Coping with Workplace Change : Dealing with Loss and Grief.

TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Common Myths -- Basic Principles -- PART I Understanding the Origin and Impact of Organizational Change -- REALITIES OF WORKPLACE CHANGE -- Statistics=People -- Change! -- THE HEARTBREAK OF MERGER AND REORGANIZATION -- Cases in Point -- CORPORATE EVOLUTION AND WORKPLACE CHANGE -- A Model for Understanding and Coping with Workplace Change, Loss and Grief -- 1. Volcanic Eruption -- 2. Workplace Change -- 3. Employee Loss -- 4. Grief Reaction -- 5. Grief Process -- 6. Healing/Growth -- PART II What You Need to Know About Grief -- WHY ALL LOSS IS DEATH-LIKE -- ATTACHMENT BONDING AND LOSS -- THREE CONDITIONS OF GRIEF -- UNDERSTANDING EMPLOYEES' FEELINGS -- Anger -- Pain -- Fear -- Guilt -- Shame -- GRIEF REACTIONS TO CHANGE-LOSS -- UNDERSTANDING ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS -- GRIEF REACTIONS AFFECT PRODUCTIVITY -- Review -- PART III The Process of Grief -- WHAT IS GRIEF? -- Grief: A Definition -- Different Tears for Different Folks -- 1. Personality and Past Loss History -- 2. Nature of the Current Loss -- 3. Support During the Grief Process -- THE POSITIVE EFFECT OF ANTICIPATORY GRIEF -- BOWLBY'S BASIC PHASES OF LOSS AND MOURNING -- Implications for the Workforce -- KÜBLER-ROSS STAGES OF LOSS -- Stage I-Denial -- Stage II-Anger -- Stage III-Bargaining -- Stage IV-Depression -- Stage V-Acceptance -- HOW THE OLD PAIN GOT THERE AND WHERE IT GOES -- The Unfinished Business Model -- 1. Developmental Loss -- 2. Breaking of Actual Bonds -- 3. Threat of Loss -- THE COST OF STORING OLD PAIN -- Review -- PART IV Helping Employees Cope with Workplace Change-Loss Grief -- UNDERSTANDING THE TASKS OF MOURNING -- Task I: Accepting the Reality of the Loss -- How to Help with Task I -- Task II: Reaching the Pain and Other Feelings of Grief -- How to Help with Task II.

Task III: Make the Needed Changes for a New Work Situation -- How to Help with Task III -- Task IV: Develop a New Group Identity and Make New Bonds -- How to Help with Task IV -- HELPING PEOPLE HEAL BY LISTENING -- Five Steps to Helpful Listening -- STEP 1 Show interest nonverbally. -- STEP 2 Show interest verbally. -- STEP 3 Open the conversational door. -- STEP 4 Rephrase the speaker's content. (Listen for meaning!) -- STEP 5 Say what the listener feels. (Listen for feeling!) -- Suggested Helpful Listening Responses -- HELPING AN EMPLOYEE IN A GRIEF REACTION -- General Suggestions -- What to Avoid -- QUICK TIPS FOR HELPING -- PREPARING FOR THE EFFECTS OF WORKPLACE CHANGE -- Ten Commandments for Organizations Coping with Workplace Change -- Review -- Suggested Half-Day Employee Grief Support Workshop -- WORKPLACE GRIEF: THE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES -- Review -- A FINAL STATEMENT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RECOMMENDED READING LIST.

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