Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work: A Guide for Leaders and Organizations
- 4h 31m
- Tracy Brower
- Bibliomotion
- 2014
Organizations accomplish results when they powerfully engage employees and capture their discretionary time. This is more important than ever during this period where employees are facing unprecedented time poverty. Technology has blurred the lines between employees’ work and personal lives, and they are faced with the challenges of successfully navigating and integrating work and personal demands. When organizations provide the right benefits, policies, and cultural practices, they win and they serve employees in the process.
Using examples and real-world experiences from senior executives and employees, author Tracy Brower shows readers the importance of work-life supports and how they lead to more engaged and fulfilled employees. Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work is your go-to guide to work-life support, providing easy-to-read strategies for building and implementing your organization’s strategies to harness work-life supports, increasing positive impact to your bottom line.
About the Author
Tracy Brower, PhD is an expert in organizational effectiveness and the sociology of work - how humans affect their work-life and how their work-life affects them. She has worked with hundreds of organizations over her career, as senior advisor to a who's who list of companies and the executives who run them. Tracy currently is the Director of Performance Environments at Herman Miller, Inc. She leads teams specializing in helping companies create living offices. Tracy's career includes experience in a wide range of industries, non-profits, higher education institutions, and healthcare organizations. Her expertise spans HR, OD, real estate/facilities, workplace, change management, organizational culture, TPS, and organizational effectiveness. Tracy has written for Area Development, The Drucker Institute, The Leader, and more. She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, MMQB, Green Source, and others. Tracy has also taught university courses, and in addition to her PhD she holds a Master's of Management degree. She is a member of CoreNet Global and the American Sociological Association. She is an executive advisor to MSU's Arts + the Innovative Workplace project as well as UCLA's CityLAB.
In this Book
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Leading from a New Perspective
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Leading from Past to Present
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Leading from Today’s Challenges
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Leading to Work-Life Supports
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Leading to Results
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Aligning with the Nature of the Work
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Aligning with Global Work
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Aligning with Technology
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Aligning with the Physical Work Environment
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Aligning with Generations
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Aligning with Gender and Diversity
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Aligning with Performance
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Aligning with Leaders
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Aligning with Teams
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Aligning with Culture
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Leading for the Business Case
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Leading for Change and Impact
