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This volume provides a Europe-wide comparative analysis of the role
of civil society organizations active in the field of unemployment
and precarity. It illustrates how crucial civil society
organizations are for the inclusion of the young unemployed, mainly
in two ways: by delivering services and by advocating policy.
Employees of both sexes share the work environment, and a
mishandled office romance can be disastrous for love, a life
partnership, or a career. Avoid the pitfalls of love-at-work-from
the corner office to the online "friend"-with this 21st-century
guide. The typical workplace offers constant opportunities for
face-to-face communication and social interaction. Individuals
within a work environment have common experiences, share the same
frustrations or feelings, and can easily garner details about one
another from simple observation and casual conversation. It is not
surprising that workplace romances happen so frequently, making it
a topic of great interest to far more individuals than those who
work in Human Resources departments. Finding Love from 9 to 5:
Trade Secrets of Office Romance is not about workplace misbehavior.
It's about love relationships that begin-and sometimes end-on
company time, regardless of whether these individuals work in the
same physical environment or not. Powerful emotions can and do
ignite via a virtual connection as easily as in an actual shared
workplace environment-real relationships spark in either context.
This book is for anyone who has fallen in or out of love in the
workplace, the single person who is dreaming of or on the brink of
an office romance, and colleagues and supervisors who must learn to
live and work among those involved in "in-house" relationships.
Reveals original data from 774 adults who completed an online
survey and interviews with 70 people who have experienced an office
romance Provides a roadmap for navigating the brave new world of
office romance that specifies the etiquette of workplace
relationships and addresses issues involving email, text messages,
Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter Contains chapters with compelling
content such as "What HE is Thinking," "When the Office Romance
Becomes Sexual," "Dating up and Down the Ranks," and "Marry Your
Office Love?" Describes office policies, including love contracts
This book analyzes the nature and requirements of workplace
e-learning based on relevant theories such as adult learning,
community of practice, organizational learning, and the systems
thinking. By integrating considerations on organization, pedagogy
and technology, a performance-oriented e-learning framework is then
presented, where performance measurement is used to: 1) clarify and
link organizational goals and individual learning needs, 2) direct
learning towards work performance; and 3) support social
communication and knowledge sharing and management in the
workplace. E-learning and related emerging technologies have been
increasingly used by organizations to enhance the skills and
performance of knowledge workers. However, most of the efforts tend
to focus on the technology, ignoring the organizational context and
relevant pedagogies of workplace learning. Many e-learning projects
in the workplace settings fail to connect learning with work
performance and align organizational goals and individual needs in
a systemic way. Moreover, there is insufficient effort on
externalizing and transferring tacit knowledge embedded in
practices and expertise, based on which to maintain and expand
knowledge assets for sustainable development. The book presents a
systemic theoretical framework, design principles, and
implementation methods, together with a case study to demonstrate
the use and effectiveness of the performance-oriented approach to
workplace e-learning, in which organizational, social and
individual perspectives are integrated in a systemic way. The
performance-oriented approach to workplace e-learning enables
self-regulated and socially constructed learning activities to be
clearly motivated and driven towards the goal of performance
improvement, and makes learning at the organizational, social and
individual levels integrated in a systemic way. The effects of
individual and social learning support and organizational learning
environment on employees' motivation to use performance-oriented
e-learning are also investigated.
This book explores the flexibility of work and labor markets based
on studies of the temporary staffing sector in Sweden, Great
Britain, and the US. It gives an inside view of what it means to be
working as a "temp," and of notions of career and community, time
and space. Moreover, it shows how the flexible worker is "made up"
within the wider context of increasing globalization of labor
markets, and new ways of organizing and of regulating work.
"Unquittable" presents a from-the-trenches guide to the most
effective tools, strategies, and processes for attracting,
developing, and retaining talent in your organization. Informed by
the author's work helping hundreds of companies become more
talent-minded, the hard-won techniques outlined in this book can be
adapted for organizations of any size and deliver extraordinary
bottom-line improvements with relatively little up-front
investment. Laugh-out-loud stories of how to implement, and just as
important, how NOT to implement talent strategies, bring to life
some of the personalities and issues (both good and bad) employers
can expect. Winning the war for talent requires more than good
intentions-success requires conviction, investment, confidence, and
time-and Unquittable delivers an engaging compendium of proven
solutions to the most challenging and urgent issues facing anyone
who hires and manages people.
Black Women in Management highlights the trials, tribulations and
achievements of professional and managerial black African women who
now form part of the ever increasing number of women in paid
employment worldwide. Focusing on the career and family lives of
professional and managerial black African women originating from
Sub-Saharan Africa and on the lives of black African women living
and working within the corporate private sector in Johannesburg and
London, this book explores how such women, with relatively similar
colonial histories, cultures, career and professional backgrounds,
handle their complex social positioning.As black African women with
careers in major cities on opposite sides of the globe, the
professional and managerial women, or transnational and emerging
black elite women in the book are unique both in the workplace and
in their communities. Although the women are part of the majority
population in South Africa, they remain minorities within the
professional and managerial circles of South Africa's corporate
private sector. This is despite a strong sense amongst some South
Africans that of all historically disadvantaged South Africans,
black African women have benefited the most from employment
equality polices. In the UK, black Africans form part of the
growing black and minority ethnic (BME) groups in the country.
However, while black African women form part of this growing black
African community in the country, they remain minorities within the
UK population, but also remain minorities in their role as
professional and managerial women within the corporate private
sector. This is in spite of black Africans having fairly high rates
of higher education amongst the country's BME population. Black
Women in Management identifies some of the differences and/or
similarities that exist between these women's career choices and
progression and explores how they address socio-cultural and
gendered expectations of domestic, social and caring commitments as
career women living and working in two urban cities - one African,
the other European.
Corporate Social Performance In The Age Of Irresponsibility - Cross
National Perspective is authored by a range of international
experts with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives and
provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on CSP
implementation in the time of irresponsibility. Although Corporate
Social Performance (CSP) has become important part of the
management agenda of many enterprises and many companies adding
socially responsible statements to their websites and mission
statements some firms behave irresponsibly while at the same time
acting positively on some dimensions- "corporate social
irresponsibility (CSI) and responsibility can exist at the same
time in the same firm." (Gonzalez-Perez, 2011). This volume is
aimed at presenting Corporate Social Performance concept from
distinct cultural perspectives with the reference to responsible
and irresponsible practices of various entities from different
parts of the world.
Tackle systemic racism in the workplace with practical strategies
In The Anti-Racist Organization: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the
Workplace, HR strategist Shereen Daniels delivers an incisive and
honest discussion of how business leaders can change workplace
practices to create a more anti-racist and equitable environment.
The author draws on her personal and client-facing experience,
historical fact, legal proceedings, HR insights, and quantitative
analysis to equip readers with the knowledge and tools they need to
transform their companies. Daniels also looks at: The role of
executive leaders and how to push past discomfort to credibly and
authentically lead change Strategies for recognising the problem of
systemic racism and implementing impactful solutions Why it's
important to empower colleagues to be pioneers of change and how to
do that Explanations of why diversity and inclusion initiatives
haven't yet solved the problem Ways language can either be a weapon
to perpetuate systemic racism or a tool to dismantle An
indispensable exploration of how systemic racism is engrained into
business structures, policies, and procedures, The Anti-Racist
Organization: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace belongs
in the libraries of all business leaders seeking to make their
workplace more inclusive and equitable.
Advancing technologies are rapidly modifying the current state of
business and society causing an expansion of possible career
opportunities. In order to stay competitive, institutions of
education must provide an emphasis on the wide-range of skills and
experiences needed to contribute to a 21st century workforce. As
new technologies emerge and even disrupt, there will be a demand
for new forms of education and deeper learning. Disruptive and
Emerging Technology Trends Across Education and the Workplace is a
collection of innovative research on the latest instructive methods
being utilized in classrooms and organizations as well as the
benefits and challenges of adopting these technologies. While
highlighting topics including mobile learning, augmented reality,
and cryptocurrencies, this book is ideally designed for developers,
professionals, educators, managers, researchers, scientists,
stakeholders, strategists, practitioners, and students seeking
current research on new forms of educational techniques in relation
to the continued application of new technologies in the workplace.
You've just learned that your office is to be renovated. Or,
perhaps, it is being moved to a new location--and you're in charge.
What questions will you need to ask? How can you make the move go
as smoothly as possible? What steps can you take to avoid stress
during critical stages of the process and keep up with your normal
workload as well?
This highly readable volume is the perfect primer for the staff
member appointed project manager during an office renovation or
relocation. It offers concise information and a self-explanatory
step-by-step procedure for completing a timely, efficient, and
money-saving renovation or move. Possible question and
unforeseeable pitfalls are identified. Written by an expert in the
field, this unique volume offers insider's information on assessing
office needs, selecting vendors, negotiating the best prices and
terms for office furniture, working with an architect or desiner,
differentiating between real leasing advantages and phony incentive
perks, writing a contract, and determining which professional
services are really necessary.
Servant Leader Human Resource Management provides a comprehensive
conceptual framework based on a dignity enhancing stewardship model
that integrates and balances mission achievement with motive, means
and ends integrity from both a line manager and human resource
department perspective.
In Leaning Out, respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade
of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the
pandemic has led to a breakthrough. As the historic 2020 Women's
March attests, a generation of younger women are speaking truth to
power and changing the way we think of women in the workplace. This
is the third book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie
Grant Books. For ten years Australian women have been sold a
dazzling promise: through sheer 'will' and individual
self-empowerment they could overcome decades of gender inequality
in the workplace. The hard, structural work didn't need to be done;
all the solutions could be individual. Yet leaning in, power-posing
and speaking up (and being spoken over) at the boardroom table have
made very little difference for the great majority of women, still
underpaid and overworked compared to their male colleagues. The
COVID-19 pandemic has shockingly revealed the fragile foundations
of women's working lives. It's also given us a rare opportunity for
a reimagining. But Australian women are still being told to 'Lean
In' at precisely the moment when so many are 'leaning out'. With
the majority of all jobs lost in the pandemic being held by women,
and successive governments unable or unwilling to address the
'gender issue', we are at crisis point. Leaning Out is a manifesto
for what we can - and should - do with this moment. From Crikey and
Hardie Grant Books, The Crikey Read is a series that brings an
unflinching and truly independent eye to the issues of the day in
Australia and the world.
After illustrating the global relevance of trust with his book "The
Speed of Trust" by selling more than one million copies in
twenty-two languages, Stephen M.R. Covey again illuminates the
hidden power of trust to change lives and impact organizations in
"Smart Trust." In a compelling and readable style, he and long-time
business partner Greg Link share enlightening principles and
anecdotes of people and organizations that are not only achieving
unprecedented prosperity from high-trust relationships and cultures
but--even more inspiring--also attaining elevated levels of energy
and joy.
Find out why trusted people are more likely to get hired or
promoted, get the best projects and bigger budgets, and are last to
be laid off. This sea-changing book will forever shift your
perspective as it reveals and validates, once and for all, the
transformational power of trust. Reading "Smart Trust" will
increase your probability of thriving in this increasingly
unpredictable marketplace. The more unpredictable it becomes, the
more your (and your organization's) sound judgment and ability to
trust in this low-trust world will give you a tremendous
competitive advantage--and the capacity to navigate the uncertainty
low trust creates.
The increasing globalization, the battle for talents, and global
trends are changing the work patterns in organisations around the
globe. Enterprises are working across country and cultural borders
alongside complex supply and demand networks. Global incidents such
as the financial crisis in 2008 and the recent COVID-19 pandemic
have forced global organizations to find innovative ways to
continue to connect globally and maintain a competitive advantage.
Therefore, innovative enterprises have established global and
virtual organisations including members of the value chain on
supply and demand side. This book outlines these new work and
leadership styles, and agile organisations, which are necessary to
work virtually and globally. It provides case studies and
experiences from different global organizations in different
industries and sectors with a focus on value-adding processes and
services.
Emotional Abuse and Neglect in the Workplace tackles the big
questions: How does emotional neglect of employees affect an
organization? How can management effectively manage while restoring
an organization's health? When trust is gone, only reliable
behavior by senior managers can help - and this takes time. The
author explores striking similarities between the symptoms of
ailing organizations and abusive or neglectful families. This book
explores not only a new theory of neglected organizations, but also
a set of methods enabling OD practitioners to restore employees'
trust. It also provides diagnostic tools and guidelines for change
agents who confront organizational neglect head-on and includes
case studies and real-life experiences of OD practitioners.
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