Civilizing the Workplace Author:Lesley Wright, Marti Smye Stress, headaches, ulcers, exhaustion, insomnia, anxiety, burnout, nervous breakdown. Are these a few of the buzz words that are defining your worklife? Welcome to the corporate world of the 1990s, a perilous land where downsizing rules the day and management theories come and go with each fiscal quarter. Overworked, bullied, and microman... more »aged, employees find their contributions rarely acknowledged and their time and energy spent more on office politics and power games than on efforts to get the job done. Civilizing the Workplace is more than a collection of the sins perpetrated on the working wounded, however. It uses case histories and actual situations to illustrate techniques on how to cope with corporate abuse, how to reintroduce respect into the workplace, how to return integrity to both corporations and their employees- and how both will profit from these changes. Written by two experts in the field, this timely and controversial book redefines the corporate climate, and ensures that you will never look at the corporate jungle in quite the same way again.« less