Conflict management for libraries : strategies for a positive, productive workplace /

Montgomery, Jack G.

Conflict management for libraries : strategies for a positive, productive workplace / Jack G. Montgomery and Eleanor I. Cook ; with contributions from Pat Wagner and Glenda Hubbard - Chicago, ILL. : American Library Association, 2005 - xii, 207p. ; 23cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

When you go to work, you bring more than your lunch from home -- How to identify the actors in the play : all the world's a stage -- The role of unions -- The specter and reality of workplace violence -- The internal candidate -- But she's had such a hard life -- It is obvious we do not matter -- I don't have to listen to this! -- Love in the afternoon -- She's making me feel strange! -- Useless, totally useless! -- Let me do my job! -- What is taking those people so long? -- I've got a great idea for you! -- I'd really like to help Donnie -- This place is a zoo! -- The problem with Eddie -- Totally incompatible? -- Is it really all that important? -- Thou shalt not suffer -- It's happening again -- Developing emotional intelligence : a place to begin -- Planning for, not denial of workplace conflict -- Examining your organizational culture -- Leadership : so much more than management

083890890X (pbk.) : RM156.40

2004-030722


Library personnel management
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