Let S Get Civil In The Workplace

Workplace Civility Matters! In fact workplace civility is such a significant and necessary conversation that I have created the Workplace Civility Matters(c) program which is a successful organizational approach to build and sustain a healthy culture and a civil workplace. Workplace Civility Matters and you have the power to do something about it! Understanding what causes the deviant workplace behaviors, and then committing to counteract the behavior on an individual and organizational level is within your grasp. Let's Get Civil In The Workplace begins by presenting the idea that our work life offers independent value for workers, beyond the basics of shelter, sustenance, and survival. We recognize that each worker aspires to perform his work in harmony with his surroundings, and with his fellow workers. However, in recent years, we have come to understand that, regardless of trade or profession, it is not a common truth that today's workplace offers the same degree of harmony to each and every worker. What we do know is that uncivil behaviors found within the greater society have taken hold within the contemporary workplace. The book examines the impact that uncivil behaviors have on our workplaces and within our work lives. The book also explores the emotional, professional, social, and spiritual toll that workplace incivility has on each of us at a very personal level, as well as on our work life, our family and our friends. For each of us who have witnessed or endured a work life disrupted by uncivil behavior, this book serves as our declaration of war. We are no longer willing to accept workplace incivility in our businesses and organizations! Let's Get Civil In The Workplace offers more than an explanation of how we arrived at our current uncivil circumstance. The book, presented in three parts, offers a series of solutions and strategies to combat workplace incivility and build and sustain a civil workplace: Firstly, the book presents an explanation of the rise of deviant workplace behaviors because of four shifts in our contemporary world. The four shifts can be understood as a consequence of broader social changes, decline in trust as a universal value, changes in the workplace as a result of global markets, and finally changes in demands and expectations experienced by contemporary workers. Secondly, the book presents the antithesis of workplace incivility, to illustrate workplace civility, as a preferred organizational behavior, and we then explore multiple strategies that employees can execute towards creating a civil workplace. Thirdly, the book presents six overarching strategies that an organization can employ from a corporate perspective to develop and execute a framework for building and sustaining a civil workplace. The corporate approach to building a civil organization is centered on 1. Surveying and assessing the prevalence and impact of workplace incivility, 2. Building civility as a leadership behavior into your corporate strategy, 3. Introducing civility as a cultural norm to your workforce through keynote speakers, seminars, and presentations at small group and organization-wide events, 4. Developing and present experiential workshops to address and resolve group issues around workplace incivility, 5. Appoint and train civility ambassadors to help organizations and work groups build positive cultures, and 6. Develop individual and group executive coaching programs to address specific issues around deviant workplace behaviors.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Between the two World Wars an illness that mainly affects adults over fifty years old became so prominent that it superseded both tuberculosis and syphilis in importance. As Patrice Pinell shows, the effect of cancer in France before World War Two reached far beyond the question of its mortality rates. Pinell's socio-historical approach to the early developments in the fight against cancer describes how scientific, therapeutic, philanthropic, ethical, social, economics and political interest combined to transform medicine.