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Get ahead in the workplace by influencing others Influence is a
timeless topic for business leaders and others in positions of
power, but the world has evolved to the point where everyone needs
these skills. No matter your job, role, rank, or function, if you
want to get things done you need to know how to influence up, down,
across, and outside the organization. Increasing Your Influence at
Work All-in-One For Dummies shows you how to contribute more fully
to important decisions, resolve conflicts more easily, lead and
manage more effectively, and much more. Plus, you'll discover how
to develop the most important attributes necessary for
influence--trustworthiness, reliability, and assertiveness--and
find out how to move beyond. Includes easy-to-apply information for
influencing managers, peers, and subordinates Shows you how to
build trust with your co-workers and cultivate reliability through
consistency and being personal Illustrates how influencing others
in the office helps you enjoy a greater measure of control over
your work life Helps you advance your career more rapidly than
others No matter who you are, where you work, or what your
professional goals are, achieving more influence in the workplace
is critical for success.
How much has actually changed since women were first allowed to
cast off their pinnies and embark on the excitements of office
life? Emily is twenty-two years old. She's just discovered that the
gender pay gap is currently estimated to close in 2117. She's
psyched that her great-great-granddaughter is going to witness this
momentous step forward for the sisterhood. She's made herself a
tick-off calendar that she intends to hand down the maternal line.
Whilst it's true that we've evolved from the murk of the typing
pool into the beige of the boardroom, life in the office for women
can still be underwhelming in myriad ways that would be familiar to
our sisters from the fifties. Complete with nostalgic illustrations
and genuine retro advice, Career Girls guides the reader through
the eternal conundrums faced by women in the workplace everywhere.
From redressing the pay gap through a semi-legal sponsorship scheme
to surviving a leadership course where you're forced to express
yourself through the medium of dance, Career Girls is the perfect
companion for the modern working woman.
It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women. The Sex
Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most
significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at
once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at
which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as
competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this
bill was passed? This is the story of what happened next. Ladies
Can't Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of six women - six
pioneers - forging paths in the fields of medicine, law, academia,
architecture, engineering and the church. Robinson's startling
study into the public and private lives of these women sheds light
not on the desires and ambitions of her subjects but how family and
society responded to the working woman and what their legacy looks
like today. This book is written in their honour. It is a book
about live subjects: equal opportunity, the gender pay gap, and
whether women can expect, or indeed deserve, to have it at all. 'An
important and crackingly good read.' - Telegraph
High-conflict employees are increasing in the workplace. Bullying,
harassment, incivility, and threats of violence are a danger to
employees and an organization's reputation, productivity, and
ability to avoid court. This manual is designed for use with New
Ways for Work: Workbook, for coaching workers in need of remedial
interpersonal skills because of job discipline.This New Ways for
Work: Coaching Manual is a guide for Employee Assistance
Professionals, therapists who provide workplace coaching, human
resource professionals, and others who coach employees. It is
designed to be used with the New Ways for Work: Workbook as a
remedial method for workers who have the potential to improve
workplace behavior through improved conflict resolution skills. It
is also useful for those who want to advance in their careers with
new and expanded conflict resolution skills.The New Ways for Work
(TM) method is a simple approach to learning key interpersonal
skills for the workplace. New "ways" simply mean new skills, which
keeps the focus on the positive and learning skills for the
future.The Coaching Manual provides sample answers; offers three
self-contained coaching sessions, additional coaching sessions for
more specific skills; and includes numerous exercises for employees
and managers
Everyone can escape career creek. All they need is the right
paddle. In 2012 Josh Roberts left university with a head full of
dreams and a heart full of hope. The world - and in particular the
world of work - was his oyster. He was going to get a brilliant
job, enjoy a challenging, purposeful career and get stinking rich
in the process. Fast forward a decade, though, and success hasn't
been quite so easy. Unless you count six jobs in six years, a
string of failed 'side hustles' and having a mental breakdown as
'success'. No, like millions of other young workers, Josh spent his
twenties drifting aimlessly through his career before resolving, on
the eve of his twenty-eighth birthday, to make a change. Which is
what Generation Drift is all about. Told with warmth and wit - and
brimming with advice from CEOs, recruiters, psychologists and
fellow 'drifters' - it's a hopeful, helpful guide to navigating
professional uncertainty and finding fulfilling work. This book
will share the tools and signposts you need to look to the future
with a positive view. Generation Drift is Josh's optimistic,
reassuring and practical guide to navigating professional
uncertainty and finding fulfilling work.
OUR CULTURE HAS BECOME OBSESSED WITH HUSTLING. As we struggle to
keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps, we arm ourselves
with life hacks, to-do lists, and an inbox-zero mentality, grasping
at anything that will help us work faster, push harder, and produce
more. There's just one problem: most of these solutions are making
things worse. Creativity isn't produced on an assembly line, and
endless hustle is ruining our mental and physical health while
subtracting from our creative performance. Productivity and
Creativity are not compatible; we are stuck between them, and like
the opposite poles of a magnet, they are tearing us apart. When
we're told to sleep more, meditate, and slow down, we nod our heads
in agreement, yet seem incapable of applying this advice in our own
lives. Why do we act against our creative best interests? WE HAVE
FORGOTTEN HOW TO FLOAT. The answer lies in our history, culture,
and biology. Instead of focusing on how we work, we must understand
why we work-why we believe that what we do determines who we are.
Hustle and Float explores how our work culture creates
contradictions between what we think we want and what we actually
need, and points the way to a more humane, more sustainable, and,
yes, more creative, way of working and living.
Many of our greatest business thought leaders proclaim that the
most powerful way to transform a business is to transform its
culture. In Shift: Indigenous Principles for Corporate Change,
author Glenn Geffcken offers a culturally based process and path to
help move companies from stagnation to change, from mediocrity to
innovation, and from disconnection to harmony. Geffcken details a
set of principles that underlie indigenous societies throughout the
world-principles that have kept them in a state of grace and
harmony with nature for longer than recorded history can account.
Shift draws on the wisdom of indigenous cultures, their teachings,
and their implications for significant transformation of core
behaviors, beliefs, values, and ethics-which, taken as a whole,
represent a paradigm shift of magnitude rarely seen in the business
world. Through personal stories and experiences from Glenn
Geffcken's twenty-four years in the corporate world, in parallel
with an eighteen-year immersion in North American indigenous
culture and religion, Shift traces a path of self-discovery and
organizational transformation. Geared toward businesspeople and
entrepreneurs focused on culture as a force of positive change, it
offers a methodology to help you break free and consider a
different course.
Few time periods in the past five decades match the intensity of
intergroup conflict that people around the world are currently
experiencing. Polarized attitudes around various sociopolitical
issues, such as gender equality and immigration, have dominated the
media and our lives. Furthermore, these powerful social dynamics
have also impacted the places where we work and intensified
existing strains on workers and workplaces. To address these issues
and improve organizational climates, more theories, research and
collaborations to understand these phenomena are needed. The
volumes in this series will describe and instigate scholarship that
advances our understanding of diversity in organizations. This
volume features renowned scholars who are unabashedly pushing the
field by raising the questions that need to be asked, by working on
topics that have received far too little research attention, and by
holding researchers, practitioners, managers, organizations, and
readers to task for doing what needs to be done to maximize social
justice and egalitarian behaviors in the workplace. The chapters
provoke the status quo in society and in scholarship, and in so
doing, push our understanding of diversity in organizations.
A workbook for women with practical tips, tricks, and strategies
for succeeding in the workplace. A companion to the highly
successful What Works for Women at Work, this workbook offers women
a hands-on guide filled with interactive exercises, self-diagnostic
quizzes, and action-oriented strategies for building successful
careers. The Workbook helps women understand their work
environments and experiences and move up the professional ladder.
Readers will discover the four patterns of gender
bias-Prove-It-Again, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug
of War-and they can use the toolkit to learn how to navigate the
ways these patterns affect their careers. Williams and her
co-authors also introduce the new concept of "Gender Judo," which
involves doing a masculine thing in a feminine way, in order to
avoid a backlash. This interactive Workbook can help any working
woman make better choices and offers specific advice on:* - How to
write a winning resume - How to succeed on job interviews - How to
negotiate salary - How to create a social media network - How to
create work-life balance - How to cut through office politics In
addition, the best-selling What Works for Women at Work is now
available in paperback. This book has already helped thousands of
working women successfully navigate gender bias in the workplace.
Praised by numerous publications for offering an innovative,
practical, and down-to-earth approach, What Works for Women at Work
is still the go-to guide for working women. Chock full of insights,
What Works for Women at Work: A Workbook will be an indispensable
handbook for working women, providing the tools, the tips, and the
tactics to get ahead.
Employees often disagree with workplace policies and practices,
leaving few workplaces unaffected by organizational dissent. While
disagreement persists in most contemporary organizations, how
employees express dissent at work and how their respective
organizations respond to it vary widely.
Through the use of case studies, first-person accounts, current
examples, conceptual models, and scholarly findings this work
offers a comprehensive treatment of organizational dissent. Readers
will find a sensible balance between theoretical considerations and
practical applications.
Theoretical considerations include: how dissent fits within
classical and contemporary organizational communication
approachesdissent's relationship to, yet distinctiveness from,
related organizational concepts like conflict, resistance, and
voiceexplanations for why employees express dissent and how they
make sense of itthe relationship between organizational dissent and
ethics
Practical applications encompass: recommendations for employees
expressing dissent and managers responding to itconsideration of
the range of events that trigger dissentstrategies employees use to
express dissent and tools organizations can apply to solicit it
effectivelythe unique challenges and benefits associated with
expressing dissent to management
The book's specific focus and engaged voice provide students,
scholars, and practitioners with a deeper understanding of dissent
as an important aspect of workplace communication.
Why too much work and too little time is hurting workers and
companies-and how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees
and the bottom line Today's ways of working are not working-even
for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition
and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees
to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job
expectations. In Overload, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how
this new intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to
burnout, attrition, and underperformance. "Flexible" work policies
and corporate lip service about "work-life balance" don't come
close to fixing the problem. But this unhealthy and unsustainable
situation can be changed-and Overload shows how. Drawing on five
years of research, including hundreds of interviews with employees
and managers, Kelly and Moen tell the story of a major experiment
that they helped design and implement at a Fortune 500 firm. The
company adopted creative and practical work redesigns that gave
workers more control over how and where they worked and encouraged
managers to evaluate performance in new ways. The result?
Employees' health, well-being, and ability to manage their personal
and work lives improved, while the company benefited from higher
job satisfaction and lower turnover. And, as Kelly and Moen show,
such changes can-and should-be made on a wide scale. Complete with
advice about ways that employees, managers, and corporate leaders
can begin to question and fix one of today's most serious workplace
problems, Overload is an inspiring account about how rethinking and
redesigning work could transform our lives and companies.
How much 'say' should employees have in the running of business
organizations, and what form should the 'voice' take? This is both
the oldest and latest question in employment relations. Answers to
these questions reflect our fundamental assumptions about the
nature of the employment relationship, and inform our views on
almost every aspect of Human Resource Management (HRM) and
Employment Relations. Voice can also mean different things to
different people. For some, employee voice is a synonym for trade
union representation which aims to defend and promote the
collective interests of workers. For others voice, is means of
enhancing employee commitment and organisational performance.
Others advocate workers control as an alternative to conventional
capitalist organisations which are run for shareholders. There is
thus both a moral and political argument for a measure of democracy
at work, as well as a business case argument, which views voice as
a potential link in the quest for increased organisational
performance. The key debate for employment relations is which of
the approaches 'works best' in delivering outcomes which balance
competitiveness and productivity, on the one hand, and fair
treatment of workers and social justice on the other. Policy makers
need pragmatic answers to enduring questions: what works best in
different contexts, what are the conditions of success, and what
are the drawbacks? Some of the most significant developments in
employee voice have taken place within the European Union, with
various public policy and employer experiments attracting extensive
academic research. The book offers a critical assessment of the
main contemporary concepts and models of voice in the UK and
Europe, and provides an in-depth theoretical and empirical
exploration of employee voice in one accessible and cohesive
collection.
Work Positive in a Negative World, Team Edition helps managers
transform their team's environment to Work Positive. Dr. Joey
Faucette discovered that while owners and executives can shape a
work environment, it's the managers and their teams who best create
a positive workplace. Work Positive in a Negative World, Team
Edition helps influence those on the front lines of increasing team
productivity and company profitability. Written in a story-driven
style that unpacks the five core practices of a Work Positive
environment in an easy-to-access way, Dr. Joey shares what he's
learned in the nine years since his previous best-seller that
managers and team members can implement starting today.
Recently there has been a tremendous paradigm shift in diversifying
the workforce at both national and international levels. Having
roots in the globalization trend that began in the 20th century,
the boundaries of many states have been opened to foreign workers
in the international business environment. Furthermore, depending
on the dynamics of civilized societies around the world, employees
from different ethnicities, races, and genders are offered more job
positions day after day with the joint contributions of public and
private enterprises. However, there is still a need to improve
workplace diversity and equity, even if there have been promising
developments. Role of Human Resources for Inclusive Leadership,
Workplace Diversity, and Equity in Organizations brings together
the emerging topics of inclusive leadership, diversity, equity, and
inclusion in organizations in the digital transformation context.
The book also offers theoretical infrastructure and the latest
empirical research findings on inclusive leadership, diversity,
equity, and digital transformation. Covering key topics such as
social entrepreneurship, employee motivation, and diverse
organizations, this premier reference source is ideal for managers,
entrepreneurs, business owners, policymakers, researchers,
scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.
Forget doodling on the minutes whilst you're being asked to Note
the Takeaways in those endless meetings: now there's a workplace
activity book for that. Add this colouring and activity book to
your radar and turn over a new page in your meeting behaviour.
Colour in some flip-flops for a little therapeutic release from
indecisive leaders, create your own praise sandwich, populate your
own good idea graveyard: if you've had a really bad day, there's
punch the page (with handy target marks) for some instant stress
relief. Coming to the aid of harassed workers everywhere, this
activity book puts the 'fun' in 'fundamental business principles'
(and then makes you draw them). The perfect present for a colleague
or an office secret santa, get everyone on the same page as you,
and draw what success looks like today.
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