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30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers: What Your People May Be Thinking and What You Can Do About It
by Bruce L. Katcher, Adam Snyder
Product Group: Book
Publisher: AMACOM (2007-03-07)
ISBN: 0814409156
EAN: 9780814409152
Dewy Decimal #: 658.302
Hardcover: 224 pages
SKU: 07030303
Condition: New as issued no ja
Comments: Trade Paperback. Advance Reading Copy in like new condition. No marks or creases and appears unread. Beautiful book.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Quietly seething...secretly resenting...and ultimately affecting performance, employees negative feelings toward their managers can lurk beneath the surface of even the most pleasant-seeming work relationships. These issues, if gone unchecked, can result in organizational catastrophe. To find out whats really going on, the authors surveyed more than 50,000 employees in 65 organizations of all types and sizes, and discovered the 30 main causes of ill will. This book provides solutions for these fundamental symptoms of employee-manager discomfort, including employees sense that: * they're being treated like children * their contributions aren't respected * their manager doesn't listen to them * senior managers are incompetent * they lack the resources and training they need to do their jobs well * they get insufficient feedback * their pay isn't fairly linked to job performance * they are burdened by heavy workloads or inflexible schedules. Featuring real-life examples, this eye-opening book empowers managers to make their workplaces more productive, congenial, and satisfying for their people and for themselves.
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Book Description
Library Journal's Best Business Books for 2007 strategy+business magazine’s Best Business Books for 2007 Books (category: Human Capital) Quietly seething...secretly resenting...and ultimately affecting performance, employees’ negative feelings toward their managers can lurk beneath the surface of even the most pleasant-seeming work relationships. These issues, if gone unchecked, can result in organizational catastrophe. To find out what’s really going on, the authors surveyed more than 50,000 employees in 65 organizations of all types and sizes, and discovered the 30 main causes of ill will. This book provides solutions for these fundamental symptoms of employee-manager discomfort, including employees’ sense that: * they're being treated like children * their contributions aren't respected * their manager doesn't listen to them * senior managers are incompetent * they lack the resources and training they need to do their jobs well * they get insufficient feedback * their pay isn't fairly linked to job performance * they are burdened by heavy workloads or inflexible schedules. Featuring real-life examples, this eye-opening book empowers managers to make their workplaces more productive, congenial, and satisfying for their people and for themselves.
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Customer Reviews
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"the rest of the story"
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-10-09
this book should be a companion reader to the "OZ principal" in order to "see it" you need to know what your looking for. this book gives good insight to what your workers are thinking and feeling.
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A focus on each issue and how to resolve it
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-06-17
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Over 50,000 employees tell why company morale and productivity are low and loyalty nonexistent in 30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers: What Your People May Be Thinking and What You Can Do About It. In synthesizing the surveys of over 50,000, this book helps pinpoint common problem areas, solutions which apply to the real world and work, and insights on the psychology of these solutions. A focus on each issue and how to resolve it lends practical analysis to the matter, making this a top pick recommended for both managers and business libraries seeking to quickly identify problems and enact changes based not upon time-consuming trial-and-error, but tested real-world experience.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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Great for Employees and Managers Alike
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-06-15
This book is simple, practical and easy to read. Citing data from Discovery Solutions wide normative database created from years of employee surveys, "30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers" highlights many of the more prevelant problems facing management today and offers clear tips and solutions to help make things better.
This book belongs on your bookshelf.
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Uncover management vulnerabilities
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-06-12
This book will be helpful to any manager. Bruce Katcher identifies organizational vulnerabilities that are often unknown to managers and executives. Each of the 30 chapters offers psychological insights and practical solutions to management problems from an outstanding organizational psychologist. I believe that Bruce Katcher's book can be a spring-board for the careers of readers. It presents valuable lessons that could take a life time to learn.
Mark Campbell, Author, "Five Gifts of Insightful Leaders"
www.mjcampbellassoc.com
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sensible workplace solutions
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-06-11
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
The fact is that most employees don't really hate their managers. But lots of them are frustrated. In this glass-half-empty book, veteran organizational psychologist Bruce L. Katcher plumbs the survey research he has gathered over almost two decades to distill the 30 biggest frustrations of working men and women, including managers. More importantly, for each frustration he cites, Katcher offers up solutions that are as easy to implement as they are sensible. The wonder is that solutions like these are not more widely practiced. With books like this pointing the way, maybe one day they will be.
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