1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455876803321

Titolo

Improving the recruitment, retention, and utilization of federal scientists and engineers [[electronic resource] ] : a report to the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government / / Alan K. Campbell, Stephen J. Lukasik, and Michael G.H. McGeary, editors ; Committee on Scientists and Engineers in Federal Governmnet, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1993

ISBN

1-280-21116-4

9786610211166

0-309-59623-8

0-585-08552-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellAlan K

LukasikStephen J

McGearyMichael G. H

Disciplina

353.0085

Soggetti

Scientists - Employment - United States

Engineers - Employment - United States

Science and state - United States

Engineering and state - United States

Electronic books.

United States Officials and employees

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Committee chairman: Alan K. Campbell.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""IMPROVING THE RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, AND UTILIZATION OF FEDERAL SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""CHANGES IN THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT""; ""COPING WITH THE CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM""; ""FEDERAL EMPLOYEES PAY COMPARABILITY ACT""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Implementing FEPCA""; ""Responsibilities of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)""; ""Department and Agency



Responsibilities""; ""Interagency Coordination""; ""Congress""; ""Evaluation""; ""A Senior Research and Development Service""

""Peer Input for Science and Engineering Personnel Decisions""""More Flexible Position Classification""; ""Quadrennial Review of the Science and Engineering Personnel System""; ""Issues Beyond FEPCA""; ""Adequately Equipped and Staffed Laboratories""; ""Professional Development""; ""Fairer Ethics Rules""; ""1 Introduction""; ""PROBLEMS""; ""ISSUES""; ""2 The Changing External Environment""; ""CHANGES IN THE EXTERNAL RECRUITING ENVIRONMENT""; ""Favorable Changes""; ""Undermining Trends""; ""CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES""; ""3 Coping with the Civil Service System""; ""THE CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM""

""ADAPTIVE RESPONSES TO THE GENERAL SCHEDULE SYSTEM""""Special Rates""; ""Title 38""; ""P.L.-313 Positions""; ""Advance In-Step Hiring""; ""Special Pay Systems""; ""LESSONS FROM THE PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATIONS""; ""China Lake Demonstration""; ""National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Demonstration""; ""Department of Agriculture Demonstration""; ""Lessons""; ""4 Federal Pay Reform""; ""FEPCA PROVISIONS""; ""General Pay Comparability""; ""Nationwide Salary Adjustments""; ""Locality-Based Comparability Adjustments""; ""Presidential Discretion to Reduce Increases""

""Pay-Related Flexibilities""""Broader Special Pay Authority""; ""Authority to Start New Hires Above Minimum Rate""; ""Critical Positions""; ""Senior-Level Pay Band""; ""Recruitment, Relocation, and Retention Payments""; ""Advances of Pay""; ""Travel and Transportation Expenses""; ""Time Off as an Incentive Award""; ""Performance-Based Cash Awards""; ""Reemployment of Retirees""; ""Health Care Positions""; ""Additional Pay Systems""; ""Senior Biomedical Research Service""; ""Special Occupational Pay Systems""; ""5 Next Steps and Recommendations""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""

""WHO SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PERSONNEL POLICY FOR FEDERAL SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS?""""OPM Responsibilities""; ""Department and Agency Responsibilities""; ""Interagency Coordination""; ""Congress""; ""HOW SHOULD THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SYSTEM BE EVALUATED?""; ""Evaluation""; ""Responsibilities""; ""SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR ADMINISTERING THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING WORKFORCE""; ""A Senior Research and Development Service""; ""Peer Input for Science and Engineering Personnel Decisions""; ""More Flexible Position Classification""

""Quadrennial Review of the Science and Engineering Personnel System""



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996395425003316

Titolo

[Saint Bernards vision. Or, a briefe Discourse ... betweene the Soule and the Body of a damned man newly deceased ...] [[electronic resource] ] : with a speech of the Divels in Hell, etc

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Printed for J. Wright, . Cla[rke, ] W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger, [between 1681 and 1684]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut)

Altri autori (Persone)

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint,  <1090 or 91-1153.>

Fulbert, Saint, Bishop of Chartres,  <ca. 960-1028.>

Soggetti

Body and soul in literature

Meditations

Ballads, English - 17th century

Broadsides17th century.England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd. ed.).

Not in fact by St. Bernard; an English verse translation of the anonymous medieval Latin poem "Noctis sub silencio tempore brumali", sometimes referred to as "Visio Sancti Bernardi", "Visio Fulberti", or "Debate of the body and the soul".

Verse: "As I lay slumbring in my bed one night,".

Imperfect: cut into octavo sized pieces; title and some text wanting. MS. on recto and verso.

Reproduction of original in British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018