2008 list of ten top reads. Dr. Culbert is winner of a McKinsey Award for an article published in the Harvard Business Review, is a frequent contributor to management journals, and has authored numerous chapters in leading management books. His other authored and co-authored books include The Organization Trap, The Invisible War: The Pursuit of Self-Interests at Work, Radical Management, Mind-Set Management, and Don't Kill the Bosses!.