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[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910458754403321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Tangwa Godfrey B"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Road companion to democracy and meritocracy [[electronic resource] ] : (further essays from an African perspective) / / Godfrey B. Tangwa"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2010"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-282-86919-1"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786612869198"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9956-578-37-1"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9956-616-84-2"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9956-616-92-3"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (264 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"321.8"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Democracy - Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Africa Politics and government Philosophy"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Africa Civilization"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","\"This book is a follow-up to my Democracy and meritocracy : philosophical essays and talks from an African perspective (Galda + Wilch Verlag, Glienicke-Berlin, 1996)\"--P. xiii."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Content; Dedication; Acknowledgement; Preface; Part One; 1. Democracy and Development in Africa: Putting the Horse before the Cart; 2. The Medium and Long Term Lessons of the Lake Nyos Natural Disaster; 3. X For All by the Year 2000; 4. Letter to the Dean; 5. Fonlon's Socratic Life: Its Relevance to our Political Culture and Contemporary Situation; 6. The Sasse Motto Fide Quaerens Intellectum; 7. The Plight of the Ex-seminarian and Ex-religious in Modern Cameroon; 8. Bernard Fonlon Evening Monday 19th November 1990; 9. Fale Wache, Lament of a Mother"]
[{"$nulls":4},"10. On The Television Programme \"The Debate\"11. Is There Really an Anglophone Problem in Cameroon?; 12. The Beginning of the End; 13. Our Book of Revelations; 14. Cameroonians are Unshockable; 15. From Unshockability to Exaggerated Credulity; 16. For the Attention of my Students; 17. Revelations Chapter 3; 18. Our Mungo Bridges; Part Two. In the Spirit of GOBATA; 1. The Stuff Mandela is Made of; 2. Of Prof Ngwafor's Practical Jealousy and Ambition's Sterner Stuff; 3. Struggling Non-violently: The Case of the SCNC; 4. Western Democracies and "]
[{"$nulls":4},"African Dictatorships"]
[{"$nulls":4},"5. Western Democracies and African Dictatorships6. Tenth Anniversary of a Horrible Year; 7. Where we Should Be Heading; 8. In the Spirit of a Zealous Disciple; 9. A Rich Harvest of Peters by Paul; 10. The Collapse of the French Empire in Africa; 11. Between Mvondo and Mvodo;  The Emergence of Victor Ayissi; 12. Corruption Fights Cameroon; 13. Rumours of Dangerous Manoeuvres and Machinations; 14. Politics of Back Scratching; 15. For the Attention of All Potential Ethnic Cleansers; 16. Independent Electoral Commission, an Absolute Necessity; 17. How to Demystify John Fru Ndi"]
[{"$nulls":4},"18. If You Saw The Shah Escaping...19. On Behalf of a College Room-mate; 20. Mixed Signals of the Emerging Shape of Things; 21. Address to the Youth; 22. Registering on the Electoral List; 23. In Provisional Praise of Paul Biya; 24. Constitutional Council: Why we Are Worried; 25. For Every Mobutu a Kabila; 26. Killing an Innocent Person Can Never Be Justified; 27. On the Threshold of a Democratic Breakthrough; 28. Yielding Place to a New Order; 29. Mola Njoh Litumbe's Concept of Home; 30. As a Participant Observer; 31. Waiting for Kabila; 32. Kleptocracy and Mendacity as Identification Marks"]
[{"$nulls":4},"33. Non Dimittis, Domine33Non Dimittis, Domine"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Each of the essays in this book is marked by a certain simplicity and clarity, a seriousness tinged with humour, masking a profundity that are unmistakably characteristic of Godfrey B. Tangwa alias Rodcod Gobata, one of the leading critical minds amongst Cameroonians. The essays are centred on the theme of democracy and meritocracy which the author believes to be the pre-conditions for genuine development in Africa. The immediate focus of these essays is Cameroon, a country remarkable for experimenting with French/English bilingualism and for having a political dictatorship which claims, wrong"]
[null,"2.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910154782803321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Phillips Jean <1969->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Strategic staffing / / Jean M. Phillips, Stan M. Gully"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Boston : , : Pearson, , 2015"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-292-07350-0"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[Third edition, global edition.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Always learning"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"658.3"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Personnel management"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Employee selection"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 Strategic Staffing -- The Staffing Context -- Defining Strategic Staffing -- How Strategic Staffing Differs from Traditional Staffing -- The Components of Strategic Staffing -- Workforce Planning -- Sourcing and Recruiting Talent -- Selecting Talent -- Acquiring Talent -- Deploying Talent -- Retaining Talent -- Matchmaking Process -- The Goals of Strategic Staffing -- Identifying Staffing Goals -- Evaluating the Staffing System -- Integrating the Functional Areas of Human Resource Management -- Training -- Compensation -- Performance Management -- Career Development and Succession Management -- The Organization of This Book -- Summary -- Takeaway Points -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Semester-Long Active Learning Project -- Case Study Assignment: Chern's -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2 Business and Staffing Strategies -- A Resource-Based View of the Firm -- What Is the Resource-Based View of the Firm? -- Requirements of a Competitive Advantage -- The Firm's Business Strategy -- Types of Business Strategies -- Making Changes to the Firm's Business Strategy-and Staffing -- How the Organizational Life Cycle Affects Staffing -- The Firm's Talent Philosophy -- Filling Vacancies or Hiring for Long-Term Careers -- The Firm's Commitment to Diversity -- Applicants and Employees as Either Assets or Investors -- The Firm's Commitment to Ethical Behavior -- Deriving the Firm's Staffing Strategy -- The Firm's Strategic Staffing Decisions -- Should We Establish a Core or Flexible Workforce? -- Should Our Talent Focus Be Internal or External? -- Should We Hire People with the Skills We Need or Train Them to Develop Those Skills? -- Should Talent Be "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Replaced or Retained? -- Which Skills and What Level of Them Should We Seek? -- Should We Pursue Proactive or Reactive Staffing?."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Which Jobs Should We Focus On? -- Is Staffing an Investment or a Cost? -- Should Our Staffing Function Be Centralized or Decentralized? -- Achieving a Competitive Talent Advantage -- Summary -- Takeaway Points -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Semester-Long Active Learning Project -- Case Study Assignment: Strategic Staffing at Chern's -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3 The Legal Context -- The Types of Employment Relationships -- Types of Employees -- Independent Contractors -- Outsourcing -- Laws and Regulations -- The Laws Relevant to Staffing -- Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) -- Global Issues -- Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Quotas -- Equal Employment Opportunity -- Affirmative Action -- Quotas -- Enforcement Agencies -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) -- The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) -- The Bases for Employment Lawsuits -- Disparate Treatment -- Adverse (or Disparate) Impact -- Defending Failure-to-Hire Lawsuits -- Fraudulent Recruitment -- Negligent Hiring -- Trade Secret Litigation -- Sexual Harassment -- EEOC Best Practices -- Barriers to Legally Defensible Staffing -- General Barriers -- Specific Barriers -- Summary -- Takeaway Points -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Semester-Long Active Learning Project -- Case Study Assignment: Strategic Staffing at Chern -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4 Strategic Job Analysis and Competency Modeling -- Job Analysis and the Strategy Behind It -- Types of Job Analyses -- The Legal and Practical Reasons for Doing a Job Analysis -- Job Descriptions and Person Specifications -- Common Job Analysis Methods -- The Critical Incidents Technique -- The Job Elements Method -- Interview Methods -- The Task Inventory Approach -- The Structured Questionnaire Method -- Planning a Job Analysis -- Time and Resources -- Identifying Job Experts."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Identifying Appropriate Job Analysis Techniques -- Conducting a Job Analysis -- Get the Support of Top Management -- Communicate the Purpose of the Job Analysis to All Participants -- Collect Background Information -- Generate the Task Statements -- Generate the KSAOs -- Form the Job Duty Groupings -- Link the KSAOs Back to the Job Duties -- Collect Critical Incidents -- Weight the Job Duties -- Construct a Job Requirements Matrix -- Write the Job Description and Person Specification -- Other Methods: Competency Modeling and Job Rewards Analysis -- Competency Modeling -- Job Rewards Analysis -- Summary -- Takeaway Points -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Semester-Long Active Learning Project -- Case Study Assignment: Strategic Staffing at Chern's -- Endnotes -- Chapter 5 Forecasting and Planning -- The Workforce Planning Process -- Forecasting A Firm's Labor Demand -- Seasonal Forecasts -- Interest Rate Forecasts -- Currency Exchange Rate Forecasts -- Competition-Based Forecasts -- Industry and Economic Forecasts -- Legal Factors -- Other Factors -- Internal Forecasting Tools -- Forecasting a Firm's Labor Supply -- Forecasting the Internal Labor Market -- Forecasting the External Labor Market -- Resolving the Gaps Between the Firm's Labor Supply and Labor Demand -- Dealing with a Temporary Talent Shortage -- Dealing with a Persistent Talent Shortage -- Dealing with a Temporary Employee Surplus -- Dealing with a Persistent Employee Surplus -- Staffing Planning -- How Many People Should Be Recruited? -- What Resources Are Needed? -- How Much Time Will It Take to Hire the Employees? -- Summary -- Takeaway Points -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Semester-Long Active Learning Project -- Case Study Assignment: Strategic Staffing at Chern's -- Endnotes -- Chapter 6 Sourcing: "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Identifying Recruits -- What Is Sourcing?."]
[{"$nulls":4},"What Makes a Recruiting Source Effective? -- What Recruiting Sources Exist? -- Internal Recruiting Sources -- External Recruiting Sources -- Employee Referrals -- Creating a Sourcing Plan -- Profiling Desirable Employees -- Performing Ongoing Recruiting Source Effectiveness Analyses -- Prioritizing Recruiting Sources -- Sourcing Nontraditional Applicant Pools -- Workers with Disabilities -- Older Workers -- Welfare Recipients -- Global Sourcing and Geographic Targeting -- Global Sourcing -- Geographic Targeting -- Summary -- Takeaway Points -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Semester-Long Active Learning Project -- Case Study Assignment: Strategic Staffing at Chern's -- Endnotes -- Chapter 7 Recruiting -- What Is Recruiting? -- How Applicants React to Recruiting? -- Fairness Perceptions -- Spillover Effects -- What Makes a Recruiter Effective? -- The Recruiter's Characteristics -- The Different Types of Recruiters -- Other Factors Influencing a Recruiter's Effectiveness -- Training and Developing Recruiters -- Recruiting Knowledge -- Interpersonal Skills -- Presentation Skills -- The Organization's Goals and Recruiting Objectives -- Legal Issues -- Multiple Assessments -- Applicant Attraction -- Recruiting Metrics -- Setting Recruiters' Goals -- Giving Recruiters the Incentive to Meet Their Goals -- Global Recruiting -- Developing Applicant Attraction Strategies -- Developing the Organization's Image and Brand -- Developing the Organization's Employer Brand -- Developing the Recruiting Message -- Developing Realistic Job Previews -- Developing Self-Assessment Tools -- Timing the Disclosure of Information -- Achieving Recruitment Consistency -- Developing a Recruiting Guide -- Following the EEOC's Best Recruiting Practices -- Summary -- Takeaway Points -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Semester-Long Active Learning Project."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Case Study Assignment: Strategic Staffing at Chern's -- Endnotes -- Chapter 8 Measurement -- What Is Measurement? -- Describing and Interpreting Data -- Types of Measurement -- Scores -- Shifting the Normal Curve -- Using Data Strategically -- Correlations -- Interpreting Correlations -- Regressions -- What are the Characteristics of Useful Measures? -- Reliability -- Standard Error of Measurement -- Validity -- Using Existing Assessment Methods -- Selection Errors -- Standardization and Objectivity -- Creating and Validating an Assessment System -- Benchmarking -- Evaluating Assessment Methods -- Summary -- Takeaway Points -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Semester-Long Active Learning Project -- Case Study Assignment: Strategic Staffing at Chern's -- Chapter Supplement -- Endnotes -- Chapter 9 Assessing External Candidates -- The Firm's External Assessment Goals -- Maximizing Fit -- Assessing Accurately -- Maximizing the Firm's Return on Its Investment in Its Assessment System -- Generating Positive Stakeholder Reactions -- Supporting the Firm's Talent Philosophy and Human Resource Strategy -- Establishing and Reinforcing the Firm's Employer Image -- Identifying New Hires' Developmental Needs -- Assessing Ethically -- Complying with the Law -- External Assessment Methods -- Screening Assessment Methods -- Evaluative Assessment Methods -- Contingent Assessment Methods -- Using Multiple Methods -- Reducing Adverse Impact -- Assessment Plans -- Summary -- Takeaway Points -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Semester-Long Active Learning Project -- Case Study Assignment: Strategic Staffing at Chern's -- Endnotes -- Chapter 10 Assessing Internal Candidates -- The Firm's Internal Assessment Goals -- Evaluating Employees' Fit with Other Jobs -- Enhancing the Firm's Strategic Capabilities."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Gathering Information with Which to Make Downsizing Decisions."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Where the strategy of staffing and business align.Strategic Staffing prepares all current and future managers to take a strategic and modern approach to the identification, attraction, selection, deployment, and retention of talent. Grounded in research but full of real-world examples, this text describes how organisations can develop a staffing strategy that reinforces business strategy, leverages staffing technology, and evaluates and improves staffing systems.This edition includes new and relevant topics on staffing that students will be able to immediately apply in their future career."]