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In this completely revised version of his best-selling book, Cross-Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Strangers, author and consultant Glenn Parker updates his definitive practical guide to include his recent work in team rewards and recognition, communications technology, and multicultural and virtual-team issues. This new edition contains fresh examples and additional case studies of successful cross-functional teams from IBM, Parke-Davis, Xerox, Boeing, BOC Gases, government agencies, and more. Parker offers concrete advice and inspiration to team leaders, team members, and senior management. Cross-Functional Teams delivers a team operating manual to executives, team leaders, human resource professionals, and students of organizational behavior and provides a tool kit of assessment surveys, worksheets, checklists, and even sample training programs to help launch and sustain effective teams.
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Excellent Book on Teams.......2004-09-03
Glenn Parker's book is a must-read for individuals and organizations that have cross-functional teams or are considering implementing them. Practical advice and actual examples of successful cross-functional teams make this book an easy and enjoyable read. I highly recommend this book to those who are looking to improve organizational effectiveness through cross-functional teams.
A MUST HAVE BOOK FOR DEVELOPING TEAMS........2003-03-01
This book provides practical and helpful approaches to establishing cross-functional teams. The information provided by the author, Glenn Parker, is very useful for teams comprised of any discipline and in any industry. I have utilized many of the techniques and have seen results! I was able to get my teams up and running more quickly, we achieved results, and people seemed to have more fun because we functioned well together. I strongly recommend this book for team leaders and team members.
A Help in Team Building.......2001-01-11
G. Parker knows all about developing workplace team work. Not only is he a team work consultant, he is very familar with the literature and research on team work. As most of us know, many consultants do not bother to read the literature on the topic they profess to be an expert on. Cross Functional Teams is informative and constructive, largely because of Parker's knowledge of the field. Parker's concept of Cross Functional Teasm, or teams link people from different parts of an organization, distinquishes the book from the other books on team work.
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Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results! Implement successful cross-functional teams in your organization. This useful tool kit and book are packed with examples and ideas for effective team building.
The book helps you to successfully develop your own cross-functional teams by using advice from more than 100 companies, including Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and many others. You'll learn how to set goals for shared commitments and how to overcome barriers and obstacles to teamwork.
You'll learn how to:
- Develop a plan to implement cross-functional teams
- Facilitate the launch of a set of new teams
- Design a training program for team members and leaders
- Conduct training and team building for new and ongoing teams
- Work with the senior management team to gain their support for cross-functional teams . . . and much more!
The tool kit gives you:
- Six invigorating icebreakers
- Five experiential team-building activities
- Five insightful assessment tools
- Five useful abstracts and reports
- Six detailed case studies . . . and more!
The looseleaf binder format facilitates quick preparation. Photocopy what you need, and you're ready! With Parker's help, you'll create collaboration in diverse groups and discover the cross-functional team advantage.
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Managing Workplace Stress: A Best Practice Blueprint (CBI Fast Track)
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The facts of workplace stress are terrifying for businesses: in the average organisation ten percent of employees report very low levels of satisfaction with their jobs and three percent of turnover may be lost. Yet while stress may be endemic to business, it is not inevitable. Breaking through barriers of ignorance to promote happy and productive workforces, Steve Williams and Lesley Cooper provide a framework for building appropriate interventions along with a proactive template for dealing with stress before issues come to a head. Full of examples and workable solutions, this internationally-oriented book offers a wealth of sound advice and an essential stress debrief.
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Everyone in the workplace is under stress—including your employees. The good news is that, with training, employees can learn how to work well under pressure.
This practical pocket guide for managers will teach you how to channel stress to enhance your own performance and the performance of those you manage.
You can alleviate the negative affects of stress in your workplace and organization and in teams and individuals—simply by applying the straightforward guidelines you'll find here.
Performance Under Pressure: Managing Stress in the Workplace focuses on the two essential skills required to perform well under pressure:
Perceiving a situation in an optimal way
Using the physiological boost associated with stress to your advantage
The book presents new and proven strategies for dealing with time, anger, people, fatigue and evaluation pressures. And it introduces an effective four-step method for optimal energy management.
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Managing the stressed-out employee: Signs and symptoms to look for and how to productively discuss the problem with the employee
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On any given workday, average officeworkers are forced to contend with countless e-mails, stacks of memos, endless meetings, and non-stop phone calls--and then they have to get their work done! It's a wonder when businesspeople can manage their time, incoming information, and subsequent stress without becoming victims of office burnout. But in this one comprehensive guide, businesspeople can learn how to triumph in all three of these segments of their working lives.
This book shows employees how to control all the chaos of the workplace by learning new skills such as:
* Speed and comprehension development for more effective reading * Effective goal setting through the creation of a Master Activity list * Action steps to combat situational, physical, and emotional stress
Filled with examples, anecdotes, quizzes, and worksheets, this book also features a special Stress Inventory test. This invaluable book gives readers the tools to keep office chaos at bay, both on their desks and in their minds.
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A Winner!.......2005-01-19
For a self-employed writer with a major case of disorganization this book is a godsend. From the opening advice in "How to read this Book" to the final chapter "Application Strategies", this book is packed with information and useful hints. From giving me permission to start the book at any chapter that appeals to me, to the 'right-on' advice about procrastination, to the values identification exercise, 'Managing Workplace Chaos' has made my workday more productive and less stressful. And the added bonus is that the advice in this book has helped me in my life outside of work. I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone.
Waste of money.......2004-05-02
For the benefit of those who already can read with speed, comprehension, and recall, about a third of this book is redundant for you.
If you can set goals and develop to-do lists, another third is redundant.
And the rest of the book is devoted to stress reduction. This is a problem for me, but there's nothing here I haven't seen in many other places. So for me, this book was a disappointment.
I was looking for something more related to the business world, more practical and applied.
To me, this was a re-hash of things I've already seen in many other books and articles, and so general that it wasn't worth reading through again.
However, if you haven't started exploring this subject, this book might be helpful.
I guess I'm looking for something more specific, along the lines of "Organize your Office" by Ronni Eisenberg, which has lots of specific tips like creating a checklist for frequently repeated tasks, getting in to the office early in the morning so that you can get a start and get something done before it gets hectic.
Good suggestions for overhauling one's work & life goals.......2002-08-10
Chapter Four of this book gives particularly meaningful ways to create positive change in one's outlook and attitude towards one's work life. This chapter has helped me step back and see the larger issues which truly affect the day to day detail of the workplace. One reading of this book is not enough as each chapter is packed with so many ideas and detailed suggestions for improving one workplace environment. I need to reread this book several times to take it all in. I plan to keep this book handy as a reference and motivator to put as many of the suggestions into practice as possible. Improving the quality of one's work-life and consequently home-life is a goal that I believe this book can help with.
Sure-fire Stress Relief!!.......2002-06-14
This book was worth so much more than money. It has taken pressure off of everyone in our office, not to mention our family members. The techniques for speed reading were worth there weight in gold, considering the ever increasing need to read faster with the flood of information we get everyday. I am personally grateful that I bought this book. I have decreased my stress level ten-fold. Thank you Patricia! for your dedication to writing such a fantastic book!
A sure fire stress cure!.......2002-04-25
My company loves this book. the management bought each of us a copy and we read it at lunchtime. we are applying many of the interruption techniques and have proposed a new work flow strategy to the management as a result of what we are learning. a must for all working people today.
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Managing Workplace Stress (Advanced Topics in Organizational Behavior)
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"The book does well in several respects: First, it presents a broad but integrated view of the workplace as a source of stress. Second, it is thorough treatment of the topic of job stress and is well-referenced. Finally, it contains a clear description of the importance of organizational culture/climate as influencing perceived stress, a topic missing in many books." --Lawrence Murphy, Senior Research Psychologist, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Stress in the workplace is on the rise, resulting in higher rates of absenteeism, reduced productivity, and increased health compensation claims. Managing Workplace Stress examines the cause of this increase in work-related stress, with a particular emphasis on stress created by organizational changes including redesigning of jobs, reallocations of roles and responsibilities, and the accompanying job insecurities. It highlights the everyday stressors likely to impact managers and employees, such as working with difficult people and managing increased workloads. This insightful new volume also offers useful and practical strategies for dealing with these situations.
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Change, conflict and time management issues are great contributors to stress in the workplace. Packed with explanations and advice, Managing Workplace Stress and Conflict amid Change provides managers and executives with the techniques to handle all of these challenges.
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Managing the Risks of Workplace Stress: Health and Safety Hazards
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Working in a stressful environment not only increases the risk of physical illness or distress, but also increases the likelihood of workplace accidents. While legislation provides some guidelines for risk assessment of physical hazards, there remains limited guidance on the risks of psychosocial hazards, such as occupational stress.
This book takes the risk management approach to stress evaluation in the workplace, offering practical guidelines for the audit, assessment and mitigation of workplace stressors. Based on both research and case-studies, this book provides a comprehensive source of theoretical and practical information for students and practitioners alike.
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A Guide to Managing Workplace Stress
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The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has commissioned recent research which has indicated that: . about half a million people in the UK experience work-related stress at a level they believe is making them ill; . up to 5 million people in the UK feel "very" or "extremely" stressed by their work; and . a total of 12.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and anxiety in 2004/5. Work-related stress is therefore a serious problem and tackling it effectively can result in significant benefits for organizations. This can result in a happier and more productive workforce with fewer days away from work with stress related illnesses. Managers will also want to comply with recent HSE advice on managing stress within the workplace fulfilling their duty of care to employees. This should result in less exposure of organisations to the threat of litigation and the resultant negative publicity this causes. The intention of this book is to provide information to those who may be suffering from work related stress and to provide managers with a "toolkit" to help address such problems in the workforce.
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Managing Employee Stress in the Workplace (Better Management Skills)
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Managing People During Stressful Times: The Psychologically Defensive Workplace
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Allcorn and Diamond argue that the workplace has become ever more threatening to employees, and that they respond by creating psychological defenses that make the workplace ever more dysfunctional. To keep organizations competitive and sustain the value of their stock, management demands constant improvements in their employees' performance, but often the result is just the opposite of what management wants. Allcorn and Diamond explore this process in depth, and introduce a comprehensive and internally consistent, psychologically informed model of human development and behavior, one that explains for the first time the nature of the psychologically defensive workplace. In doing so, they challenge readers to think systematically about the psychological side of the workplace and to understand the importance of dealing effectively with employee defensiveness. The result is an authoritative study with valuable lessons and immediate benefits for corporate executives, and for scholars and researchers in organizational behavor in the academic community. Allcorn and Diamond's model is applicable to understanding five aspects of the workplace: first, how individuals respond to its stresses and anxieties; second, the psychologically defensive nature of interpersonal relationships at work; third, what the psychologically defensive group processes are; fourth, the dynamics of psychological defenses; and fifth, how the model is used to understand the connection of all organizations to the larger society in which they are imbedded. The authors' goal is to help management understand what actually is going on in today's workplace, the consequence of downsizing and other cost-reduction initiatives, and how important it is for management for relieve the problems they cause.
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What lies beneath.......2001-01-18
As a first line supervisor in a police department, I am required to supervise down and accept from above. This book helps me understand why and how messages from above are received below. I've learned some of the hidden motivators for employees and supervisors alike. This should be required reading for any new supervisor. It will help him understand what is happening beneath the surface of the organization and the people.
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Managing Stress in the Workplace Super Series, Fifth Edition
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Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units).
*Content is well regarded
*Popular with those training with the ILM but can also be used for independent study
*Content of each workbook now maps to single course unit, resulting in a more user-friendly format.
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