This Working Life

Author : Lisa Leong,Monique Ross
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781743587867

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This Working Life by Lisa Leong,Monique Ross Pdf

Winner of the Australian Career Book of the Year Award 2022 (RSA Oceania) This Working Life is the book you need to navigate your career with courage, openness and a good dose of laughter in uncertain times. Springing off the success of her ABC podcast, Lisa Leong, together with journalist Monique Ross, is bringing a deep curiosity to the world of work. You spend most of your waking life working – a jaw-dropping 90,000 hours for the average person. You deserve to feel joy during that time. But how? This Working Life empowers you to experiment in the lab of life. You’ll reflect on your highs and lows, harness your superpowers and pinpoint your guiding values. You’ll learn the importance of empathy as you craft a job or curate a portfolio career that can grow with you. You’ll unlock the power of rituals, community and self-care, and build resilience that will help you face life’s inevitable curveballs. Lisa and Monique get personal, sharing hard-won learnings from their own lives, along with insights from world-leading thinkers like Dorie Clark, Jeremy Utley and Dan Klein, and practical activities to help you take action. No matter where you are, or where you want to be, This Working Life will help you get there.

Author : Joanne B. Ciulla
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307786159

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The Working Life by Joanne B. Ciulla Pdf

A wide-ranging look at the allure and changing significance of work.With seductions, misunderstandings, and misinformation everywhere, this immensely readable book calls for a new contract--with ourselves. Drawing from history, mythology, literature, pop culture, and practical experience, Ciulla probes the many meanings of work or its meaninglessness and asks: Why are so many of us letting work take over our lives and trying to live in what little time is left? What has happened to the old, unspoken contract between worker and employer? Why are young people not being disloyal when they regularly consider job-changing? Employers can't promise as much to workers as before. Is that because they promise so much to stockholders? Why are there mass layoffs and "downsizing" in a time of unequaled corporate prosperity? And why are the most common lies in business about satisfactory employee performance? The traditional contract between employers and employees is over. This thoughtful and provocative study shows how to replace it by the one we make with ourselves.

Author : Judy Wajcman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191556696

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The Politics of Working Life by Judy Wajcman Pdf

How does the politics of working life shape modern organizations? Is our desire for meaningful, secure work increasingly at odds with corporate behaviour in a globalized economy? Does the rise of performance management culture represent an intensification of work, or create opportunities for the freewheeling individual career? This timely and engaging book, by leading authorities in the field, adopts the standpoint of the 'questioning observer'. It is for those who need an informed account of work that is accessible without being superficial. The book is unique in its multi-dimensional approach, weaving together analysis of individual work experience, political processes in organizations, and the wider context of the social structuring of markets. The book identifies central questions about working experience and answers them in a direct and lively manner. It has a strong analytical foundation based on a political economy framework, giving particular weight to the contradictory character of organizations. These contradictions turn on the competing demands placed on organizations and the different political projects of groups within them. This perspective integrates the chapters, and permits numerous scholarly debates to be addressed - including those on identity projects, gender and work, power and participation, escalation in decision-making, and the meaning of corporate social responsibility. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate classes in Organizational Behaviour, Business Strategy and the Sociology of Work and Employment. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in grappling with the complexity of the changing environment of work.

Author : Tom Morin
Publisher : Page Two Books, Incorporated
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1989603505

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Your Best Work by Tom Morin Pdf

Whether you've toiled for decades at the same job or you're facing important, first-career decisions, you know how important it is to care about your work. But how do you create a deeply meaningful working life in a world that tries to set your career expectations and limit your choices?

Author : Sabrina Mahfouz
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781908906410

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Smashing It by Sabrina Mahfouz Pdf

Working-class artists are hugely under-represented in the arts industries, facing extra challenges from unpaid work to prejudice, though they make up a third of the British population. How can we break this cycle of inequality? Smashing It celebrates the achievements of working-class artists in Britain, from the global takeover of Grime musicians to the literary powerhouses pushing representative narratives, also showcasing their works. Offering guidance and inspiration, leading musicians, playwrights, visual artists, filmmakers and writers share how they overcame obstacles, from the financial to the philosophical, to make it in the arts. An essential read, Smashing It will empower those who will be a part of tomorrow's bigger picture.

Author : Jonathan Rose
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300148350

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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose Pdf

Which books did the British working classes read--and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their classroom education? How did they educate themselves? What was their level of cultural literacy: how much did they know about politics, science, history, philosophy, poetry, and sexuality? Who were the proletarian intellectuals, and why did they pursue the life of the mind? These intriguing questions, which until recently historians considered unanswerable, are addressed in this book. Using innovative research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes tracks the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. It offers a new method for cultural historians--an "audience history" that recovers the responses of readers, students, theatergoers, filmgoers, and radio listeners. Jonathan Rose provides an intellectual history of people who were not expected to think for themselves, told from their perspective. He draws on workers’ memoirs, oral history, social surveys, opinion polls, school records, library registers, and newspapers. Through its novel and challenging approach to literary history, the book gains access to politics, ideology, popular culture, and social relationships across two centuries of British working-class experience.

Author : Alice Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136233951

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The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century by Alice Clark Pdf

First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ana Maria Rossi,James Campbell Quick,Pamela L. Perrewé
Publisher : IAP
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781607522003

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Stress and Quality of Working Life by Ana Maria Rossi,James Campbell Quick,Pamela L. Perrewé Pdf

This book offers twelve chapters organized into three major sections that address occupational stress and quality of working life. The authors are an internationally renowned team of scholar-research-practitioners who are grounded in applied science and clinical practice. Section 1 includes five chapters that address the organizational and individual costs of occupational stress. The costs are humanitarian and economic; both human suffering and financial burdens are important. Section 2 includes three chapters that focus on ways to mitigate the negative effects of occupational stress. We must help those who are suffering but we must do more by preventing distress where we can and building on positive, strength factors where possible. Section 3 includes four chapters that examine and expand our understanding of work life quality. Work life quality is so important because of the effects it has on workers and leaders, as well as the spillover impact into families and communities. These twelve chapters, highlight both core knowledge and new developments within the rapidly growing field of research on stress and the quality of working life. We believe this information can help to raise awareness of the causes and costs of occupational stress and poor quality of working life. Further, this should provide a challenge, some incentive, and renewed insight for organizations in Brazil and elsewhere to begin thinking about and acting in ways that lead to a less stressful environment for their workforce.

Author : Lee Wendelbo,Sam Shannahan
Publisher : Calm Pub
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0963360094

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The Working Life of a Dollar by Lee Wendelbo,Sam Shannahan Pdf

Author : Becky M. Nicolaides
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226583007

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My Blue Heaven by Becky M. Nicolaides Pdf

List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Quest for Independence, 1920-19401. Building Independence in Suburbia2. Peopling the Subur 3. The Texture of Everyday Life4. The Politics of IndependencePart II. Closing Ranks, 1940-19655. "A Beautiful Place"6. The Suburban Good Life Arrives7. The Racializing of Local PoliticsEpilogueAcronyms for Collections and ArchivesNotes Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Shelley E. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
ISBN : UOM:39015015188371

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Positive Illusions by Shelley E. Taylor Pdf

Author : Josiah McConnell Heyman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0816512256

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Life and Labor on the Border by Josiah McConnell Heyman Pdf

Traces the development over the past hundred years of the urban working class in northern Sonora. Drawing on an extensive collection of life histories, Heyman describes what has happened to families over several generations as people left the countryside to work for American-owned companies in northern Sonora or to cross the border to find other employment.

Author : Elena Antonacopoulou,Vibeke Andersen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230522350

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Learning, Working and Living by Elena Antonacopoulou,Vibeke Andersen Pdf

Debate about organization and workplace learning has now moved on from viewing learning as a way of fostering control, to paving the way for viewing learning, working and living in the context of organizational complexity. The book suggests that by focusing on learning as a way of living, the needs of production can be reconciled with the need for employees to have satisfying engagement with their work.

Author : Greg McKeown
Publisher : Currency
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593135648

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Effortless by Greg McKeown Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard. “In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human “At a time when fear, uncertainty, and our ever-growing list of responsibilities have come to feel like much too much to handle, Effortless couldn’t be timelier, or more necessary.”—Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play Do you ever feel like: • You’re teetering right on the edge of burnout? • You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy? • You’re running faster but not moving closer to your goals? • Everything is so much harder than it used to be? As high achievers, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough. But lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat,” we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it. No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path. Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. Effortless teaches you how to: • Turn tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals • Prevent frustration by solving problems before they arise • Set a sustainable pace instead of powering through • Make one-time choices that eliminate many future decisions • Simplify your processes by removing unnecessary steps • Make relationships easier to maintain and manage • And much more The effortless way isn't the lazy way. It's the smart way. It may even be the only way. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. But we can make it easier to do more of what matters most.

Author : Alvin Finkel
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926836584

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Working People in Alberta by Alvin Finkel Pdf

A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.