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The resilient manager : navigating the challenges of working life
- Title
- The resilient manager : navigating the challenges of working life / Adrian Furnham, Professor of Psychology, University College London, UK.
- Author
- Furnham, Adrian.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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- Description
- x, 237 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction -- Building a team -- A good lunch -- Interview lies -- Job history -- Personality of reference writers -- Poor selection -- Writing a personal statement -- Getting the best out of people -- Absence analytics -- Experiential incentives -- Extraverts -- Facts of life -- Fudging and nudging -- Hire emotionally intelligent people -- Mid-level cadres -- Motivating your staff -- Performance appraisal systems -- Promote at random -- Promotion of the self aware -- Ranking and spanking -- Scientific understanding of the public -- Sconsable offences -- Shapers of destiny -- Talent myth -- The daily grind -- A grim place to work -- Aesthetics at work -- Biscuit hunters, film extras, therapy patients -- Changing places -- Gender at work -- Generations at work 1 -- Generations at work 2 -- Grievances at work -- How "family friendly" can backfire -- Legislation and regulation -- Memory and vision -- Paper trail culture -- Prioritisation -- Slaughter of the innocents -- Violence at work -- Will power -- Working from home -- Social networking -- Sponsorship -- It's all in the delivery : management behaviour -- All the questions and all the answers -- Benefits of adversity -- Bureaucratic punishment -- Conscientiousness -- Difficult conversations -- Family business -- Feeding narcissism -- Good advice -- Lie detectors -- Losing your mindfulness -- Managerially unexplained symptoms -- Marshmallow test -- Narcissistic manager -- Passive aggressiveness -- Risky types -- To be a grown up -- Translator transgressions -- U turns -- Under cover boss -- Learning on the job -- Assessment at work -- Bang for your buck -- Education -- Elite performers -- Honest evaluation -- Narrative skills -- Whatever happened to humility? -- Life beyond -- Dog years -- Drive for money -- Happiness brings wealth -- Mind and soul of the expat -- Regrets -- Sports ethic.
- Call Number
- JBD 14-85
- ISBN
- 9781137361066
- 1137361069
- LCCN
- 2013043643
- OCLC
- 846546389
- Author
- Furnham, Adrian.
- Title
- The resilient manager : navigating the challenges of working life / Adrian Furnham, Professor of Psychology, University College London, UK.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JBD 14-85