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Backstabbers and bullies : how to cope with the dark side of people at work / Adrian Furnham.
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Backstabbers and bullies: how to cope with the dark side of people at work / Adrian Furnham.
By
Furnham, Adrian [author]
Material type: Text
Publisher: London: Bloomsbury, 2016
Description: 1 volume: illustrations (black and white); 20 cm
Content type:
- text
- still image
Media Type
- unmediated
Carrier Type
- volume
Isbn
- 9781472929938 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
- Organizational behavior
- Conflict management
- Problem employees
DDC Classification
- 158.26 23
Contents
- The incidence and cost of management failure.
- Management derailment.
- Management incompetence and derailment.
- Corrupt countries and sick corporate cultures.
- The criminal personality and criminal gangs.
- Five accounts: Explaining the cause of leadership derailment.
- The successful psychopath at work.
- Arrogance, hubris and narcissism: The overconfident leader.
- The paranoid, schizotypal, histrionic and obsessive-compulsive leader.
- The sick executive.
- Prevention and management of the dark side.
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Summary: The idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet for far too long and only now are statistics appearing on the sheer number of leaders who fail at their jobs. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical perspectives on dark-side behaviour, including:
- recognising and coping with over-confident, narcissistic and psychopathic leaders;
- causes of leadership derailment and failure;
- corrupt corporate cultures;
- and the criminal personality.
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Fascinating reading for anyone who has worked alongside a corporate psychopath, business narcissist or histrionic show-off, Backstabbers and Bullies goes beyond the science to explain how to better understand, manage and prevent dark-side behaviour, as well as presenting advice for reducing derailment potential for yourself, your colleagues and your organisation.
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- Wellbeing
- Wellbeing - Jobs and the Workplace
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