Newcomers In Workplace

Case studies capture the experiences, difficulties, and determination of immigrant workers.

Describes relations between new immigrants and established residents in two urban areas (Miami and Philadelphia) and one small community (Garden City, Kansas).

This workbook complements You're Hired...Now What?, an introduction to Canadian workplace culture that gives newcomers to Canada insight into what to expect at their first professional Canadian job. The classroom-ready workbook allows You're Hired...Now What? to be integrated into programs that focus on workplace ESL. The workbook corresponds to You're Hired...Now What? chapter-for-chapter and provides students with opportunities to apply the concepts from the student book to the real world. Each chapter includes workplace vocabulary development, a sample dialogue, practical writing exercises geared toward CLBs 5 to 8, and activities for group and independent learning.

You're Hired...Now What?, the third book in the Canadian Newcomer Series, will give people from different countries and backgrounds an understanding of Canadian workplace culture and norms. The material is presented as a general guide to adapting to a professional environment and explains common best-practice procedures at work. Examples are given to help explain and illustrate the positive results of working within these general guidelines. The book (and accompanying workbook) can be used in the classroom as a way of preparing for a job or by individuals wanting to prepare by themselves or to further their careers.

Traces the lives of twenty-two immigrant teens throughout the course of a year at Denver's South High School who attended a specially created English Language Acquisition class and who were helped to adapt through strategic introductions to American culture.

Every day newcomers enter the workforce unaware of the unspoken, unwritten rules of workplace conduct. Not knowing those rules can be the beginning of their undoing; breaking them, making the wrong impression on their new peers can stand in the way of promotions and success in the workplace. This book explains the 10, generally unspoken, rules that enable newcomers to the workplace to fit in, become accepted and succeed. Readers discover why, in a non-assertive environment it is so important to put the feelings of others first, avoid conflict, be diplomatic, and build the strong rapport with colleagues that leads to success in the workplace. The book sets out from the premise that cultures are learned and learnable. Some people have simply been learning this particular culture for longer, and their behaviours reflect a knowledge of a simple set of unspoken rules. This easy read, aimed at a very wide readership, presents a series of self-reflection quizzes with suggestions on how to keep to the rules.

A beautiful re-issued edition of poetry from the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of How To Pronounce Knife FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The language of Small Arguments is simple, yet there is nothing simple in its ideas. Reminiscent of Pablo Neruda’s Elemental Odes, these poems explore the structures of argument, orchestrating material around repetition, variation, and contrast. Thammavongsa’s approach is like that of a scientist or philosopher, delicately probing material for meaning and understanding. The poet collects small lives and argues for a larger belonging: a grain of dirt, a crushed cockroach, the eyes of a dead dragonfly. It is a work that suggests we can create with what we know and with that alone. First published in 2003, Small Arguments announced the arrival of a distinct and utterly original new voice.