Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Policy Implementation, Productivity, and Program Evaluation: Performance Measurement Sea Change focuses on the challenges associated with implementing a performance measurement initiative in a culture resistant to the notion of collaborating to improve performance. This e-book portrays the strategies needed to get buy-in from all stakeholders.
As performance management becomes better integrated into businesses, attitudes and approaches to it are evolving. Through case studies and detailed practice examples from leading international organizations, this text addresses the increasing demand for managers in all sectors to manage and measure staff performance.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Over the last twenty years, there has been an increasing number of factors that have placed the manufacturing strategies of companies and countries in a global context. This book reviews and addresses the global manufacturing strategy area through research in the four major economic areas of the world: Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. International Manufacturing Strategies: Context, Content and Change is the result of a single major research project undertaken in twenty countries, focusing on the manufacturing strategies and practices in each, and uses research data to focus on factors specific to industrial countries or regions and those which are common across the group of countries or the entire sample The core of this book is a set of chapters reviewing individual countries. Each country is reviewed in a format with an overall common approach: the socio-economic background; the distinctive results for that country from the research and the link between the two. Most will be illustrated by a small case study of a company. Following this is an integrating review of the findings from various countries, the different trajectories followed, and the impact on external variables and the socioeconomic context on those. The final part of the book is devoted to new ideas and developments in functional areas and in manufacturing strategy that have been developed from the analysis conducted during the research.
Project management has been practiced for thousands of years, but only recently have organizations begun to apply systematic management tools and techniques to manage complex projects. Today's approaches to project management can be traced directly to methodologies designed by the U.S. military and Department of Defense in the years after World War II. Subsequent advances in management information systems have helped to codify project management practices; most recently, the Internet has dramatically enhanced the ability of individuals, teams, and organizations to manage projects across continents and cultures in real time. The Story of Managing Projects showcases cutting-edge research conducted around the world on emerging practices in project management. Covering an enormous spectrum of subjects and industries—from an upgrade of the Greek railway system to infrastructure reconstruction in Kuwait—the authors explore the full range of inter-personal, technical, and organizational dynamics of project management, contributing new insights to its theory and application.
This well-received book, now in its third Edition, continues to offer a comprehensive coverage of latest concepts and practices of performance appraisal and compensation management in a clear and easy-to-read style. Written by a practising manager, who has worked at the apex level of Schedule-A organisation, the book is intended as a text for the students of management and commerce. Besides, it also serves as a useful tool for managers, executives and HR practitioners who are confronted with many performance management issues in their work scenarios, especially in view of the roleplay and case studies introduced by an author who is a renowned HR professional in India and abroad. NEW TO THE EDITION The Third Edition of the book is unique in introducing chapters on: • e-appraisal in practice • Managing Boss for objective appraisal • Managing change in Work-From-Home scenario • Mentoring and coaching as tools for enhancing performance; the first time in literature. TARGET AUDIENCE • MBA (HRM) • MA – HRM • Management Professionals
