The Accidental Office Lady

Author : Laura Kriska
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462900143
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accidental Office Lady written by Laura Kriska and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman with a new degree in Japanese studies and plenty of youthful idealism and can-do spirit accepts a job as the first American trainee at Honda's headquarters in Tokyo. Her image of Japanese corporate life is dramatically challenged on her first day at work when she is issued a blue polyester uniform—a uniform worn only by women! From menial beginnings serving tea to executives and cleaning the boss's desk, to a stint in public relations, to developing training classes for Japanese associates going to America, Laura Kriska recounts her struggle to adapt to—and ultimately thrive in—the culture of a traditional Japanese company. Shortly before her departure, she travels full circle by introducing a successful campaign to make women's uniforms optional. Now with a new foreword by the author, The Accidental Office Lady is a vivid and valuable firsthand account not only of corporate Japan and the gender inequality that persists within it, but of an outsider's successful attempt to work within cultural boundaries to affect organizational change.

Author : Laura Kriska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Office Lady written by Laura Kriska and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Kriska
Publisher : HarperCollins Leadership
ISBN 13 : 1400216818
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of We written by Laura Kriska and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how this leader-focused approach to understanding, managing, and maximizing organizational diversity and inclusion can increase employee retention and productivity. Workplace misunderstandings lead to lost revenue, lost time, and increased legal risk, thus your success in the marketplace will depend on our ability to collaborate across difference. Yet, inevitably, Us versus Them gaps disrupt workplace efficiency. In The Business of WE, cross-cultural consultant and diversity expert Laura Kriska will: Provide a practical roadmap for creating trust with others who are culturally different from yourself Help you create a WE mindset throughout your organization, bringing teams together into cohesive units. Walk you through the steps in fostering a workplace that is inclusive and respectful of all employees—one of the most critical, yet most widely mismanaged keys to success. Stakeholders are demanding real change, and nothing less than comprehensive solutions that lead to meaningful and lasting solutions will suffice. The Business of WE arrives just in time to help you stop Us versus Them gaps before they start and foster authentic connections across race, ethnicity, religion, age, and any other factor of identity to exponentially strengthen your entire organization.

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 110188410X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accidental Heroes written by Danielle Steel and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel—a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco—one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous—perhaps ominous—message. Her supervisor dismisses her concerns, but Bernice calls security and soon Ben Waterman arrives. A senior Homeland Security agent, still grappling with guilt after a disastrous operation in which hostages were killed, Ben too becomes suspicious. Who left the postcard behind, which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean? As Ben scans the passenger manifests, his focus turns to the A321, with Helen Smith as its senior pilot. Helen’s military service and her tenure with the airline have been exemplary. But her husband’s savage death in Iraq was more than anyone should bear, leaving her widowed with three children. A major film star is on board. So is an off-duty pilot who has just lost his forty-year career. So is a distraught father, traveling with the baby son he has abducted from his estranged wife. Sifting through data and relying on instinct, Ben becomes convinced that someone on Helen’s plane is planning something terrible. And he’s right. Passengers, crew, and experts on the ground become heroes out of necessity to try to avert tragedy at the eleventh hour. In her stunning novel, Danielle Steel combines intense action with stories of emotionally rich, intertwined lives. As the jet bears down on its destination of San Francisco, strangers are united, desperate choices are made, and futures will be changed forever by a handful of accidental heroes.

Author : Fred R. Schumann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981103608X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Trends in Japan's Employment and Leisure Activities written by Fred R. Schumann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews employment and leisure trends in Japan from the post-war era to the present. In addition, it also examines how these trends will affect tourism destinations and businesses that rely heavily on Japanese overseas tourism. Topics that are of particular interest to readers include the most current Japanese employment and leisure data and how the data compares with the earlier, postwar era that made up the boom-years of Japanese overseas travel. The latest data provides insight into how today’s working and living conditions in Japan impact overseas travel expenditures today. Readers, ranging from academics to business practitioners, will benefit from the book that provides the latest information that can be used in a practical manner to assist tourism-related businesses and organizations meet the current and future needs of the Japan overseas travel market.

Author : Kerry Kriseman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940300467
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accidental First Lady written by Kerry Kriseman and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Sunday evening, a friend asked if he could stop by. Over a bottle of wine - I don't remember if it was red or white - he suggested that my husband, Rick Kriseman, should run for the St. Petersburg City Council. That conversation changed the course of our lives. Six years on the City Council led to six years in the state House of Representatives and then two four-year terms as mayor of Florida's fifth largest city. That conversation let to eight elections and 22 years in public life for Rick - and for me, the accidental first lady of St. Petersburg, a life on the front lines and behind the scenes of local politics.

Author : Richard Chalfen
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648892590
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snapping and Wrapping: Personal Photography in Japan written by Richard Chalfen and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Snapping and Wrapping' represents an original study in Japanese visual culture, pictorial communication, and photographic studies. Vernacular visual culture is highlighted, stressing ordinary people and everyday life to explore photographic expressions of Japanese family life. The theme of “how people looked” is described from two closely related perspectives: how people appeared in their own photographs, and how people looked at specific features of their own lives with analog camera technology. The book includes unexamined material based on a qualitative study involving personal fieldwork undertaken between 1993 and 2009. The metaphor of “wrapping culture” (Hendry) is suggested for ways of interpreting relationships of personal family photographs in conjunction with acknowledged cultural influences and values of Japanese culture. Across an introduction and six chapters, the book covers a series of research topics evoked by efforts to recover, repair, and return millions of photographs to survivors following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Memory, privacy and kinds of information control are reviewed as parts of strategies of sharing pictures, “presence” and the use of photographs for interpersonal interaction and communication. Throughout the monograph, emphasis is placed on understanding details of analog personal photography for potential comparisons to the intensely popular digitalization of photographic recordings and, in turn, facilitate making informed speculations for future photographic practice. This book will be of interest to upper-level students, graduate students and scholars in the fields of media and culture, Asian Studies (especially Japanese visual culture), as well as those working on sensitive relationships of family, memory and representation.

Author : Kenneth L Fearnley
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 132649225X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Assassin written by Kenneth L Fearnley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lives are a fraught with accidents. The Dictionary defines an accident as a noun; "an accident is undesirable or an unfortunate happening. An unintentional happening that most commonly results in harm, casualty or loss. Accidental is an adjective described as; happening by chance, or accident, or an event not planned." Every day we experience an accident, with luck the event is minor. David Black found himself the object of a number of accidental happenings, some of his own making. What he needed was an actual event of his own making to appear as an accident, little did he know what the outcome would be? Detective Inspector Les Steele is involved in three incidents involving two accidental deaths and two suicides. Are they accidents? Only his perseverance and intelligence will provide the answer. He is sidetracked when a murder takes place that is neither an accident nor accidental. The Detective Inspector is given the task of solving all four cases. Will the Assassin escape the long arm of the law?

Author : Rick Detorie
Publisher : Egmont USA
ISBN 13 : 1606842447
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Genius of Weasel High written by Rick Detorie and published by Egmont USA. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for the Wimpy Kid who has grown into a Wimpy Teen Larkin Pace desperately wants a new camcorder. How else is he going to become the next great filmmaker? But his dad won’t give him any money, his sister is determined to make his life miserable, and his nemesis Dalton Cooke is trying to steal his girlfriend. Now this height-challenged aspiring director must chronicle his wacky life for a freshman English assignment.

Author : Celeste Heiter
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 9780971594005
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ganbatte Means Go for It! written by Celeste Heiter and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step by step guide to researching the market, getting a job, moving to Japan and succeeding as an English teacher abroad. Includes the popular ODo You Have What It TakesO questionnaire.