Working the Shadow Side: A Guide to Positive Behind-the-Scenes Management (Jossey-Bass Management)

Egan, Gerard

ISBN 10: 0787900117 / ISBN 13: 9780787900113

Published by Jossey-Bass, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Working the Shadow Side: A Guide to Positive Behind-the-Scenes Management (Jossey-Bass Management)
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787900117
• ISBN 13: 9780787900113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Offers managers, consultants, and employees alike a practicalstarter kit that reveals how to identify, manage, and gain valuefrom the below-the surface activities in an organization. Drawingon his worldwide consulting, teaching, and research experience,Gerard Egan shows how to create opportunity and competitiveadvantage by learning how to manage shadow-side realities. Heidentifies five interactive categories of behavior that affect bothproductivity and quality of work life in today'sorganizations--covert culture, the idiosyncrasies of individuals,the interactions of the organization's social system, institutionalpolitics, and the hidden organization--and details specific skillsand strategies for mining economic value from each one.

Harness the covert aspects of your organization -- covert culture,individual idiosyncrasies, institutional politics -- forcompetitive advantage. World-renown consultant, teacher andresearcher Gerard Egan identifies five shadow side work behaviors,and details specifics for mining the economic value of each.

About the Author

GERARD EGAN is professor of organization studies and psychology at Loyola University of Chicago. He consults to a variety of organizations worldwide including The World Bank, British Airways, and Amoco Corporation and is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling The Skilled Helper (4th edition, 1990).