Workplace Engagement

Healthy teams begin with healthy leaders. And at the heart of this dynamic is emotional maturity, the quality the greatest leaders possess. Combining cutting-edge brain science, with decades of counseling and consulting experience, Rare Leadership in the Workplace shows you how to take your leadership, and your team, to the next level. Whether you are burnt out, or just looking to improve, this audiobook can help. When you prioritize people, and lead from a secure identity, you’ll be amazed at the freedom you feel, and the results you see.

Workplace enemies become fake newlyweds in order to save their jobs in this sexy rom-com, perfect for fans of Tarah DeWitt and B.K. Borison. “Tender, sexy, and funny.” —Library Journal There are three things that PR strategist Jasmine Morgan knows for sure: One, she’s damn good at her...

Organizations around the world spend billions of dollars every year to awaken and engage their employees. Yet global employee engagement remains fixed - at 13%. The disengagement problem usually begins with the CEO telling human resources to fix it. Unless the CEO or business owner takes charge of engagement, everyone will look over the messenger's shoulders to pick up cues from the top leader.

Finalist in the Business Book of the Year 2024 awards! The Chief People Officer role has finally taken its rightful place on the Executive Committee and human resource management is recognised as a true differentiator of success for modern organisations. However, CPOs face a challenge. In a world of increasing regulation and litigation, and with greater expectations than ever of how organisations should support their people, the HR role risks being overwhelmed. Managers are drowning under the weight of people-related tasks, while staff demand ever more from their workplace. CEOs and Boards ...

The Last Thing A Scandal-Plagued NFL Star Needs Is A Good Girl Especially one who looks like she belongs in Sunday service… and makes me feel like sinning. Claire Wells is the only woman in Houston who doesn’t care that I’m a celebrity. And with the whole world treating me like the problem going viral on every sports channel, she’s the only person willing to bet on me. Suddenly, I'm pretending to be engaged to the one woman I can't stop thinking about. Twelve weeks of red carpets, VIP lounges, and acting like she's mine for the cameras. On paper, it’s straightforward. In reality ...

Enemies in the boardroom. Fake fiancés by contract. One bed between us and the inheritance clock ticking down. August Westley is the last man I should trust too dominant, too cold, too utterly off-limits. He signs my paychecks and sees every mistake before I make it. My entire life depends on his approval my rent, my sister’s school, the health insurance I can’t afford to lose. Then his family’s trust drops an ultimatum: secure a convincing domestic partnership or lose forty percent of his empire. Suddenly, I’m not just his assistant I’m his fiancée. Twelve weeks of galas. ...

We all know it. Demanding accountability in the workplace is the quickest way to get your employees to start fidgeting nervously and looking at the door. Traditional accountability methods leave leaders frustrated with limited, ineffective tools and leave employees feeling criticized, discouraged, and even disengaged. Using a foundation of neuroscience and human dynamics, Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace brings a much-needed modern approach to inspiring employee engagement, productivity, and results.

Being a great leader means getting the fundamentals right. It also means consistently doing the "little things" that make a positive difference in the lives of employees, customers, and other stakeholders. The Busy Leader's Handbook: How to Lead People and Places That Thrive is a practical, easy-to-use book filled with gentle reminders of what we should be doing every day - especially when work is at its most intense.

He betrayed me in secret. I ruined him in public. Grady Meyer proposed on a Friday night in our living room. Three weeks later, his best friend sat me down at a coffee shop and told me what Grady had been doing for two years. Her name was Madison. She worked at his office. She knew my name, knew my face, knew about the engagement. She congratulated him on the post and then went home with him the same week. Two years. Every late night. Every work emergency. Every "I'm hanging out with Zane." All of it, a lie. Grady expected me to cry quietly, forgive slowly, and come back eventually. He ...

The ultimatum is in - Marry or lose it all…. I am up for the challenge - Let the search for a fake fiancée begin. Years of dedication have gone into building my multi-billion-dollar company. My life is a balance of hard work and indulgence, earning the reputation of a CEO playboy after enduring past heartbreaks. Now the Investors want me to settle down. In a desperate attempt to save my empire, I persuade my assistant to be my fake fiancée. Little did I anticipate the sparks that flew between us would ignite a fire I couldn't control. Then comes the twist—the ultimate game-changer: a ...

Discover how Douglas McGregor’s timeless theories continue to shape the future of leadership. In Douglas McGregor and the Human Side of Leadership: Exploring Theory X and Theory Y, you’ll explore one of the most influential frameworks in management history. McGregor’s insights into the assumptions leaders hold about people—whether rooted in control and compliance or trust and empowerment—reveal how these beliefs shape organizational culture, motivation, and performance. This comprehensive book traces the origins of McGregor’s ideas, explains the meaning and impact of Theory X ...

One hot and reckless night with a sexy silver fox. No names. No promises. The next day, I learn his name. Grant Donovan. My client's billionaire brother. Within days, our photo is splashed across the tabloids. I need this scandal buried before it buries me. Grant has a problem of his own. He needs a wife before his fiftieth birthday. So we make a deal. Fake engagement. Contract marriage. Strictly business. At least, that's the plan. But every stolen touch makes my body forget the rules my brain is trying to keep. The grumpy billionaire I’m supposed to resist keeps slipping past my ...

"Organizational Psychology: Enhancing Productivity, Efficiency, and Respect Worldwide" by Ali Muattar is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of organizational psychology. In this enlightening book, Muattar delves into studying human behavior in the workplace, offering valuable insights and practical recommendations for organizations seeking to enhance productivity and efficiency and create a culture of mutual respect. Drawing from a wealth of research, case studies, and real-world examples, Muattar examines the psychological factors that influence individual and group behavior within...

When it comes to running a business, the most important decisions a leader makes are not about products or locations - they're about people. For the past 33 years, Dee Ann Turner has been recruiting, training, and retaining some of the best employees in the restaurant business. Now she's ready to share her secrets on how to build, sustain, and grow an organizational culture that attracts world-class talent and consistently delights customers, no matter what your industry.  

Reward and recognition programs can be costly and inefficient, and they primarily reward employees who are already highly engaged and productive performers. Worse still, these programs actually decrease employee motivation because they can make individual recognition, rather than the overall success of the team, the goal. Yet many businesses turn to these measures first-unaware of a better alternative. So, when it comes to changing your organizational culture, carrots and sticks don't work!

Human Resource Management is the backbone of management sciences and arts. It borrows many psychological theories, practices, strategies, and procedures that help them manage humans’ ever-changing nature as social animals. Every change in society reflects in the HRM, which is the purpose of this book. The psychology of HRM is all about the psychological principles that can simplify, modify, and help HR professionals manage human resources in organizations and other business, social, and cultural institutes. Ali Muattar is a serial entrepreneur, psychologist, and researcher with academic ...

Rule #1: Don’t fall in love. It was supposed to be a simple business transaction. But some rules are meant to be broken. Shantanu Rathore is Mumbai’s most ruthless billionaire. He’s cold, calculating, and needs to secure a multi-billion-dollar merger that requires him to look like a stable, devoted family man. The solution? A strict, one-year fake marriage contract. And he knows exactly who to hire for the job: Vamika Sharma, his quiet, hyper-efficient, and entirely invisible personal assistant. Vamika is drowning. Chased by ruthless men and hiding a deadly past, she is entirely out ...

You built a company. Then you bought everyone a participation trophy. Gamification was supposed to fix engagement. Points, badges, leaderboards — the mechanics that make people play video games for six hours straight, bolted onto the sales floor. Billions of dollars later, the badges mean nothing, the leaderboard is wallpaper, and your team ignores the points system exactly as fast as they ignored the old performance review. Here's why it failed: most corporate gamification runs entirely on extrinsic motivation — external rewards for compliance — and four decades of research say pile ...

A bold, funny, and deeply practical playbook to navigate toxic workplaces, outsmart bad bosses, and take control of your career—no matter who’s in charge. “Annoyingly funny, phenomenally helpful” - Chris Donnelly My Boss Is a Moron is the book every frustrated employee didn’t know they...

Owen has been at the same company for nine years, and there is nothing wrong. The pay is fair. His manager is decent. The work is stable in an industry where that is no longer ordinary, he is good at it, and he is respected for it. He has also begun to dread Sunday evenings, and he cannot tell anyone why, because every sentence he can construct about it makes him sound ungrateful. When he finally says something, he will be offered four explanations. That he is ungrateful. That he is burned out. That he is in the wrong job. That he needs to reconnect with his purpose. Each assumes the ...