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Author Mandel, Debra

Title Your Boss Is Not Your Mother : Nine Steps to Eliminating Office Drama and Creating Good Workplace Relationships
Published Chicago : Agate Pub., 2006

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Description 1 online resource (210 pages)
Contents Introduction; Chapter One: How Do Bruises from Childhood Create Workplace Chaos?; Chapter Two: Darcy's Story: Old Stuff in Action; Chapter Three: Eight Steps to Saying Goodbye to Workplace Drama and Hello to Positive Relationships; Chapter Four: Step One--Befriend Your Emotional Bruises; Chapter Five: Step Two--Identify How You Make a Mess of Your Professional Life; Chapter Six: Step Three--Understand Transference: Recognizing That Your Boss Is Not Your Mother, and Other Workplace Relationship Dilemmas; Chapter Seven: Step Four--How to Separate Your Old Stuff from the Truly Intolerable
Chapter Eight: Step Five--Transcend Power StrugglesChapter Nine: Step Six--Learn How to Tell Harmless Flirtation from Sexual Harassment; Chapter Ten: Step Seven--Develop a Sense of Humor Toward Inevitable Workplace Turmoil; Chapter Eleven: Handling Special Circumstances--Such As, What If Your Boss Really Is Your Mother?; Chapter Twelve: Step Eight--Enjoy the Emotional Fruits of Your Labor
Summary A practical guide for women to improving relationships at work. This work demonstrates how readers can learn to respond to people in the workplace. It shows how to distinguish an abusive boss or co-worker from one who is harmless, how to deal with flirtations, and, how to negotiate the dilemmas of dealing with other women at work
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Subject Organizational behavior.
Transference (Psychology)
Emotional maturity.
Interpersonal relations.
Work -- Psychological aspects.
Emotional maturity
Interpersonal relations
Organizational behavior
Transference (Psychology)
Work -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781572846333
157284633X