The truth about managing people

Author: Stephen P. Robbins
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: Bestselling author of management books with over 2 million copies sold worldwide New Contribution! The best-selling book in the financial era! From The Truth About Managing People, Dr. Stephen P. Robbins strips away the pretense and reveals the real world of management: The truth about recruiting, motivating, and employee evaluation The truth about teams, participative management, and communication The truth about dealing with change, conflict, and layoffs The truth about leadership and individual behavior From The Truth About Managing People, Dr. Stephen P. Robbins strips away the pretense and reveals the real world of management: The truth about recruiting, motivating, and employee evaluation The truth about teams, participative management, and communication The truth about dealing with change, conflict, and layoffs The truth about leadership and individual behavior. Dr. Stephen P. Robbins, a global best-selling author in management, based on the world's best research, extracts 66 proven "truths" from the study of human behavior. These truths will change the way you manage people, thereby changing the effectiveness of management. The Truth About Managing People avoids exaggeration, trendy concepts, and clichés, offering only truths that help managers gain insights into the world. At the same time, it helps employees understand how management principles are applied in organizations, enabling them to find joy and achievement in their work. From this book, you will learn: Can happy employees always perform well? Why is satisfaction not always correlated with performance? Are experienced leaders better? Sometimes experience matters, and sometimes it doesn’t Why can’t "traits" predict employee success? What you do is more important than who you are Why do teams often produce negative synergy? How to reduce the impact of "social loafing" and build effective teams? Is participative management really useful? Who wants to participate, and who doesn’t?