Bad Apples
How to Manage Difficult Employees, Encourage Good Ones to Stay, and Boost Productivity
Published on 18. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-60550-004-1 (ISBN)
Description
Unlike other career books, this book offers managers a team-focused approach to neutralizing a not-so-pleasant?or productive?working atmosphere. Instead of isolating the one problem employee, relevant teams are considered as part of the solution. The result? Solutions stick and there's less likelihood of the bad apple ruining the bunch.
Complete with situational advice and case studies taken straight from the trenches, this simple and straightforward guide teaches managers how to:
Calm down combatants
Motivate wasters
Silence gossips
De-arm backstabbers
Convince passive-aggressives to open up
Teach narcissists the importance of the team
This book helps managers decide what the right course of action is?whether it means chastising negative behavior, encouraging positive outlooks, separating certain folks, creating teams for success, giving employees warnings, and/or firing the ones who are pretty much rotten through and through. This book is essential reading for any manager looking to ensure a pleasant, productive?and fruitful?work environment.
Complete with situational advice and case studies taken straight from the trenches, this simple and straightforward guide teaches managers how to:
Calm down combatants
Motivate wasters
Silence gossips
De-arm backstabbers
Convince passive-aggressives to open up
Teach narcissists the importance of the team
This book helps managers decide what the right course of action is?whether it means chastising negative behavior, encouraging positive outlooks, separating certain folks, creating teams for success, giving employees warnings, and/or firing the ones who are pretty much rotten through and through. This book is essential reading for any manager looking to ensure a pleasant, productive?and fruitful?work environment.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Holbrook, MA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
366 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60550-004-1 (9781605500041)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Terrence Sember | Brette Sember
Bad Apples
How to Manage Difficult Employees, Encourage Good Ones to Stay, and Boost Productivity
E-Book
05/2009
Adams Media
€2.96
Available for download
Persons
Brette McWhorter Sember, JD, is the author of the children's book Quiz Book 3: Three Times the Fun. Sember has also taught an online course for Barnes and Noble University called Responsible Credit Card Spending. The mother of two children, Sember is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). A former attorney, she also has had extensive experience working with children in her role as a law guardian in four counties in New York.
Content
Complete with situational advice and case studies taken straight from the trenches, this simple and straightforward guide teaches managers how to:; Calm down combatants; Motivate wasters; Silence gossips; De-arm backstabbers; Convince passive-aggressives to open up; Teach narcissists the importance of the team.