Bøker av Angela Jackson

Do you want the key to driving equity and skyrocketing profits? It’s simple: hand over control to your workers.Discover 9 strategies to create better, healthier workplaces, grounded in evidence-based research.This revolutionary guide aims to revolutionize the workplace for justice, equity, and profitability by handing the reins over to the real drivers of success: the workers.Based on research from over 1,200 companies, including WalMart, Google, and JPMorgan Chase, this book follows real-world cases from companies where employees evolved from silent contributors to masterminds steering corporate strategies. These cases are the vanguard of a vibrant era in which workers will be the architects of their destinies, shaping not just their own careers but the entire trajectories of their organizations. Her work has quantified the financial impact investing in people can have on an organization—the first reliable calculation in the literature of talent retention. From this research, 9 key strategies emerged:Centering employee voicesMutualistic working relationshipsIntersectional inclusion strategiesReimaging employee benefitsFrontline leader driven strategiesHire STARSDevelop deep talent benchesHuman capital reporting as a competitive strategyDistributed leadershipThis book goes deeper to show how these strategies are working in the real-world today. When workers have stakes, everyone scores: businesses surge, and teams ride a high they've never felt before. This is a win-win proposition: both management and labor win when you put people first.

The controversial new novel from the winner of the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award

Judy Taylor married the first man who asked her. She lives in the neighbourhood where she spent her uneventful childhood. She still has the same friends she first met in primary school. But everything she once knew is about to be turned upside down.Judy might be ready to start a new life in vibrant Edinburgh, if she's prepared to accept what it means to change. First she has to ask herself if it's ever too late to make up for lost time.The Emergence of Judy Taylor is a story about first loves and second chances. It's about love and life and sex and starlings. It's about Judy and Oliver and Paul and Fabiana and Rob and Min and Lily and Harry and a French siren called Isabella.

Through oral and written narratives, this volume examines the interaction between women and the war in Spain, their motivation, the distinctive form of their involvment, and the effect of the war on their individual lives. These themes are related to wider issues.