Financial Accounting Books: People Skills for Project Managers or Bisesi and Kohns Industrial Hygiene Evaluation Methods

People Skills for Project Managers

Author: Ginger Levin

New! The First-Ever Practical Guide to the People Skills You Need to Be a Successful Project Manager!

For many project managers, handling people problems is the most challenging part of the job. No matter how great a team's technical expertise, interpersonal conflict and problem behavior can cause stress - and even cause a project to fail. This timely handbook is the first to focus squarely on the people skills you need to manage a project successfully.

People Skills for Project Managers is filled with methods and tools for handling people problems that involve communication, motivation, performance, behavior, crisis, and much more. Practical and relevant, this dynamic resource is filled with real-life scenarios, followed by concrete approaches and solutions that are supported by the latest research.

Use this book as a primer to learn a new skill set that's highly valued by companies today. Or keep it on hand as a quick reference for on-the-spot help when you encounter a problem. Either way, People Skills for Project Managers is a must-have resource for strong, effective project leadership. With this complete guide to dealing with problems that surface within the project team, you'll learn how to:

Apply new, tangible skills for managing people problems.
Help team members improve interpersonal communications.
Foster the dynamics and behaviors that make a successful team.
Apply a process for conflict resolution.
Motivate team members who have different personal styles.
Deal with team members with a performance problem.
Handle a critical incident that strikes the project team.

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Bisesi and Kohn's Industrial Hygiene Evaluation Methods

Author: Michael S Bisesi

Professionals and students in the field of industrial hygiene need a concise guide that thoroughly covers the practical methods of evaluating health threats in the workplace. Bisesi and Kohn's Industrial Hygiene Evaluation Methods, Second Edition introduces basic methods for evaluating work and some non-work environments in order to detect and measure physical, chemical and biological agents, as well as hazardous ergonomic factors. The book is divided into relatively short units that provide concise overviews and descriptions of basic concepts. Each unit is followed by practical technical exercises. These exercises foster the understanding of basic industrial hygiene principles and practices for collection, detection, identification, calculation, and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data. Exercises can be conducted in a setting in which agents and other factors are detectable and measurable. Alternatively, the simulated evaluation exercises that are included can be conducted in a classroom or laboratory. This book is an introductory reference for environmental and occupational health and safety students and practitioners. It is an indispensable tool that illustrates methods fundamental to industrial hygiene practice, and is just as valuable in the professional's office as it is in the classroom.

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Reviewer: J. Thomas Pierce, MB.BS, PhD (Navy Environmental Health Center)
Description: This is a popular and practical textbook that allows industrial hygiene students and other scientists to perform basic measurements. It covers sampling, monitoring, and evaluation techniques that can be used to identify physical, chemical, and biological risks in the workplace as well as important ergonomic factors. The book contains 27 chapters or units and three appendixes covering sampling strategies, reports, and case study answers. Due to the untimely death of James P. Kohn, Michael S. Bisesi, is the surviving author.
Purpose: This is an introductory reference for environmental and occupational health and safety students and practitioners. It is as useful as a laboratory manual as it is as a textbook. Both editions have arisen from the authors' teaching notes and handouts. Many of the protocols derive from those contained in field operation manuals. Such manuals are often overwhelming in their complexity, necessitating this book.
Audience: This author indicates the book is intended for novice safety and health students and practitioners. This book will serve as a standard of practice for students and others being introduced to industrial hygiene sampling. The authors are established experts in the field.
Features: The second edition adds new information on industrial hygiene sampling strategies and statistical analyses, and provides links and additional references. The forms section should prove particularly useful to the practitioners who read or reference this book. Future editions would profit from an electronic media version of at least the forms and maybe additional material derived from this important book.
Assessment: This book will occupy shelves along with other accepted references in industrial hygiene. It could be argued that the quality assurance information should be integrated into the units or chapters, but this is minor. I would like to see a slightly more detailed discussion of sample processing through stages of sampling, preparative steps leading to analysis and then appropriate data treatment. Evaluation ultimately depends upon all of these steps. Given the breadth of the occupational and environmental hygiene disciplines, this second edition will be extensively referenced and read.