The Boss's Survival Guide - Softcover

Rosner,Bob; Halcrow,Allan; Levins,Alan

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9780071362733: The Boss's Survival Guide
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0071362738 ISBN 13: 9780071362733
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2001

Synopsis

In today’s booming economy, there are more jobs than there are qualified people to fill them. Retaining those qualified employees has become a manager’s top priority. Today’s managers not only need to make sure their employees are productive, but also need to make sure their employees remain satisfied and motivated—otherwise employees will leave.

According to recent surveys, what really causes employees to stay or drives them away is “the boss,” and not money or perks. That means that managers need to learn how to manage in ways that will attract qualified workers and make them want to stay. Short on theory and long on hands-on, real-world advice and guidance, this survival guide:


• Tells managers, in plain English, why and how they need to change the way they operate in order to hold on to valued employees
• Covers all the bases, including hiring and orientation, team-building, coaching, setting expectations, painless performance appraisals, and other day-to-day issues
• Features Rosner’s trademark humor— well-known to the tens of thousands of loyal readers of his nationally syndicated column, “Working Wounded”

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About the Author

Bob Rosner is the creator of "Working Wounded," a nationally syndicated column as Web site. Allan Halcrow is publisher and editor-in-chief of Workforce and vice president of ACC Communications.Alan S. Levins is an attorney with Littler Mendelson.

From the Back Cover

Strategies for Managing Today's New Breed of "Their Way or the Highway" Employees

Modern employees are expected­­and eager­­to voice their opinions. ... Average job tenure is now 3.5 years­­and falling. ... Employees demand instant results­­and immediate rewards.

Being a boss in today's MTV attention-span workplace is more frustrating than ever before. It can also be more rewarding. The Boss's Survival Guide provides hands-on, real-world advice on how to hire, motivate, and keep today's higher-educated, lower-loyalty employee. Filled with examples, exercises, checklists and more, it is a step-by-step guidebook for successful twenty-first-century employee management. Refer to it often for invaluable information including:

  • 12 steps to better bossing
  • Different leadership styles for different results
  • Where to find the best job candidates
  • How to structure a job package they won't turn down
  • 10 things to do to keep your best people
  • How to use and manage e-mail appropriately
  • Techniques for coaching, team-building, and setting realistic expectations
  • Ways to effectively discipline­­and terminate­­problem employees
  • and more

Praise for The Boss's Survival Guide ...

"WOW!!!"
­­Tom Peters, author, In Search of Excellence

"This book has everything you'll ever need to know about being an effective boss, but don't have time to learn."
­­Ken Blanchard, Ph.D., coauthor, The One-Minute Manager, Raving Fans, and Gung Ho

"At last, a definitive guide for bosses on the hiring, care, and feeding of employees."

­­Richard N. Bolles
author, What Color Is Your Parachute?

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Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0071362738
ISBN 13 
9780071362733
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
430
Rating
  • 3.43 out of 5 stars
    23 ratings by Goodreads