Studying Organizational Behavior Gifts

'We have a strict don't-ask-don't-tell policy for salaries.'

'I hope you're not threatened by powerful women, because you're fired.'

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

"This is a merit-based organization! Can't you see I’ve hired the very best and most qualified yes-men money can buy?"

'We invest so much money in training staff...it's a mystery to me why businesses would risk losing them.'

"This position has become very important to the company."

"We need to make some cuts. We'll start with integrity, accountability, openness, and transparency."

"Well, ordinary men have colleagues. Successful men have victims."

"Staff support"

"Peter's Joint Head of Communications."

IN box...OUT is wastepaper basket on fire.

"So we are agreed then, most of the targets we've set staff are completely unreasonable and we should just scrap them."

How leaders fail

Things to do: 1. Sit 2. Stay 3. Sit 4. Stay

"He's not really much of a leader...he just has a lot of followers."

"The meeting will come to order."

"Any questions?"

"We can waste time and look for a solution or...just find a scapegoat?"

"A dozen eggs and a pint of semi-skimmed...Sorry, looks like I left my presentation in my other coat."

"It looks like the 'because I say so' has it."

'I've stepped on so many people for the last 20 years to get where I'm at, and I'm still only a middle manager.'

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

"This is Briggs, our new department head. He's got an amazing knack for reducing complex problems into easy-to-understand witch hunts!"

"Sir, your ducks, they are not in a row."

When Engineers Crack.

The Department of Mystery - No one really knows who we are or what we do, including us.

"That one shows our office cliques."

He used to pass the buck, since being promoted to management he gets to call it delegating authority.

"They found a use for that old paper shredder."

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

'The organizational structure is pretty simple: We do the work; they take the credit.'

'He takes his organization chart seriously.'

The role of administration.

"Openness and transparency are a big part of our corporate mythos."

"Everyone seek higher ground! The paperwork is rising to a dangerous level."