Toxic Coworkers

Description

We've all worked with someone "difficult". In "Toxic Coworkers", the authors help us recognize a variety of common personality traits and personality disorders, understand how they come about, and learn how to develop effective strategies for dealing with them. Arresting vignettes from the authors' practices bring some all-too-familiar characteristics to life and offer a fascinating look at what underlies the wide variety of bizarre and annoying behaviour that so many of us encounter on the job.

Alan A. Cavaiola, PhD, is a professor and member of the graduate faculty in the department of psychological counseling at Monmouth University. He is also a licensed psychologist and clinical alcohol and drug counselor. He is the coauthor of Toxic Coworkers and Impossible to Please.

"In the tradition of Robert Ringer's Winning Through Intimidation and Wayne Dyer's Your Erroneous Zones, Cavaiola and Lavender have made a big leap forward in showing how important psychological insights and principles can be readily applied to everyday problems in the workplace. From now on I'll be handing frustrated employees, administrators, and executives a copy of Toxic Coworkers, an dI'll feel confident that they will have a powerful tool for dealing with the dysfunctional people and warped behavior they encounter on the job." --Dr. Robert J. Phillips, President, Corporate Extension Services, Providing Organizational Development, Team-building, Personnel Problem Resolutions, and Executive Coaching "Toxic Coworkers helps us make sense of work relationships that defy logic and consume our day. It is the perfect tool to help us understand and manage difficult people, the result of which is increased productivity and decreased frustration on the job." - Heidi Remak, M.A., CEAP, Manager, EAP, Lucent Technologies