The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome
   
 Reference Material 
   
  
 
Acrobat Reader
 
   
 

Material mentioned in the book

 
 Leader-Member Exchange: Literature Review 
Pygmalion Effect: Literature Review
Self-Determination Theory: Literature Review
 Fair Process – Procedural Justice: Literature Review 
 
  
 
 

Other material on the SUTF Syndrome

 
Managing smart : Enabling under-performers to become valued contributors by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux, IVEY Business Journal (March-April 2003).
The working wounded by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux, INSEAD Quarterly (2003).
The downward spiral by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux, FT Report - Mastering Management (November 15, 2002).
   
 Q&A, August 2002: The authors talk with David Creelman from HR.com about the Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome. 
 Q&A with the authors for an article that will appear in Continental Airlines In-Flight Magazine 
 

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 SUTF Book Translations

 
In Portugese :
Como Ótimos Chefes fazem grandes profissionnais falharem : síndrome do fracasso programado.
   
Forthcoming  translations :
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean

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Related work by the authors

“A Better Way to Deliver Bad News”, Harvard Business Review (September 2002), pp. 114-119.

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Initial HBR article (in several versions)

 
   
 "The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: How bosses create their poor performers", by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux, Harvard Business Review (March-April 1998)  
   
 This article also appears in Harvard Business Review on Managing People (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series, 1999), a compilation of eight HBR articles addressing “how to build organizations with judicious and effective systems for managing people”.  
 

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SUTF in other languages

 
In French : 
 "Le piège où tombent les patrons qui croient bien faire", Le Figaro, 10 février 2003.

"Le syndrome de l’échec programmé," dans Le Management des Hommes (Editions d’Organisation, 2000; “Une compilation de huit des meilleurs articles de la Harvard Business Review sur un thème spécifique du management. Il vous permet de faire le point, avec des auteurs phares dans leur domaine, sur les réflexions majeures, les enjeux et les pratiques qui ont marqué la vie des entreprises.”).

 
  
 In German : 
 "Wenn Mitarbeiter versagen", Harvard Business Manager, Issue 5/98. 

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