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Toxic Work [Mass Market Paperback]

Barbara Reinhold (Author)
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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 professor of psychology at Smith College, believes factors ranging from ever-escalating workloads to the constant threat of downsizing may actually be poisoning employment environments and causing us to fall ill. In Toxic Work: How to Overcome Stress, Overload, and Burnout and Revitalize Your Career, she cites examples of those who have "detoxified" their workplaces in order to help readers make their own 9-to-5 lives healthier and more productive.

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This targeted, practical manual gets down to brass tacks from its opening sentence: "An estimated twenty million Americans are staying in jobs they hate in order to keep their health insurance-when research indicates that career dissatisfaction is more likely than anything else to make them need to use it." Reinhold, a business consultant as well as director of career development and adjunct professor of psychology at Smith College, points out that there are plenty of good reasons for dissatisfaction in today's work force. Having begun by taking employee complaints at face value, she proceeds to offer concrete, sensible suggestions for alleviating them. While citing cases of work-induced health problems ranging from bronchitis to overweight, she illustrates how there is hope for even the most beleaguered worker in today's high-pressure business environment. What is most important, she stresses, is to identify what is really bugging you-whether it's anxiety, anger or lack of self-confidence-then take steps to allay those feelings and regain a sense of control over your life. To these ends she offers a variety of probing self-tests, illuminating case histories and sequenced, focused suggestions for transforming workplace problems into opportunities for growth. Footnotes and an extensive bibliography add to the riches. BOMC, Money Book Club and QPB featured alternate.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars An Insightful Book, Feb 20 2002
This review is from: Toxic Work (Mass Market Paperback)
The Author definitely has a deep understanding of the negative effects that work can have on your health. I particularly liked the idea of thinking of your career as a collage rather than a photo (i.e., designing a composite career).

I was distracted by all the feminist references. For example, "Bobbie" feels she has disappointed her family because they expected a boy. The Author explains that women are treated like second class citizens despite being "better students and more productive employees than men" and that women have been told all their lives that they are "less valued and valuable than their brothers". The book also tells the sad tale of "Marianne", a closeted lesbian, and her "homophobic VP".

All of that may be true, but it doesn't relate to the topic of overcoming burnout and revitalizing your career. The book was useful, but would have been better if the Author had stayed on-topic.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary resource - Used as required text for courses, Mar 1 2001
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Donna A. Maimes (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Work is Less Toxic Now, Feb 29 2000
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Geoff (Marlborough, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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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.
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