Beat Stress at Work
Author: Mark Simmonds
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group
Price: £12.99
Beat Stress at Work strikes at the heart of many of our shared anxieties of the past two years. Since 2020, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reported a 30% increase in new workplace-related stress cases, affecting an estimated 451,000 people nationwide. In this book, Simmonds provides tools and advice to help alleviate this pressure, touching on issues of mental resilience.
Humans at Work
Authors: Anna Tavis and Stela Lupushor
Publisher: Kogan Page
Price: £24.99
Scheduled for publication in March 2022, Tavis and Lupushor aim to give businesses guidance on the art and practice on creating a hybrid workforce. It looks at four aspects of the ‘new normal’: the digitisation of work, distributed workplaces, organisational redesign and changing workforce, giving case studies from start-ups and established companies.
How to Talk to Your Boss about Race
Author: Y-Vonne Hutchinson
Publisher: Portfolio Penguin
Price: £17.21
From D&I strategist Y-Vonne Hutchinson, How to Talk to Your Boss about Race is written as a toolkit for helping employees encourage anti-racist action from leadership. Described as a “crucial handbook to moving beyond fear,” Hutchinson advocates that anyone, no matter their level in an organisation, or what power they have, can create change.
Connectable
Authors: Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Price: £21.99
Is hybrid working making us lonelier? Steven Van Cohen and Ryan Jenkins tackle the issue of worker isolation in Connectable, revealing their method for identifying loneliness, how inclusion affects it, and steps that can be taken to increase belonging, engagement, and performance. The authors have included a practical four-step framework that readers can adopt to help others and themselves.
Deep Purpose
Author: Ranjay Gulati
Publisher: Penguin Business
Price: £20
Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati argues that purpose is now a business ‘must-have’ rather than a ‘nice-to-have’. Too often businesses conflate it with mission, vision or values. Learning from successful, purpose-oriented businesses such as Etsy, Lego and Microsoft, Gulati reveals the fatal mistakes leaders make when attempting to instil purpose, and explains how to embed it at a much deeper level.
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