Office Administration

"The Drama-Free Workplace is a hands-on guide filled with proven strategies and guidance for creating and sustaining a cohesive, collaborative workplace culture that enables widespread innovation, increases productivity, and greater revenue." - Publisher

"The modern working world is a dangerous place, where game-playing, duplicity and sheer malevolence are rife. Do talent and hard work count for nothing? Is politics everything? In this expose, the author reveals the murky underside of modern office life. It can overthrow your perceptions of office life and set you on a new path to success." - Publisher

"In her new book, Dr. Jody Foster explains the entire spectrum of schmucks, how they can decrease productivity, and generally make everyone else unhappy. After delineating the various types of schmucks, she looks at personality traits and explains how interactions among coworkers can become maladaptive leading to workplace disasters. She helps readers understand the schmuck as a person, figure out how to help him or her, and effect a positive solution." - Publisher

"While there are myriad books on female friendship in the marketplace, Toxic Femininity is the first book on the special relationship between female coworkers and gender dynamics in the workplace to hit the market in a comedic gifty way." - Publisher

"Beyond the Workplace Zoo offers high-level pragmatic guidance on office design that meets innate human needs, drawing on psychology theory and research, and resulting in workplaces that enhance wellbeing and performance thus enabling the occupants to thrive rather than simply survive." - Publisher

"Office design has changed significantly over the last few years and is now one of the most innovative areas of interior design.It used to be the case that only the public spaces of an office were creatively designed, but increasingly the staff areas are seen as key reflections of the company brand as well. In more radical offices, there is also a growing belief in the importance of work areas as social spaces and a blurring of the distinction between work and recreation.This book explores in detail 42 of the best recent office design schemes, featuring projects from leading architects from around the world." - Publisher

"Life of Work: What Office Design Can Learn From the World Around Us sets out to make the twenty-first century workplace a more dynamic, engaging, colourful, flexible and inclusive place. Jeremy Myerson and Imogen Privett, from the Royal College of Art in London, looked in some unlikely places for ideas and inspiration--the academic library, theatre design, pop up events in the city and intensive team environments in air traffic control, emergency medical departments and the newsroom. Working from the position that, whilst the design of most contemporary offices satisfies physical and functional requirements, it seldom supports the psychological comfort and individual needs of the people who use them every working day, Life of Work offers an agenda for change that has significant implications for every level of workplace design and implementation." - Publisher

"This new edition aims to provide practical advice on how to create, develop, or improve office environments so that those individuals who work within them can do so comfortably and contently. Those environments include traditional purpose built offices, home offices, vehicle interiors, or transient environments like train stations, hotels, and airports." - Publisher

"This complete learning package is used to train dental assistants in a wide variety of settings - from traditional classroom programs to on-the-job training to use as a review tool for practitioners - to become competent administrative assistants in a dental office. As it guides you through the functions of today's dental business office, you will learn how to organize tasks, complete procedures, and acquire a professional outlook toward dentistry along the way." - Publisher

"With the world of work profoundly disrupted by artificial intelligence, machine learning and COVID-19, the role of the executive assistant is changed forever. Learn how to respond to these challenges and help create 'the better normal' while developing the leadership skills necessary to thrive in a senior administrative position." - Publisher

"This complete guide to veterinary office management covers front office skills, clinical assisting tasks, critical core competencies as outlined by the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association, and pet health insurance and wellness plans." - Publisher

"Prepare for workplace success! This proven guide will help you hone the technical skills you need for an entry-level position in an office setting, including use of email and the Internet, integrated applications and office suites, and the latest technology tools. You''ll also learn important soft skills that today's employers value, such as customer satisfaction, ethics, and telephone manners, as well as information systems and the global marketplace." - Publisher

"Written in a clear, engaging style, Plunkett's Procedures for the Medical Administrative Assistant, 5th Edition provides instruction for all the essential office procedures required by today's medical office administrative assistants in Canada - whether they work in a medical office, a complementary care office, or in a hospital setting. It contains the most current information available in the field, and specifically reflects health care in Canada." - Publisher

"Technology in the Law Office is a thorough and up-to-date guide to navigating the constantly changing technology used in the modern-day legal world. Exploring recent phenomenon such as the switch to Apple-based software and paperless offices, this text is the timeliest reference for students, paralegals, and law office workers in regards to law software and technology." - Publisher

"Retaining its logical organization, body systems approach, and focus on word parts, word building, and word analysis; this 4th Edition of A Short Course in Medical Terminology reflects current medical usage and is now even more concise, student-friendly, and accessible. This edition features an enhanced art and design program, a more standardized chapter structure, and a vast array of in-text and online learning resources that help students master the language of medicine as they prepare for practice in today's rapidly changing healthcare environment." - Publisher

The title kinda says it all.