books about workplace issues
Want to learn more about workplace issues? Consider these books. To learn more about each book, or purchase them online, click the image or text link to visit Amazon.ca. Links will open in a new browser window. |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reaching Your Goals by Jeff Davidson. ISBN: 002862114X Covers all aspects of developing and implementing goals in seven areas of life. Includes helpful tips, work sheets, illustrations, and sidebars. Good advice for long-term and short-term planners. |
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You don't have to go home from work exhausted by A. McGee-Cooper. ISBN: 0553370618 Plug into this action resource and discover how to recharge your batteries at a moment's notice. Open to any page and you'll find a wealth of creative ideas and strategies that can help turn your life around. |
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The
Overwhelmed Person's Guide to Time Management by
Ronni Eisenberg and Kate Kelly. ISBN: 0452276829 |
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families: Building a Beautiful
Family Culture in a Turbulent World by Stephen
R. Covey. ISBN: 0307440850 |
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The
Ten Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management: Proven
Strategies for Increased Productivity and Inner Peace by
Hyrum W. Smith. ISBN: 0446670642 |
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Career and job transition |
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Career
Change by
David P. Helfand. ISBN: 0844242691. |
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Breaking free by D. Noer. ISBN: 0787902675 David Noer, bestselling author of Healing the Wounds and the undisputed expert on the psychological effects of downsizing, prescribes a new cure for job insecurity, offering today's nervous workforce guidance on how to take control of their current jobs and future careers. |
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What color is your parachute? by R. Bolles. ISBN: 1580084605 For nearly 30 years, "What Color Is Your Parachute?" has been the guiding light for those in pursuit of satisfying and fulfilling employment. At the heart of Bolles's formula for finding the right job are two questions: What do you want to do? Where do you want to do it? |
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The career chase: Taking creative control in a chaotic age by H. Harkness. ISBN: 0891060987 Suggesting that the pace of change will only continue to intensify in the workplace, career counselor and futurist Helen Harkness shows readers how to recognize their options and find the opportunities that are ever-present in times of chaos. |
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Career intelligence by B. Moses. ISBN: 1576750485 Moses defines career activists as those who succeed
in defining themselves apart from their organization and can widen
their career choices through self- knowledge. Moses's book devotes
considerable time to identifying areas of vulnerability, then suggests
four key principles that will help you adapt and thrive in an uncertain
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The Healing journey through job loss by P. Rich, S. Copans, & K.G. Copans. ISBN: 0471326941 Written by professional counselors and a financial planner, this unique journal is designed to help you deal with the difficult emotions that surface when your life has been turned upside down by job loss. |
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Dealing effectively with job loss by E. L. Berman. ISBN: 1929059051 Many books touch upon the surface elements of job loss, such as writing a resume or successful interview techniques. This book delves beneath the surface to uncover the emotional and psychological supports that must be reinforced before updating your resume and scheduling interviews. |
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Finding Your Perfect Work, by Paul Edwards and Sarah Edwards. ISBN: 1585422169 An easy-to-read guide for how to use your personal goals to create a practical career. Intended for people who are changing careers, as well as those new to the job world. Includes inspiring stories, worksheets, and questionnaires. |
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Could
Do Anything If I Only Knew What it Was by Barbara
Sher. ISBN: 0440505003. |
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Résumés
for the First-Time Job Hunter by VGM
Career Horizons. ISBN: 0844243876. |
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Change and transition |
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Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change by William Bridges. ISBN: 0201550733. As stated by the author, 'This book will help you to understand the difficulties you face whenever you try to get people to change the way they do things.' Specifically, this book is written for managers in today's corporations who are called upon to facilitate the changes necessary to revitalize and improve company performance. |
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Fish tales: Real-life stories to help you transform your workplace and your life by S. C. Lundin (Ed.). ISBN: 0786868686 Fish! Tales is Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, and Harry Paul's follow-up to Fish!--their enormously popular fable that draws lessons aimed at combating dysfunctional workplaces from the happy fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. |
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From chaos to confidence by S. M. Campbell. ISBN: 068480252. A practical guide to thriving in the changing workplace of the nineties offers six core ""meta-skills"" for managers and emphasizes the importance of participating in the change process instead of trying to control it. |
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Who moved my cheese? by S. Johnson & K.H. Blanchard. ISBN: 0399144463 Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. |
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The Accelerating organization: Embracing the human face of change by A. Maria & P. B. Scott-Morga. ISBN: 007057720 Based on far-reaching and forward-thinking curriculum, Acceleration Organization teaches new principles of managing people, teams, and complex organizations in a buisness world that's been reengineered, downsized and more. |
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Aftershock: Helping people through corporate change by H. Woodward, S. Bucholz, & K. Hess. ISBN: 0471624780 A practical, hands-on guide to helping employees through the often painful process of organizational change--whether from technological innovation, limited resources, or new management. |
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The Balanced scorecard: Translating strategy into action by R. Kaplan & D. P. Norton. ISBN: 0875846513 Kaplan (accounting, Harvard) and Norton, president of Renaissance Solutions Inc., created the "balanced scorecard" to assist businesses in moving from ideas to action, achieving long-term goals, and obtaining feedback about strategy. |
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Breaking the code of change by M. Beer & N. Nohria. ISBN: 1578513316 In the summer of 1998, Harvard Business School hosted a research conference to review developments, best practices, and research in the field of change management. |
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The Challenge of change in organizations: Helping employees thrive by N. Barger, L.K. Kirby. ISBN: 0891060790 Building on the metaphor of the frontier experience to understand organizational change, The Challenge of Change shows how change creates a wide range of responses in people, from excitement and enthusiasms to panic, fear, and depression. |
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Champions of change by D. A. Nadler & M. B. Nadler In Champions of Change, David Nadler and his co-author/brother, Mark B. Nadler, describe how business leaders of major companies such as Corning Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Xerox Corp. have dealt with the challenge of radical change. |
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The Change handbook: Group methods for shaping the future by Pl Holman & T. Devane (Eds.). ISBN: 1576750582 This unique guide showcases 18 tried-and-true methods for facilitating change in a group situation, each explained by an expert who developed or elaborated the method. |
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The Change leader's roadmap by L. A. Anderson, D. Anderson, & L.S. Ackerman-Anderson. ISBN: 0787956406 (Wiley) Companion volume to the authors' Beyond Change Management, offering comprehensive guidance for navigating organizational change. Shows readers how to build a transformational change strategy and designing and implementing a successful transformation. |
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The Change monster: The Human forces that fuel or foil transformation by J. D. Duck. ISBN: 0609808818 Fear, curiosity, exhaustion, loyalty, paranoia, optimism, rage, and revelation--not quite the kind of emotions that are anticipated or discussed when leaders embark on organizational change, but exactly the kind to expect. The Change Monster examines how to effectively plan for, address, and manage the least predictable and perhaps the most important aspect of a successful transformation. |
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Changing the essence: The Art of creating and leading fundamental change by R. Beckhard & W. Pritchard. ISBN: 1555424120 This practical change manual reveals the strategies and leadership behaviors required to manage and integrate fundamental change, using illustrative examples of CEOs who have successfully led radical rethinking of purpose and priorities, vision, and the very structure and functions of the organization itself. |
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Changing the way we change: Gaining control of major operational change by J. LaMarsh. ISBN: 0201633647 Offers a systematic plan of action for initiating, implementing, and dealing with change. Gives practical knowledge and skills you need to implement change successfully for significant improvements in efficiency and quality. |
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Communicating change: How to win employee support by T. J. Larkin & S. Larkin. ISBN: 0070364524 Written for busy managers at all levels, Communicating Change offers specific prescriptions for effecting successful change centered around three guiding principles: Conveying the message through supervisors, Communicating face-to-face, and Making the changes relevant to each work area. |
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Coping with workplace change: Dealing with loss and grief by J. S. Jeffreys & J. S. Jeffries. ISBN: 1560523085 Develop supportive skills for managing grieving employees who are affected by layoffs, mergers, reorganizations and other massive changes. |
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Force for change: How leadership differs from management by J. P. Kotter. ISBN: 0029184657 Building upon his landmark analysis of the job of the general manager and his influential work on leadership, power, and influence, John Kotter now focuseson the human factors which bring change. |
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Giving and receiving feedback: Building constructive communication by P. Hathaway. ISBN: 1560524308 Employees, supervisors, parents, and sons and daughters alike grapple with the difficulty of discussing anything potentially negative. This updated guide shows how to get rid of negative connotations and use feedback communication as a vehicle for growth. |
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The Human side of change: A Practical guide to organization redesign by T. J. Galpin. ISBN: 0787902160 Drawing on a decade of consulting experience with businesses and governments around the world, Timothy J. Galpin outlines a nine-step process for effectively combining the human and technical sides of change for successful mergers, downsizing, and restructuring. The Human Side of Change offers managers, frontline supervisors and human resource professionals valuable tools, techniques, and examples to help them gain support for change at all levels of an organization. |
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Managing at the speed of change: How resilient managers succeed by D. R. Conner. ISBN: 0679406840 Conner presents a well-reasoned, original approach to change management, relevant for any organization. Based on his extensive consulting experience, Conner describes the patterns of change, his unique principles of resilience, and the imperative that the change process be actively led by managers. |
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