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The Woman’s Workplace Survival Guide is a useful tool for both managers and employees. It teaches women how to develop strategies for solving both work-related and personal problems. Managers will learn about the various workplace issues and people problems they will have to manage. It is divided into four sections:

Surviving Coworkers gives profiles of typical problem people in the workplace—prima donnas, passive-aggressive coworkers, gossips, arrogant people, complainers, whiners, cynics, bullies, and others. You will learn how to recognize them and keep them from causing you to lose your momentum.

Surviving Bosses discusses the legal and psychological issues women face that involve employers and bosses. These are issues that have to be approached a little more sensitively. You will learn to get what you want by diplomatic means. If you want to negotiate a work / life balance arrangement, for example, don’t emphasize how such an arrangement will benefit you. Talk about how it will benefit the company. Employers want to hear what’s in it for them.

Surviving Yourself will help you to recognize the behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes that might be keeping you from fulfilling your potential. It can be difficult to step back and examine why you are unhappy in your career, but no one gets what they want by standing in place.

Your Ladder to Success is devoted to self-improvement. After focusing on how you got where you are now, it’s time to decide where you go from here. This section will give you the tools you need to figure out what you want out of your career and how you can get it.

Each chapter is divided into two sections. The first section outlines the problem and how people are affected by it. The second section offers solutions. No problem will be cured overnight. That’s why it is important to have long-term, realistic strategies that you can commit to.