Take This Job and Love It: A Personal Guide to Career Empowerment - Hardcover

Tracy, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070652546 ISBN 13: 9780070652545

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1994

Synopsis

Shows how to define job satisfaction problems and make choices that will improve the situation, and describes eight common career problems and how they can be solved

About this title

From Library Journal

Tracy approaches job dissatisfaction as a problem of codependency, requiring change on the part of the employee. While not actually using the term codependent , she employs many of the slogans and principles of the 12-step movement. The bibliography contains several titles by popular writers of the "recovery" movement, including Melody Beattie and John Bradshaw. Generally, Tracy's advice is sound: employees often have unreal expectations of their jobs or their employers, and they often fail to look to themselves as the real cause of their own frustration and unhappiness. Tracy, a communications consultant, does a competent job of telling how to let go of these expectations and assume responsibility for one's own career. Her case histories are based on examples of managerial workers. Abounding in checklists, this book is written in a popular style that makes for quick reading. Most career employees will recognize themselves somewhere in these pages. For public libraries.
- Sue McKimm, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"Tells how employees can regain power and satisfaction by negotiating new terms within the structure of an existing job" -- The Bookwatch, 04/94

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0070652546
• ISBN 13: 9780070652545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 175