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    Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship

    The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship explores mindfulness, approaching it in such a way as to relate specifically to the many roles or challenges librarians face. Coinciding with the increased need to juggle a variety of tasks, technologies, ebooks, and databases, the new Association of College & Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy, and ... Read more

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  • Fostering a Civil Workplace

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    Fostering a Civil Workplace: Strategies for Personal and Organizational Success provides research-based solutions to promote a positive work environment. Focusing on internal dynamics, it explores aspects of communication, interpersonal interactions, management techniques, and organizational culture and oversight.While some work environments are productive and positive, many are not, with ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Civility

    Practical Ways to Improve a Dysfunctional Library

    Like other workplaces, libraries can sometimes be stressful, with library workers bearing the brunt of such problems as uncivil patrons, poor communication, inadequate leadership, and toxic behaviors by fellow employees. But there’s hope. Following up their acclaimed examination of the dysfunctional library ("should be essential reading for library leaders" raves Jo... ... Read more

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  • Practical and Effective Management of Libraries

    Integrating Case Studies, General Management Theory and Self-Understanding

    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Aimed at library science students and librarians with newly assigned administrative duties the book is about improving one's thinking and decision making in a role as a library manager. Most librarians get very little exposure to management issues prior to finding themselves in a management role. Furthermore, most library science students do not expect that they will need to understand management ... Read more

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    Maintaining high employee engagement is key to business success.Research shows that many members of today’s workforce feel overworked and underappreciated—all factors that attribute to high turnover, low customer satisfaction, increased incidences of health and safety problems, and low productivity and profitability.Engaged employees, on the other hand, feel recognized, encouraged, and supported ... Read more

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  • Leading the Evolution

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  • Leader-Member Exchange and Organizational Communication

    Facilitating a Healthy Work Environment

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    It is hard to overstate the importance of the leader-member exchange relationship. Employees who share a high-quality relationship with their leader are more likely to earn a higher salary, climb the ranks more quickly, and report higher life satisfaction levels than their peers who have a less copasetic leader-member relationship. While Leader-Member Exchange Theory (LMX) research addresses the ... Read more

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  • Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors

    Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

    This is the book that established emotional intelligence” in the business lexicon-and made it a necessary skill for leaders.Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities, business ... Read more

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  • Reconsidering Change Management

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development
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  • 50 Tips for Terrific Teams

    Proven Strategies for Building High Performance Teams

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  • Unmistakable Impact

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