Download or read book The Forbid allow Asymmetry written by Bregje Holleman and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questionnaires are widely used in the social sciences and very often survey data form the basis for governmental and commercial planning or evaluation. Yet the quality of survey data is not attested to, since a large variety of factors in the language-use situation prove to influence the answers unintentionally. The forbid/allow asymmetry is a well-known example of this: when respondents are asked whether something should be forbidden, about 50% may answer 'yes, forbid' - whereas an equivalent question phrased with the verb 'to allow' could well cause up to 75% of the respondents to answer 'no, it should not be allowed'. Which question wording is preferable to measure respondents' true attitudes? Only when we know why the answers differ, can we decide on that. This book is the first to apply a systematic cognitive approach to describe the causes of the forbid/allow asymmetry. The question-answering process is unravelled by a variety of experiments and meta-analytic techniques. Analyses reveal that the difference in question wording does not prompt respondents to retrieve different attitudes. Instead, the asymmetry reflects that the question wording causes the response options to be used differently. Because of the qualifying dimensions in the question text, the meanings of 'yes' and 'no' change, as well as the cognitive distance between them. This study sheds a different light on processes of question-answering and text interpretation. Furthermore, practical advice on questionnaire design and on the interpretation of survey data is given on the basis of these new insights.

Download or read book Employee Attitude and Opinion Surveys written by Mike Walters and published by CIPD Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explains how to design and administer questionnaires, analyze the data and feed them into action plans. This edition also shows whether, when and how to involve consultants, and the crucial role of surveys in quality initiatives, culture-change programmes and "Investors in People". Effective corporate initiatives and processes are the bedrock of successful organizations. The "Developing Practices" series provides managers with essential frameworks to identify, formulate and implement the best policy and practice in the management and development of people. Organizations embarking on major change need to ensure employee commitment. Surveys are a useful tool for flushing out anxieties, enhancing decision-making and maintaining morale. The key to a successful outcome, argues the author Mike Walters, lies in using initial interviews to generate ideas which can be tested in the main survey and then further refined in follow-up focus groups. The book explains in detail how to design and administer questionnaires, analyze the data and feed them into action plans. This edition also shows human resources practitioners whether, when and how to involve consultants, and the crucial role of surveys in quality initiatives, culture-change programmes and "Investors in People".

Download or read book Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys written by Howard Schuman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pioneers a new state of the art for conducting research on the form, wording, and context of questions asked in attitude surveys.

Download or read book Organizational Behavior Theory and Design in Health Care written by Nancy Borkowski and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational Behavior, Theory, and Design, Third Edition was written to provide health services administration students, managers, and other professionals with an in-depth analysis of the theories and concepts of organizational behavior and organization theory while embracing the uniqueness and complexity of the healthcare industry. Using an applied focus, this book provides a clear and concise overview of the essential topics in organizational behavior and organization theory from the healthcare manager’s perspective. The Third Edition offers: - New case studies throughout underscore key theories and concepts and illustrate practical application in the current health delivery environment - In-depth discussion of the industry’s redesign of health services offers a major focus on patient safety and quality, centeredness, and consumerism. - Current examples reflect changes in the environment due to health reform initiatives. - And more.

Download or read book Organizational Behavior in Health Care written by Nancy Borkowski and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational Behavior in Health Care, Fourth Edition is specifically written for health care managers who are on the front lines every day, motivating and leading others in a constantly changing, complex environment. Uniquely addressing organizational behavior theories and issues within the healthcare industry, this comprehensive textbook not only offers in-depth discussion of the relevant topics, such as leadership, motivation, conflict, group dynamics, change, and more, it provides students with practical application through the use of numerous case studies and vignettes. Thoroughly updated, the Fourth Edition offers: - Two chapters addressing demographic shifts and cultural competency and their importance for ensuring the delivery of high quality care (Ch. 2 & 3) - New chapter on change management and managing resistance to change. - New and updated content (modern theories of leadership, teaming, etc), and case studies throughout.

Download or read book Cambridge English for Human Resources Student s Book with Audio CDs 2 written by George Sandford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: "Cambridge English for Human Resources covers a wide range of topics of concern to human resources and personnel development, from understanding the essentials of resourcing and outsourcing through to strategic HR. The ten standalone units allow learners to focus on the areas of HR and Personnel Development most important to them. As well as teaching the specialist vocabulary and theory of HR, the course also develops job-specific skills such as coaching, designing and implementing appraisal systems, managing conflict and others."--Cambridge website, viewed 1st Sept, 2011.

Download or read book Recognizing Engaging Employees For Dummies written by Bob Nelson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve engagement, productivity, and motivation with effective employee recognition Recognizing and Engaging Employees for Dummies gives you the tools and information you need to improve morale, productivity, and personal achievement with a successful employee recognition program. Written by a world-leading authority in employee recognition, this book walks you step-by-step through the design and implementation process and describes the incentives that work, the behaviors to reward, and the mechanisms that must be in place for the program to be effective in the long term. You'll learn how to pinpoint the places where engagement and recognition could improve the bottom line, and how to structure the reward for optimal balance between motivational, financial, and organizational effectiveness. With clear explanations and a fun, friendly style, this book is your quick and easy guide to boosting productivity, profit, and customer satisfaction. Most Americans who leave their jobs cite lack of recognition as the driving factor. When your employees feel appreciated, they stick around, work harder, achieve more, and drive your business onward and upward. This book shows you how to bring that dynamic to your workplace, with step-by-step guidance and helpful advice. Design successful recognition programs Create powerful incentives for employees Reduce turnover, improve engagement, and drive excellence Foster a happier and more productive workplace Happy employees are productive employees. They get results. They innovate. They are the force behind the advancement of industries. Effective employee recognition programs are self-sustaining motivational tools that keep the fire lit. If you're ready to spark the flame, Recognizing and Engaging Employees for Dummies is the ideal guide for designing, implementing, and maintaining the program your employees have been waiting for.

Download or read book Identifying the Poor written by Graham Pyatt and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put the world today into context by learning about the past through this brief, best-selling Western Civilization text that has helped thousands of students succeed in the course. Jack Spielvogel's engaging style of writing weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. You will also be exposed to primary source documents--actual historical documents that are the foundation for the historical analysis you read in the chapter. These documents include letters, poems, and songs through history--documents that enliven the past. Throughout the book there are also helpful tools to help you digest the reading, including outlines, focus questions, chronologies, numerous maps, and boldface key terms with definitions.

Download or read book HR Strategy Business Focused Individually Centred written by Paul Kearns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HR Strategy: Business Focused Individually Centred addresses the two key themes of translating business strategy into a workable, measurable HR strategy while simultaneously tapping into the needs and motivational patterns of individual employees in order to unleash their maximum value. The ultimate aim of any HR strategy is to design the highest value organization. Strategy may be a notoriously difficult topic to pin down but the author produces both a wide-angle view and specific examples of what a real HR strategy looks like in different organizational contexts. This is a book that covers the theory but swiftly moves on to the question of how anyone might actually start to develop a high value HR strategy. It shows the key ingredients and practical steps involved in implementation.

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Download or read book Nutrition Counseling and Education Skills A Guide for Professionals written by Betsy B. Holli and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in vibrant full color, this updated Seventh Edition of Holli’s best-selling Nutrition Counseling and Education Skills: A Guide for Professionals helps students develop the communications, counseling, interviewing, motivational, and professional skills they’ll need as Registered Dietitian professionals. Throughout the book, the authors focus on effective nutrition interventions, evidence-based theories and models, clinical nutrition principles, and knowledge of behavioral science and educational approaches. Packed with activities, case studies, and self-assessment questions, the Seventh Edition features new content that reflects the latest changes in the field, new online videos that bring nutrition counseling techniques to life, and a powerful array of new and enhanced in-text and online learning tools.

Download or read book The Praeger Handbook of Human Resource Management written by Pamela Dixon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume Praeger Handbook of Human Resource Management is an indispensable resource for anyone with a question relating to workplace practice or policy. Volume One contains information organized by HR task or topic: Recruitment and selection, employee development, performance management, compensation and benefits administration, and employment law. Volume Two covers organizational issues like leadership and HR strategy, organizational development, change management, and general HR issues and workplace policy. Written by experts of all stripes, including HR professors, HR consultants, and practicing HR managers, this is the one-stop, preeminent source for all things HR. Anyone with personnel duties—whether VP for Human Resources or office manager—will find actionable answers to all their questions quickly. Personnel management is a critical business function. Make a mistake in, say, firing an employee, and soon you may find yourself on the phone with a lawyer. This handbook will help readers avoid personnel potholes and snares. Volume one of this set tells—among dozens of other topics—how to hire well, train employees, evaluate and develop workers, fire legally, set compensation, and abide by federal and state employment laws. Volume two rises above the trees for a look at the forest: leadership development, succession planning, managing change and conflict, creating emergency response plans, managing teams, forecasting employment trends, measuring results, and acquiring HR credentials. In addition, volume two will help companies develop workplace policies on everything from suitable dress to disciplinary procedures to work life balance. Entries in each category are short and to the point-from 500 to 1,000 words. Sprinkled throughout are longer, overview/theory pieces on subjects like performance management, selection, training, and HR Strategy. And the set will contain an extensive bibliography, resource section, and checklists on topics like hiring, safety, termination, training, and more. The Best Places to Work for are also the most profitable and the most fun. This handbook helps lay the foundation for building a rewarding, inspiring, and productive workplace, where people come to work each day with smiles on their faces.

Download or read book 1501 Ways to Reward Employees written by Bob B. Nelson and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today more than ever, businesses need fresh ideas to nurture talent and retain employees—enter 1,501 Ways to Reward Employees, thoroughly revised, updated, and even more chockablock with ideas than 1,001 Ways to Reward Employees, the groundbreaking national bestseller. Adapted to meet the needs of an evolving workplace—especially to deal creatively with virtual employees, freelancers and permalancers, international colleagues, and the rule-bending expectations of millennials—its 1,501 low-and no-cost rewards and strategies are drawn from thousands of companies across the globe. Ideas range from the informal (Wells Fargo’s thank-you e-cards) and the offbeat (JS Communications two free “I Don’t Want to Get Out of Bed” Days) to the formal (J. C. Penney “affirms” new managers in a moving ceremony) to the totally nutty (the legendary honor of having your office “sodded”—literally, grassed over—at Microsoft). For bosses, managers, entrepreneurs, small-business owners, consultants—anyone who’s responsible for working successfully in an ever-tougher economy—this is the rewards bible.

Download or read book 1501 Ways to Reward Employees written by Bob Nelson and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests ways of motivating employees by recognizing their accomplishments, including both formal and informal rewards; individual and group rewards; and special events, incentives, and contests.

Download or read book Cause Related Marketing written by Sue Adkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cause Related Marketing's time has come. Consumers are demanding greater accountability and responsibility from corporations. In an environment where price and quality are increasingly equal; where reputation and standing for something beyond the functional benefits of a product or service is all, brands are constantly competing for customer loyalty and consumer attention. 'Cause Related Marketing' is one of the most exciting areas in marketing today which benefits both business and society. 'Cause Related Marketing': * positions Cause Related Marketing in the context of marketing, corporate social responsibility and corporate community investment. * explores who cares and why, providing research analysis into corporate and consumer attitudes both in the UK and internationally. * uses The Business in the Community Cause Related Marketing Guidelines, written by Sue Adkins and introduced by HRH The Prince of Wales, providing an in depth exploration of the key principles and processes that go towards creating excellence in Cause Related Marketing. * includes vignettes and in depth case studies to provide illustrations of Cause Related Marketing through a spectrum of examples both national and international. Sue Adkins, Director of the Business in the Community's Cause Related Marketing Campaign is acknowledged as an international expert. She is recognised as having put Cause Related Marketing on the map in the UK and leading the drive to establish Cause Related Marketing as an increasingly legitimate part of the marketing mix in the UK.

Download or read book Content Area Reading and Learning written by Diane Lapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can teachers make content-area learning more accessible to their students? This text addresses instructional issues and provides a wealth of classroom strategies to help all middle and secondary teachers effectively enable their students to develop both content concepts and strategies for continued learning. The goal is to help teachers model, through excellent instruction, the importance of lifelong content-area learning. This working textbook provides students maximum interaction with the information, strategies, and examples presented in each chapter. This book is organized around five themes: Content Area Reading: An Overview The Teacher and the Text The Students The Instructional Program School Culture and Environment in Middle and High School Classrooms. Pedagogical features in each chapter include: a graphic organizer; a chapter overview, Think Before, Think While and Think After Reading Activities - which are designed to integrate students’ previous knowledge and experience with their new learnings about issues related to content area reading, literacy, and learning, and to serve as catalysts for thinking and discussions. This textbook is intended as a primary text for courses on middle and high school content area literacy and learning.

Download or read book With These Hands written by Daniel Rothenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What makes this book so important is that it allows us to see into the lives of those who do the stoop labor to put that lovely salad on our tables. With These Hands is a unique and valuable documentary work that skillfully presents the voices of laborers and others, helping us to understand our connection to the world of America's farmworkers."—Studs Terkel