Author: Ron Slate
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: maggot, incentive
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2005-04-07
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0618543589
ISBN-13: 9780618543588

In his prize-winning debut collection, Ron Slate seeks out the intersections of art, technology, and humanity with intelligence, wit, and fervor. His unique voice is informed by his world travels as a business executive. As Robert Pinsky writes in his introduction, Slate “brings together the personal and the global in a way that is distinctive, subtle, defying expectations about what is political and what is personal.” In Slate’s words, "Is this the end of the world? / No just the end / of the language that describes it." Recently published in The New Yorker, Slate has been pra

Author: Carla Gibson
Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: incentive
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2004-12-07
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1589612477
ISBN-13: 9781589612471

When your physician tells you open-heart surgery is needed as soon as possible, you place your hand over your pounding heart and struggle to absorb the news. Would you ever think that you were being deceived? In 21st century health care the possibility is there. Physicians are disgusted at the way they are now forced to do business. This has caused more than just a few unscrupulous physicians to find their own way of dealing with our health care system.

Author: Charles F. Flaherty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: relativity, incentive
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 0521658632
ISBN-13: 9780521658638

Incentive relativity is the study of the disappointment and irritation shown by animals and humans when they fail to obtain an expected reward. This book provides a full account of the subject, focusing on animals’ responses to the relative value of rewards. These relativity effects cause stress in animals but they may also inspire adaptation beneficial to survival. This text shows how animal research may lead to an understanding of individual differences in discernment and susceptibility to disappointment, and to an understanding of both the advantages and disadvantages of dissatisfact

Author: CIPD
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Keywords: executive, briefing, plans, incentive, bonus, guide
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0852929552
ISBN-13: 9780852929551

Author: R. Scott
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing
Keywords: alliance, projects, based, incentive, europe, partnering
Number of Pages: 137
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0727729659
ISBN-13: 9780727729651

Partnering is increasingly adopted in both Europe and the UK in order to overcome the adversarialism which is often associated with traditional forms of contracting for construction projects.Partnering in Europe focuses on alliancing and how to implement it. Beginning with a general discussion of partnering, it moves on to look at the key features of alliancing and explains the benefits of adopting alliancing.

Author: Nigel Standing
Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd
Keywords: value, delivering, innovations, incentive, management, program
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2001-12-13
List price: $78.00
ISBN-10: 0727730304
ISBN-13: 9780727730305

This book covers value management incentive programs in depth highlighting their application and benefits to both client and contractor. The book also provides an insight into contractor led value engineering and its effective use in different procurement forms. Attention is also given to the alignment of value within the different procurement forms. Likewise it show the development of the project value chain from strategic value to operational value. Contents include: The Project Value Chain; Procurement and Contractor-led Value Engineering; Contractor Involvement in Value Engineering; Existi

Author: Scott Barrett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: public, goods, global, supply, incentive, cooperate
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-09-06
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199211892
ISBN-13: 9780199211890

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided?Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible introduction to the issues surrounding the provision of global public goods. Using a variety of examples to illustrate past successes and failures, he shows how international cooperation, institutional desi