Why You Dread Work: What's Going Wrong in Your Workplace and How to Fix It

Helen Holmes' guide to the modern workplace offers empathy and pragmatism for employees facing challenges such as fear, lack of focus, and lack of fairness. She proposes that goodwill, purpose, and trust can overcome these challenges and provides inspiring case studies and practical tips for crafting a better working week.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 224 pages
\n Publication date: 14 September 2021
\n Publisher: London Publishing Partnership
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Ever felt that lurking sense of Sunday night dread? In this warm and empathetic guide to the modern workplace, Helen Holmes tackles precisely what's going wrong in your workplace—and how you can improve your working week. Drawing upon expert research and employee interviews, she answers questions such as: Why does that difficult colleague refuse to take ownership of anything? What can I do about the constant data overload of email and meetings? Why am I still not being paid fairly? Holmes proposes that fear, a lack of focus, and a lack of fairness are at the core of workplace challenges, and outlines how goodwill, purpose, and trust can overcome them. Written for you as an employee, this book offers empathy and pragmatism for anyone who's ever contemplated quitting their job and running for the hills. Instead, Holmes gives inspiring case studies and practical tips for crafting a better working week, one step at a time.

Ever felt that lurking sense of Sunday night dread? In this warm and empathetic guide to the modern workplace, Helen Holmes tackles precisely what's going wrong in your workplace—and how you can improve your working week. Drawing upon expert research and employee interviews, she answers questions such as: Why does that difficult colleague refuse to take ownership of anything? What can I do about the constant data overload of email and meetings? Why am I still not being paid fairly? Holmes proposes that fear, a lack of focus, and a lack of fairness are at the core of workplace challenges, and outlines how goodwill, purpose, and trust can overcome them. Written for you as an employee, this book offers empathy and pragmatism for anyone who's ever contemplated quitting their job and running for the hills. Instead, Holmes gives inspiring case studies and practical tips for crafting a better working week, one step at a time.

\n Weight: 292g\n
Dimension: 138 x 217 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781913019228\n \n