Take back control of your career journey In the newly revised edition of Career Anchors: Finding Stability and Opportunity in the Changing Nature of Work, a team of world-renowned management and culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your own career values and work relationships as they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook in combination with an online self-assessment offers critical and accessible self-diagnostic exercises along with information about the changing career scene and new descriptions of the eight career anchor categories. This book will help you: Explore how your work choices now relate to your family and self-development Explore how the rapidly changing world of work and business emphasizes globalization, competition, technology, organizational instability, uncertainty, and shifting values Engage in a powerful relationship mapping process that helps you to consider how your work and career choices now interact with your relationships with family, friends, and community Review the career anchor values and examine how these values have changed, so you can make better choices of what, when, where, and how to work as you look ahead This newest edition of Career Anchors is a can’t-miss resource written to help you analyze, assess, and understand the past, present, and future of your own career. It belongs in the libraries of early-career—as well as established—professionals looking to take back control over their work trajectories.

Effective, sustainable cultural change requires evolution, not disruption The Corporate Culture Survival Guide is the essential primer and practical guide every organization needs. Corporate culture pioneer Edgar H. Schein breaks the concept of 'culture' down into real terms, delving into the behaviors, values, and shared assumptions that define it, and explains why culture is the central factor in an organization's success or failure. This new third edition is designed specifically for practitioners needing to apply these practices in real-world settings, and has been updated with new coverage of globalization, technology, and managerial competencies. You'll learn how to get past subconscious bias to assess whether or not your existing culture truly serves your organization, and how to introduce change and manage the change process over time for a best-case-scenario outcome. Case studies illustrate successful change in real companies, providing models and setting the bar for dismantling dysfunctional cultures. Corporate culture begins with the founder, and evolves or not over time. Is your culture working for or against your organization? How can it be optimized? This book separates the truth from the nonsense to provide real-world guidance on initiating and managing cultural change. * Understand when to assess your culture, and how to do it objectively * Learn how cultures evolve and change over time, for better or worse * Discover the reality of multiculturalism amidst the rise of globalization * Evolve your culture to more effectively serve your organization Each of us is a part of many cultures what you do, where you live, where you grew up, what you enjoy, how you live; in the workplace, many different people with many different cultures come together toward a common goal will these cultures clash or synergize? The Corporate Culture Survival Guide shows you how to create an overarching corporate culture that gets everyone on the same page to drive your organization's success.

Praise for Career Imprints

"Monica Higgins' groundbreaking work, Career Imprints, offers bold and original insights into the way in which talent-laden companies spawn new businesses, as Baxter alums did for the biotech industry. Her provocative and thoroughly documented research goes well beyond classic economic theories to demonstrate conclusively why entrepreneurially-led companies have the capacity not only to create new companies but entire industries as well."
--Bill George, author, Authentic Leadership, and former chairman and chief executive officer, Medtronic

"At the heart of this important study is a fascinating question: Why did alumni of one company--the amazing 'Baxter boys'--produce so many of the leaders of the burgeoning biotech industry? To find the answers, Monica Higgins left no research stone unturned. The result is a compelling new theory about exactly what happens in the early stages of careers to shape true leaders who can guide innovation and entrepreneurship. Higgins' concepts will leave their imprint on careers, company cultures, and industry development."
--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, author, Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End

"What Fairchild was to the development of high technology firms in Silicon Valley, Baxter has been to the evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry. Monica Higgins builds a fascinating, richly portrayed case for Baxter's impact on the creation and growth of biopharmaceutical firms."
--Denise Rousseau, H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organization Behavior and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

"Dr. Higgins has written an insightful analysis of a phenomenon whichshaped the biotechnology industry. There is no doubt that my days at Baxter had the most profound influence on my life and career as well as on those of my colleagues."
--Bob Carpenter, founder, Intergrated Genetics, Geltex, Vactex, Candent, Somatix, Hydra, and Peptimmune

"Career Imprints is inspired as both industry history and cultural anthropology. In unique fashion, Monica Higgins tells the story of the emergence of Baxter Travenol as a healthcare giant and one of the great cell cultures of American entrepreneurship. This book is a must for anyone interested in the place of high tech healthcare in our economy and entrepreneurial organizational development."
--William A. Holodank, president, J. Robert Scott

Helping is a fundamental human relationship. From a mother feeding her infant to a friend or spouse helping to make something happen, to a group member playing his or her role to help the group to succeed, to a therapist helping a patient, to an organizational consultant or coach helping to improve individual, group or organizational functioning, helping is the basic relationship that moves things forward. Yet, paradoxically, we know relatively little about the social and psychological dynamics of that relationship. In this seminal book on the topic, corporate culture and organizational development guru Ed Schein analyzes the dynamics of helping relationships, explains why help is often not helpful, and shows what any would-be-helper must do to insure that help is actually provided. Many different words are used for helping assisting, aiding, advising, coaching, consulting, counseling, guiding, mentoring, supporting, teaching, and many more but they all have common dynamics and processes. Schein exposes and shows how to resolve the inequities and role ambiguities of helping relationships, describes the different roles that helpers can take once the relationship is balanced, and explains how to build a balanced relationship and how to intervene as that relationship develops, In this short but profound book Schein examines the social dynamics that are at play in helping relationships in order to better understand why offers of help are sometimes refused or resented, and how to make help more useful and effective.

Der Gegenstand der Organisationspsychologie ist noch keineswegs end gultig abgesteckt. Mit meiner 1965 erschienenen Erstausgabe wollte ich einerseits dazu beitragen, diesen zu definieren, und zum anderen eine Arbeitshilfe schaffen, die sowohl dem Praktiker wie dem Forscher von Nutzen sein konnte. Mein Absicht war, Mitgliedern von Orga nisationen Einblicke in die dynamischen Prozesse von Systemen, denen sie selbst angehoren, zu vermitteln. Mit Genugtuung habe ich beobach tet, wie rasch sich Erforschung und Begriffsbildung der Organisations psychologie in den vergangenen sechs Jahren weiterentwickelt haben. Noch befriedigender war die Feststellung, dass Literatur uber diesen Teilbereich der Psychologie sogar innerhalb von Organisationen auf Interesse stiess. Also nicht nur Studenten, sondern auch Laien, die sich bemuhen, die Dynamik von Organisationen zu begreifen, haben ihre Bedeutung erfasst. Vor allem die offene Aufnahme durch Studenten wie Laien hat mich in dem Beschluss bestarkt, das gesamte Material einer Revision zu unter ziehen. Wie schon in der ersten Auflage habe ich dabei bewusst und wohluberlegt nur bestimmte Konzepte herausgegriffen und mich auf einige wenige Forschungsberichte zur Erlauterung dieser Konzepte be schrankt. Viele brauchbare Studien und etliche gerade in jungerer Zeit entwickelte Theorien mussten auch in dieser uberarbeitung ganz weg gelassen werden oder konnten nur am Rande erwahnt werden. Nur widerstrebend habe ich auch auf eine Diskussion der Theorienbildung und Erorterung methodischer Fragen verzichtet. Gerade im Bereich der Methodologie gibt es noch ungeloste Probleme, die in diesem Rahmen 5 bedauerlicherweise nur angedeutet werden konnen."