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Author Burkus, David, 1983- author.

Title Under new management : how leading organizations are upending business as usual / David Burkus.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  658 BUR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  658.3 BUR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  658 BURKUS    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  658 BURKUS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  658 BU    Check Shelf
Description 243 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.
Contents Introduction: management needs new management -- Outlaw email -- Put customers second -- Lose the standard vacation policy -- Pay people to quit -- Make salaries transparent -- Ban non-competes -- Ditch performance appraisals -- Hire as a team -- Write the org chart in pencil -- Close open offices -- Take sabbaticals -- Fire the managers -- Celebrate departures -- Afterword: reinventing the management engine.
Summary Drawing on decades of research, challenges many of the established principles of business management, proving that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don't work, and urges companies to implement new ways to enhance productivity and morale.
Subject Management -- Case studies.
Management -- Employee participation -- Case studies.
ISBN 9780544630970 (hardcover)
0544630971 (hardcover)
9780544842151 (pbk.)
0544842154 (pbk.)
9780544631601 (ebook)
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