Bad Apples: How to Manage Difficult Employees, Encourage Good Ones to Stay, and Boost Productivity
Language: English
Published by Adams Media Corporation, 2009
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Offers managers a team-focused approach to neutralising a not-so-pleasant working atmosphere. This title helps managers decide what the right course of action is - whether it means chastising negative behavior, encouraging positive outlooks, separating certain folks, and/or firing the ones who are pretty much rotten through and through.
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- Title
- Bad Apples: How to Manage Difficult Employees, Encourage Good Ones to Stay, and Boost Productivity
- Author
- Terrence Sember
- Publisher
- Adams Media Corporation
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1605500046
- ISBN 13
- 9781605500041
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.
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