Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace: Management Challenges and Symptoms (New Horizons in Management series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848442521 ISBN 13: 9781848442528

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Edited by Janice Langan-Fox, formerly University of Melbourne, Australia, Cary Cooper, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK and Richard J. Klimoski, Professor of Psychology and Management and Dean, School of Management, George Mason University, US

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848442521
• ISBN 13: 9781848442528
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Langan-Fox Janice, Cooper Cary, Klimoski Richard J.