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

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Bruce Katcher takes a refreshingly practical and realistic approach to one of the most critical challenges in organizations today standing in the way of productivity and results. An excellent handbook that not only clearly identifies the issues that exist within the employee-manager relationship but effective solutions and best practices to resolve and/or prevent these issues. Employees, managers, and executives should all read this book with an open mind to acquire helpful tools and effective techniques in creating meaningful dialogue and positive relationships.

Unlike many books on management and supervision that are mostly theoretical with very little practical application, 30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers takes a different approach. Based on surveys of more than 50,000 employees, the author has defined 30 big problems that managers and supervisors have - even though they may not know it.

Each reason is addressed from four perspectives:

-An illustrative story
-The problem for employers
-The psychological reasons for the reality
-Solutions

This approach leads to a very practical and usable book. You can search the index for the problem your having and, within 5-10 minutes, you'll have a better understanding of the problem and three or more potential solutions. This should be a reference book on every manager's desk. I know it will stay on mine.

this book should be a companion reader to the "OZ principal" in order to "see it" you need to know what your looking for. this book gives good insight to what your workers are thinking and feeling.

This book is simple, practical and easy to read. Citing data from Discovery Solutions wide normative database created from years of employee surveys, "30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers" highlights many of the more prevelant problems facing management today and offers clear tips and solutions to help make things better.

This book belongs on your bookshelf.

The fact is that most employees don't really hate their managers. But lots of them are frustrated. In this glass-half-empty book, veteran organizational psychologist Bruce L. Katcher plumbs the survey research he has gathered over almost two decades to distill the 30 biggest frustrations of working men and women, including managers. More importantly, for each frustration he cites, Katcher offers up solutions that are as easy to implement as they are sensible. The wonder is that solutions like these are not more widely practiced. With books like this pointing the way, maybe one day they will be.

30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers is a must read for any manager at any level in any organization. It presents practical advice in a very interesting and novel manner. Bruce Katcher presents real-life stories from his consulting experience that make the book very easy to read. The advice he offers makes a lot of sense. If you're looking for a good new "how-to" book on management that is based on theory and research, this book fits the bill.

Almost everyone has been dissatisfied at a job before. Often times, we don't know specifically why. If it is difficult to understand this emotion from our personal perspective, it can be even more so to understand those of our employees. This book is well-organized, easy to read and defines many of those indefinable issues. For each topic the problem, the psychology and the solution are explained. Additionally, facts and statistics are provided to support the findings, both the extent of the issues as well as the impact of the solution.

The book covers many good points, but volumes could be written on this subject. Here are a couple additions . .

Managers demean and embarrass their employees during meetings in front of their peers.
Managers claim good ideas from their employees as their own.

The fact that the book is based on a survey of 50,000 employees in 150 corporations makes this book very real. It seems like the problems that were identified were dead-on, and that I could detect them through my employer.

The chapters are short and to the point, they address the issue from a business perspective. As a newly appointed manager with some HR background, I found it very useful. Already recommended it to a couple of people around me.

Over 50,000 employees tell why company morale and productivity are low and loyalty nonexistent in 30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers: What Your People May Be Thinking and What You Can Do About It. In synthesizing the surveys of over 50,000, this book helps pinpoint common problem areas, solutions which apply to the real world and work, and insights on the psychology of these solutions. A focus on each issue and how to resolve it lends practical analysis to the matter, making this a top pick recommended for both managers and business libraries seeking to quickly identify problems and enact changes based not upon time-consuming trial-and-error, but tested real-world experience.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch