My Secret Life on the McJob: Lessons from Behind the Counter Guaranteed to Supersize Any Management Style (BUSINESS BOOKS) - Hardcover

Newman, Jerry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071473653 ISBN 13: 9780071473651

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2006

Synopsis

Once upon a time, a Ph.D. went to work at Mickey D's...

And what he found was illuminating. Jerry Newman, a college professor who has taught business courses for nearly 30 years, went undercover as a bottom-rung worker for the biggest names in fast food, including McDonald's and Burger King. Newman found that fast-food chains were the perfect petri dishes for covert research: High-pressure, high-volume businesses with high-employee turnover. The pecking order was also crystal clear, from fry cook all the way up to store manager.

Of the seven restaurants where Newman worked, some were high-morale, high-productivity machines. Others were miserable, misplaced circles of hell. Yet one common trait stuck out from them all: Each restaurant's respective manager determined the climate of the work environment.

Go behind the fast food counter with Newman and see what happens on an average day on the “McJob”…

how the restaurants are run (for better or worse)

how managers reward good employees when raises are impossible (believe it or not, bosses give 'em more hours-and it works!)

how morale and motivation spring directly from the manager's office

and how a few simple adjustments to your own management style-the “Supersized Management Principles” in this book-can transform and invigorate your workplace

About this title

About the Author

Jerry Newman (B.A., U of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D, U of Minnesota) is Distinguished Professor of Organization and Human Resources at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

From the Back Cover

What happens when a distinguished management professor works undercover in fast food?

He learns powerful truths about what makes businesses great

From minimum-wage floor sweepers to corner office kings, anyone with a job can learn something from Jerry Newman's experience behind the counter at major fast food restaurants.My Secret Life on the McJob reveals brilliantly simple Supersized Management Principles that many Fortune 500 bosses still haven't grasped.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071473653
• ISBN 13: 9780071473651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240