Toxic Work

by Barbara Bailey Reinhold

Book Overview

Could the dramatic changes and burdensome responsibilities common to the business world these days literally be making you sick? Barbara Bailey Reinhold, director of career development and adjunct... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525938753
• ISBN13: 9780525938750
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Exelente ayuda para encaminar mi vida

En febrero del 2000 Toxic Work cayó milagrosamente en mis manos en el momento justo, cuando mi vida profesional como ingeniero en sistemas estaba provocándome problemas graves de salud. Gracias a Barbara y su libro pude tomar distancia y rediseñar mi vida profesional, familiar y personal. Pude crear un plan de acción para lograr alejarme de mi anterior profesión y re-crear mi existencia como instructor de buceo primero y propietario de un centro de buceo en una ciudad mediterranea, a más de 1000 kilómetros del mar más cercano. Y eso en el tiempo que Barbara garantizaba en su libro, 18 meses. El capítulo dedicado a diseñar un nuevo trabajo "Career Wish List Exercise" me resultó súmamente práctico, y gracias a lo sencillo del método pude armar una empresa totalmente nueva e inexistente hasta el momento en mi país, Argentina. Desde entonces he difundido e inspirado a mucha gente a animarse a tomar las riendas de sus vidas y re-nacer profesionalmente. Gracias Barbara

Extraordinary resource - Used as required text for courses

Toxic Work is a wonderful resource. I have used the book as a required text for both my graduate level Managment Training and Development and Human Resource Management courses. My students, without exception, rave about the content. Dr. Reinhold's humor and insight have provided me and over 100 of my students with a great set of career problem solving tools and a teriffic bibliography. I keep hoping that there will be a sequel ... perhaps Toxic Two. Keep them comming.

Work is Less Toxic Now

Toxic Work is the first reference book in the career section which has a bibliography worth reading. The book not only does all the work for you by collecting and organizing relevent resources, but provides a wealth of examples. The author doesn't give pat answers, but takes the reader through the problem-solving process. I found the book empowering because it provides the structure and information I needed to generate a successful game plan. I became proactive, and am happily employed at the same job that sent me to the book store looking for an escape.

Good starting point for disatisfied workers

TOXIC WORK is broken down into two sections. The first section is devoted to "Recognizing and Managing Toxic Work" while the second is devoted to "Making Major Changes: Designing a Nontoxic Life." Overall, the book surveys the major topics of career disatisfaction with an eye towards recognizing when such disatisfaction causes physical affects. It does not get very deep into possible solutions. Instead, the author prefers to continually recommend that anything more in-depth requires professional counselling. On the contrary, I kept feeling the book could have gone further and that it stopped just when things were getting juicy. I also felt that it was padded with a lot extra examples. Despite these flaws, I consider it to be a good tool to help anyone who is currently less that satisfied with their career. It covers such a broad range of issues that everyone should be able to come away from it with some positive ideas about what to do next an! d some new insights about themselves and their career.