Work Behavior

Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo take an unflinching look at the differences between Black and White women's experiences at work. Based on groundbreaking research, the book compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 first-generation Black and White female managers in the American business area. In-depth histories bring to life the women's powerful and often difficult journeys from childhood to professional success, highlighting the roles that gender, race, and class played in their development.

Growing numbers of Americans are doing work that they care about and enjoy. But they're frustrated by stagnant wages, shrinking health coverage, shaky pension plans, and company polices that make it more difficult for them to do their jobs well. Corporate executives may be becoming less loyal to their employees, but those same employees still want to be loyal to their company.

Organizations accomplish results when they powerfully engage employees and capture their discretionary time. This is more important than ever during this period where employees are facing unprecedented time poverty. Technology has blurred the lines between employees' work and personal lives, and they are faced with the challenges of successfully navigating and integrating work and personal demands.

In Nature of Work: The New Story of Work for a Living Age, Paul Miller, CEO and founder of Digital Workplace Group (DWG), and Shimrit Janes, DWG's director of knowledge, draw on patterns from forests and the natural world to illustrate a dynamic, vital, and more beautiful world of work that our hearts and minds know is possible.

With increased demand for hybrid and fully remote work styles, most firms understand that some form of distance work is here to stay—and have put some remote protocols in place. But many companies either see the shift to remote work as a threat to their culture and management style, or they just don’t know how to make the transition. It’s time to take advantage of the many opportunities remote work presents. This book will tell you how.

Why excluding some people from your movement is actually what you want.

Eine erfolgreiche und zugleich wertschätzende Arbeitskultur sollte sich an den Bedürfnissen des Hirns eines jeden Einzelnen orientieren. Doch wie lässt sich ein solches Umfeld schaffen in einer Zeit voller Herausforderungen, wie Corona, Digitalisierung, Homeoffice, Fachkräftemangel und Dauer-Burn-Out? In ihrem neuen Hörbuch widmet sich Friederike Fabritius den Themen der Stunde: Führung und Zusammenhalt im Homeoffice, flexible Arbeit, Bindung von Talenten, Schaffen optimaler Arbeitsvoraussetzungen und das große Potential von (neuro-)diversen Teams.

Why work harder than you have to? One manager kept his senior execs happy by secretly hacking into the company’s database, providing them the reports they needed in one-third the time. Hacking is a powerful solution to every stupid procedure, tool, rule, and process we are forced to endure. Benevolent hackers are saving business from itself. It would be so much easier to do great work if not for lingering bureaucracies, outdated technologies, and deeply irrational rules and procedures.

Larson looks carefully into the challenges and opportunities that people and companies face today as work changes. Chapters address the issues that vital stakeholders experience in remote-work environments, including the remote worker, remote teams, managers of remote workers, and companies with remote workforces. Larson also incorporates real-world examples to illustrate key points and demonstrate best practices.

Alle reden von New Work, Agilität und Digitalisierung. Doch was bleibt von all diesen Ansätzen übrig, wenn der Scrum-Workshop zu Ende ist? Oft holt der Unternehmensalltag die gerade noch auf Teamwork und Innovation gestimmten Teilnehmer schneller ein als sie New Work buchstabieren können: Abteilungen, Hierarchien und die mit ihnen verbundenen Rituale stehen echter Zusammenarbeit im Weg. Wuchernde Regeln und Vorschriften, feste Prozesse und Anreizsysteme transportieren nicht den Geist von Inspiration, Kreativität und Kollaboration, sondern programmieren stattdessen unser Verhalten auf Konformität.

Over the past decade, a small number of companies have changed every aspect of how we live, work and play. These Outpacers have become enormous global businesses, with companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, Meta, Tesla and Apple all totally redefining what a successful organisation looks and feels like. Each chapter in Outpacer focusses on an Outpacer characteristic required for organisational greatness and features examples of what it is and how to achieve it.

SPIEGEL Bestseller. Janina Kugel ist eine der bekanntesten Top-Managerinnen Deutschlands und die Expertin, wenn es um Themen wie Diversität, New Work und Digitalisierung geht. Über viele Jahre war sie im Vorstand der Siemens AG zuständig für rund 380.000 Mitarbeiter. Mit frischen und innovativen Ideen schaffte sie es, die Unternehmenskultur des Großkonzerns Schritt für Schritt zu verändern - raus aus starren Strukturen, hin zu einem offenen und flexiblen Umgang, den Mensch immer im Mittelpunkt.

Buying a table tennis table will make your staff happier. Working eight hours a day, five days a week, will result in the most productivity. Paying higher salaries will always result in higher motivation. But will it really?There are a staggering number of myths, stereotypes and out-of-date rules that abound in the workplace. This can make it feel impossible to truly know how to get the most out of your career, your team and your organization.

For many organizations, workplace culture is now as important as strategy and execution—many would argue it's even more important, since it drives everything from employee productivity to customer retention. But where do you start, and how do you know if it's working? There's a surprisingly simple answer, and it's work anniversaries. Because unlike other paths to improving workplace culture, work anniversaries are (1) visible, (2) measurable, and (3) easy to improve ... if you know how.

This timely and practical book is for any employee, manager, or leader who wants to understand mental health at a deeper level, and learn how to talk about it really well in the workplace.

To achieve efficiency, productivity, and significant results, you need to make the best use of the resources available to you. Productivity expert Maura Thomas helps you nurture the crucial resource that is your work culture and build productive habits for yourself and your team, without letting work take over your life. Everyone Wants to Work Here empowers you to define what productivity means for your team and to create conditions that support your own productivity. Starting with yourself, Thomas's holistic advice will help you develop productive strategies for your whole team.

Today, the topic of remote work is everywhere we look. We think, work, and plan remotely. Remote has clearly become a critical success factor in the business world. But still, producing outstanding results with remote work remains a challenge for most executives, managers, and team members. But it does not need to be that way. This book has the answers that will help you master remote work! Inside Surviving Remote Work, you’ll learn the tools, strategies, and tactics to survive and thrive in the remote age.

We deserve to work with and for people we trust. We should be confident we’ll be treated fairly and that the rules will apply consistently to everyone in the organization. We should have no reason to question that our leader will follow through on a commitment, whether it’s documented in our performance agreement or made casually when they pass us in the hallway.

With every tick of the clock, millions of people inch closer to their breaking points - a growing epidemic of apathy and anxiety in the workplace that is affecting life outside of the office. But meaningful work-life integration is possible. Filled with actionable strategies and inspiring true stories, this indispensable guide motivates listeners to seek fulfilling opportunities, reconnect with their passions, and recognize their power to make a difference.

As the world's economies continue to melt down, Dr. Goldsmith gives us the information we need to help us make it through this difficult and scary time. Anyone who wants to keep his or her job - and any leader who wants to keep his or her company afloat - needs to learn how to deal with and utilize the power of emotions.