Your Attitude Is Showing: A Primer of Human Relations, Tenth Edition

Human Relations Responsibility

You, as a new or experienced employee, have a definite human-relations role to play. You can’t ignore it. You can’t postpone it.

From the moment you join an organization, you assume two responsibilities: (1) to do a job—the best job you can do with the work assigned to you—and (2) to get along with all the people to the best of your ability. It is the right combination of these two factors that spells success.

Perhaps you are a highly qualified, experienced employee happy in your present work environment. Or perhaps, after working a number of years for a particular company, you are making a career change. Or your firm eliminated your position and you are seeking a similar one elsewhere. Or you may be graduating ...