To motivate, support, persuade, and enhance staff, managers and supervisors use information from many sources — training programs, management literature, discussions with peers, as well as experience and instinct. Research now reveals, however, the information they use to guide their decisions is sometimes flawed and the principles they invoke to govern their behaviour have often been invalidated.

To address these problems the authors, both experienced psychologists, collated almost 16,000 scientific articles about management and workplaces to reveal over 800 facts that contradict many common management practices.

This book presents the myths and misconceptions that compromise the performance of every manager and supervisor.  In each chapter, solutions that managers and supervisors can apply to address these problems are then presented.

This book is a must read for every manager, supervisor, HR consultant, and indeed employee. Psychology, human resource, and management students will also find it a vaulable educational resource. 

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