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Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace shows how to reduce personnel shortage, enhance retention and create a collaborative workplace. The reader learns how successful organizations, hospitals and people create workplaces of choice.
Dr. Judith Briles reveals that conflict and sabotage in the workplace is at an all time high. Based on a nationwide survey of 1600 plus women and men working in hospitals, dentistry and related organizations--the health care workplace is not the caring, supportive or ideal environment assumed by many.
Briles has again broken through the code of silence surrounding the ongoing taboo subject of workplace sabotage and conflict. Through vivid examples based on real-life experiences in health care settings, she describes many forms of workplace conflict and sabotage. You will learn about Saboteurs in the Midst, Saboteurs-by-Proxy and come away with dozens fo tools that can be immediately used in the workplace.
Dr. Briles reveals why there are greater levels of conflict and how to resolve them and addresses issues for both staff and management.
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An accessibly written, informationally practical guide.......2003-02-09
Zapping Conflict In the Health Care Workplace by author, consultant, research, spokesperson and international speaker Judith Brilles is an exhaustively researched, accessibly written, informationally practical guide for workers and employers on a spectrum of health care issues focused upon the importance of preserving a well-regulated workplace when people's lives are at stake every day. Individual chapters instructionally address positive means for handling conflict between employees, the straight scoop on workplace sabotage and how to deal with it, advice on generational differences, and much, much more. Highly recommended for non-specialist general readers with an interest in health care workplace issues, policies, and concerns, as well as offering specifically useable advice for workplaces beyond the field of health care, Zapping Conflict In The Health Care Workplace is a welcome and invaluable addition to personal, professional, corporate, and community library Health & Medicine reference collections.
A Must Read for Any Health Care Professional.......2003-01-03
If an organization is to be the "Employer of Choice" for nurses and other health professionals, reducing conflict and abusive behavior needs to be paramount. Dr. Briles not only documents the problem but provides a detailed guide to awareness, prevention, resolution of conflict and sabotage, and ultimately, to the empowerment of all who work in health care. For the healthcare organization, this effort will pay off by keeping (satisfied) employees and attracting new ones too? Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace is a must read for any healthcare professional.
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Showing how New Urbanism is simply American urbanism as it has been evolving since the nineteenth century, this is a history not of what has been achieved but rather of what planners have sought to achieve--a history of the quest for good cities.
In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, the author identifies four approaches to city-making, which she terms "cultures": incrementalism, plan-making, planned communities, and regionalism. She shows how these cultures connect, overlap, and conflict one with another and how most of the ideas about building better settlements are so recurrent.
She concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of the four cultures and the need to integrate these ideas as a means to promoting good urbanism in America.
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What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops: or A Non-Adversarial Approach to Sexual Harassment (A Cato Institute Book)
Joan Taylor
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Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment primarily as a legal issue?
High-profile sexual harassment suits, such as that of Paula Jones against President Clinton, are often life-changing events, with all parties coming away with careers, reputations, and lives profoundly affected. Women have long suffered on the job from sexual extortion, now called quid pro quo harassment, but today the controversy centers on "hostile environment" harassment. Every one has an opinion about it; managements spend more and more money training people not to do it; and still the suits strike like lightning-devastating and seemingly random. Women and men often feel polarized in the workplace by what they perceive to be general hostility couched in sexual terms.
What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops questions establishment assumptions that women are, by definition, passive victims who require government help. It sees instead a period of transition toward a more balanced population of women in the workplace, with accompanying disruptions that can be minimized by understanding. Joan Kennedy Taylor presents what we know about the workplace and interviews managers, labor experts, and workers in such male-dominated fields as construction, engineering, business, and medicine to shed light on the male group culture that exists without women. She illustrates expressive behaviors that may be objectionable but are not sexual harassment and proposes specific strategies by which these objectionable behaviors can be countered, including a new feminist approach in company training programs. Taylor examines traditional and nontraditional workplaces, and female on male as well as male on male harassment, in order to apply these strategies to the entire picture.
Lively and anecdotal, Taylor's balanced, non-adversarial study fills an important gap by providing strategies for businesses and employees, as well as for those who find themselves the target of sexual harassment.
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Finally -- Common Sense on Harassment.......1999-12-05
This is a fantastic, much-needed book. Its common sense approach will help men, women and employers handle issues around harassment in a practical, meaningful way. The perfect antidote for the "politically correct" police. Especially important for professors and students in academia. Easy to read style makes it accessible for any reader.
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Water Resources in Jordan: Evolving Policies for Development, the Environment, and Conflict Resolution ("An Rff Press Book) (RFF Press)
Munther J. Haddadin
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This is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary book to address water policy in Jordan. Edited by the former Minister of Water and Irrigation of Jordan, with contributions by other prominent Jordanian and international water professionals, this volume covers such areas as the population-water resources equation in Jordan; institutional and legal frameworks; the data systems used for the assessment and formulation of water policy, water allocations and uses in municipal, industrial, and agricultural sectors; social and environmental issues; and water conflict with Jordan's neighbors. The book is a must for readers interested in Middle East politics and the critical nature of water issues in the region. The book notes the importance of interaction with the outside world to augment water resources through trade, making the experience of Jordan relevant to other developing regions where water is scarce. It introduces the term "shadow water" to mean the scarce indigenous water resources that the import of agricultural and industrial commodities saves or replaces. It quantifies, for the first time, the shadow water and its financial cost. It lists the benefits drawbacks of shadow water, and defines its role in balancing the population-water resources equation. The book shows how financially profitable it can be to treat water as a tradable commodity, to be exchanged peaceably across international borders. Haddadin and his distinguished contributors bring the water conflicts between Jordan and its neighbors, Israel and Syria, into sharp focus. The resolution of each conflict is analyzed, and recommendations for implementation of the agreements are made. The book includes a historical perspective on the development of water policies in Jordan, and explores the significance of water in the religious, social, and political life of the country.
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Smokestack Diplomacy: Cooperation and Conflict in East-West Environmental Politics (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)
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Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a comparative study of three key issues: nuclear power safety, transboundary air pollution, and Baltic Sea pollution.
Although expectations were high that the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union would lead to increased East-West environmental cooperation, the opposite has been true. Russia and the other successor states have generally agreed to address such problems only when paid to do so. Darst finds that post-Cold War environmental cooperation has been most successful when there is an overlap between the environmental and economic interests of the successor states and those of their Western neighbors, and when the foundation for cooperation was laid during the Cold War period.
The book is based on extensive original field research, including interviews with diplomats, government officials, scientists, and environmental activists in the successor states and Western Europe. Its findings underscore the importance of the domestic and international political context in which international environmental policy making occurs. It also deepens our understanding of the opportunities and dangers of positive inducements as a tool of international environmental policy.
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- not my style of management
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"As a teacher and principal, I have found Pat Belvel and Maya Marcia Jordan's prevention and intervention framework to be the single most important resource to help teachers become consciously competent about their classroom management strategies and the positive effects they have on students."
Debbie Textor, Principal
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"Traditional classroom management strategies do not encourage the development of basic social skills.
Rethinking Classroom Management is a desperately needed guide for educators about how to re-examine our own belief systems and change the way we attempt to manage and control studentsâ behavior. Every teacher should read and apply the ideas in this great resource."
Martha Kaufeldt
Author, Begin With the Brain: Orchestrating the Learner-Centered Classroom
Tomorrow's leaders will be reflections of today's teachers. The ideal classroom consists of positive relationships between teacher and students producing an environment resulting of beneficial, mutual fulfillment. In this empowering book, Patricia Sequeira Belvel and Maya Marcia Jordan demonstrate successful methods to achieve harmony, while transforming managerial teachers into leaders in the classroom. Educators are enlightened by classroom and personal "connections," enabling the teacher to be immersed in real-life classroom situations and encouraging readers to create meaningful connections from their personal experiences.
Key topics that help guide readers through this transformation are:
- Intrinsic motivation and personal beliefs and values as aids to making the shift from manager to leader
- Prevention strategies creating a caring community of learners
- Temporary intervention techniques that effectively differentiate between discipline and punishment
- Problem-solving strategies to help the student take initiative in creating constructive solutions for all
Rethinking Classroom Management is an innovative guide that illustrates an approach which has been used by successful educators for years, enabling teachers to evolve effectively into leaders and to create classrooms where students are more self-managing, and demonstrate mutual respect, self-esteem, and responsibility.
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not my style of management.......2004-06-13
I'm sure that this book has several excellent qualitites, but I was introduced to it by a professor who used these strategies exactly as they were outlined in the book. I constantly felt micromanaged, controlled, and manipulated. When I read the book after it was recommended by the professor, I saw exactly where these strategies were coming from. Since I as a student didn't like them at all, I wouldn't inflict these same strategies on my own students. I am a fairly new teacher with only about 4 years of experience, but I still feel like I know the difference between pressuring my students to behave in a particular group pattern and teaching them to think for themselves. I felt like this book took that power away from both the students and the teacher.
Excellent content, useful resource.......2003-07-10
As a 35-year career elementary teacher, I was surprised how often I turned to this book for help and advice. I did have the extra advantage of receiving training from the author herself. But the book, standing alone, is so clear and concise, with classroom anecdotes and other examples to make its points, that it is an invaluable resource for new and career teachers both. I recommend it to both new teachers and their administrators, as a blueprint for success in the difficult area of classroom management and student discipline.
Classroom Strategies That Make Sense.......2003-02-20
I have been a presenter for Classroom Management using Pat Belvel's materials for the past five years. Previously we had used a manual with mostly the overheads of the content. The wonderful aspect of this book is that it provides insights and adecdotes to which we can all relate. In this way, teachers can understand the strategies without extensive workshops. Although workshops with follow-up coaching is ideal. I recommend this book to new teachers as well as experienced. Within the workshop series, I have had new teachers comment about how they had never really thought about all of what goes into managing a classroom. Experienced teachers have expressed gratitude in reminding them of what works!
Rethinking Classroom Management.......2003-02-12
I am the co-author of this wonderful work and just want everyone to know that the paperback is exactly the same as the hardback, has an interesting, appealing cover design and costs much less.....This book is designed for veteran teachers and beginning teachers....Enjoy
A Must Read!.......2002-10-19
As a parent, I was quite interested to see if this book would assist me with my recent career as a full-time mommy. From the first words, I could tell that this was a gem of a book full of stories, analogies and practical strategies for classroom teachers and parents. The first story is about an extrinsically motivated class who didnt "behave" for subs. I put myself in the shoes of that teacher and thought. How come my children behave differently for babysitters than me? Immediately I applied what this teacher learned to my home life. This book is also deemed worthy of being on a university campus as a required text. Thanks, Vonny (teacher, grad student, happy mom of two)
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Longtime librarian Ed Rossman champions the growing roles of libraries in his Castles Against Ignorance: How to Make Libraries Great Educational Environments. Written as a practical and entertaining guide for students and library professionals, Rossman fosters pride in the profession and shows how the library can be a true weapon against intolerance and other societal problems. Along with a survey of American library literature, this book shares several techniques to strengthen the readers understanding and use of libraries for the public as well as for students. It also serves as a call to arms, motivating readers to appreciate the importance of libraries as contemporary, accessible institutions of learning. For excerpts and more information visit http://www.castles411.com.
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Review for Librarians or People Who Care about Libraries.......2007-01-11
If you care about libraries, "Castles Against Ignorance" is a must read. Author Edmund Rossman believes that libraries have a critical role to play in helping to counteract the societal deficits that come from such factors as fragmented families, high dropout rates in schools, and a skewed vision of reality fostered by the mass media and the Internet.
Rossman compliments libraries, believing that they are a powerful force in the war against ignorance. But good as they are, Rossman has suggestions for how libraries can be improved.
His approach is engaging and easy-to-follow. In 27 chapters, he addresses real life situations in libraries which, handled right, can lead to a more effective castle against ignorance. Each chapter starts out with a vivid description of a challenge to a library or a librarian.
For example, suppose your library has 20 computers, and there's a line 15 deep of people waiting to use them. Your library's policy is an hour per patron, but patron Smith won't leave after his hour is up. He's an eBay addict, and you've faced this situation with him before. He was obstreperous before, and this time it's looking worse. A lot worse.
What do you do?
Rossman takes you through the possible outcomes. You want him to leave quietly, but he may become confrontational or aggressive. Maybe he has a weapon. Maybe he's threatening you or members of the public with it. Maybe he actually shoots and someone gets injured.
Rossman has suggestions for each of these possibilities, plus additional resources you can go to for further information.
Other situations that arise in libraries are less dramatic, but still of immense human importance. A patron with autism drops the pennies from his change purse and, embarrassed, has a complete meltdown. He forgets his "library voice" and instead keeps loudly repeating so that the patrons can't help but hear, "Oh Christ damn me, I'm such a bad person!"
Rossman devotes a chapter to learning how to respond to special needs persons, such as the man with autism. In that particular case, by the way, a librarian reassured the man that it was just a mistake and the man calmed down when he found himself supported and reassured.
If you're a librarian and you were to read only a single random chapter of Castles Against Ignorance, odds are you'd get ideas and resources that would make the book worth its price. However, once you've read one chapter, you'll find that its like salted peanuts, hard to stop once you've tasted one.
Mitzi Perdue from New York City frequently writes on library issues.
Good advice for novice or veteran library workers........2007-01-11
Edmund Rossman has written a very useful short guide for effective and humanistic management of public libraries. Mr. Rossman provides a series of tips and instructions for planning, delivering, and changing library services as the occasion warrants. His voice is reassuring but determined as he make his case that libraries are a last bastion against ignorance in our society. Each short chapter begins with a brief vignette describing a familiar situation to library workers (or anyone who works with the public). He then examines how each situation was handled, providing gentle guidance on improvements that could be made. The advice is sound and the book would be welcome for anyone working in a library. The book loses one star for repetitiveness and a few typos that could have been eliminated with a bit of gentle guidance from a good editor.
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First published in 1994 and now reprinted with a new foreword updating the situation from the original edition Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict explores environmental problems - coherently and theoretically - from both a political and economic point of view. By illustrating the root causes of environmental disruption - global warming, soil depletion, desertification, water and air pollution - the authors show how to recognize and understand the complex contemporary problems involved in caring for the environment. The book offers both a coherent perspective for solving ecological problems of all kinds and a systematic approach that shows how organizations, institutions and individuals can push for environmental protection reforms. In three sections Schnaiberg and Gould ask the questions: Why should we be concerned? How does environmental disorganization get created? What has been done? And, finally, what can be done? "Allan Schnaiberg has been to environmental sociology what Talcott Parsons was to mid-century sociological theory: a person whose work was an obligatory point of departure. A candid, penetrating and critical assessment of many of the sacred cows of environmentalism and antienvironmentalism. This book is a most welcome addition to the literature in environmental sociology." Contemporary Sociology
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A comprehensive tour d'horizon of the debate on the environment and security, focusing on the various policy options for building peace and preventing environmental conflict. Experts from the areas survey the key environmental challenges in Eastern and Central European states and those of the former Soviet Union, extending the debate to such regions as the Balkans, the Black Sea and Central Europe. This is the first time such extensive case study research has been reported for these regions.
Both practical and theoretical approaches to the debate are presented, within a multi-disciplinary framework, the contributors ranging from academic experts involved with peace and conflict research to actual policy makers active in the fields of environmental and security policy.
Readership: Experts already working in the relevant disciplines, both academic and governmental, as well as those seeking an introduction to the various policy fields. A graduate-level study text, excellent survey for policy makers and an academic contribution to ongoing studies.
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