The Changing Nature of Work envisions the future nature of work, its effect on workers and organizations, and the expanded knowledge that will be needed to optimize its returns. The book examines critical post-industrial transformations in work, workers, and the experience of working and assesses the implications of those changes. It investigates what is driving change at work, what is constraining it, and where work is headed as governments, societies, and work organizations respond to its revolutionary thrust.

This text offers a practical approach to bringing women and people of colour into the leadership ranks of organizations that will appeal to both ends of the political spectrum. Morrison presents her research on 16 private and public organizations, noted for their innovative and successful leadership diversity programs, to reveal the country's best practices for achieving diversity in executive positions.

Ever get the feeling that your coworkers don't understand you?
Misunderstanding through poor communication is rampant in the workplace, yet most workers just shrug their shoulders and accept misunderstanding as a fact of life. In Why Didn't You Say that in the First Place?, the author offers a path to clear communication by demonstrating how we can always reach full mutual understanding with others by using the power of plain talk in a systematic way.

You'll discover:

• Why nobody understands you
• Why misunderstanding is normal
• The power of...

This practical, how-to guide provides HR professionals with a detailed framework for designing, implementing and maintaining comprehensive career development systems. Covers a wide range of approaches--workshops, counseling, mentoring--and tells how to enlist the support of management.

Plan Your Meeting or Conference with Confidence

From creating the program book to making special arrangements for VIPs, this celebrated resource contains all the guidance, tools and inspiration you need to organize, manage and conduct a truly outstanding meeting or conference. The detailed advice--from authors with more than fifty years of planning experience--can be applied to most any type of gathering, from events for twenty-five to an extravaganza for thousands. A sampling of subjects includes site and function room selection, activity coordination, accommodating handicapped...

A publication of Work in America Institute

Detailed case studies of leading companiessuch as Xerox, General Electric, Goodyear, and Manpower, Inc.show how innovative training practices make organizations more competitive. Illustrates how effective programs can help companies utilize the latest manufacturing, production, communication, and service technologies. A companion to Training The Competitive Edge.

Presents an innovative approach for helping managers, public officials, community leaders, and others work on solving such complex problems as labor disputes, disposal of toxic wastes, achieving racial integration, and the use of biotechnology.

Rapidly changing conditions in today's business environment have made unprecedented demands on organizational leaders - often requiring radical rethinking of purpose and priorities, visions of the future, and the very structure and function of the organization itself. Using illustrative examples of CEOs who have successfully responded to these demands, Beckhard and Pritchard reveal the strategies and leadership behaviours required to manage and integrate this kind of fundamental change.

The seventh book in the Frontiers of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Series, sponsored by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association.

Get the latest perspective on teams from leading professionals in management and social, industrial, and organization psychology. You'll get the latest research perspective on teams and their nature, function, effectiveness, decision-making process, and their ability to change the face of organizational life.

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