1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910151659303321

Autore

Jones Pam <1960->

Titolo

Managing for performance : delivering results through others / / Pam Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harlow, England : , : Prentice Hall Business, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

1-281-82996-X

9786611829964

1-4082-5030-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2,007 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

658.4/092

Soggetti

Management

Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-189) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Getting your team to perform to the highest possible level is at the core of how well every manager does and is also one of the toughest tasks they have to face.Managers all over the world are struggling to set clear goals and direction for their teams because of a rise in factors including team diversity, different motivations and expectations of team members and an increase in short term project teams.Managing for Performance offers the solution to these problems by explaining the key to successful performance management is the ability to develop a flexible approach and have a range of different tools and techniques to apply in different situations. It provides information on these tools and techniques, and offers self-coaching to develop the self-understanding that is critical to anybody tasked with managing people. This definitive guide will provide managers with all the support and advice they need to be able to appraise and enhance both their own and their team’s performance, and successfully tackle the issues affecting performance to achieve optimum results.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974874003321

Autore

Berger Alan L. <1939->

Titolo

Crisis and covenant : the Holocaust in American Jewish fiction / / Alan L. Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c1985

ISBN

9780791496442

0791496449

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Disciplina

813/.54/09358

Soggetti

American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Covenants - Religious aspects - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter ""; ""Half Title Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Content ""; ""Introduction: Jewish Existence""; ""Covenant Transformations""; ""Covenant and Modernity""; ""The Contemporary Covenantal Crisis""; ""Literary Response to Covenant Crisis""; ""American Judaism and the Holocaust""; ""Contributions of American Jewish Holocaust Novelists""; ""Holocaust As Watershed""; ""Holocaust Problematics""; ""Theological Responses""; ""Theology and Literature""; ""Is the Holocaust Beyond Artistic Expression?""

""Who Should Write of the Holocaust?""""Trivializing the Holocaust""; ""American Jewish Writers and the Holocaust: A Critique""; ""The Role of the American Jewish Novelist""; ""Holocaust Responses I:Judaism As A Religious Value System""; ""The Holocaust and American Diaspora Jewry""; ""Hasidic Tales""; ""Considering the Evidence""; ""Arthur A. Cohen""; ""Cynthia Ozick""; ""Hugh Nissenson""; ""Elie Wiesel""; ""Isaac Bashevis Singer""; ""Holocaust Responses II:Judaism As A Secular Value System""; ""Considering the Evidence""; ""Bernard Malamud""; ""Saul Bellow""; ""Susan F. Schaeffer""



""Cynthia Ozick""""PRE-HOLOCAUST AMERICA: JEWISH EXISTENCE AND COVENANT DIMINISHMENT""; ""Hugh Nissenson""; ""Robert Kotlowitz""; ""Conclusion""; ""Holocaust Responses III:Symbolic Judaism""; ""Considering The Evidence""; ""Philip Roth""; ""Richard Elman""; ""Edward Lewis Wallant""; ""Norma Rosen""; ""Bernard Malamud""; ""Conclusion""; ""Holocaust And Covenant""; ""The Central Question for Contemporary Judaism""; ""Holocaust Fiction Lato Sensu""; ""Problems and Possibilities""; ""Back Matter ""; ""Notes""; ""Index""