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For many years, there has been quite a bit of talk about employee engagement as a means to lift corporate profits and reduce absenteeism and turnover. However, this talk has not produced better companies. In fact, the evidence shows that incivility and instances of employee abuse are getting worse. Additionally, with profit as the primary goal of organizations, most employees view any benign treatment they receive as a secondary convenience that will dissipate once corporate fortunes decline. That is, many employees still believe they are expendable in the eyes of their employers. This book turns that equation around by examining the practices of twenty-one companies that put the interests and needs of employees first. Profits are necessary but insufficient for corporate health. The companies featured in this book see it as their mission to offer people a better, more fulfilling life for themselves, and assist with that holistic journey by providing the organizational elements people need to reach their potential. They do this first by creating respectful and kind cultures that treat every person as an equal, sentient partner in the success of the company. Second, they diligently work to satisfy people's basic needs: financial security, belonging, meaning, autonomy, self-acceptance, self-confidence, and growth. The result is a web of fellow-feeling: earnest affection among people who feverishly work to live up to both the high standards of the institution and their obligations to one another. By providing a place where people can do their best work and thrive as individuals and as members of a cohesive community, everyone profits.

Personnel management --- Quality of work life. --- Psychological aspects. --- Basic needs. --- autonomy. --- belonging. --- civility. --- efficacy. --- growth. --- kindness. --- leadership. --- meaning. --- self-esteem.

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Thematology --- Spanish language --- Sociolinguistics --- Sociology of culture --- Courtesy --- Etiquette --- Ceremonies --- Condolence, Etiquette of --- Manners --- Politeness --- Usages --- Conduct of life --- Manners and customs --- Civility --- Courteous behavior --- Courteousness --- Discourteous behavior --- Discourteousness --- Graciousness --- Impoliteness --- Polite behavior --- Rudeness --- Ungraciousness

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"This first in-depth study of women's politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women's autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities, and women's possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity"--

Women --- Courtesy --- Social conditions --- History --- England --- Social life and customs --- Civility --- Courteous behavior --- Courteousness --- Discourteous behavior --- Discourteousness --- Graciousness --- Impoliteness --- Manners --- Polite behavior --- Politeness --- Rudeness --- Ungraciousness --- Etiquette --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity

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Pragmatic and sociolinguistic analyses of im/politeness have usually been dependent on context and cultural frames of reference. This new study approaches the concept from an original perspective, namely situatedness. Although politeness research often concentrates on examining how speeches or discourses themselves are situated with regards to different places and contexts, the focus on just one situation, and various text types within it, can also be of value. Situated Politeness is concerned with disentangling the factors which govern our behaviour within a given social context as well as ac

Politeness (Linguistics) --- Courtesy. --- Etiquette. --- Ceremonies --- Condolence, Etiquette of --- Manners --- Politeness --- Usages --- Conduct of life --- Manners and customs --- Civility --- Courteous behavior --- Courteousness --- Discourteous behavior --- Discourteousness --- Graciousness --- Impoliteness --- Polite behavior --- Rudeness --- Ungraciousness --- Etiquette --- Courtesy (Linguistics) --- Linguistics

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Taking an up-to-date and truly global approach, this volume presents a wide range of phenomena in politeness research, and discusses key developments in the field. Covering eight major world languages as well as several language varieties, a team of leading scholars provide a multilingual and multicultural perspective on various speech acts and emic conceptualisations of politeness, and a diachronic view of the field. Most significantly, the volume focuses on the latest trends in the field, such as metapragmatic approaches to im/politeness, politeness and globalization, politeness in computer mediated communication, and politeness and prosody, spanning a wide range of methodologies and types of data, including naturally occurring conversations, role plays, email messages, social media, online discussion forums, ethnographic interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, experiments and language corpora.

Politeness (Linguistics) --- Courtesy. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Civility --- Courteous behavior --- Courteousness --- Discourteous behavior --- Discourteousness --- Graciousness --- Impoliteness --- Manners --- Polite behavior --- Politeness --- Rudeness --- Ungraciousness --- Etiquette --- Courtesy (Linguistics) --- Philosophy