1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132305403321

Titolo

Contracting-out welfare services : comparing national policy designs for unemployment assistance / / edited by Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-119-01645-2

1-119-01646-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (419 p.)

Collana

Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy

Classificazione

POL019000

Disciplina

361.0068/4

Soggetti

Social service - Contracting out - Europe

Public welfare - Europe

Unemployment - Europe

Public-private sector cooperation - Europe

Public administration - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published as Volume 48, Issue 2 of Social Policy & Administration."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: List of Contributors Introduction: Contracting-out Welfare Services- Comparing National Policy Designs for UnemploymentAssistance Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan 1 Worlds of Marketization - Employment Policies in Germany,Italy and the UK Compared Katharina Zimmermann, Patrizia Aurich, Paolo R. Graziano andVanesa Fuertes 2 Varieties of Market Competition in Public Employment Services- A Comparison of the Emergence and Evolution of the NewSystem in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium Ludo Struyven 3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting onNot-for-profit Organizations - An Australian Study Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan and Phuc Nguyen 4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation - A FrontlinePerspective Rik van Berkel 5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services -Implications



for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare Isabel Shutes and Rebecca Taylor 6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments,Same Old Problem James Rees, Adam Whitworth and Elle Carter 7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks -A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's PublicEmployment Service Matthias Knuth 8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation - TheCase of Israel Avishai Benish Index .

Sommario/riassunto

"Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance is an edited collection focused on the design and re-design of welfare-to-work systems around the world"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910703155603321

Titolo

Next steps for the FCEV learning demonstration project [[electronic resource] /] / Keith Wipke ... [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Golden, Colo.] : , : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, , [2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (21 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

NREL/PR ; ; 5600-50842

Altri autori (Persone)

WipkeKeith B

Soggetti

Fuel cells - Research

Hydrogen cars - Research

Electric vehicles - Research

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (NREL, viewed Apr. 26, 2011).

"Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Conference, Washington, DC."

"February 16, 2011."



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798853403321

Autore

Pratchett Tracey

Titolo

Practical tips for developing your staff / / Tracey Pratchett and Gil Young ; with Carol Brooks, Lisa Jeskins and Helen Monagle [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Facet, , 2016

ISBN

1-78330-180-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Practical tips for library and information professionals

Disciplina

023/.8

Soggetti

Library personnel management

Library education (Continuing education)

Librarians - In-service training

Career development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).

Nota di contenuto

aSection 1 Theories: 1. Understanding how people behave, learn and develop; 2. Kolb learning cycle and styles; 3. Honey and Mumford -- learning styles; 4. VAK learning styles; 5. MBTI® -- Myers Briggs® Type Indicator; 6. Jigsaw Discovery Tool©; 7. The DiSC® model; 8. Benziger Thinking Styles Assessment (BTSA); 9. SDI -- Strength Deployment Inventory®; 10. Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation model; Section 2 Infrastructure: 11. Why develop staff? 12. Workforce planning; 13. Job descriptions; 14. Person specifications; 15. Advertisements; 16. Shortlisting; 17. Interviews; 18. Interviews -- presentations and tests; 19. Interviews -- feedback; 20. Inductions; 21. Managing performance; 22. Team development plans; 23. Appraisals -- preparing; 24. Appraisals -- conducting; 25. Setting objectives; 26. One-to-ones; 27. Feedback -- general; 28. Team building; 29. Team meetings; 30. Sharing learning with the team; 31. Writing references; 32. Exit interviews; 33. Effective handover; Section 3 Activities and tools: 34. Action learning sets ; 35. Apprentices, graduate trainees and work placements; 36. Awards; 37. Buddying; 38. CILIP qualifications; 39. CILIP qualifications -- revalidation; 40. Coaching; 41. Collaborative working; 42. Communities of practice -- internal; 43. Communities of practice -- external; 44. Conferences -- attending; 45. Conferences --



organizing; 46. Conferences -- posters; 47. Conferences -- presenting; 48. Conferences -- sharing the learning; 49. Conferences -- volunteering; 50. Conferences -- workshops; 51. Conferences -- writing proposals for papers; 52. CVs; 53. Exchange of Experience events, TeachMeets and Unconferences; 54. Formal qualifications; 55. Funding for CPD; 56. Group conversations; 57. Job rotation; 58. Learning logs and journals; 59. Meetings -- attending; 60. Meetings -- chairing; 61. Meetings -- note taking; 62. Mentoring -- external; 63. Mentoring -- peer; 64. Minutes of madness; 65. MOOCs; 66. Networks; 67. Networks -- setting up; 68. Networks -- running; 69. Personal development plans; 70. Presentations -- general tips; 71. Professional membership; 72. Projects; 73. Project management tools; 74. Reflection -- facilitating; 75. Reflective practice76. Reflective writing; 77. Research activities; 78. Secondments; 79. Shadowing; 80. Social media; 81. SWOT analysis; 82. Time management; 83. Time management tools; 84. Training courses -- attending; 85. Training courses -- commissioning; 86. Training courses -- planning, delivering and evaluating; 87. Twitter; 88. Twitter chats; 89. VLEs; 90. Visits; 91. Volunteering; 92. Webinars; 93. Writing blog posts; 94. Writing business cases; 95. Writing case studies; 96. Writing e-mails; 97. Writing journal articles; 98. Writing newsletters; 99. Writing procedures; 100. Writing project plans; 101. Writing reports.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers innovative tips and tried-and-tested best practice to enable library and knowledge workers to take control of professional development regardless of the budget and time available to them. Continuing professional development (CPD) is a key component of a successful and satisfying career. Part of the <i>Practical Tips for Library and Information Professionals</i> series, this book offer a wide range of ideas and methods for all library and information professionals to manage the development of those who work for and with them.