Awarded bronze by "ForeWord Magazine" in the Book of the Year Awards 2007, Business & Economics category, this resource provides solutions for these fundamental symptoms of employee-manager discomfort.Quietly seething...secretly resenting...and ultimately affecting performance, employees negative feelings toward their managers can lurk beneath the surface of even the most pleasant-seeming work relationships. These issues, if gone unchecked, can result in organizational catastrophe. To find out whats really going on, the authors surveyed more than 50,000 employees in 65 organizations of all types and sizes, and discovered the 30 main causes of ill will. This book provides solutions for these fundamental symptoms of employee-manager discomfort, including employees sense that: they're being treated like childrentheir contributions aren't respectedtheir manager doesn't listen to themsenior managers are incompetentthey lack the resources and training they need to do their jobs wellthey get insufficient feedbacktheir pay isn't fairly linked to job performancethey are burdened by heavy workloads or inflexible schedules.Featuring real-life examples, this eye-opening book empowers managers to make their workplaces more productive, congenial, and satisfying for their people and for themselves.