Working Scared: Achieving Success in Trying Times

Wexley and Silverman, Ohio-based consultants in human resources, bring an informed view to their analysis of the workplace in today's troubled business environment. They discuss the changes: mergers, corporate downsizing, decreased supervision, the increased use of work teams or task forces, management driven by quality goals, new pay methods, employee ethnic diversity, a frequency of foreign assignments. While ably assisting employees at all levels in understanding how to accommodate such changes, the book should prove particularly instructive to managers introducing new practices to their subordinates. The authors' advice to really ``scared workers'' is limited, however, by not emphasizing enough that they would do well to investigate employment elsewhere while still holding a job. (Apr.)