Occupational Health

Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways. This groundbreaking book explains the transformations that have taken place in the workplace over the past several decades and how those transformations have combined to produce a dramatically different career landscape.

Many organizations approach the issue of employee engagement and motivation by tapping into age, gender and other stereotypes. Motivation and Performance challenges these notions, bringing together evidence that group differences are often exaggerated and that getting to the heart of what really motivates individuals is what's most important. This book is a practical guide to ensuring that organizations consider all motivators - job security as well as the need for personal growth - to improve employee satisfaction, boost organizational productivity and reduce staff turnover.

Si como afirma Jorge Valdano el fútbol es un laboratorio de la vida, la figura del entrenador resulta ideal como punto de partida para comprender las verdaderas claves de la dirección de equipos y de la gestión de personas. Partiendo de esta premisa, Patricia Ramírez explica en Así lideras, así compites las herramientas que le permitirán mejorar sus capacidades cuando se ponga al frente de un grupo de personas, sean estas un departamento de una empresa, un equipo deportivo, los estudiantes de una clase o su propia familia.

Over the last four decades, debt, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures have risen to epidemic levels, and the personal savings rate has sunk dangerously low. Why, in the richest nation on Earth, can't Americans hold on to their money? First published in 2008, Stuart Vyse's Going Broke described the epidemic of personal debt that existed in the years leading up to the Great Recession and anticipated the home mortgage crisis that started it. Ten years later, this fully updated new edition tackles the post-recession era of economic recovery.

People functioning at the highest level are what the authors call 10x leaders. Research on these leaders consistently brought up five major strengths. This book teaches readers to become a 10x leader using these five key areas, the SHARP framework.

Distinguished authors like Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb have written much about the flaws in the human brain when it comes time to make a decision. Our intuitions and passions frequently fail us, leading to outcomes we don't want. In this audiobook, Eyal Winter, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, wonders: why? If our emotions are so destructive and unreliable, why has evolution left us with them?

For the past few years, mindfulness has begun to transform the American workplace. Many of our largest companies, such as General Mills, Ford, Target, and Google, have built extensive programs to foster mindful practices among their workers. Mindful Work is the first audiobook to explain how all sorts of businesses and any kind of worker can benefit from meditation, yoga, and other mindful techniques.

Die Digitalisierung unseres Alltags schreitet voran - und bedroht unsere Gesundheit. Wir werden cyberkrank, wenn wir den digitalen Medien die Kontrolle aller Lebensbereiche überantworten, stundenlang Online Games spielen und in sozialen Netzwerken unterwegs sind. Stress, Empathieverlust, Depressionen sowie Schlaf- und Aufmerksamkeitsstörungen sind die Folgen. Kinder werden in ihrer Motorik und Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit geschädigt. Computersucht, Internetkriminalität und Mobbing verbreiten sich immer mehr.

A ninja, or shinobi, was a covert agent who operated within the shadows of feudal Japan. Often employing methods of irregular warfare, the mission of the shinobi was to create change and disruption at all costs. The shinobi worked in teams to gather intelligence and craft war plans, all while remaining invisible.

A partir de historias vividas, Inma Puig muestra cómo aprender a gestionar las propias emociones y a entender las de los demás en el entorno personal y empresarial nos permite descubrir otra realidad. Esta "evolución emocional" al alcance de todos abrirá sin duda las puertas a un mundo mejor.

Unity is the most influential factor in team performance and, although it is frequently discussed, it is often misunderstood. This book explains how disunity is the root cause of all team dysfunctions and provides clear instructions on how to define, measure, and increase unity in your organization. Through entertaining and impactful stories, John Ross divides Team Unity into four components—focus, direction, trust, and conflict—and examines how they are related and measured. Notably, Ross introduces The Unity Formula, a simple equation useful for leaders at all levels.

Equipes brilhantes mergulha em algumas das organizações mais bem-sucedidas em diversas áreas—tecnologia, esportes, arte, educação e segurança nacional—para descobrir como elas funcionam. Contando histórias de empresas e até de uma gangue de ladrões de joias, Daniel Coyle oferece estratégias que estimulam o aprendizado, geram confiança entre as pessoas e inspiram mudanças positivas. Coyle mostra como criar um ambiente onde a inovação tem espaço para florescer, os problemas são resolvidos com facilidade e as expectativas são continuamente superadas.

Brandjam, the follow-up to the groundbreaking best-seller Emotional Branding, presents a powerful new concept from renowned designer and business guru Mark Gobe. The Brandjam concept is about innovation, intuition, and risk. Gobe explains how design is the "instrument" companies can use for jazzing up a brand - how design puts the face on the brand and creates an irresistible message that connects buyers to the product in a visceral way.

A thorough and straight-forward guide of what to expect during your occupational therapy. With insights about both in-patient and out-patient therapeutic interventions from the perspective of a licensed, practicing occupational therapy assistant. From pitfalls encountered in therapy sessions to ways you can make the most of difficult settings, Henry Gordon presents occupational therapy in a down-to-earth and congenial way, punctuated here and there with humor and professional candor.

Im März 2020 änderte sich alles. Homeoffice war plötzlich die neue Norm. Alle mussten sich digitalisieren und transformieren – ob sie wollten oder nicht. Die Arbeit drängte weiter ins restliche Leben, zur Erwerbsarbeit kam noch mehr Carearbeit. Die Schere zwischen systemrelevanten Berufen und Bürojobs ging weiter auf. Covid hat uns gezeigt, was in der Arbeitswelt nicht mehr funktioniert. Und da ist nicht nur die Pandemie. Überschwemmungen, Waldbrände, Inflation, Krieg – unsere Welt steht in Flammen, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes.

In 2003, the Columbia Space Shuttle exploded on reentry, resulting in the loss of life for all seven astronauts and leaving NASA with a huge problem. But this problem wasn’t easily identified - the investigation revealed that the organizational culture was as much to blame for the explosion as technical difficulties. Enter Drs. Phillip Meade and Laura Gallaher - experts in the psychology of organizational culture and the owners of Gallaher Edge. Drs. Gallaher and Meade apply their vast expertise to map out the "missing links" between human nature and organizational culture.

Facebook, Instagram & Co: Ein Großteil des sozialen Lebens mit Verwandten und Freunden, ob nah oder weit entfernt, findet heute über Social Media statt. Das Selfie auf der richtigen Plattform ist zur neuen Visitenkarte geworden. Sich der Online-Präsenz zu entziehen, ist in der modernen Welt kaum noch möglich. Reizüberflutung und die Unfähigkeit, einen Gedankengang zu Ende zu führen, sind zunehmend Probleme, denen sich jeder stellen muss.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, trends already underway toward the future of work and the gig economy rapidly and unexpectedly accelerated. Physical isolation, travel restrictions, and social distancing challenged organizations to rethink how work gets done and by whom, with ramifications that will stretch beyond the pandemic. Punching the Clock explores how well workers are likely to both navigate and adapt to this new future of work, using the best of psychological science as a guide.

While working in a particularly toxic environment, Karlyn Borysenko came to this liberating realization: She couldn't control other people, but she could control herself, her perspective, and her actions. Now an organizational psychologist, consultant, and executive coach, Borysenko tells us how to bridge the gap between where we are now and what will bring us the most professional success and happiness. We must achieve self-mastery - by accepting responsibility for our actions, understanding our innate work style, and discerning when and how to push outside our comfort zone.

In lively prose that is as engaging as it is illuminating, Dattner tells a host of true stories of those he has worked with - from the woman who was so scapegoated by her colleagues that she decided to quit, to the clueless boss who was too quick to blame his staff. He shares a wealth of insight from the study of human evolution and psychology to reveal the underlying reasons why people are so prone to blaming and credit-grabbing; it's not only human nature, it's found throughout the animal kingdom.