From Red Tape to Results
Author : National Performance Review (U.S.)
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 0788106937
Author : National Performance Review (U.S.)
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 0788106937
Author : Al Gore
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category :
ISBN : 0788139088
Author : Erin Hurley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442640952
In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness' for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, Carbone 14's image-theatre, Marco Micone's writing practices, Celine Dion's popular music, and feminist performance of the 1970s and 80s, Hurley reveals the ways in which certain performances come to be understood as 'national' while others are relegated to sub-national or outsider status. Each chapter focuses on a particular historical moment in Quebec's modern history and a genre of performance emblematic of the moment, and uses these to elaborate the nature of the national performances. Winner of the Northeast Modern Language Association's Book Prize, National Performance is sophisticated yet accessible, seeking to enlarge the parameters of what counts as 'Quebecois' performance, while providing a thorough introduction to changing discourses of nation-ness in Quebec.
Author : National Performance Review (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 030904538X
Although ability testing has been an American preoccupation since the 1920s, comparatively little systematic attention has been paid to understanding and measuring the kinds of human performance that tests are commonly used to predictâ€"such as success at school or work. Now, a sustained, large-scale effort has been made to develop measures that are very close to actual performance on the job. The four military services have carried out an ambitious study, called the Joint-Service Job Performance Measurement/Enlistment Standards (JPM) Project, that brings new sophistication to the measurement of performance in work settings. Volume 1 analyzes the JPM experience in the context of human resource management policy in the military. Beginning with a historical overview of the criterion problem, it looks closely at substantive and methodological issues in criterion research suggested by the project: the development of performance measures; sampling, logistical, and standardization problems; evaluating the reliability and content representativeness of performance measures; and the relationship between predictor scores and performance measuresâ€"valuable information that can also be useful in the civilian workplace.
Author : Paul Charles Light
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300076578
During the past fifty years, the Congresses and presidents of the United States have made many efforts to improve the performance of the federal government. In this book, a leading expert in public management examines the most important reform statutes passed and concludes that the problem is not too little reform but too much. Paul Light explains that Congress and the presidency have never decided whether they trust government and its employees to do their jobs well, and so they have moved back and forth over the decades between four reform philosophies: scientific management, war on waste, watchful eye, and liberation management. These four philosophies, argues Light, operate with different goals, implementation strategies, and impacts. Yet reform initiatives draw on one or another of them almost at random, often canceling out the potential benefits of a particular statute by passing a contradictory statute soon afterward. Light shows that as the public has become increasingly distrustful of government, the reform agenda has favored the war on waste and watchful eye. He analyzes the consequences of these changes for the overall performance of government and offers policy recommendations for future reform approaches.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 1983-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309033497
The regulation of potentially hazardous substances has become a controversial issue. This volume evaluates past efforts to develop and use risk assessment guidelines, reviews the experience of regulatory agencies with different administrative arrangements for risk assessment, and evaluates various proposals to modify procedures. The book's conclusions and recommendations can be applied across the entire field of environmental health.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0309044278
"Pay for performance" has become a buzzword for the 1990s, as U.S. organizations seek ways to boost employee productivity. The new emphasis on performance appraisal and merit pay calls for a thorough examination of their effectiveness. Pay for Performance is the best resource to date on the issues of whether these concepts work and how they can be applied most effectively in the workplace. This important book looks at performance appraisal and pay practices in the private sector and describes whetherâ€"and howâ€"private industry experience is relevant to federal pay reform. It focuses on the needs of the federal government, exploring how the federal pay system evolved; available evidence on federal employee attitudes toward their work, their pay, and their reputation with the public; and the complicating and pervasive factor of politics.
Author : National Performance Review (U.S.)
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Discusses how government now costs less and works better.