Rising Above Office Conflict: A Light-Hearted Guide for the Heavy-Hearted Employee

This book provides expert advice on how to understand and overcome conflicts with coworkers and managers in the workplace, based on real-life examples and research. It offers empowering strategies for women to determine their boundaries and reinforce them, and provides guidance for managers on designing effective training and building a healthy workplace. The goal is to empower women to take control of their worklife and grow through difficult conflicts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 362 pages
Publication date: 10 July 2023
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Offers step-by-step expert advice that empowers women to understand and overcome the conflicts they face at work with coworkers and managers.

Are you being harassed? Micromanaged? Or just plain annoyed by your gum-chewing, music-playing, lunch-stealing coworker? Are you ready to blow this popsicle stand and move on to a new job? Then let this book guide you through this process. Beginning with 15 common workplace personalities that you have likely encountered, this book helps you to diagnose your situation, and provides empowering strategies for dealing with this situation and preventing future disputes. Based on the latest research in the dispute resolution field, and decades of workplace mediation experience, these stories are based on real-life examples (though names have been changed to protect those who should be ashamed of themselves).

Women are finally being given the training and opportunities to succeed in the workplace, but societal norms are still in the stone-age. This book offers concrete suggestions for women to determine their boundaries and strategies for reinforcing those boundaries. Women shouldnt have to choose between being a baby or a bully. Women have amazing empathic and social skills—so why not build on those skills, armed with years of research and ideas, to create the career you have worked for?

Perhaps its not just one mansplainer, or one frustrating coworker, but a whole department? Managerial style? Systemic issues? A toxic workplace that is in need of some major rebranding? This book is aimed at the frustrated employee, manager, conflict resolution practitioner, and HR office. There are simple skills to empower any employee. For the management team, learn how to design an effective training, identify red flags, triage employee concerns, and.

Weight: 499g
Dimension: 217 x 148 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538171271