Conflicts happen, and the workplace can be a cacophony for competing interests. Consider that organizational culture is an ensemble of shared values, beliefs, assumptions, perceptions, and norms. Organizations are not solos. They are an accompaniment of individuals, departments, and divisions, and each is competing for scarce resources. Measure in a little power imbalance and organizational political posturing. Then, scale in the fact that today’s managers are faced with diversity and cultural issues ranging from race and gender to individual ethnicity, principles, and philosophies, about which employees are more vocal. All this discord can strike a sharp note of dissonance. However, effective resolutions can change this discord to harmony. Consider that music is not a single note. Rather, it is the silence between the notes that makes beautiful music, and conflict is that silence. Unfortunately, conflict has a bad reputation, and it is often labeled as disagreement, fighting, or arguing that leads to stress, retaliation, and resentment. Some managers spend a disproportionate amount of their workdays dealing with conflicts. They have not learned what causes conflicts or how to productively manage them. As a result, they often avoid or force outcomes causing discord, fractured relationships, loss of productivity, and even lawsuits. Learning to fine tune inevitable conflicts will help managers orchestrate a more harmonious workplace. From Discord to Harmony: Making the Workplace Hum is largely evidence-based, and many of the chapters contain cutting-edge research by experts in their respective fields.

Sheriff Cletus Haley knows that nothing unusual ever happens in his little town of Harmony until that fateful morning in 1937 when unusual things begin to happen. A series of thefts begins to unnerve the town and frustrate the sheriff. But when a tin of arsenic powder is stolen from the towns doctor, Sheriff Haley realizes that much more might be at stake. And after the hooligan son of the towns most prominent family suddenly disappears, Sheriff Haley must figure out exactly what is going on in his town before the forces of man and nature come together to rend it asunder.

Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the complex development of Russian musical life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the heart of this cultural history lies the Russian Musical Society, as both a unique driving force behind the institutionalization of music and a representative of the growing importance of voluntary associations in public life. Sustained simultaneously by private initiative and cooperative relationships with the state, the Russian Musical Society played a key role in the creation of Russia's infrastructure for music and music education. Author Lynn M. Sargeant explores the fluid nature of Russian social identity through the broad scope of musical life, including not only the "leading lights" of the era but also rank-and-file musicians, teachers, and students. Although Russian musicians longed for a secure place within the new hierarchy of professions, their social status remained ambiguous throughout the nineteenth century. Traditional reliance on serf musicians and foreigners left lasting scars that motivated musicians' efforts to obtain legal rights and social respectability. And women's increasing visibility in the musical world provoked acrimonious debates that were, at heart, efforts by male musicians to strengthen their claims to professional status by denying the legitimacy of female participation. Sargeant demonstrates that the successful development of a Russian musical infrastructure salved persistent anxieties about Russia's place vis-à-vis its European cultural competitors. Remarkably, the institutions developed by the Russian Musical Society survived the upheavals of war and revolution to become the foundation for the Soviet musical system. A wealth of historical documentation makes Harmony and Discord required reading for musicologists, sociologists and historians interested in this period, and the abundance of amusing anecdotes and the author's lucid and lively literary style make it an enjoyable history for all readers.

He had just one job...be a rock star. She had just one job...save the world. What could go wrong? After several hit tunes, Martin should be ecstatic. But rock-stardom isn't as glamorous as he'd hoped. In fact, constant adulation is nerve wracking and requires real work. Perhaps Jon Swift, front man for All Souls, holds the key to the swinging, jet set life-style of Martin's dreams. Meanwhile, Pam accidentally drinks psychedelic punch. And one hallucinogenic effect doesn't go away, a peculiar singing style that resonates with both people and animals, and, curiously, with the stemware. But this new style violently some people and may be a form of mind control Then a threatening stranger attacks, and sends Pam undercover until a betrayal forces her hand. Will Martin lose everything while chasing his dreams? Will Pam survive long enough to fulfill her mission? Harmony and Discord is the second book in the Songs out of Time humorous science fiction series. If you enjoy diverse characters, strange happenings, and retro-Seventies vibes, then you'll love Stella Jorette's far-out adventure. Buy Harmony and Discord today and jump into the groove! Dear Reader Harmony and Discord is the second novel in the body swap/time travel/alternate history series Songs out of Time but can be enjoyed as a stand alone story. Expect poor life choices and non-PC attitudes and behaviours; it's the early seventies after all, and various...er...difficulties arise from public acclaim. All intimate encounters occur off camera and are not graphically depicted. Violence is minimal. The novel is written in a combination of UK and US English. Feel free to bring any errors to the author's attention.

Justice and harmony have long been two of the world’s most treasured ideals, but much of modern moral and political philosophy puts them on opposite sides of the divide between liberal theories of the right and communitarian theories of the good. Joshua Mason argues that the encounter with their Chinese counterparts, zhengyi and hexie, can overcome this opposition, revealing a pattern that reframes justice and harmony as mutually interdependent concepts in a three-part framework of root harmony (benhe), harmonic justice (heyi), and just harmony (zhenghe). Broadly surveying the histories of western and Chinese moral and political philosophies, Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation explores our cross-cultural conceptual inventories and develops a comparative framework that can overcome entrenched binary oppositions and reconcile these grand global values.