Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace: Management Challenges and Symptoms

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Janice Langan-Fox, Cary L. Cooper, Richard J. Klimoski
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007 - Business & Economics - 478 pages
A work exposing and exploring the phenomena of the dysfunctional workplace is long overdue. This fascinating book does just that, uncovering the subversiveness, counter-productive behaviour and unspoken issues that managers struggle with on a daily basis.
 

Contents

a failure of courage
3
the paradoxical positive influence of pathology in the workplace
22
the exemplar of obsessivecompulsive personality disorder OCPD
40
4 Tyrants and workplace bullying
58
identity dysfunctions in the contemporary workplace
75
6 Why bad leaders stay in good places
90
the darker side of management
110
surviving in a new era
125
14 The role of organizational practices and routines in facilitating normalized corruption
235
15 The dysfunction of territoriality in organizations
252
16 Towards a relational model of workplace aggression
268
17 Understanding and deterring employee theft with organizational justice
285
what creates teamwork breakdowns?
302
teambased structures as impediments to learning
319
implications for personnel selection in individual and team contexts
332
21 Motives and traits as a driver of adaptive and maladaptive managerial styles
356

9 Employee attachment and deviance in organizations
136
work now pay later
152
11 Feedback phobia? Why employees do not want to give or receive performance feedback
168
the language of emotionality and the dysfunctional organization
187
no laughing matter
216
PART II MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL MAYHEM
233
building a management team
380
23 Organizational change and its dysfunctional effect on managers in large organizations
402
functional and dysfunctional perspectives
422
threat or a key to enhancing change?
441
Index
461
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