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Links current theories of leadership to executive coaching and also shows how the return on coaching investment can be measured.

Annotation This book highlights the changes and challenges to the role of the HR Business Partner. It explores the emerging service delivery models for the HR function (in particular the development of shared services and outsourcing options) and what this means for the HR Business Partner (HR-BP) in the modern enterprise.

Offshoring to low-cost environments has increased over the last five years and the HR function is an obvious potential candidate for this strategy. ''The Indian Offshore Advantage'' is a definitive research report in this specialist field for any organization considering this step.

This is a lively and readable book is the first study of the extensive and wide-ranging forms of welfare delivered by state social welfare workers to families, also called discretionary welfare. It is based on the individual casework of social workers in the Depts of Education, Maori Affairs and Social Welfare and it provides multi-layered portraits of family life in this period that are frequently moving, often painful yet always absorbing. In particular it shows how the state through the social workers increasingly played a larger role in helping families to function in society. It depicts a world in which women were the central figures both giving and receiving assistance and in which though Maori struggled hard to establish legitimate claims for welfare, Maori welfare officers put Maori needs first and in ways that were really beneficial to Maori families.

This specially commissioned report sets out a blueprint for the future of HR to enable you to deliver proven value to your Board, business and colleagues. In this ground-breaking report you will learn all about: how to free up HR to deliver; the role of the Business Partner; the role of the Shared Service Centre; the pros and cons of outsourcing HR; the critical factors to look for in a partner; the keys to securing the best agreement; techniques for leveraging technology.

A specially researched report that explores the serious challenges and threats facing the profession of human resources. A blueprint for the future, helps professionals deliver proven value and proposes routes for survival and growth.

This biography of Malcolm Muggeridge traces the varied life of one of the most brilliant and controversial men of the twentieth century. The author, Ian Hunter, was given full access to all of Muggeridge''s unpublished material, letters, and diaries. The result is an objective, well-researched, and honest account that is sometimes at variance with Muggeridge''s own recollection of events. Ian Hunter captures the humor, the intellect, the rawness of perception, the abandoned honesty of a man engaged in knowing himself, his world, and his God. Malcolm Muggeridge was not merely a "vendor of words," as he invariably described himself, but was also a celebrated author, broadcaster, lecturer, debater, traveller, journalist and television personality, a one-time ardent admirer of the Soviet system, a World War II intelligence agent, and a former agnostic turned committed Christian. To many people, however, Malcolm Muggeridge was admired above all for his superb use of the English language. It is to the credit of Ian Hunter that after reading this biography one has a clearer understanding of an extraordinary man. Dr. Ian Hunter is professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. His articles and reviews have appeared in many Canadian and American poublications. He edited two collections of Muggeridge''s writings: Things Past and The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge; he also wrote a biography of Muggeridge''s friend, Hesketh Pearson (Nothing to Repent: The Life of Heskerth Pearson).

A textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students introducing microwave filter design and the circuit theory and network synthesis that are necessary to it. A variety of design theories are presented followed by specific examples with numerical simulations of the designs and when possible pictures of real devices. c. Book News Inc.

A 2001 reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history, treating the civil and metaphysical philosophers as rival intellectual cultures.

As a young man of 25, Robert Laidlaw launched a small mail-order business. With daring courage he overcame world wars, economic depression and tragic loss to build one of the largest retail chains in the Southern Hemisphere. From the highlands of Scotland to the shores of New Zealand, from Henry Ford''s moving assembly line in Detroit to the beaches of Normandy, this panoramic biography of one of the 20th century''s greatest businessmen is a story that will capture your heart and inspire you to action. A must-read for business professionals.

The policing of pornography remains a subject of widespread controversy. On Pornography provides a history of this policing and an understanding of the current debate. The authors show that obscenity law should not be understood negatively as censorship but as part of the positive administration of a particular practice of sexuality. This book indicates that obscenity law is not, as liberals claim, a mistaken attempt to police moral ideas, but rather forms part of the legitimate governmental regulation of a problematic social conduct.

The first section of this instructional guide explains why open learning needs marketing and what steps go into preparing a marketing campaign, including marketing the college and tutor time, service definition, service delivery, and communications. Changes in education that have affected open learning in recent years are addressed in the second section, including targeting the campaign. The following section focuses on identifying competitors and preparing a strategy to compete with them, using the technique of SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis. Specific benefits of using direct mail as a method of promotion are considered in the fourth section, including low cost and targeting specific groups; and sample calculations of cost effectiveness are presented. The next section describes the impact of computers on marketing work and identifies necessary software; and the organization of a direct mail campaign is examined in the sixth section, with emphasis on targeting. The concluding section addresses several topics, including target groups for open learning, preparing a direct mail database, preparing literature, writing copy, production costs, follow up, timing, and sources of funding. A checklist of questions to provide the basis for an open learning marketing campaign is included. Statistics from a 1987 survey of open learning in Bedfordshire County (England) are used as examples throughout; and answers to the exercises given in the guide are provided at the end. (ALF)

Since the Romantics culture has been identified with the promise of a complete development of human capacities and, typically, the ''rise of English'' has been viewed in terms of the (true or distorted) fulfilment of this promise in the education system. This book presents a sustained and historically informed challenge to that view.