Bad Apples
How to Manage Difficult Employees, Encourage Good Ones to Stay, and Boost Productivity
Published on 18. May 2009
256 pages
978-1-4405-1427-2 (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:
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
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Terrence Sember | Brette Sember
Bad Apples
How to Manage Difficult Employees, Encourage Good Ones to Stay, and Boost Productivity
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06/2009
Adams Media Corporation
€18.70
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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.
