Sutton uses in-depth research and analysis to show how managers can eliminate mean-spirited and unproductive behavior (while positively channeling some of the virtues of problem employees) to generate a newly productive workplace.
HEART AROUSED finds unlikely bedfellows in poetry and big business. Whyte, a poet, looks to the work of T.S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, and others to reveal truths about overcoming the difficulties inherent in corporate life, from negotiations to simply making it through the day.
The author of JENNIFER GOVERNMENT captures, in frighteningly funny fashion and dead-on detail, the zeitgeist of the corporate cube farm. Stephen Jones, a freshly minted business graduate, takes his first job as a rep in Training Sales at Zephyr Holdings. Jones has some difficulty in adjusting to the constant low-grade paranoia; the fierce ...
What could be worse than work? The team behind the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook are back with expert advice for surviving dozens of all-new, nightmare on-the-job scenarios both in the office and on the loading dock. In hilarious and inimitable Worst-Case style, this covers the full range of work disasters, from bike messenger ...
"Poorly Made in China" chronicles the experiences of an American working for a U.S. outsourcing firm in Chinese manufacturing and highlights the disturbing and dangerous practice known as 'quality fade' - the deliberate and secretive habit of widening profit margins through a reduction in the quality of materials over time. The author argues that ...
Leslie Salzinger worked in four "maquiladoras" in northern Mexico, and in this book she takes us inside the gendered world of these global factories. Her ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras, grounding contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and ...
The real life cases presented in Gender in the Workplace demonstrate the interaction of various gender issues, and how the issues vary from organization to organization, and from work environment to work environment. The case studies require the reader to analyze a real situation, and make decisions on the basis of their analysis. Issues covered ...
Attending Hamburger University, Robin Leidner observes how McDonald's trains the managers of its fast-food restaurants to standardize every aspect of service and product. Learning how to sell life insurance at a large midwestern firm, she is coached on exactly what to say, how to stand, when to make eye contact, and how to build up Positive Mental ...
With its move from hierarchical to team-based structures and its dismantling of functional barriers, the organization of the future is touted as a radical departure from traditional models. The worker of the future, we are told, must be a collaborative team player, able to give and receive help, empower others, and operate in a world of ...
HEART AROUSED finds unlikely bedfellows in poetry and big business. Whyte, a poet, looks to the work of T.S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, and others to reveal truths about overcoming the difficulties inherent in corporate life, from negotiations to simply making it through the day.
What are the contemporary trends in workplace restructuring and the sociological impact on workers' lives? Around what concepts will work be organized and groups and individuals motivated in their work into the new century? To give you definition and answers to these contemporary questions, the editors of the sociological quarterly, Work and ...
Economic agents can be male or female; they interact in families and households as well as in firms and markets. Yet it is only recently that economists have begun to take the implications of these facts into account in their theory, research, and policy analysis. Informed debate in economics, in other academic fields in which gender is of concern ...
'This book is in its third edition, with good reason. It provides a comprehensive, objective and dispassionate coverage of gender issues in human resource management' - International Employment Relations Review 'If you were to choose a dozen books as a foundation library about women in the workplace, this book should be amongst them' - Women in ...
Recent media attention has focused on dot com disasters, the horrors of massive layoffs or on explosions of corporate violence. What is not highlighted is how life at the office for the average middle manager has become a nightmare with seven-day-a-week workloads, reduced salaries or benefits, enslavement to technology and a pervasive fear about ...
'This book is in its third edition, with good reason. It provides a comprehensive, objective and dispassionate coverage of gender issues in human resource management' - International Employment Relations Review 'If you were to choose a dozen books as a foundation library about women in the workplace, this book should be amongst them' - Women in ...
Restore Creativity and Trust to Your Workplace Much has changed since Driving Fear Out of the Workplace first made the undiscussable discussable back in 1991. Advances in technology, new employee/employer relations, and the corporate push to optimize intellectual capital have introduced a host of new workplace anxieties that, left unaddressed, can ...
Covering a range of issues, this study of the white collar workforce addresses what many see as the increasing imbalance between demands by employers and benefits to employees. Topics include the changing definition of workers, unreasonable demands on time, downsizing, stress, and changes resulting from new technologies.
This text offers a complete resource anyone can use to create a dynamic workplace that encourages and inspires fun-and-games camaraderie among employees. It provides practical hands-on tools and features hundreds of ideas real companies have used to lighten up the workplace.
Create workspace that supports business strategies Space is an organization's second most valuable asset. Yet little attention is paid to how it supports the new ways in which today's organizations operate-teamwork, flattened hierarchies, telecommuting, collaborating across functions. Workplace by Design shows CEOs and managers alike how to put ...
Addressed to working women in all kinds of jobs, this groundbreaking book tells how to recognize and deal with emotionally abusive employers and coworkers. Personal accounts woven throughout the text describe many different abusive workplace situations.
Can you imagine how rewarding it would be, each day, to truly enjoy going to work? Most people spend the better part of their waking hours in jobs they do not enjoy. The happiest, most productive employees are those who have either found a job they truly enjoy, or found ways to make their current jobs more enjoyable. If we can get more pleasure ...
A Journey into the Heroic Environment is a business allegory offering a blueprint for achieving a sense of meaning in any organization, large or small. Written with the momentum of a fast-paced novel, the book outlines eight principles that lead to greater productivity, quality, job-satisfaction, and profits.
Do you think you have to put up with inappropriate sexual behavior to get ahead in your career? Or have you been the victim of sexual harassment and don?t know to do about it? Are you concerned that anything you do or say could be interpreted as sexual harassment? What are the rules and boundaries? The Sexual Harassment Handbook is the first book ...
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Crossing the Unknown Sea: Working as a Pilgrimage of Identity
