Management Malpractice: How to Cure Unhealthy Management Practices That Disable Your Organization

Cynicism and distrust are rampant in today's business environment. Eighty percent of employees want nothing to do with their organizations, or the managers who run them. Great management principles, once the backbone of successful companies, are now often used and manipulated by corporate leaders for their own gain. If left unchecked, these formerly great principles turn into malpractices that damage morale, thwart productivity and destroy companies. Management Malpractice provides practical advice for preventing and curing abuses and shows how managers and organizations can work together to restore value to their organizations.

Consultant Hickman offers practical advice for preventing and curing abuses by management that, left unchecked, can damage employee morale, decrease productivity, and ultimately destroy businesses. Each of 25 chapters focuses on a particular principle of good management and illustrates how it can be misused and manipulated by managers for their own gain at the expense of their people and organizations. Hickman is the author of over a dozen books. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Craig R. Hickman is the author or coauthor of a dozen books on business and management, among them such bestsellers as Creating Excellence; The Strategy Game; Mind of a Manager, Soul of a Leader; and The Oz Principle. After receiving his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, he worked in the areas of strategic planning, organizational design, and mergers and acquisitions for Dart Industries and Ernst & Young. In 1985, he founded Management Perspectives Group, a consulting and training firm that helped companies implement the business strategy and corporate culture principles set forth in Creating Excellence and Mind of a Manager, Soul of a Leader. His clients have included: Procter & Gamble, American Express, Unilever, AT&T, PepsiCo, Honeywell, Amoco, Nokia, and the U.S. government. He has lectured throughout the world for the U.S. State Department as part of its American Participant Program and is currently CEO of Headwaters Technology Innovation Group, a subsidiary of Headwaters Incorporated (NYSE: HW). He lives in Princeton, NJ.