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Managing and measuring employee performance

What teachers, police, City 'high flyers', along with the majority of the workforce have in common is that their performance is increasingly being managed, monitored and measured. This is for a number of reasons. Within the public sector, the 'Modernising Government' agenda has raised the ...

Cracking the TOEFL iBT

The TOEFL has undergone major changes in recent years. This edition provides the most comprehensive information available about how to succeed on the exam, complete with an audio CD and full transcript, full-length practice test, and scores of drill questions.

Rusia

inercias y nuevas perspectivas

En lo económico y en lo sociopolítico, Rusia formó siempre parte de lo que eran esencias básicas de Europa. Reaccionó como reaccionaba todo el continente a partir de la Revolución Industrial. Además, en Rusia ha tenido que llevarse a cabo una importantísima operación de cambio ...

La gran aventura de montar un restaurante

manual práctico de consejos

Escrito con un estilo tan claro, desenfadado y en un tono realmente divertido, este libro te ofrece las claves básicas a las que enfrentarse para poner en marcha un restaurante: el tipo, el local, el montaje, el personal, la carta, los vinos, mobiliario, vajilla, cubertería ...

Ya sé quién tiene tu queso

las cosas se pueden hacer bien o como siempre

Las cosas se pueden hacer bien o como siempre# En esta obra, el autor afirma que el esfuerzo para hacer las cosas #como Dios manda# es como máximo igual que el que empleamos habitualmente, pero, una y otra vez, nos empecinamos en hacerlas de la ...

Entrepreneurship and economic growth

#Why do economies grow? For centuries this has been one of the most important questions in economics. The importance of this question is found in the simple fact that the purchasing power of the average individual has increased ten fold in just one hundred years ...

Llei 7/2006, de 31 de Maig, de l'Exercici de Professions Titulades i dels Col.legis Professionals

La regulació de l'exercici de les professions titulades és una preocupació actual i comuna dels països del nostre entorn, en la mesura que contribueixen aproximadament a un terç de l'ocupació laboral i constitueixen un dels principals motors de creixement econòmic i progrés del ...

Principles of constitutional design

This book is written for anyone, anywhere sitting down to write a constitution. The book is designed to be educative for even those not engaged directly in constitutional design but who would like to come to a better understanding of the nature and problems of ...

The explanation of crime

context, mechanisms and development

Integration of disciplines, theories and research orientations has assumed a central role in criminological discourse yet it remains difficult to identify any concrete discoveries or significant breakthroughs for which integration has been responsible. Concentrating on three key concepts: context, mechanisms, and development, this volume aims ...

The Cambridge companion to Hayek

F.A. Hayek (1899-1992) was among the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widely regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph of global capitalism, an 'anti-Marx' who did more than any other recent thinker to elucidate the ...

The internationalisation of copyright Law

books, buccaneers and the black flag in the nineteenth century

Technological developments have shaped copyright law's development, and now the prospect of endless, effortless digital copying poses a significant challenge to modern copyright law. Many complain that copyright protection has burgeoned wildly, far beyond its original boundaries. Some have questioned whether copyright can survive ...

Simply strategy

the shortest route to the best strategy

""Simply Strategy" takes the hype out of business strategy and provides a user-friendly tool to identify and manage the most important activities that impact the bottom line. It's a 'must read' for business units that operate in multiple product/market combinations while relying on ...

The marketplace of christianity

Economics can help us understand the evolution and development of religion, from the market penetration of the Reformation to an exploration of today's hot-button issues including evolution and gay marriage. This startingly original (and sure to be controversial) account of the evolution of Christianity ...

Optimisation, econometric and financial analysis

Advanced computational methods are often employed for the solution of modelling and decision- making problems. This book addresses issues associated with the interface of computing, optimisation, econometrics and financial modelling. Emphasis is given to computational optimisation methods and techniques. The first part of the book ...

The dynamics of public policy

theory and evidence

In The Dynamics of Public Policy, Adrian Kay sets out the crucial methodological, theoretical and empirical implications of two important trends in the social sciences: a frequently expressed ambition for analysis of 'movies not stills' and the regular observation that policy, politics and governance is ...

The Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall

In light of the recent and ongoing surge of interest in Alfred Marshall#s work, this new and original reference volume fills a gap in the literature through a detailed examination of his thought and of his contributions to economics and social science. The Companion ...

The market way to riches

behind the myth

Mario Amendola and Jean-Luc Gaffard argue that all too often, markets and technology are treated as two magic words that will open the door to a wealth of riches. An increasing number of governments appear to be aiming for a pure market economy in order ...

The global securities market

a history

This history of the global securities market is the product of over 30 years of research by one of the world's foremost financial historians. It covers all aspects of the history of the securities markets, from its beginnings in Medieval Venice through Amsterdam and ...

Quantitative management of bond portfolios

The practice of institutional bond portfolio management has changed markedly since the late 1980s in response to new financial instruments, investment methodologies, and improved analytics. Investors are looking for a more disciplined, quantitative approach to asset management. Here, five top authorities from a leading Wall ...

Inside the economist's mind

conversations with eminent economists

By focusing on the human side as well as the intellectual dimensions of how economists work and think, this collection of interviews with top economists of the 20th century becomes a startling and lively introduction to the modern world of macroeconomics. It is a fun ...