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Games At Work: How to Recognize and Reduce Office Politics
This books gives managers the tools to "diagnose" the games that people play in an organization, and then to free people's energy for more productive purposes, thus minimizing the damage to both the bottom line and the company dynamics. Some typical games include: - Gotcha—where people act as if they receive “points” for identifying and communicating others’ mistakes.
Gossip—the rumor mill is used to gain political advantage. Low Budget—where managers purposely low-ball budget requests as a negotiating ploy. Marginalize—effectively exile individuals from teams or groups because they challenge the status quo, aren’t one of the boss’ people or for other reasons. Blame—individuals seek scapegoats in order to excuse failure. Gray Zone—deliberately fostering ambiguity or a lack of clarity about who should do what to avoid accountability Pecking Order—people play favorites and put others in the doghouse as an exercise of power Pessimism—people artificially inflate the difficulty of an assignment in order to create lower expectations Big Idea—suggesting visionary strategies and concepts to communicate one’s creativity and vision without regard for the “implementability” of these ideas. No Bad News—avoiding or suppressing negative data in relentless pursuit of a positive approach.
Using a three step process entitled AIM (Awareness, Identification, Mitigation) with specific examples from global companies that illustrate both the games and their solutions, the authors provide a clear outline for managers to address and end the games people play in organizations..
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Ghetto Catholics: how Catholics marginalize themselves when called to service.(Viewpoint essay): An article from: Catholic Insight
This digital document is an article from Catholic Insight, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1564 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Ghetto Catholics: how Catholics marginalize themselves when called to service.(Viewpoint essay) Author: Casey Ahern Publication:Catholic Insight (Magazine/Journal) Date: March 1, 2007 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 15 Issue: 3 Page: 27(2) Article Type: Viewpoint essay Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Post-secularism marginalizes the university: a rejoinder to Hollinger. (Perspectives *).(David A. Hollinger, Church History, vol. 70, p. 132, 2001): An article from: Church History
This digital document is an article from Church History, published by American Society of Church History on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 4136 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Post-secularism marginalizes the university: a rejoinder to Hollinger. (Perspectives *).(David A. Hollinger, Church History, vol. 70, p. 132, 2001) Author: C. John Sommerville Publication:Church History (Refereed) Date: December 1, 2002 Publisher: American Society of Church History Volume: 71 Issue: 4 Page: 848(10) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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