Managers today are faced with a bewildering choice of Management Standards that are being promoted to improve personal and organisational performance by a wide range of Standards-setting bodies. Standards-based management is a well-researched field, but all the research concentr…
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The overall objective of the study was to determine the financial characteristics of companies involved in merger activity. More specifically, the study aims to determine: (a) whether acquired companies possessed financial characteristics similar to previous failed companies (th…
Competency frameworks and professional education of teachers have become subjects of great interest among educational researchers (Paquay, 1994 ; Perrenoud, 2001 & Berchoud, 2007). This study is a Research & Development research that has as main objective to design and develop a…
Forward / by Fred Voskoboynikov -- The concept of self-regulation in the studies of human activity -- Applied and systemic-structural activity theories / Gregory Bedny, Inna Bedny and Waldemar Karwowski -- Assessing the probability of decision-making outcomes in task analysis / …
This book presents new data in Applied Activity Theory (AAT) and Systemic-Structural Activity Theory (SSAT), that can be used in the study of human performance. The SSAT is the high-level generality theory that offers standardized principles of the analyses of human activity. Th…
As online distractions increasingly colonize our time, why has productivity become such a vital demonstration of personal and professional competence? When corporate profits are soaring but worker salaries remain stagnant, how does technology exacerbate the demand for ever great…
A brief history of time management -- Executive athleticism : time management and the quest for organization -- The aesthetics of activity : productivity and the order of things -- Mindful labor
As online distractions increasingly colonize our time, why has productivity become such a vital demonstration of personal and professional competence? When corporate profits are soaring but worker salaries remain stagnant, how does technology exacerbate the demand for ever great…
As online distractions increasingly colonize our time, why has productivity become such a vital demonstration of personal and professional competence? When corporate profits are soaring but worker salaries remain stagnant, how does technology exacerbate the demand for ever great…
Understand where you fit to understand where youll excel Fit: When Talent and Intelligence Just Wont Cut It answers the fundamental performance questions that people have asked for generations. Why is that some individuals are consistently high performers, how do they keep perfo…
Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Training Day -- Chapter 3 - "We Already Have Standards!"--Chapter 4 - On Which Tasks Can Standardized Work Forms Be Written? -- Chapter 5 - Collecting Data -- Chapter 6 - Introducing…
The first book in The One-Day Expert series detailed the initial steps that Thomas, a young, high-potential plant manager in an industrial group, took to assess his plant's situation through measurement of operators' performance. The second book in the series, Implementing Stand…
IntroductionTraining Day""We Already Have Standards!""On Which Tasks Can Standardized Work Forms Be Written? Collecting DataTask One: Group FormingTask Two: Team OrganizationTask Three: Facilitator Gives Job Instructions for OperatorsTask Four: Teams List the Detailed Steps on F…