The manners and customs of the Rwala bedouins / Alois Musil

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00027871
• Autore: MUSIL, Alois
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : American Geographical Society, 1928
• Descrizione fisica: XIV, 712 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
• Classificazione: ARS XIV
• Soggetti: BEDUINI - Arabia Saudita
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Modernizing the federal government : paying for performance / / Silvia Montoya, John D. Graham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910220131503321
• Autore: Montoya Silvia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Monica, CA, : RAND, c2007
• ISBN: 1-281-43022-6; 9786611430221
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (55 p.)
• Collana: Occasional paper / Rand Corporation
• Altri autori (Persone): GrahamJohn D <1956-> (John David)
• Disciplina: 352.67
• Soggetti: Personnel management - United States; Employee motivation - United States; Merit pay - United States; United States Officials and employees Salaries, etc
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Preface; Contents; Figure; Tables; Summary; Abbreviations; Part One - Introduction; Part Two - Pay for Performance: Social Science Perspective; Part Three - PFP: Different Forms; Part Four - The ; Appraisal System: A Source of Concern; Personal Characteristics; Rater Training; Part Five - PFP in the Public Sector: Evidence; Pay for Performance in the State Systems; Part Six - PFP in the U.S. Federal Government; The GS Structure; How Are Employees Evaluated?; Is Performance Evaluation Linked to Pay?; Measuring Substandard Performance in the Federal Government; Is It Necessary to Modify the GS System?Part Seven - Some Departures from the GS; The DoD PFP Demonstration Projects; What Is Broadband Pay?; The SES; FDIC and IRS; Part Eight - Proposals to Change the GS; Part Nine - Burgeoning Opposition to PFP; The TSA; Opposition to the DoD's PFP Scheme; References; Related Readings
• Sommario/riassunto: Enhancing the performance of the civil service has been a central objective of the United States since the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 authorized a performance-based component to federal salary structures. In 2003, the National Commission on the Public Service, also known as the Volcker Commission, recommended that explicit pay-for-performance (PFP) systems be adopted more broadly throughout the federal government. The authors compare several proposals aimed at enhancing the role of PFP in the federal government: a White House proposal (the Working for America Act), which recommends that

Law and humanities

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910144019603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford [England], : Hart Pub
• ISSN: 1752-1491
• Altri autori (Persone): RaffieldPaul; WattGary
• Disciplina: 344.09705
• Soggetti: Law and literature; Law and art; Humanities; Droit et littérature; Droit et art; Social Sciences & Humanities (General); Law; Dret; Humanitats; Periodicals.; Revistes electròniques
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Refereed/Peer-reviewed; Editors: 2007- Paul Raffield and Gary Watt.