30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers : What Your People May Be Thinking and What You Can Do About It

Library Journal's Best Business Books for 2007 strategy+business magazine’s Best Business Books for 2007 Books (category: Human Capital) Quietly seething...secretly resenting...and ultimately affecting performance, employees’ negative feelings toward their managers can lurk beneath the surface of even the most pleasant-seeming work relationships. These issues, if gone unchecked, can result in organizational catastrophe. To find out what’s really going on, the authors surveyed more than 50,000 employees in 65 organizations of all types and sizes, and discovered the 30 main causes of ill will. This book provides solutions for these fundamental symptoms of employee-manager discomfort, including employees’ sense that: • they're being treated like children • their contributions aren't respected • their manager doesn't listen to them • senior managers are incompetent • they lack the resources and training they need to do their jobs well • they get insufficient feedback • their pay isn't fairly linked to job performance • they are burdened by heavy workloads or inflexible schedules. Featuring real-life examples, this eye-opening book empowers managers to make their workplaces more productive, congenial, and satisfying for their people and for themselves. "30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers takes your side, but takes your employees' point of view in identifying dozens of things managers do that make employees stop caring, stop producing, and start looking for other jobs. You'll get a firsthand look at many of the surprisingly common "hidden" employee complaints - many of which seem to contradict one another." "This research-based book takes you inside troubled organizations, and shows how management problems translate to poor results. More important, you'll find stories of how such companies overcame and eliminated these dysfunctions. Each chapter also contains a Solutions section offering real, practical strategies for addressing concerns and improving almost any bad situation."--Jacket Do employees hate their managers? This book describes 30 reasons for employee attitudes ranging from indifference to outright hatred of management. It also describes some of the underlying psychological reasons for employee discontent (for example, equity theory, which explains why people react as they do to perceived unfairness).