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Workplace Survival

Everyone needs to be able to recognize a bad boss. Executives so that they can either alter the behavior of the bad bosses or get rid of them before they do irreparable damage to the organization. Employees so that they can gather evidence for a grievance or to move to another job with (hopefully) a better boss. And job seekers (although they will have a more difficult time identifying them ahead of time) so that they can try to avoid bad bosses. Books, articles, workshops, seminars, and the like proffer advice on how to be a "good" boss and how employees might cope with a "bad" boss; however, rarely has a book tried to provide specific examples of bad bosses so that they readily can be identified by anyone with even a relatively brief encounter with them.

Everyone needs to be able to recognize a bad employee or coworker, too. Bad employees are not just those whose performance is unsatisfactory, but also those whose behavior or attitude may serve as the "bad apple" that "spoils the whole barrel." Managers need to be able to recognize them in order first to try to change their behavior or attitude and second to terminate them if the employee cannot or will not change. Other employees need to be able to recognize them in order to avoid or "walk carefully" around them so that those employees don't get "spoiled" by the "bad apples." Job seekers need to be able to recognize them (although again they will have a more difficult time identifying them ahead of time) so that they can evaluate whether or not to accept a position where they might have to work with a bad employee/coworker.

Finally, everyone needs to be able to recognize a bad job. These are jobs that managers should try to redesign so that they are no longer "bad," compensate more fully (not unlike combat pay in the military service), or somehow get rid of. Employees or job seekers need to be able to recognize bad jobs so as to avoid them or to demand extra compensation for taking them on.

This book fills the need for real information. It is a first in that very specific examples of bad bosses, bad workers, and bad jobs are presented based on actual reports from individuals at various levels in actual organizations. We have spent our careers intimately involved with the practice, teaching, and research on management and organizations and have gathered literally hundreds of such examples. The most obvious and easily identifiable ones have been selected for inclusion in this book.

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