Managing to Stay Out of Court [electronic resource] : How to Avoid the 8 Deadly Sins of Mismanagement.

ISBN:

9781586442149

Title:

Author:

Janove, Jathan.

Personal Author:

Janove, Jathan.

Publication Information:

Chicago : Society for Human Resource Management, 2004.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; The First Sin: Managing Like a Beginning Skier; The First Virtue: Weight Forward on Skis; The Second Sin: Dissin' Your Employees; The Second Virtue: D-I-S'ng Your Employees; The Third Sin: Rationalizing Away Truth; The Third Virtue: Making Honesty the Only Policy; The Fourth Sin: Misguided Benevolence; The Fourth Virtue: E-R-A--Expectations, Responsibility, and Accountability; The Fifth Sin: Falling into the Inconsistency Trap; The Fifth Virtue: Ducks in a Row; The Sixth Sin: Letting Employees Speculate.

The Sixth Virtue: Open Information ChannelsThe Seventh Sin: Listening Through Your "I"; The Seventh Virtue: Listening Through Your Ears; The Eighth Sin: Front-of-the-Nose Perspective; The Eighth Virtue: The Big Picture; Moving from Sin to Virtue; Ski the Run!; Tools to Help You Move from Sin to Virtue; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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Subject Term:

Industrial relations.

Management.

Leadership.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2004

Publication Information:

Chicago : Society for Human Resource Management, 2004.

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Summary

In the past 20 years, the number of employment discrimination cases has increased by more than 2,000 percent. This practical guide helps companies avoid the most common types of employment lawsuits through the development of strong people-management skills. Managing to Stay Out of Court is structured according to eight simple principles contrasting sins and virtues in the workplace -- for example, Rationalizing Away Truth (sin) vs. Making Honesty the Only Policy (virtue), or Listening Through Your "I" (sin) vs. Listening Through Your Ears (virtue). A wealth of real-life examples show employers how to move directly from theory to practice by taking the lessons off the page and into the workplace. Included is a guide to adjusting management styles as well as techniques for implementing organization-wide changes. An appendix helps readers identify their own most prevalent management sins, and a complete set of tools and exercises -- a sample journal page, memos, self-assessments, and a "Sin-to-Virtue Transfer Plan" -- shows how to make the too-often adversarial manager-employee relationship fulfilling for both parties.

Author Notes

Jathan Janove is a graduate of Indiana University and a member of the Utah State Bar Association's Member, Labor, and Employment Section.