Human Behavior

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on organizational development, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book explains organizational development in a way that is easily understood by anyone. It introduces the concept, discusses its stages, describes it in action, highlights its benefits and drawbacks, and suggests methods for its improvement. The text is educational and informational, and it is applicable to real-world organizational change. If you want to learn more about organizational development, then this book is...

In the hospitality space, Three and Jackie Carpenter know full well the importance of leading teams who are loyal, engaged, and happy. Working in an industry where customer expectations are at an extreme, Three and Jackie have applied a mindset of treating employees like customers. They've developed a five-step roadmap to creating positive employee experiences and company cultures where connection is the crux of the team's success.

In the newly revised fourth edition of Hire with Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Outstanding Diverse Teams, influential recruiting and hiring expert Lou Adler delivers a practical guide to consistently identifying and hiring the best people and scaling that process throughout your company.

Traditionally, human resources has focused on recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. These functions remain essential. But to be successful in turbulent times like ours, human capital strategy needs to be broader and much more far reaching.

This audiobook helps you to understand what is meant by psychological warfare, and how it affects you and the people you love.

Living under a rock can sometimes provide comfort and safety, but the reality is that Earth is one giant ecosystem. Despite the small amount of protection that your rock may offer, the real world will always make its way in. A proactive approach to disease globally is necessary from an epidemiological standpoint, but this still isn't happening in regions outside of first-world nations and Western countries as a result of miserly behavior, poor enforcement of regulations, and weak governments, specifically in China, i.e., the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese hygiene really isn't hygienic as ...

In Bring Your Human to Work, Erica Keswin laid down the rules and protocols of a human workplace. Now, in Rituals Roadmap, she shows us how to further employee engagement, explaining that workplace rituals foster a sense of belonging and help workers connect with one another and their work.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving.

This book's expanded edition includes two new topics, communication and co-worker relationships, making it even better for beginners and those seeking general knowledge. It examines leadership from many different aspects. It analyzes leadership styles, toxic leaders, micromanaging leaders, and the roles leaders play in organizational culture. It explores the thinking behind leaders' choices and the effects those choices have on workplaces while suggesting ways to prevent negative leadership from occurring. It also discusses communication in organizations and the relationships formed by the ...

Neuro-Linguistic Programming is extremely effective in order to change the paradigms we have in the subconscious guilt of having limiting beliefs in our life and in installing new paradigms that cause us to act differently during different conditions and to become the masters of our life and our successes. What does Science say? Biologists like Bruce Lipton and Physicists like Gregg Braden have scientifically proven we are what we think and that we are the captains of our own life because science finally understands the power of thought combined with emotions. Old paradigms that our ...

If you have ever asked, “Who am I?”, this book has the answers you have been looking for. Psychologists have unlocked the secrets behind the mysteries of human behavior, and this easy-to-listen-to book explains those secrets in simple language. Finally, you don’t have to be an expert in psychology or neurobiology to understand the reasons you do the things you do.

This book is great for beginners or those seeking general knowledge. It focuses on employee interaction, motivation, deviance, and attendance. It analyzes communication barriers, motivational theories, sexual harassment, and absenteeism while exploring the effects they have on workers and organizations. The text is written for easy reader understanding, and examples are used throughout for illustration and clarification purposes.

Have you ever asked yourself about Neurological programming? Then if yes, this book is a great way to start at understanding neurological programming.it gives a clear picture of neurological programming (NLP) together with how it works in day to day lives. The topic is may seem hard and boring but it shows us a side which most of us choose to ignore. The book talks about what NLP is and also how it works. Just like other psychological ways to understand man, the fundamental and strategies of NLP have been touched on. The strategies help one to figure out how it works and how to use it. NLP ...

Randall Lee Smith is an American murderer who was active along the Appalachian Trail in Southwestern Virginia. On May 19, 1981, Smith murdered two 27-year-old social workers from Maine, Robert Mountford Jr. and Laura Susan Ramsay. Their murders were the first double homicide to occur in the Appalachian Trail.

While experiencing firsthand the chaos at Wisdom Health Care Center, Grace Holden, its new CEO, questions if she made the right decision in accepting the job. Yet Grace knows she couldn’t have turned it down. It was an opportunity she had worked for her entire career. Still, what she could not have anticipated was just how broken the culture was at the health care center. She quickly discovers Wisdom will challenge her in ways she never imagined. In The Wisdom Story, best-selling author Tim Burningham presents another compelling and enlightening leadership fable. Using his storytelling ...

Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make. This can be creepy, manipulative, and downright harmful, with scandals like that of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica being merely the tip of the iceberg.

The best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker. What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?

There have been few darker days in American history than January 6, 2021. There have been few darker periods than the eight years following June 15, 2015, when Donald Trump descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. There have been few periods as precarious, as the nation’s internal stability and international standing took hit after hit; few as demoralizing, as our national and international response to a deadly pandemic was bungled and hundreds of thousands died; few as divisive, as an already deeply polarized ...

In a secluded research institute at the cutting edge of science and technology, a team of brilliant minds is embarking on an unprecedented journey into the depths of human behavior. Their creation, the Human Algorithm, is designed to decode the patterns of thought, emotion, and action, mapping the intricate landscapes of the human mind with unparalleled precision. But as the algorithm evolves, it begins to do more than just observe—it engages, influences, and ultimately, questions. The story follows a diverse group of participants, each grappling with their own personal struggles, as they...

Dive into the purrfect guide to the world of feline communication, behavior, and life stages in this hilariously insightful book. Told from the perspective of two lovable cats, Winston and Joey, 'How to Train Your Humans' takes readers on a whimsical journey through the cats' eyes. It's a unique blend of humor, practical advice, and heartwarming stories, which is bound to charm both seasoned cat parents and those new to the feline world. From decoding cat language to understanding the quirks of cat behavior, and from navigating the transition from kittenhood to adulthood, to envisioning a ...