The resilient manager : navigating the challenges of working life /

Main Author: Furnham, Adrian.
Format: Book
Language: English
Institution: Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak
Library: Main Library
Record Id / ISBN-0: ppap.48626 / 9781137361066
Online Public Access Catalog: Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Building a team
  • A good lunch
  • Interview lies
  • Job history
  • Personality of reference writers
  • Poor selection
  • Writing a personal statement
  • Getting the best out of people
  • Absence analytics
  • Experiential incentives
  • Extraverts
  • Facts of life
  • Fudging and nudging
  • Hire emotionally intelligent people
  • Mid-level cadres
  • Motivating your staff
  • Performance appraisal systems
  • Promote at random
  • Promotion of the self aware
  • Ranking and spanking
  • Scientific understanding of the public
  • Sconsable offences
  • Shapers of destiny
  • Talent myth
  • The daily grind
  • A grim place to work
  • Aesthetics at work
  • Biscuit hunters, film extras, therapy patients
  • Changing places
  • Gender at work
  • Generations at work 1
  • Generations at work 2
  • Grievances at work
  • How "family friendly" can backfire
  • Legislation and regulation
  • Memory and vision
  • Paper trail culture
  • Prioritisation
  • Slaughter of the innocents
  • Violence at work
  • Will power
  • Working from home
  • Social networking
  • Sponsorship
  • It's all in the delivery : management behaviour
  • All the questions and all the answers
  • Benefits of adversity
  • Bureaucratic punishment
  • Conscientiousness
  • Difficult conversations
  • Family business
  • Feeding narcissism
  • Good advice
  • Lie detectors
  • Losing your mindfulness
  • Managerially unexplained symptoms
  • Marshmallow test
  • Narcissistic manager
  • Passive aggressiveness
  • Risky types
  • To be a grown up
  • Translator transgressions
  • U turns
  • Under cover boss
  • Learning on the job
  • Assessment at work
  • Bang for your buck
  • Education
  • Elite performers
  • Honest evaluation
  • Narrative skills
  • Whatever happened to humility?
  • Life beyond
  • Dog years
  • Drive for money
  • Happiness brings wealth
  • Mind and soul of the expat
  • Regrets
  • Sports ethic.