The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace
Author: Gary Chapman
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0802497314

OVER 600,000 COPIES SOLD! Based on the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages® (over 20 million copies sold) Dramatically improve workplace relationships simply by learning your coworkers’ language of appreciation. This book will give you the tools to create a more positive workplace, increase employee engagement, and reduce staff turnover. How? By teaching you to effectively communicate authentic appreciation and encouragement to employees, co-workers, and leaders. Most relational problems in organizations flow from this question: do people feel appreciated? This book will help you answer “Yes!” A bestseller—having sold over 600,000 copies and translated into 24 languages—this book has proven to be effective and valuable in diverse settings. Its principles about human behavior have helped businesses, non-profits, hospitals, schools, government agencies, and organizations with remote workers. PLUS! Each book contains a free access code for taking the online Motivating By Appreciation (MBA) Inventory (does not apply to purchases of used books). The assessment identifies a person’s preferred languages of appreciation to help you apply the book. When supervisors and colleagues understand their coworkers’ primary and secondary languages, as well as the specific actions they desire, they can effectively communicate authentic appreciation, thus creating healthy work relationships and raising the level of performance across an entire team or organization. **(Please contact [email protected] if you purchased your book new and the access code is denied.) Take your team to the next level by applying The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace.

The Language of Work

The Language of Work
Author: Almut Koester
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415307291

The Language of Work examines language use in business and the workplace, representations of work and how people in business interact. Includes many real-world examples and a section on entering the world of work.

The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace

The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace
Author: Bernadette Vine
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2017-08-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317425804

The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace provides a comprehensive survey of linguistic research on language in the workplace written by top scholars in the field from around the world. The Handbook covers theoretical and methodological approaches, explores research in different types of workplace settings, and examines some key areas of workplace talk that have been investigated by workplace researchers. Issues of identity have become a major focus in recent workplace research and the Handbook highlights some core issues of relevance in this area, such as gender, leadership, and intercultural communication. As the field has developed, applications of workplace research for both native and non-native speakers have emerged. Insights can inform and improve input from practitioners training workers in a range of fields and across a variety of contexts, and the Handbook foregrounds some of the ways workplace research can do this. This is an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students interested in learning more about workplace discourse.

How Languages Work

How Languages Work
Author: Carol Genetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2014-01-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107782570

A new and exciting introduction to linguistics, this textbook presents language in all its amazing complexity, while guiding students gently through the basics. Students emerge with an appreciation of the diversity of the world's languages, as well as a deeper understanding of the structure of human language, the ways it is used, and its broader social and cultural context. Chapters introducing the nuts and bolts of language study (phonology, syntax, meaning) are combined with those on the 'functions' of language (discourse, prosody, pragmatics, and language contact), helping students gain a better grasp of how language works in the real world. A rich set of language 'profiles' help students explore the world's linguistic diversity, identify similarities and differences between languages, and encourages them to apply concepts from earlier chapter material. A range of carefully designed pedagogical features encourage student engagement, adopting a step-by-step approach and using study questions and case studies.

Language in Business, Language at Work

Language in Business, Language at Work
Author: Erika Darics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 135030798X

Packed with contemporary examples from the business world, this is an exciting and engaging text which explains how language works in business, how to analyse it and how to use it in an informed and creative way. The book is split into three parts, which look at business communication from corporate, management and employee perspectives. Wide-ranging in nature, it explores a variety of topics ranging from stakeholder communication and brand narratives to managing conflict and self-branding. Each chapter contains ample opportunity for readers to put new skills into practice, while case studies act as springboards for further discussion. This is essential reading for students of both language and business-related disciplines, both during and beyond their studies. It is also an indispensable resource for teachers of business communication.

Language and Culture at Work

Language and Culture at Work
Author: Stephanie Schnurr
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2017-01-20
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134892314

This book provides an overview of the complex role that culture plays in workplace contexts. In eight chapters, the authors cover the core aspects of culture at work from making decisions and negotiating power to gender and identity. Drawing on insights from a range of studies, they propose a new integrated framework for researching culture at work from a sociolinguistic perspective, and they apply it to the significant corpus of authentic workplace data they have collected from numerous settings in the UK, Hong Kong and New Zealand. This is key reading for researchers and recommended for advanced students of workplace and intercultural communication, sociolinguistics and discourse studies.

Body Language in the Work Place

Body Language in the Work Place
Author: Allan Pease
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Body language
ISBN: 9788183222471

Clinch that deal or interview. Give the perfect presentation. Decipher and use international body language. Understand eye contact. Clarify confusing gender signals. From negotiating the office party to the best way to arrange your office furniture, Body Language in the Work Place will help you to identify and correct the body language that's letting you down.

Language at Work

Language at Work
Author: Keith Devlin
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1996-09-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781575860503

People are very creative in their use of language. This observation was made convincingly by Chomsky in the 1950s and is generally accepted in the scientific communities concerned with the study of language. Computers, on the other hand, are neither creative, flexible, nor adaptable. This is in spite of the fact that their ability to process language is based largely on the grammars developed by linguists and computer scientists. Thus, there is a mismatch between the observed human creativity and our ability as theorists to explain it. Language at Work examines grammars and other descriptions of language by combining the scientific and the practical. The scientific motivation is to unite distinct intellectual traditions, mathematics and descriptive social science, which have tried to provide an adequate explanation of language and its use on their own to no avail. This volume argues that Situation Theory, a theory of information couched in mathematics, has provided a uniform framework for the investigation of the creative aspects of language use. The application of Situation Theory in the study of language use in everyday communication to improve human/computer interaction is explored and espoused.

Language and Intercultural Communication in the Workplace

Language and Intercultural Communication in the Workplace
Author: Hans J. Ladegaard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1315468158

From language classrooms to outdoor markets, the workplace is fundamental to socialisation. It is not only a site of employment where money is made and institutional roles are enacted through various forms of discourse; it is also a location where people engage in social actions and practices. The workplace is an interesting research site because of advances in communication technology, cheaper and greater options for travel, and global migration and immigration. Work now requires people to travel over great geographical distances, communicate with cultural ‘others’ located in different time zones, relocate to different regions or countries, and conduct business in online settings. The workplace is thus changing and evolving, creating new and emerging communicative contexts. This volume provides a greater understanding of workplace cultures, particularly the ways in which working in highly interconnected and multicultural societies shape language and intercultural communication. The chapters focus on critical approaches to theory and practice, in particular how practice is used to shape theory. They also question the validity and universality of existing models. Some of the predominant models in intercultural communication have been criticised for being Eurocentric or Anglocentric, and this volume proposes alternative frameworks for analysing intercultural communication in the workplace. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication.