Everything You Know About Organizational Behavior You Learned in High School (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781480879324)

Through humorous and relatable stories, Everything You Know about Organizational Behavior You Learned in High School, by author Victor P. Becker, offers a practical, management development tool using real-life experience to draw comparisons between adolescent, high school behavior and behavior prevalent in workplaces today.

Becker assists business leaders and human resources professionals in identifying and correcting adolescent organizational behaviors on the job. He examines the organizational dysfunction in the context of real challenges in areas such as employee recognition, performance management, leadership, predators and bullies, the power of teams, and more. He offers simple fixes for each area.

Everything You Know about Organizational Behavior You Learned in High School brings you on a nostalgic journey to a pleasant, albeit sometimes volatile, period in your life. It is during this time in high school the foundation for your personality and adult behavior patterns are established. These adolescent behavior patterns remain in adulthood and find their way into the workplace. Becker teaches you to recognize the dysfunction that is caused and captures simple tips to improve your team's and company's results.