Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

WINNER: 2025 The Literary Titan Gold Medal

WINNER: 2025 Book Excellence Award (Business)

WINNER: 2025 Axiom Business Book Gold Medal Book Award (Digital Media)

WINNER: 2024 Independent Press Book Award (Distinguished Favorite)

3x WINNER: 2024 Dan Poyner’s Global eBook Awards (Business, Communications, Leadership)

2x WINNER: 2024 Goody Business Book Awards (Business – Management, Leadership – Think Differently)

WINNER: 2024 NYC Big Book Award (Distinguished Favorite)

Seeking Fairness at Work challenges employer “truths” by examining unwritten workplace norms – the invisible lines that when crossed, create organizational dysfunction. This new perspective on employee engagement explains employees’ legitimate frustration and identifies missed management opportunities to improve workplace culture.

Recognized business strategist and Journal of Business Ethics Education editorial board member Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, MBA, JD identifies the five most common workplace norms that betray fairness, leaving employees feeling dispirited, disengaged, and headed for the door by examining the social psychology of how our basic human motivations intersect with the implied workplace social contract.

Clarion Foreward Reviews calls it “pithy and persuasive,” while BookLife Review compares it to Kim Scott’s Radical Respect and Kim Dabb’s You Belong Here.

Using evidence-based science, academic research, interviews, and real-life stories, Hasl-Kelchner merges organizational psychology with the practical aspects of workplace dynamics to offer ethical leadership an actionable five-part framework filled with practical tips to empower more employee engagement and retention, including chapters on how any leader can build Trust with More Self-Awareness, Improve Relationship Chemistry with More Empathy, Make Genuine Accountability a Cornerstone, Maintain a Cultural Safety Net, and Mend the Structural Safety Net Seeking Fairness at Work is ideal for executives, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to raise their employees’ game instead of their defenses; the human resource professionals, consultants, and employment attorneys who advise them; and employees wanting a reality check of their own workplace experiences.