The dysfunctional self -- Dysfunctional organizational culture -- Incivility in the work environment -- Toxic behaviors of staff -- Organizational deviance and workplace politics -- Poor communication in the workplace -- Conflict management -- Ineffective collaboration -- Difficulties with team composition -- Leading away from library dysfunction
Filled with beneficial advice on every page, this resource will help libraries be better workplaces for everyone.
A core resource for any LIS student or academic librarian serving as a liaison, this handbook lays out the comprehensive fundamentals of the discipline, helping librarians build the confidence and cooperation of the university faculty in ...
The book will also be essential reading for librarians and LIS students currently working or preparing to work in public, college, and university libraries.
Eden Dahlstrom, D. Christopher Brooks, and Jacqueline Bichsel, “The Current Ecosystem of Learning Management Systems in Higher Education: Student, Faculty, and IT Perspectives” (Louisville, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research, ...
This collection offers more than a dozen in-depth examples of mindfulness in action.
Enter the Personal Librarian, a flexible concept that focuses on customizing information literacy by establishing a one-on-one relationship between librarian and student from enrollment through graduation
This book explores an aspect of organizational life that is at times difficult to acknowledge and often painful to recall.
The volume ends with a look to the future of mentoring and organizational development and with a tool any library employee at any career stage can use in forming their own mentoring constellation.
Take Ms. Dean, for example, whose three children were put into foster care for the single reason that the housekeeping in their home was so deplorable that the place was unfit for human habitation. The social worker who visited the home ...
This book represents a broad spectrum of disciplines including law, management, communications, human resource management and industrial/organizational psychology and offers integrative, cross-disciplinary inquiries into the many roles ...