Szollose, Brad.
Contents: 1st law : a liquid leader places people first -- 2nd law : a liquid leader cultivates an environment where it is free and safe to tell the truth -- 3rd law : a liquid leader nurtures a creative culture -- 4th law : a liquid leader supports reinvention of the organization -- 5th law : a liquid leader leads by example -- 6th law : a liquid leader takes responsibility -- 7th law : a liquid leader...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 SZOSummary: In this Peabody Award-winning program, CNBC's David Faber scrutinizes Wal-Mart as he seeks to understand how the company has ascended to the heights of power it has come to occupy-and whether this juggernaut can continue to succeed in the face of increased opposition. Given unprecedented access, Faber takes viewers from an annual managers' meeting that resembles an evangelical revival to the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: A detailed and revealing case study, this CNBC program guides viewers through the corporate dimensions of the world's largest passenger jet fleet. Students will witness high-level management maneuvers undertaken behind the closed doors of executive suites. Several rarely discussed aspects of the airline industry are addressed-chief among them, how a labor-management conflict is sorted out and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Just as the industrial revolution changed the way people work, so has the rise of digital technology-leading to the radical reorganization of business models and workplaces, as well as the geographical redistribution of labor and services. This program inquires into 21st-century work paradigms, presenting commentary from scholars and business leaders about what it means to be an employee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: A business model based on door-to-door selling made sense in the 1950s, but today's young adults love to shop-which means tough times for Avon. This case study examines forces that have seriously reduced the company's market share and the aggressive steps it has taken to boost its customer base and rebuild its image. Identifying pivotal socioeconomic factors among women under age 35-including a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Caraher, Lee.
Summary: "Addresses a very real concern of large and small businesses nationwide: how to motivate, collaborate with, and manage the millennial generation, who now make up almost 50% of the American workforce. The key is to change Boomer attitudes from disbelief and derision to acceptance and respect without giving up work standards. Using real world examples, author Lee Caraher gives leaders data-driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business CaraherSummary: Shell of Australia is a part of one of the world's largest oil and gas companies. Australia-based Intrepid Travel is a medium-size adventure vacation company. In this program, human resource professionals from these two companies discuss the processes of recruitment, performance appraisal, and termination; explore the dynamic relationship between employees and employers; and describe the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Gordon, Jon
Summary: Soup offers an inspirational business fable that explains the "recipe" you can use to create a winning culture and boost employee morale and engagement. The story follows Nancy, the newly anointed CEO of America's Favorite Soup Company. She has been brought in to reinvigorate the brand and bring success back to a company that has lost its flavor and profit and has fallen on hard times....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 GORSummary: The only way to remove sexual harassment from school and work is to get educated about the problem and learn ways to deal with it. This informative video explains different kinds of sexual harassment, defines the factors motivating harassers, and provides specific techniques for dealing with the problem. Viewers will see what steps to take if anyone harasses them or if they witness the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: For years, companies have used temporary employees to keep costs low, but with jobless numbers rising amidst a recession, starting an employment agency is risky business. In this program, Meighen Nehme, founder of The Job Shoppe, a Windsor, Ontario-based temp agency, faces a challenging economy and crosstown competition. Her business plan and decisions are critiqued by Arlene Dickinson, CEO of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In Canada, retailers lose more than a million dollars every day to employee theft. Enter the pre-employment honesty test. Using a case study of a woman denied employment on the basis of an honesty test as a springboard for discussion, this program provides an overview of this controversial screening device. Issues of question validity, test discrimination, and the proper use of psychometric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Fleischer, Charles H.
Summary: The new edition of this book includes everything from recruiting and hiring to discipline and termination and everything in between. Updated legal information has been added on the new minimum wage law that employers must be aware of, the right to privacy for employees, especially in terms of their email, Internet usage, and phone calls, and what employers need to do to comply with disability...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphinx Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 FLESummary: Employees are among a company's most valuable assets. In this program, Mitchell Fromstein, president of Manpower, Inc., addresses the issues of finding, training, motivating, compensating, and retaining good employees: how to conduct an interview and what to look for; what the resume can tell; where to find the right person for a job; legal pitfalls to avoid; the importance of human relations;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program is devoted to the ways in which the demands of a diverse work force can best be met: how schools can help prepare students, how businesses can help build bridges, how all Americans can-and must-learn to value, respect, and benefit from diversity in society and in the workplace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Millennials-the generation of young people coming of age in the early 21st century-have recently been much maligned. Are their critics right? Is this generation, which has grown up with revolutionary technology and entered adulthood in a time of recession, uniquely coddled, narcissistic, and lazy? Or have we let conventional wisdom blind us to their openness to change and innovation, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Summary: Warren Farrell protested alongside Gloria Steinem in support of women's rights and was even elected to the board of NOW-three times. But Farrell is also the author of Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap-and What Women Can Do About It. In this brief ABC News segment, John Stossel considers the opposing views of Farrell and Martha Burk, chair of the NCWO and author of Cult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Katcher, Bruce Leslie
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Publisher / Publication Date: AMACOM 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.302 KATSchwartz, Tony
Summary: Breakthrough program for a revolutionary new style of management.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 SWHSummary: How will America close the gender gap that exists in technology, to empower female students? Set at Fulmore Middle School in Austin, Texas, this program exposes counterproductive classroom behaviors and presents measures being taken to correct the misperception that computing is a males-only domain. The Director of the Center for Gender Equity, the author of SchoolGirls, the creators of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program includes conversations with airline machinist Marv Sandrin, and Northwest Vice President, Richard Anderson. Sandrin is former president of District Lodge 143 of the Machinists' Union. He was employed at Northwest Airlines before the ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) gave him and his union an ownership stake in the company. Under that ESOP, unions gave up
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: One of the last documentaries from ABC News journalist Peter Jennings, this program untangles a particularly complex problem: the rapidly growing number of Americans who lack health care coverage. With characteristic thoroughness, Jennings searches out specific reasons for the weakening and potential collapse of employer-subsidized health insurance. America's rising median age, medical advances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Entering a crucible of racial, political, and legal issues, this program explores America's national debate over affirmative action. Viewers will receive a detailed look at the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case which confirmed the legality of race-based academic admission criteria, as well as a behind-the-scenes examination of hiring policies at the Ford Motor Company. Observations from students,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Using the EEOC definition of sexual harassment, this program shows how this damaging and expensive problem in the workplace takes place, how situations get out of hand, and how the problem can be addressed and stopped. It reviews all the well-worn excuses for ignoring harassment, provides suggestions for action if harassment is suspected, and highlights the cost of failing to take action at...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: At the head of the Fair Labor Association, Auret van Heerden takes a practical approach to workers' rights, persuading corporations and NGOs to respect the role of labor in global supply chains. In this TEDTalk, the committed activist makes a reasoned business case for fair labor while exploring the next frontier of employee-management friction - globalized industries in which no single...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010