Managing Change in the Workplace by Sheila Costello

100 Pages - Item #: 995-503	ISBN: 0-7863-0162-7
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Managing Change in the Workplace introduces you to the change management skills that will become increasingly valuable in the years ahead. You'll understand how to assess reactions to change (yours and others'), overcome resistance to change, and help change achieve its intended goals. Using the book's practical exercises, contemporary examples, and tested change management guidelines, you can become a more successful leader of change in your organization.

Motivation at Work by Jane R. Miskell and Vincent Miskell

75 Pages - Item #: 995-524	ISBN: 1-55623-868-1
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How do you handle an office complainer who reduces the morale and the productivity level of the department? What about the office procrastinator? Or any unmotivated employee? Motivation at Work demonstrates how to identify and conquer the problems that can prevent your staff from performing at peak levels. This practical book is filled with creative, non threatening approaches to behavior modification and management, including a quiz to help you to analyze and support the motivational needs of employees - and yourself? An essential guide for all managers and supervisors, this book gives you the tools and inspiration to stop bossing and start motivating!

Effective Performance Management by Sheila J. Costello

122 Pages - Item #: 995-517	ISBN: 1-55623-867-3
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Today's most competitive organizations are staffed by employees who know their companies' goals - and how to attain them. Effective Performance Management is filled with ideas you can use immediately to plan measurable department and employee objectives, set clear priorities, and appraise progress - all within the framework of your company's overall mission. You'll find specific tips for coaching each worker to improved productivity and motivational levels, including how to keep a good performer on a successful track, what makes criticism constructive (and what makes it detrimental), and when praise is most effective. With this book, the goals of your department - and your company - are all within reach!

Empowering Employees by L. Kristi Long

96 Pages - Item #: 995-507	ISBN: 0-7863-0314-X
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What is empowerment, exactly, and what does it mean to you as a businessperson in today's dynamic and changing workplace? In Empowering Employees, you will learn the answers to these questions while gaining background and knowledge to initiate an empowerment plan in your organization. Through the book's many exercises and reflection activities, you will gain insight on what motivates you and your employees, and why empowerment enhances productivity and enlivens the workplace. In addition, you'll learn how to tailor empowerment programs to fit the specific needs of your organization, how to overcome obstacles to empowerment, and how to get everyone involved in the empowerment process.

How to Recognize and Reward Employees: 150 Ways to Inspire Peak Performance 2nd Ed. by Donna Deeprose

129 Pages - Item #: 207-001	ISBN: 0-8144-7331-8
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It's not just the money or benefits you offer that recruit, retain, and inspire talented employees. It's the total rewards package. Now in a completely revised second edition, How to Recognize and Reward Employees gives you exciting and practical ways to get the most from your people.

Updated and expanded, this edition features all new examples, as well as exercises, case studies, self-tests, lists, and worksheets to help you implement simple and effective reward programs.

Whether you work for a large or small organization, you'll find out the best ways to:

• Improve employee morale, productivity, and quality of work;
• Inspire high and low performers, as well as teams, to do their best possible job;
• Select the right reward for the achievement and avoid rewards that don't work;
• Make recognition and rewards systems fair.

This quick and helpful guide offers 150 types of rewards for a multitude of situations, showing you how to spur top performers to new heights of creativity, motivate average performers to achieve personal bests, and help solve performance problems of less than stellar employees. You'll learn methods for creating specific criteria for rewards that will help guide your people toward achievement, use your recognition and rewards system to inspire values-based behavior and loyalty to the organization, and consistently figure out what rewards will mean the most to each individual employee.

This book contains information on both formal rewards systems and more informal types of recognition, as well as team rewards, options for shoe-string budgets, ways to emphasize corporate values, and much more. Thorough and up-to-date, this is an essential resource for every organization.