Malevolent Managers: Insights Using Executive Impression Management

ISBN-13: 9780367606053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 220 str.

Terry A. Sheridan

Opis

This book offers a unique theoretical perspective to show how malevolent, tyrannical and mediocre managers  use violence in the workplace, not necessarily physical violence, but bullying, overt and covert emotional abuse: negative behaviour that is damaging to individuals and organisations.

What makes this bo

Spis treści

1. Foreword

2. A new typology of discerning management behaviour

3. Theoretical underpinnings to the research

4. The findings regarding the Respectful Executive Impression Management

5. The Tyrant and Mediocre Executive Impression Management

6. How to identify a malevolent manager

7. The impression management strategies used by non-fraudster managers

8. Methods of malevolent managers

9. Confronting the malevolent manager - the careful process of unmasking

10. How to choose a manager who uses Respectful Executive Impression Management

11. How to instil respect in your workplace despite malevolent managers and your position in the organisation

12. Sharing is caring

13. Conclusion

O autorze

Dr Terry A. Sheridan is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, member of the Fraud Advisory Panel (UK) and Australian Career Development Association and was awarded their Research of the Year Award in 2008. Her publications include Managerial Fraud (Gower, 2014), numerous articles, both scholarly and for general reading and many refereed conference papers. She has gained a reputation of being an able researcher and public speaker. She is the Managing Director of Guardian Angel Holdings Pty Ltd, having held several executive positions in the past with public corporations, statutory bodies and companies as well as non-profit organisations. Her volunteer work covers 26 years acting as Board member or Chair to several non-profits. Recently she founded the social enterprise, the Lovina Ladies League, in Northern Bali.