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Volume 20 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being
features contributions that expand the understanding of how
occupational stressors can build employee resilience and enhance
their well-being while at the same time creating negative employee
outcomes such as depletion, exhaustion, and depression. To this
end, chapters take a hard look at examining the outcomes of work
stressors, the circumstances or conditions that can change or even
reverse the relationship between stressors and outcomes, and
theoretical accounts for apparent contradictions in this
literature. Examining the Paradox of Occupational Stressors:
Building Resilience or Creating Depletion represents insightful,
intriguing, and timely research into the paradox of experienced
stress in the workplace.
A legal scholar and sociologist, John Flood spent years observing a
large law firm from the inside-much like an embedded journalist,
but with the perspective of a researcher on the theory and practice
of legal organizations. What he found and analyzed resulted in a
study that has been cited by many scholars over the years as the
ultimate account of the inner workings of a corporate law firm,
including its relations with clients, employees, and the broader
profession. Further, using four detailed case studies, he showed
how the construction of legal information and problems depended
heavily on the role and specialization of the lawyer and the power
of the client. Now in its Second Edition, with updated references
and account of the radical shifts in legal practice over the past
few years in the U.S. and U.K., Flood's pathbreaking book continues
to be a fascinating resource for scholars of the legal profession,
as well as interested readers who want to see exposed the inner
sanctum of private, big-money law practice. This edition also adds
a new, reflective introduction by Lynn Mather, the SUNY
Distinguished Service Professor at the University at Buffalo.
While much thought has been given to how business leaders and
managers can obtain the most productivity from Millennials
(Generation Y) and subsequent groups such as Generation Z, the true
challenge is far more complex. The workforce of the near future
will be a multigenerational one, featuring members from between
four and six generations in one organizational setting. This
situation is made even more complex and challenging with the effect
of today's globalization, which has created worldwide
hypercompetition in organizations that often involves members from
multiple cultures who speak different languages. How to effectively
handle such a diverse population is increasingly a key concern for
organizations of all types and sizes. Global Applications of
Multigenerational Management and Leadership in the Transcultural
Era is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on
the application of applying numerous leadership styles to
effectively navigate generational compromise. While highlighting
topics such as consumer behavior, leadership management, and
workforce diversity, this publication is ideally designed for
business scholars, managers, executives, human resources
professionals, recruitment agencies, students, business
professionals, and international business leaders seeking current
research on communication strategies and the most effective ways to
handle a diverse workforce.
Shows how sponsorship of women of color at work can be
transformational, both personally and for organizations looking to
increase diversity and representation. After 17 years in business,
Jhaymee Tynan decided it was time to take action and focus her
efforts to lift up the next generation of leadership. TITLE is one
of several first steps to provide women of color with powerful
stories about women who look just like them and the allies that
have been instrumental in sponsoring their careers. This book takes
a deep dive into the essence of career sponsorship and how
sponsorship has directly moved the needle to increase diversity in
senior and C-suite leadership. Inspiring professionals who are
looking to better comprehend sponsorship and how to leverage
sponsorship to achieve career aspirations, Inclusive Sponsorship is
also a battle cry to organizations to implement system resource
groups (SRGs), mentoring programs, and initiatives stating that
diversity and inclusion is a corporate value. This is a wake-up
call for corporations to embrace sponsorship as part of its culture
and hold executives accountable for moving women of color into
leadership roles. Tynan explores her personal journey to the
executive ranks by sharing an emotional account of navigating the
challenges of climbing the corporate ladder. Most importantly, she
credits sponsorship as the key to giving her the access and
visibility within her organization to get promoted and to live out
her career goals. This experience, coupled with her interest and
passion to advocate for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)
women, were the impetus for launching a global career initiative to
sponsor 100 women of color by 2030. For any person or organization
looking for ways to elevate BIPOC women into leadership roles, this
book offers a guide to success.
A complete guide for turning a relocation plan into a reality
The Office Relocation Sourcebook provides relocation teams, at
firms of all sizes, with the background information and practical
guidance they need to pull off a relocation project
cost-effectively and with a minimum of disruption to the employees
being moved. Written by the head of the Human Factors Group at
Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc., this valuable resource:
* Arms you with all the forms, checklists, surveys, and summaries
guaranteed to make any office relocation project as painless and
cost-efficient as possible
* Guides you step by step through the entire relocation process,
from the initial planning stages to post-project evaluation
* Covers both the nuts-and-bolts issues and crucial human factors
side of the relocation equation
* Features a computer disk packed with valuable relocation tools,
including a comprehensive relocation template
Take the sting out of your next relocation project with The
Office Relocation Sourcebook.
Office relocation is one of the most challenging aspects of a
facility professional's job. This challenge and the thrill of
meeting it are even greater for members of the relocation team who
have had little or no prior relocation experience. To begin with,
there are the thousand and one logistical details that go into the
designing, planning, and implementation of a relocation project.
Then, there is the seemingly impossible task of keeping affected
employees happy and supplied with everything they need to perform
their jobs--without running into massive cost overruns.
The Office Relocation Sourcebook takes the sting out of relocation.
Written by an author with twenty-five years' experience in facility
management and human factors design, this valuable resource
provides all the background information and practical guidance
needed to pull off a cost-effective relocation project with a
minimum of disruption. These methods and techniques are appropriate
for firms of any size, regardless of the number of employees being
relocated.
Writing in a warm, conversational style, peppered with handy
checklists, summaries, and survey tools, Dennis Attwood guides you
step by step through the entire relocation process, from the
initial planning stages to post-project evaluation. He provides
coverage of nuts-and-bolts issues through the human factors side of
the relocation equation. For instance, Attwood explores workers'
reasons for resisting relocation and describes innovative
communication techniques that can substantially reduce employee
resistance and the common adverse side effects of disrupting the
workplace. In his discussion of work system planning, he compares
traditional design arrangements, such as the neighborhood and team
concepts, with alternative workplace strategies, including reuse of
existing office space, and the office outside of the company.
The enclosed disk supplies a variety of useful tools and, in
addition to the forms and checklists found in the book, arms you
with a valuable relocation template.
Make your next office relocation project a success with The Office
Relocation Sourcebook.
In an age of economic turmoil, business failure, and downsizing,
simply being good at your job is no longer good enough. To weather
the storm and emerge as a survivor it is vital to be a key
contributor within your organization-to be someone who is
considered indispensable.
The Organization Survivor model is a practical tool based on
hundreds of surveys of hiring managers and survivors of downsizing,
conducted in companies ranging from Fortune 100 to small
entrepreneurial start-ups. Here is a blueprint for individual
survival and ultimate success inside the new organization. Learn
how to survive downsizing and keep your job while thousands of
other talented individuals are losing theirs. Assess and sharpen
your organization "survival skills" and put yourself in the
forefront of key contributors within your organization. Multiply
your personal power by perfecting two key "survival instincts" that
lay the groundwork for high-performance. Stock your survival
toolkit with the four critical "survival skills" that will make you
indispensable to your company. Create a foolproof plan to ensure
your survivability and establish your reputation as a key performer
in your organization. Don't leave your future to chance
Honours fulfil one of the most fundamental desires of human beings,
namely, to be recognised and held in esteem by others. There are
thousands of awards in all areas of society: the state, arts and
media, sports, religion, the voluntary sector, academia, and
business. Awards are well visible, can raise the recipients'
intrinsic motivation and creativity, and establish a bond of
loyalty to the giver. They have distinct advantages over money and
other rewards. Presenting empirical evidence using modern
statistical techniques Honours versus Money argues that awards can
significantly raise performance in different contexts even if they
are purely symbolic, recommending how this can be used in practice.
It makes the case for reorienting our focus- away from the monetary
or material dimensions of work and private life, and towards the
symbolic dimensions to celebrate and shine a light on merit and
achievement. Honours versus Money discusses award bestowals in
their different forms and facets, including as signals and as
components of organisations' human resource strategies. It opens
our perspective for motivational strategies beyond money, while
also outlining their potential pitfalls.
An IT service desk is the first point of contact between users and
an IT organisation. A service desk is a one-stop destination for
enquiries, requests and reporting issues, ensuring continuing use
of IT services without disruption. They have become intrinsic in
modern organisations. A service desk makes prioritising and
responding to customer enquiries much more efficient, saving time
and money. More and more organisations are understanding that
customer satisfaction is key to developing their business. The
Service Desk Handbook - A guide to service desk implementation,
management and support provides operational guidance for
implementing, managing and supporting service desks in the
enterprise. It will help service desk teams in adopting ITIL(R) to
accomplish their tasks while making the necessary adaptations as
per their organisation's needs. Suitable for service desk agents,
supervisors and managers, as well as project managers and senior
management looking to revise processes, this book will help readers
get a service desk unit off the ground and act as a key reference
guide once the service desk has been implemented. Topics covered
include: Planning for a service desk; Telephony and tooling; The
service desk team; Documentation; Performance measures; and
Technology considerations - artificial intelligence and platforms
and tools.
Monica Santana and Ramon Valle-Cabrera's wide-ranging study
explores vital research and industrial issues that are central to
understanding the concepts of the Future of Work and address key
challenges in this evolving area of debate.A global cast of leading
research specialists provide chapters examining a broad spectrum of
areas relating to the Future of Work including leadership, talent
management, AI and digitalisation, digital skills, new forms of
work, industrial relations, vulnerable workers as well as
well-being, happiness, satisfaction and burnout. Each chapter
offers insights on how individuals and leaders can make choices to
shape the future of work and effectively respond to changing
contextual conditions, demystifying the future of work from a set
of interesting insights into specific actions and choices that will
help imagine, invent, and implement a work setting that works. New
Directions in the Future of Work is illuminating reading for
scholars of HRM, Talent Management, Leadership, Industrial
Relations, and all those seeking to understand directions of travel
for the workplaces of the future.
ISO 50001 - A strategic guide to establishing an energy management
system provides a practical but strategic overview for leadership
teams of what an EnMS (energy management system) is and how
implementing one can bring added value to an organisation.
Emerald Studies In Finance, Insurance, And Risk Management 7
explores how AI and Automation enhance the basic functions of human
resource management. The traditional framework of Human Resource
Management (HRM) primarily consists of four functions: Human
Resource Planning, Recruitment and Selection, Training and
Development and Performance Management Systems which help
businesses in hiring, motivating and retaining employees. The
introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed all of
these aspects. This second volume in The Adoption and Effect of
Artificial Intelligence on Human Resources Management Series
reflects upon: the accuracy of using AI to nominate candidates; the
change readiness of employees; impacts and challenges on HRM
practices; effects on upskilling; and the effects of the pandemic;
concluding with an overall state of industry trends. This book is
ideal for HR managers, senior managers, researchers, and students
planning a career in this field.
Draws on the author's extensive career in professional services, as
well as interviews with nearly forty Asian-Australian partners in
Big 4 firms to bring life to the topics and themes of the book
Provides research-backed recommendations for aspiring cultural
leaders can take to accelerate their career progression, as well as
a roadmap of what companies should do to increase their leadership
cultural diversity Written in an accessible style for practitioners
and organisations, with end-of-chapter summaries and questions to
guide personal reflection and change Well-endorsed by academics
from NIODA and INSEAD, as well as business professionals from PWC
and King & Wood Mallesons
Traditionally, organizations have consisted of collections of
people who physically gather together in one place to carry out
some kind of coordinated activity. Today, however, business is
increasingly relying on "virtual" processes in which people engage
in internet-mediated interactions that often span the globe. These
processes create intangible "imaginary organizations" that exist
largely as a concept in the minds of electronically interacting
individuals. As more and more high value-added work is performed by
knowledge workers interacting through electronically mediated
networks, however, managers and management researchers must evolve
new concepts for monitoring, interpreting, assessing, and managing
activities carried out in such virtual settings. This volume
presents an important multidisciplinary approach to understanding
these new kinds of imaginary organizations and their processes.
Close reading of the papers in this volume should reward the reader
with new insights into the inner workings of the new kinds of
virtual organizations and processes that are gaining increasing
prominence in business.
The focus of Volume 17 of Research on Emotion in Organizations is
on how negative emotions at work can be intense due to a myriad of
reasons including feelings of failure, rejection, job insecurity,
stressful work demands and poor coping strategies. The chapters in
this book address some of the more frequent and vexing problems and
resulting negative emotions that can occur at work. Many of these
chapters explore relatively under-researched topics, and thus the
potential for their future impact on research is enormous. Many of
these topics are under-researched despite the emotions they address
having a major impact on people's lives. With an emphasis on
negative emotions, coping strategies, emotional regulation,
emotional labor, management and leadership, chapter authors detail
a wide-ranging set of means to ameliorate negative emotions in
organizational settings. These solutions, based on state-of the-art
research, will be of immense help to workers and leaders as they
face the challenges of the modern workplace. In addition, they
should help guide human resource management training and
development programs.
In the past decades, work has changed dramatically. Yet we are
still sent into the new world of work with old, outdated tools,
expectations, and strategies. This leaves us ill-equipped in our
pursuit of meaningful work that will impact our communities and
change the world. The result? Unmet expectations and unfulfilled
longings. Not to mention curiosity about how to do the work we
sense God calling us to. Make Work Matter provides a blueprint for
a better future. Filled with stories and insights from faithful
entrepreneurs and built on solid research, this book will help you
- discover what God is calling you to do in a changing world -
define where you are in this season of work - embrace what the
Bible says (and doesn't say) about calling - develop a mindset and
habits suited for the new world of work - reflect on and work out
ways that sustain you on the journey It's time to close the gap
between what you're doing now and the meaningful work you desire to
accomplish. This book will help you chart your own way forward.
From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops
in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn - studies on the
impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the
worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs Go Bad,
Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the impact of globalization on a major
industry - the North American auto industry - to reveal that
globalization has had a deleterious effect on even the most valued
of blue-collar jobs. Rothstein argues that the consolidation of the
Mexican and U.S.-Canadian auto industries, the expanding number of
foreign automakers in North America, and the spread of lean
production have all undermined organized labor and harmed workers.
Focusing on three General Motors plants assembling SUVs - an older
plant in Janesville, Wisconsin; a newer and more viable plant in
Arlington, Texas; and a ""greenfield site"" (a brand-new,
state-of-the-art facility) in Silao, Mexico - When Good Jobs Go Bad
shows how global competition has made nonstop, monotonous,
standardized routines crucial for the survival of a plant, and it
explains why workers and their local unions struggle to resist. For
instance, in the United States, General Motors forced workers to
accept intensified labor by threatening to close plants, which led
local unions to adopt ""keep the plant open"" as their main goal.
At its new factory in Silao, GM had hand-picked the union - one
opposed to strikes and committed to labor-management cooperation -
before it hired the first worker. Rothstein's engaging comparative
analysis, which incorporates the viewpoints of workers, union
officials, and management, sheds new light on labor's loss of
bargaining power in recent decades, and highlights the negative
impact of globalization on all jobs, both good and bad, from the
sweatshop to the assembly line.
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