Managing People During Stressful Times: The Psychologically Defensive Workplace

by Michael A. Diamond and Seth Allcorn

Book Overview

Allcorn and Diamond argue that the workplace has become ever more threatening to employees, and that they respond by creating psychological defenses that make the workplace ever more dysfunctional. To keep organizations competitive and sustain the value of their stock, management demands constant improvements in their employees' performance, but often the result is just the opposite of what management wants. Allcorn and Diamond explore this process...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567200826
• ISBN13: 9781567200829
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"