Research companion to the dysfunctional workplace : management challenges and symptoms

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Title:

Author:

Langan-Fox, Janice.

ISBN:

9781845429324

9781848442528

Publication Information:

Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar, 2008.

Physical Description:

xvi, 478 p. ; 26 cm.

Series:

New horizons in management

Elgar original reference

Series Title:

New horizons in management

Elgar original reference

Contents:

1. When good people do nothing : a failure of courage / Christopher R. Rate and Robert J. Sternberg -- 2. Personality disorders and derailment at work : the paradoxical positive influence of pathology in the workplace / Adrian Furnham -- 3. Problems of employees with personality disorders : the exemplar of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) / Michael Kyrios, Maja Nedeljkovic, Richard Moulding and Guy Doron -- 4. Tyrants and workplace bullying / Janice Langan-Fox and Michael Sankey -- 5. The struggle of the self : identity dysfunctions in the contemporary workplace / Glen E. Kreiner -- 6. Why bad leaders stay in good places / Debra L. Shapiro and Mary Ann Von Glinow -- 7. Leadership and ethics : the darker side of management / Marc J. Schabracq and Iva Embley Smit -- 8. Employee loss of trust in management : surviving in a new era / Roger C. Mayer -- 9. Employee attachment and deviance in organizations / Thomas E. Becker and Rebecca J. Bennett -- 10. Work hours and work addiction : work now, pay later / Ronald J. Burke and Teal McAteer -- 11. Feedback phobia? : why employees do not want to give or receive performance feedback / Jeanette N. N. Cleveland, Audrey S. Lim and Kevin R. Murphy -- 12. Everybody hurts, sometimes : the language of emotionality and the dysfunctional organization / Anjana Anandakumar, Tyrone S. Pitsis and Stewart R. Clegg -- 13. Humor in organizations : no laughing matter / Robert E. Wood, Nadin Beckmann and Fiona Pavlakis -- 14. The role of organizational practices and routines in facilitating normalized corruption / Mahendra Joshi, Vikas Anand and Kevin Henderson -- 15. The dysfunction of territoriality in organizations / Graham Brown and Sandra L. Robinson -- 16. Towards a relational model of workplace aggression / M. Sandy Hershcovis and Julian Barling -- 17. Understanding and deterring employee theft with organizational justice / Edward C. Tomlinson and Jerald Greenberg -- 18. When teams fail in organizations : what creates teamwork breakdowns? / Dana E. Sims and Eduardo Salas -- 19. Collective wisdom as an oxymoron : team-based structures as impediments to learning / Michael D. Johnson and John R. Hollenbeck -- 20. The bright and dark sides of personality : implications for personnel selection in individual and team contexts / Timothy A. Judge and Jeffery A. LePine -- 21. Motives and traits as a driver of adaptive and maladaptive managerial styles / Sharon L. Grant -- 22. Avoiding entrepreneurial frustration : building a management team / Robert D. Hisrich and Julie Lutz -- 23. Organizational change and its dysfunctional effect on managers in large organizations / Les Worrall, Cary L. Cooper and Kim Mather -- 24. Helping creativity and innovation thrive in organizations : functional and dysfunctional perspectives / Neil Anderson and Rosina M. Gasteiger -- 25. 'Dysfunctional' subcultures in organizations : threat or a key to enhancing change? / Roy J. Lewicki, David Greenberger and Erin Coyne.

Subject Term:

Organizational behavior.

Conflict management.

Organizational effectiveness.

Corporate culture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Added Author:

Langan-Fox, Janice.

Cooper, Cary L. (Cary Lynn), 1940-

Klimoski, Richard J.

Added Corporate Author:

Ebooks Corporation.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002142.html

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Summary

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.

This Companion not only explores organizational dysfunction as it concerns individuals, it also examines broader issues of dysfunction and its effects with regards teams, managers and organizational systems. Lively discussion encompasses the symptoms of distress, illness, absenteeism, and inefficiency that point towards behavioural disorders and system-wide malfunction. From personality disorders to wars over 'territory', the book chronicles and reveals the true nature of often hidden workplace problems including bullying, unethical behaviour, loss of trust, organizational deviance, cowardice, workaholism, negative humour and emotions, personality disorders, mismanagement, and malfunctioning performance and selection systems. So what can be done? Practical solutions to these dysfunctional phenomena are presented by international experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including management, psychology and economics.

This fascinating, highly original book will be of enormous interest to students, researchers, academics and practitioners across all sectors of business and management, human resource management in particular.