Download or read book Celebrating the World of Work written by Susan A. Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Peruse a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Corresponding open-ended projects, stories, recipes, and book suggestions give further insights into how certain careers fulfill particular people. Many career-based projects make great learning extensions for different subject areas such as art, math, science, and social studies. Blue collar, white collar, and arts positions are given even attention.
Download or read book Celebrating the World of Work written by Susan Conklin Thompson and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Peruse a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Corresponding open-ended projects, stories, recipes, and book suggestions give further insights into how certain careers fulfill particular people. Many career-based projects make great learning extensions for different subject areas such as art, math, science, and social studies. Blue collar, white collar, and arts positions are given even attention.
Download or read book Let s Celebrate written by Kate DePalma and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical, sensory nonfiction text and vibrant illustrations invite readers to experience a child’s-eye view of 13 holidays around the world, such as the Spring Festival in China, Inti Raymi in Peru, Eid al-Fitr in Egypt, Día de Muertos in Mexico and the New Yam Festival in Nigeria. Includes pronunciation guides, a global festival calendar and educational notes about why we celebrate.
Download or read book Lunar New Year written by Hannah Eliot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about the traditions of Lunar New Year—also known as Chinese New Year—with this fourth board book in the Celebrate the World series, which highlights special occasions and holidays across the globe. After the winter solstice each year, it’s time for a celebration with many names: Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, and Lunar New Year! With beautiful artwork by Chinese illustrator Alina Chau, this festive board book teaches readers that Lunar New Year invites us to spend time with family and friends, to light lanterns, and set off fireworks, dance with dragons, and to live the new year in harmony and happiness.
Download or read book Celebrating Children written by Glenn Miles and published by Paternoster Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating Children is a comprehensive resource written by over 50 contributors from all around the world from professors in prestigious universities to experienced practitioners recording their experiences for the first time. Full of cutting edge, practical information, it is a complete reference book, drawing on the experience of both government-funded programs and small sustainable community-based initiatives.
Download or read book A Celebration of Work written by Norman Best and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nothing is better for a person than to have an opportunity to do meaningful work," says Norman Best in this memoir detailing his forty-eight years as a blue-collar worker. During those years, he built and maintained highways and bridges in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana, and served stints as a machinist in the San Francisco shipyards and as business agent for Local 86 of the International Association of Machinists. In A Celebration of Work he shows how the construction of rural roads, railroad bridges, and modern superhighways depended on the expertise of skilled workers who cared deeply about quality. Yet the work of private contractors, interested solely in profit, was often careless and dangerous. Best's concern for the worker led him to the Communist Party in the 1930s, but, disillusioned with the party's leadership, he left it in 1946. His philosophy of economic democracy, rooted in Jeffersonian democracy, Marxian socialism, and the Golden Rule, renders his voice unique. Whether Best is describing organizing a union, busting the highway construction contract system, or refusing to cooperate with the FBI, his memoir honors the art of laboring with pride, self-confidence, and dignity.
Download or read book Celebrate What s Right With the World written by D. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who the Hell Wants to Work for You written by Tim Eisenhauer and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who the Hell Wants to Work for You? explains and unifies the groundbreaking employee engagement practices of America's most admired companies. It shows the role of individuals, managers, and executives in building a new kind of workplace. It uses the collective experience of hundreds of employers to help you transform your mind, team, and business
Download or read book Celebrations Around the World written by Katy Halford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time to celebrate! From Christmas and Thanksgiving, to Diwali and Halloween, kids won't want to miss out on all the festivities. Embark on an exciting journey through the most interesting and important festivals, celebrations, and holidays enjoyed by people around the world. Stunning original illustrations and fascinating facts will inspire and inform children about cultures and religions from the countries of the world. Witness a camel marathon in a celebration of the Sahara Desert, and devour some delicious dumplings to celebrate Chinese New Year. Discover why skeletons dance at the Day of the Dead in Mexico, and get messy at Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors. Children will love poring over artist Katy Halford's beautiful illustrations, which showcase every celebration in absorbing detail. Engaging factual writing introduce young readers to the most interesting aspects of each celebration, from the costumes worn to the food eaten, and encourage an understanding of other cultures and religions.
Download or read book Invisibles written by David Zweig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring look at the hidden stars in every field who perform essential work without recognition In a culture where so many strive for praise and glory, what kind of person finds the greatest reward in anonymous work? Expanding from his acclaimed Atlantic article, "What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?" David Zweig explores what we can all learn from a modest group he calls "Invisibles." Their careers require expertise, skill, and dedication, yet they receive little or no public credit. And that's just fine with them. Zweig met with a wide range of Invisibles to discover first hand what motivates them and how they define success and satisfaction. His fascinating subjects include: * a virtuoso cinematographer for major films. * the lead engineer on some of the world's tallest skyscrapers. * a high-end perfume maker. * an elite interpreter at the United Nations. Despite the diversity of their careers, Zweig found that all Invisibles embody the same core traits. And he shows why the rest of us might be more fulfilled if we followed their example.
Download or read book The New World of Work written by Bashker Biswas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that a functional approach to Human Resource Management is fast becoming obsolete, this book explores the many areas of accelerated change in the workplace and how business leaders must evolve their thinking to meet the needs of their workers and managers alike. With a clear focus on the accelerations caused by Covid-19 and how technological platforms have enabled working practices and business continuity, the book effectively lays the groundwork for a changed but well-functioning people management system. The authors present the new model of Strategic Human Asset Lifecycle Management that incorporates the drastic changes in how jobs are designed, how human talent is acquired, how work is performed, how work is rewarded and conditions set, and crucially, how labor laws must change – all to meet the fast-moving requirements of a digitized world. Enriched with cases that illustrate both well-adapted and badly-adapted organizations, as well as helpful summaries and thought-provoking challenges, this book is an essential resource for all those who aspire to great people leadership in their organizations, including HR professionals, instructors, and upper-level students.
Download or read book The Value of Time and Leisure in a World of Work written by Mitchell R. Haney and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a platitude that most people, as they say, 'work to live' rather than 'live to work.' And in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, work weeks have expanded and the divide between work time and personal time has significantly blurred due to innovations in such things as electronic communications. Concerns over the value of work in our lives, as well as with the balance or use of time between work and leisure, confront most people in contemporary society. Discussions over the values of time, leisure, and work are directly related to the time-honored question of what makes a life good. And this question is of particular interest to philosophers, especially ethicists. In this volume, leading scholars address a range of value considerations related to peoples' thoughts and practices around time utilization, leisure, and work with masterful insight. In addressing various practical issues, these scholars demonstrate the timeless relevance and practical import of Philosophy to human lived experience.
Download or read book Diwali written by Hannah Eliot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about the traditions of Diwali with this third book in the delightful board book series Celebrate the World, which highlights special occasions and holidays across the globe. Each autumn we gather with our friends and family and light our brightest lanterns. It’s time for Diwali, the festival of lights! In this lovely board book with illustrations from Archana Sreenivasan, readers learn that the five days of Diwali are a time to pray for a bountiful season, celebrate the special bonds between siblings, and rejoice in the victory of light over darkness and good over evil.
Download or read book A Celebration a Day written by Scott Friedman Csp and published by Scott Friedman & Associates. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After reading this book, you will come to understand the power of celebration at work and in life. By turning on your GPS (Gratitude, Play, and Surprise), you will engage employees which will lead to greater productivity and team performance. Use this book as a resource to bring more joy, spontaneity, fun, and playfulness to your workplace. Get ready to create a happier, healthier workplace as you Celebrate all that is good!
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Progress Principle written by Teresa Amabile and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner work life, often unwittingly. As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer explain in The Progress Principle, seemingly mundane workday events can make or break employees’ inner work lives. But it’s forward momentum in meaningful work—progress—that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees in 7 companies, the authors explain how managers can foster progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: (1) catalysts—events that directly facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy—and (2) nourishers—interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect and collegiality. Brimming with honest examples from the companies studied, The Progress Principle equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the insights they need to maximize their people’s performance.
Download or read book Ramadan written by Hannah Eliot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about the traditions of Ramadan with this first book in the brand-new board book series Celebrate the World, which highlights celebrations across the globe. In the ninth month of the year, when the first crescent moon rises in the sky, it’s time to celebrate Ramadan! In this lovely board book with illustrations from Rashin Kheiriyeh, readers learn that Ramadan is a time to reflect on ourselves, to be thankful, and a time to help others.
