Ethics and the Conduct of Business (8th)

Jeffrey Smith

John R. Boatright

Pearson

Educational Psychology: Reflection For Action 2nd Edition Binder Ready Version

Johnmarshall Reeve

Angela O'Donnell

wiley

Are You Ready to Be BIG? Are you ready to unlock and nurture the greatness within you, define your bold vision, and embark on an extraordinary life s journey? Would you like to discover innovative ways to optimize your potential and reach higher levels of personal and financial success? Do you want to make your generous mark on a world that desperately needs what you have to offer? In the post-economic-meltdown world, you can sit still, or you can join the rising tide of people turning dreams into action. They are bold, innovative, and generous. They are Generation BIG. Generation BIG, The Rising Tide of Dreams to Action will: Inspire you with stories of BIG people who are changing the world including Nicholas Negroponte (founder of One Laptop per Child), Brian Mullaney (co-founder of Smile Train), and Bruce Cohn (owner of B.R. Cohn Winery and lifelong manager of The Doobie Brothers). Guide you with financial and tax planning secrets to help you prosper through stormy economic times, grow your wealth, shrink your tax bill, and build your assets to fuel your dreams. Connect you with a community of BIG people and advisors who can help you to define your dreams and then blast through or zoom around the obsticles that block your way. You ll learn the nine attributes that BIG people have in common and learn how to build and strengthen those attributes in yourself. Perfect for anyone who wants to master life in ways previously unimaginable, this groundbreaking book will be your travel guide for your BIG journey.

Generation BIG: The Rising Tide of Dreams to Action

Mark Patterson

Tom Ruwitch

Business & Money

Brand Artist Press

The Performance of Performance Standards

Incentives and accountability for government performance are central to contemporary government reform agendas across the globe. Still, the lessons on intended and unintended effects of incentive and performance management systems from several decades of research and practice do not appear to be reflected in the current design and implementation of these systems in the public sector. 
 This conundrum serves as motivation for the contributors to this volume. Led by Nobel laureate James J. Heckman, they use U.S. employment and training programs as their laboratory for investigation into the performance of performance standards. Drawing on a variety of superior data sources, they explore how performance standards and incentives influence the behavior of public managers and agency employees, their approaches to service delivery, and, ultimately, the outcomes for participants. In the process, they address the following questions: 
<li>How do performance standards and measures operate to include or exclude individuals with different characteristics in public programs? </li>
<li>How do performance standards and measures affect the types of services offered and received? </li>
<li>How do the processes for setting standards and weights for performance goals and for recognizing and rewarding performance affect system incentives and bureaucratic responses? </li>
<li>Are the performance standards, measures, and incentives effective in motivating bureaucratic behavior toward the achievement of program goals? </li>
<li>Do short-term outcome measures used in performance standards systems predict long-term impacts of programs on participants? </li>
<li>What problems or unintended effects are associated with the design and implementation of performance standards systems in the public sector? </li>
<li>What other lessons do we learn from the implementation of performance standards systems and the variation in rules and guidelines governing their administration over time? Demand on the part of policymakers and the public for greater accountability and a results-oriented government continues to grow. Therefore, the design and implementation of performance standards and incentive systems in the public sector will continue to be a dynamic pursuit. The lessons contained in this volume provide direction for policymakers seeking to shape and speed their evolution, as well as in ultimately improving government performance.
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Politics & Social Sciences

James J. Heckman

Carolyn J. Heinrich

Pascal Courty

Gerald Marschke

Politics & Government

W.E. Upjohn Institute

Incentives and accountability for government performance are central to contemporary government reform agendas across the globe. Still, the lessons on intended and unintended effects of incentive and performance management systems from several decades of research and practice do not appear to be reflected in the current design and implementation of these systems in the public sector.  This conundrum serves as motivation for the contributors to this volume. Led by Nobel laureate James J. Heckman, they use U.S. employment and training programs as their laboratory for investigation into the performance of performance standards. Drawing on a variety of superior data sources, they explore how performance standards and incentives influence the behavior of public managers and agency employees, their approaches to service delivery, and, ultimately, the outcomes for participants. In the process, they address the following questions:  How do performance standards and measures operate to include or exclude individuals with different characteristics in public programs? How do performance standards and measures affect the types of services offered and received? How do the processes for setting standards and weights for performance goals and for recognizing and rewarding performance affect system incentives and bureaucratic responses? Are the performance standards, measures, and incentives effective in motivating bureaucratic behavior toward the achievement of program goals? Do short-term outcome measures used in performance standards systems predict long-term impacts of programs on participants? What problems or unintended effects are associated with the design and implementation of performance standards systems in the public sector? What other lessons do we learn from the implementation of performance standards systems and the variation in rules and guidelines governing their administration over time?  Demand on the part of policymakers and the public for greater accountability and a results-oriented government continues to grow. Therefore, the design and implementation of performance standards and incentive systems in the public sector will continue to be a dynamic pursuit. The lessons contained in this volume provide direction for policymakers seeking to shape and speed their evolution, as well as in ultimately improving government performance.

Managers of workforce training programs are often unable to afford costly, full-fledged experimental or nonexperimental evaluations to determine the effectiveness of their programs. Therefore, many rely on the survey responses of participants to gauge program impacts. How successful this approach is and whether it can be improved are addressed in this book. Jeffrey Smith, Alexander Whalley, and Nathaniel Wilcox are the first to attempt to assess such measures, despite their already widespread use in program evaluations. They develop a multidisciplinary framework and apply it to three case studies: the National Job Training Partnership Act Study, the U.S. National Supported Work Demonstration, and the Connecticut Jobs First Program. These studies were subjected to experimental evaluations that included a survey-based participant evaluation measure. The authors apply econometric methods specifically developed to obtain estimates of program impacts among individuals in the studies and then compare these estimates with survey-based participant evaluation measures to obtain an assessment of the surveys’ efficacy. They also include techniques which, say the authors, will improve the accuracy of participant evaluation measures.

Are Participants Good Evaluators?

Alexander Whalley

Nathaniel Wilcox

Social Sciences

In this powerful work, Shadows of Sherman, the evolution of this landmark institution, the Sherman Indian High School, is presented through Lorene Sisquoc’s unparalleled lens of understanding and knowledge of the long, storied history of Sherman. Since 1991, Lorene has been the Curator at the Sherman Indian Museum, while her association with Sherman goes back decades before her curatorship, as she was literally raised at Sherman by her mother Tonita Largo Glover and her grandma Ida Gooday Largo. Lorene’s collaborators on this remarkable project are the esteemed Dr. Cliff Trafzer, Costo Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of California, Riverside and Dr. Jeffrey Smith of the University of Hawaii, Hilo. Together, the authors have culled remarkable archival images, stories and documents and with these, they have woven the history of Sherman that has never been available until now.

Shadows of the Sherman Institute: A Photographic History of the Indian School on Magnolia Avenue

History

Clifford Trafzer

Lorene Sisquoc

Americas

Great Oak Press

All my stars

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Natasha Romanoff Story

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