| Entertaining Executives Contributor(s): Spillane, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1613397372 ISBN-13: 9781613397374 Publisher: Goko Publishing OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Management - General - Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior - Humor | Topic - Business & Professional |
| Physical Information: 0.18" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.25 lbs) 88 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Office politics, power struggles, ulterior motives, personality differences ...all combine to make this cynical poke at the "executive branch" of a typical office highly entertaining. The setting takes you to a management training program where several managers are invited to attend. As we watch form the sidelines we are witness to undercurrent of what really goes on. This is pure entertainment disguised as education Using extensive research and personality tests for a look into human behavior we are able to glean from this witty and ironic work. Performance versus personality, management versus leadership all play a part in the clever portrayal of the world of executives. As the managers are skeptical about the motives of those who organize and conduct management conferences, they meet to discuss tactics. At the conference they argue with the psychologist who is trying to entertain them. The conference proceeds in the face of questions and arguments which challenge the authority of the psychologist who attempts to control the protagonists. But the conference participants have other ideas... Sit back in your seats, prepare to laugh uncontrollably. |
Contributor Bio(s): Spillane, Robert: - Robert Spillane is a Professor and past Dean of the Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has degrees in clinical and industrial psychology and worked as a psychotherapist for more than 25 years. He has taught at the London Business School, the ABIN Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, in Singapore and Hong Kong and several Australian universities and he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Working Life in Stockholm, Sweden. From 2003 to 2011 he delivered a series of widely acclaimed lectures on philosophy and psychology at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has written numerous journal articles and several books on philosophy, psychology and management. His recent books include: 'Questionable Behaviour: Psychology's Undermining of Personal Responsibility', 'The Rise of Psychomanagement in Australia', 'Personality & Performance' (with John Martin) and 'The Management Contradictionary' (with B. & R. Marks). In 2006 he received the international Thomas S. Szasz Award from the Center for Independent Thought in New York for his professional contributions to the cause of human liberty. |