Decoding the Workplace: 50 Keys to Understanding People in Organizations

"This book is a Key - to understanding and thriving in the workplace, a must for anyone working in, managing, or leading an organization. I have yet to come across any book that explains how the workplace actually works in such an effective and clear manner."

Fred Stuvek, Jr. Author, It Starts With You: Turn Your Goals Into Success

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Whether you work in a physical workplace or virtual, in an office or at home, Decoding the Workplace, 2^nd edition, can help you up your game. This book will increase your awareness of information around you, your own performance, power dynamics, relationships, and so much more. It will help you see more deeply into your work.

Decoding the Workplace contains over 100 stories that illustrate insights based on evidence and decades of research about people and organizations.

It is easy to read and delivers real-life stories you can relate to.

Find answers to questions about work such as:

• What questions should you ask yourself about your boss?
• What do people do when they feel they are being treated unfairly?
• What factors most affect job satisfaction?
• How can informal systems affect your success-or failure?
• Why are others' perceptions of your performance often more important than your actual performance?
• How can group norms make or break opportunities and careers?
• Why is there sometimes too much stress from work? What can be done?
• How does organizational culture profoundly affect your workplace?
• Could a person be stereotyping others and not know it?
• When are "teams" not teams?
• How to understand power and ways to develop your personal power

John Ballard, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Management at Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincy Magazine named him one of Cincinnati's Outstanding Educators. Visit decodingtheworkplace.com for more.