Decoding the Workplace: 50 Keys to Understanding People in Organizations - Softcover

Ballard, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1968919465 ISBN 13: 9781968919467

Publisher: Armin Lear Press, 2026

Synopsis

"This book is a Key - to understanding and thriving in the workplace, a must for anyone working in, managing, or leading an organization. I have yet to come across any book that explains how the workplace actually works in such an effective and clear manner."   

Fred Stuvek, Jr.  Author, It Starts With You: Turn Your Goals Into Success 

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Whether you work in a physical workplace or virtual, in an office or at home, Decoding the Workplace, 2^nd edition, can help you up your game. This book will increase your awareness of information around you, your own performance, power dynamics, relationships, and so much more. It will help you see more deeply into your work.

Decoding the Workplace contains over 100 stories that illustrate insights based on evidence and decades of research about people and organizations.

It is easy to read and delivers real-life stories you can relate to.

Find answers to questions about work such as:

• What questions should you ask yourself about your boss?
• What do people do when they feel they are being treated unfairly?
• What factors most affect job satisfaction?
• How can informal systems affect your success-or failure?
• Why are others' perceptions of your performance often more important than your actual performance?
• How can group norms make or break opportunities and careers?
• Why is there sometimes too much stress from work? What can be done?
• How does organizational culture profoundly affect your workplace?
• Could a person be stereotyping others and not know it?
• When are "teams" not teams?
• How to understand power and ways to develop your personal power

John Ballard, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Management at Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincy Magazine named him one of Cincinnati's Outstanding Educators. Visit decodingtheworkplace.com for more.

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About the Author

JOHN BALLARD, PH.D., is emeritus professor of management at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, during his Air Force career Ballard reinvented Air Force management consulting, resolved major operational issues, and saved U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars. He retired from the Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel. Dr. Ballard earned a master's degree at the University of Southern Mississippi and completed his doctoral studies at Purdue University. He began his academic career at the Air Force Institute of Technology, the graduate school of the U.S. Air Force, where he was named Outstanding Professor of the Year. He has served on the management faculty at Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, and Miami University of Ohio, and taught as part of Central Michigan University's Global Campus. At Mount St. Joseph, he was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award. Cincy Magazine honored him as one of Cincinnati's top educators. Serving on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Learning & Education, the top journal in management education, he was recognized with an Editorial Board Outstanding Reviewer Award. The first edition of Decoding the Workplace was honored as best Career book at the 2016 Next Generation Book Awards. Dr. Ballard shares practical implications of academic research through his blog at psychologytoday.com. Dr. Ballard is married to Emily, his seventh grade sweetheart. An amateur astronomer, he enjoys the art of Bernard Gantner, the plays of Tom Stoppard, and the music of the Irish band U2.

Edition details

• Publisher: Armin Lear Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1968919465
• ISBN 13: 9781968919467
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 236