Working patterns and practices Books

ROCK STAR MILLENNIALS takes a look at both sides of the exchange between leaders and Millennials to see how both sides can benefit. We'll discuss how we can best serve millennials as their leaders and mentors, and in return, how can they best serve us as...

Are You a Best-Ever Boss? If No, Would You Like to Be One?Then be A WOW!Employees can be cynics and skeptics. Both have much in common—they’ve been disappointed, deceived, and at times, devastated. Most workplaces are loaded with the...

The Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model of leadership has shown that effective leader-follower relationships predict employee well-being and performance. Less research, however, addressed how diversity variables may affect the development of leader-member...

A volume in Advances in Workplace Spiritualities: Theory, Research, and ApplicationSeries Editor Louis W. (Jody) Fry, Texas A&M University - Central TexasAre you intrigued by ancient wisdom traditions? Do you ever wonder if they have any relevancein...

Inspired Organizational Cultures with a foreword by Dr. Edgar Schein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Schein), shares how inspired, and inspiring, organizations flourish. Making the sometimes invisible concept of culture tangible and visible, its 140...

A behind-the-scenes look at the dynamics of class, race, and economics in a suburban eatery"Erickson's study makes a novel and important contribution to our understanding of interactive service work. Service workers at the Hungry Cowboy are deeply...

This book explains how to sustain lean, or, continuous improvement practices. It introduces the BASICS® lean leadership development path, combining the "human aspect" with published BASICS® lean tools. It lays out the methodology to empower, lead, and...

Companies with engaged employees outperform those that don’t by 202%, according to the Dale Carnegie Institute.In Tiffany Timmons-Saab’s, “You’re Leading Now”, a successful leadership strategy is brought to life in this...

“We all know that creating a great place to work is critical to a company’s long-term success, but how do managers actually accomplish this? Bob Lee’s book provides sixteen clear, concise principles and guidance for how to apply them to...

“We all know that creating a great place to work is critical to a company’s long-term success, but how do managers actually accomplish this? Bob Lee’s book provides sixteen clear, concise principles and guidance for how to apply them to...

Exploring the Significance of Working CapitalIn this preface, we delve into the essential concept of working capital, which constitutes a crucial portion of a business's asset base employed in its day-to-day operations. It encompasses elements such as...

Do you know the true price of employee turnover?Losing employees is costly: experts say that you should expect to spend 150 percent of the original salary each time you have to replace an employee. Isn't it better for your business to invest the time,...

Resumes That Pack a Punch! is about preparing powerful resumes and cover letters that pack a punch. It includes principles, strategies, and tactics for writing winning resumes, cover letters, and bullets that grab attention, hook the reader, and wow...

Employing a discourse analytical approach, this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humor to illustrate how discursive performances of leadership are influenced by gender and workplace culture. Far from being a superfluous strategy that...

Your NO FAIL Formula to Maximize Your Organization's Potential and Gain Lasting SuccessBarbara Yokom started a dance school that began with 100 students, one room, and one employee. Over the next 29 years, it grew into a dance, music, and theatre school...

Stop Engaging Employees provides heart-driven leaders with a constructive, contrarian, and practical approach to cultivating healthier workplace cultures. The book's six disciplines of humancentric leadership provide guideposts that every conscientious...

"What the world needs now, is you leading with a quiet mind!" We are living in testing times. Complexity, uncertainty, and disruption are the new normal, and ever-evolving artificial intelligence just upped the ante! To navigate the choppy and muddy...

From the desk of a Highly Rated UDEMY Instructor, Psychotherapist & Life Coach Unlock the power of emotions at work with "Wheel of Emotions: Balancing Emotions for Achieving Success." This transformative guide explores emotional...

Balance Under Pressure: Strategies for Managing Stress and Anxiety at WorkIn today's fast-paced corporate world, stress and anxiety are not just personal challenges but organizational concerns. "Balance Under Pressure" offers a transformative approach to...

Patanjali Ayurved has turned out to be the most disruptive force in the Indian FMCG market...it witnessed a whopping annual growth of 146% in fiscal year 2016, grossing a turnover of $769 million.'-Assocham-TechSci research reportWhen in 1965, at...

Everyone is thrilled that renowned music conductor Zubair Midha plans on visiting Sea World to hear its famous Oct-extra play. Little do they know that there is a plot underfoot to sabotage the show-a plot devised by the millionaire sponsor of the show,...

Have you ever felt that nagging self-doubt, wondering if you had what it takes to start your own business? Have those voices in your head whispered, "Why would anyone want to listen to me?" If you've grappled with these questions, then this book is your...

Many companies profess to having a culture of safety, but they lack the fundamental understanding of what is required to achieve that culture. As noted in Navigating Your Safety Culture Journey, while every company has a safety culture, it may not be the...

Are you a woman navigating the professional world with ADHD? Do you find yourself struggling with challenges that your peers seem to overcome easily? Or perhaps you're an employer, friend, or family member of someone with ADHD and wish to understand...

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families...

Why do so many organizational change initiatives fail so frequently?Organizations are systems with input, process, and output – so the mechanics of change should be easy enough. Yet time and again these mechanistic approaches to change just...

Conflict is one of the greatest sources of tolerated business expenses and loss. This is despite the fact that this expense and loss can, in most cases, be easily turned around to revenue and gain. In the nonprofit world one of the greatest inhibitors of...

One of the top reasons people change jobs is to escape the drama in the workplace-drama that is often precipitated by difficult bosses and difficult coworkers. But difficult people are found in every workplace, and running from them does not make them go...

Learn real frontline leadership in The CareFull Supervisor. Acclaimed business educator Kevin Burns shatters the traditional view of supervisory roles, exposing a profound understanding: your team doesn't work for you - you work for them.The CareFull...

The main aim of the book is to increase knowledge about listening and help organizations and individuals become better at strategic listening. And through this, contribute to strengthening the listening skills of organizations and individuals.

What could your organizations accomplish if everyone--from the investors and those at the top to workers on the front line--were committed to the same goal? Learn the powerful ways to build buy-in that cost nothing yet drive major organization-wide...

“Within our globalized world, how to make men and women with very different cultures, customs, and time zones work together efficiently? This is a piercing question for the corporate world that Olivier Chavaren has perfectly identified. Admittedly,...

Safety practice is undergoing a major shift in thinking but practitioners often struggle to translate its principles into tangible changes in safety practices. In Safety 2.1: The Safety Envelope, author and long-time safety practitioner Dr Paul...

In The Best Leaders Don’t Shout, Bruce shares the lessons learned as he and his teams have defended businesses against the threats of the poor performance he inherited, and then, turned those same businesses around into highly profitable...

This book is an indispensable how-to guide on flourishing when studying abroad, and how to use an international education to begin a fulfilling career after graduation.Written in an engaging and accessible style, using many examples, case studies, and...

The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve reveals and explores the missing link between the Austrian School of Economics and behavioral finance theory. Monetary instability is the source of the waves of irrational exuberance (sometimes described as "asset...

A comprehensive collection by Professor Cary Cooper and his colleagues in the field of workplace stress and wellbeing, which draws on research in a number of areas including stress-strain relationships, sources of workplace stress and stressful...

Although Japanese companies have not have been in the spotlight in recent years, it would be almost impossible to gain an understanding of them and their management practices and organizations without noting the transformations they have undergone in...

The fruit of a twoyear research project, this book aims to provide the first historical account of the teaching of history in twentiethcentury England, and a series of reflections and suggestions which will inform, feed into and influence the current...

Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive...

This title presents research in Employee-Driven Innovation, an emergent field of study that meets the demand for exploiting new innovative potentials in organizations. There is a growing interest in creating new knowledge in innovation, emphasizing human...