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For Bosses, Execs & Boards - BooksOther Book Categories: Bullying, Incompetence, Reports & Surveys, Harassment & Discrimination, Inadequate Compensation, Not Respecting Legal Rights, Privacy Invasion The books in the category "For Bosses, Execs & Boards" are listed below. Any books you purchase after following one of the links from our site helps support us through a small commission paid by Amazon.com, and we encourage review comments to help others decide which books are most appropriate. 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book ought to be required reading for every manager on Earth. These two writers from the Gallup Organization base their book on 25 years of surveys, identifying what skills and attitudes separate the best managers from the mediocre multitude. They explain why playing favorites isn't a bad thing, how you need to focus on strengths instead of weaknesses, and why the top managers meet with employees frequently." Special thanks to Dave Murphy at the San Francico Chronicle for suggesting this Book and the preceeding comments.
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Explains techniques that most managers never consider when hiring people. Certainly job interviewing is covered in the book, but he also offers a variety of innovative ways you can learn about candidates through efficient screening, assigning tasks and checking references." Please note that this Book includes "45 Effective Ways for Hiring Smart! How to Predict Winners & Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game." Special thanks to Dave Murphy at the San Francico Chronicle for suggesting this Book and the preceeding comments.
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "His advice may seem obvious to some, but how often is it actually practiced? I shouted "yeah!" to myself over and over as I read a couple chapters of this book. For example: the chapter about rating and rewarding his employees was excellent. For example, giving Class A employees 3x the salary increases over Class B employees-- Great!! Giving NO increases to Class C employees, and getting rid of them sooner rather than later...what can I say, I LOVE IT!!"
The Ethical Imperative: Why Moral Leadership Is Good Business 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Costa [the Author] contends that most businesses are guided by a rational self-interest that blinds them to the consequences of their actions, thus getting them into trouble. He writes, "The badge of rationality is very important to businesspeople because, against it, there can be no criticism." Costa, himself a former CEO, argues that developing a sense of ethics involves more than following a set of rules: it means developing an ethical orientation at all levels and processes of a corporation--not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes for good business. Drawing from an impressive range of subjects and case studies, Costa builds a compelling case for moral leadership in today's corporations. Highly recommended."
Why CEO's Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top and How to Manage Them 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book is written much better than most business books: it cuts to the chase, gives good examples, and doesn't go on and on about simple concepts as if you were too stupid to get it the first time. It breaks failure down to 11 mentalities that derail CEOs in their rise to (or fall from) the top. This is great advice for ANY manager or executive, and a quick read too. I take much of this advice to heart when I manage others in my current job. A must read!"
Workplace Privacy: Real Answers and Practical Solutions 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Workplace Privacy: Answers and Practical Solutions helps employers understand both the state and numerous federal laws affecting workplace privacy. While workplace privacy has long been a central issue facing employers, electronic technologies such as the Internet, e-mail and networked computers have added new questions regarding employees' rights to privacy. Monitoring employee behavior now may be more sophisticated with new technologies, but at the same time employers are overwhelmed with a host of new considerations and challenges with regard to employee privacy rights."
Reviewer Reader Feedback: "While the strategic steps seem initially complex, they are very logical and lead to a positive conclusion: creating a merit-based work environment to replace a culture driven by political posturing. In the end, the company, the employees and the shareholders all benefit. A good read for anyone in business -- especially those who pursue the executive ranks."
Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the Organization Ideal 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "If you have read 'The Fifth Discipline', the books of Chris Agyris, and other organizational theory but still thinks something is missing, that they can't really explain how organizations work (but only how they ought to work), this book will get you further. It is not an ends to all means, but definitly an important new consideration....What the book does, is to represent an interesting link from narcissism (the psychological level) to how subordinates and managers interact (the social/organizational level), to how (and which) employes are promoted and thus which values are amplified among top-level managers."
Building a Culture of Respect: Managing Bullying at Work 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The focus of this study is on the development of organizational cultures that promote the dignity of all employees. These have the power to reduce the occurrences and impact of bullying. This is a collective volume written by a group of experienced academics and practitioners, allowing theory to be integrated with evidence and practice in an approach that can be used to inform organizational management, unions, human resource managers, lawyers, general practitioners, occupational health psychologists and counsellors on the most effective ways of addressing bullying at work."
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Daniel Goleman, author of the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence teams up with Richard Boyatzis, previously a CEO of a large company and author of numerous books on management and motivation himself, and Annie McKee from the Wharton School of Business to create this inspirational, engaging, informative, and visionary work on primal leadership. They reveal how understanding the powerful role of emotions can set the best leader apart from all the rest. The encouraging news is that great leadership is learnable. In this book you will learn how the leader has the power to significantly enhance performance of others through his emotional state and actions."
Rude Awakenings : Overcoming the Civility Crisis in the Workplace 
"As a retired operations VP for a firm dealing exclusively with Fortune 500 companies, I was amazed at the insights Gonthier has into the lack of civility so common in today's workplace and into the causes of that lack of civility. And as a consumer and a customer, I was impressed by the breadth of her understanding of the stress and rudeness we all face in today's world and the straightforwardness of her approach to addressing and reducing those problems. While she does have a thorough and extremely helpful chapter on specific breaches of etiquette, this is really not a book on business etiquette. It is about how profitable it would be for all of us if we all treated each other with basic respect."
Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The title is pretty self-explanatory, and the book is a marvelous description of an emerging phenomenon that results from complex and challenging work environments. The notion of toxic organizations isn't new, everyone has a story about one. What is new is the way leaders and managers are trying to deal with toxicity in organizations. As more and more managers develop their authenticity at work, they become more and more open to the swirling currents of emotion that surround them. Mangers who help to manage these currents in organizations become "toxin handlers" and require a whole set of strategies aimed at preserving their health and the health and compassion of the organization."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "A comprehensive and accessible resource for managers and executives, offering sound advice on the legal rights and responsibilities of both employers and employees in the workplace. Shows why employers often get sued and how to avoid it, the crucial role of effective communication in the workplace, discusses the Family and Medical Leave Act, and more."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: ""If you want your organization to be the best that it can be in terms of human and business effectiveness, this is the book to read. But don't just read it; share it with your most thoughtful and respected colleagues! Spread the ideas and evidence to help grow the emotional competencies in your organizational network."
Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: ""The Reinas have shown us that trust is more than just a word, but the nexus that holds corporations together. [This] glorious homily demands the attention of all human resource professionals and executives at every level within the organization."
Bully in Sight: How to Predict, Resist, Challenge and Combat Workplace Bullies 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I read 'Bully in Sight' from cover to cover twice. It provided me with invaluable and indispensable help in coping with stalkers and bullies. I have dedicated the last 5 years to the study of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Most narcissists are bullies. Few have captured the essence of bullying and stalking as Tim [field the Author] has. His work has given hope to many - the trapped and desperate victims of bullying, harassment and stalking."
Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace, 2002 Revised Edition 
Excerpt: "Every year, millions of Americans become victims of emotional abuse inflicted at work. They are damaged to such an extent that they can no longer accomplish their tasks. Co-workers, colleagues, superiors and subordinates attack their dignity, integrity and competence, repeatedly, over a number of weeks, months, or years. At the end, they resign--voluntarily or involuntarily--are terminated, or forced into early retirement. This is mobbing--workplace expulsion through emotional abuse. Ironically and sadly, the victims are portrayed as the ones at fault, as the ones who brought about their own downfalls."
Workplace Bullying: What do we know, who is to blame and what can we do? 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Workplace bullying is an area that has attracted significant press attention throughout the last decade. This is an issue endemic in working life in Britain. This book is derived form the largest survey ever carried out on workplace bullying. This study covered 5,500 people, but the book goes beyond it to explore all the aspects associated with what is becoming a major issue in organizations."
Internal Affairs: The Abuse of Power, Sexual Harassment, and Hyprocrisy in the Workplace 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "[The Author's] new book is a comprehensive survey of attitudes, practices, and laws on this issue. She contrasts public perceptions of harassment with legal definitions, and she identifies who harasses and suggests reasons why they do. Neville tracks an actual case of harassment and shows the "web of consequences" that befalls companies in which harassment occurs... Appendixes summarize major cases, include applicable legal statutes, offer a sample sexual harassment policy, and advise how and where to file a claim of harassment.
Bullyproof Yourself at Work!: Personal Strategies to Recognize and Stop the Hurt from Harassment 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book accomplishes what many of us have tried to do for most of our working lives: articulate why work so often causes suffering and reduces productivity. Usually, we know someone is bothering us at work, but we have troublre articulating exactly what it is. This is especially so when the problem is the boss, and when we seem to feel that the boss has the right to bully us. In this book, bullies will recognize themselves and will learn for the first time what behaviors they should quit imposing on others. Targets and victims of bullies will find out what to do to protect themselves."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Author Gary Topchik writes that there are 14 types of negative workers, and offers a 21 day program to overcome negativity in the workplace. He further indicates that your work environment may be infected with a "negativity virus" when people fear change ( down-sizing, layoffs, mergers) or work in isolation, or are constantly criticized, or when few growth opportunities exist. Add to this bristling mix, "rumormongers" who go beyond fun gossip to spreading damaging rumors in order to feel better about themselves and the "not-my- jobbers", and you have a work force of "negaholics". The book is well-written and easy to follow. The author guides the reader through these office "land mines" in a simple candid forth-right manner. Take this book to your CEO or just read it so you can manuver through the chaos."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is a perfect book for someone to keep as a desk reference for the personality types. I found the information very valuable even though I own most other books on this subject. It is an outstanding reference for the types in an organizational setting."
Work It Out: Clues for Solving People Problems at Work 
Reviwer/Reader Feedback: "we are working our way through the book chapter-by-chapter; one chapter each week. 30 to 45 minutes of each Monday morning Staff meeting are devoted to discussion of the issues in the "current" chapter; what each person's "type" value is, and how those values contribute and frustrate the values of others. We are six weeks into this project. Conflicts issues between staff that used to cause friction and frustration are simply melting away as the chapters drop away. Staff openly discuss disagreements as conflicts in Type; and allow each other to have different views."
Work Abuse: How to Recognize and Survive It 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Work abuse is the dehumanizing of people through patterned ways of interacting at work. This includes systematic denial that the abuse is happening, as most abusive managers consider such poisonous treatment to be 'the way the world works.' Work abuse can affect a whole organization, or it can be focused on one individual scapegoat. What's worse, our society as a whole tends to reinforce this attitude, placing the blame on the traumatized victim. When the abuse cannot be redressed at work, it often reappears at home as addiction or family violence. Intended for individual workers and their families, therapists who help them, and managers and union leaders responsible for work systems, this book explains how and why work abuse happens and offers a practical plan for healing, including in-depth case studies, exercises, and worksheets to guide the reader." |
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