The Accidental Office Lady

Business & Money

Kriska, Laura

Economics

Yenbooks

Increase employee retention and productivity and prevent misunderstandings that lead to lost revenue, lost time, and increased legal risk with this leader-focused new approach to understanding, managing, and maximizing organizational diversity, cultural difference, and inclusion. Success in the marketplace will depend on our ability to collaborate across difference. Yet, inevitably, Us versus Them gaps disrupt workplace efficiency. The Business of WE: <ul> <li>Provides a practical roadmap for creating trust with others who are different from ourselves--those who speak another first language, worship in another faith, or see a different reflection when they look in the mirror.</li> <li>Helps you create a WE mindset throughout your organization, bringing teams together into cohesive units and increasing employee retention and productivity.</li> <li>Walks you through the steps in fostering a workplace that is inclusive and respectful of all employees--one of the most critical, yet most widely mismanaged keys to success.</li> </ul> At a time when stakeholders are demanding real change, and nothing less than comprehensive solutions &nbsp;that lead to meaningful and lasting solutions will suffice--The Business of WE arrives just in time to help you stop Us versus Them gaps before they start and foster authentic connections across race, ethnicity, religion, age, and any other factor of identity to exponentially strengthen your entire organization.

The Business of We: The Proven Three-Step Process for Closing the Gap Between Us and Them in Your Workplace

Business Culture

HarperCollins Leadership

Diverse teams add tremendous value to any organization... if they work as a cohesive unit. Empower your leaders to bring together teams made up of members from different cultures, age groups, and socio-economic backgrounds.In today's workplace, cross-cultural collaboration is essential to the survival of any business. Unfortunately, bringing together people from a variety of backgrounds can lead to "us vs. them" misunderstandings and clashes that work against the goals of the company. Too often, well-intentioned consultants and HR representatives attempt to solve these problems with a band-aid approach to situations that warrant comprehensive solutions. Diversity in virtually every U.S. organization has increased over the past twenty years, yet the closest we have come to a workplace best practices guide is online diversity training courses or methods of coaching "problem" executives to be more sensitive. Neither of these avenues leads to meaningful change. Kriska teaches leaders in any organization how to prevent "us vs. them" culture clashes by promoting inclusion in their organization to increase employee retention and productivity and to prevent misunderstandings that lead to lost time and increased legal risk.

Accounting

HarperCollins Leadership on Brilliance Audio

A young woman with a new degree in Japanese studies and plenty of youthful idealism and can-do spirit accepts a job as the first American trainee at Honda's headquarters in Tokyo. Her image of Japanese corporate life is dramatically challenged on her first day at work when she is issued a blue polyester uniform—a uniform worn only by women! From menial beginnings serving tea to executives and cleaning the boss's desk, to a stint in public relations, to developing training classes for Japanese associates going to America, Laura Kriska recounts her struggle to adapt to—and ultimately thrive in—the culture of a traditional Japanese company. Shortly before her departure, she travels full circle by introducing a successful campaign to make women's uniforms optional. Now with a new foreword by the author, The Accidental Office Lady is a vivid and valuable firsthand account not only of corporate Japan and the gender inequality that persists within it, but of an outsider's successful attempt to work within cultural boundaries to affect organizational change.

The Accidental Office Lady: An American Woman in Corporate Japan

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Tuttle+publishing

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