Author: James S. Pepitone
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: human, performance, business, improving, productive, transforming, consulting, potential
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2000-09-19
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 0877193525
ISBN-13: 9780877193524

New rules require a new game plan. More than 80% of today’s workforce comprises knowledge-and service-based workers, rendering obsolete the conventional understanding of organizational performance. New work roles require new managerial skills and methods. This innovative book shows how ’new human performance specialists’ can mold and construct work situations that enhance performance, productivity, and profits. The methods go beyond individual improvement and show how to create and sustain work situations that foster high levels of performance.’Human Performance Consul

Authors:Sally Banes, Andre Lepecki,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: performance, worlds, senses
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-07
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415281865
ISBN-13: 9780415281867

An edited collection of essays on the role of the senses in performance. Sight is the only sense to have been investigated in any great depth in relation to performance so far. This volume is spearheading a growing movement to start examining the other senses and their role in performance. The book covers a lot of ground: all the sense are discussed in relation to Western and non-Western performance, including performance art, opera, dance and drama.

Author: Bob Frost
Publisher: Measurement Intl
Keywords: performance, strategy, improve, deploy, new, using, measuring, metrics
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0970247117
ISBN-13: 9780970247117

This primer distills the essence of an important topic and presents it in plain language for leaders. Measuring Performance show how advanced measures are giving leaders new leverage to create change, manage performance, and produce better results. It covers developing the right measures, using metrics to improve performance, and key issues that arise in deploying metrics.

Author: Alan H. D. Watson
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: performance, injury, related, biology, musical
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 2009-02-16
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0810863596
ISBN-13: 9780810863590

Music performance requires a high degree of physical skill, yet until recently, musical training has paid little attention to the considerable demands made on the mind and body. The Biology of Musical Performance and Performance-Related Injury presents singers and instrumentalists with accurate information on the physical processes that underlie their craft. The book provides a concise overview of the biological principles associated with performance technique while assuming no prior scientific knowledge, making it accessible to both musicians and to health professionals who treat performance-

Author: Robert Bacal
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: performance, improving, lessons, manage
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $8.74
ISBN-10: 0077116232
ISBN-13: 9780077116231

"How to Manage Performance" explains how to apply and stimulate greater productivity in the workplace. The reader will gain invaluable tips and pointers for achieving performance levels once thought unattainable. While performance itself may be a wide-ranging, difficult-to-quantify word, the results of improved performance are easy to measure and can mean the difference between competitive strength and vulnerability. The reader will discover techniques that can be used to inspire breakthrough performance, infusing both employees and the reader’s career with renewed commitment and success

Author: Mark A. Stiffler
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: performance, organization, creating, driven
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-03-10
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0471732729
ISBN-13: 9780471732723

A unified approach to performance management that integrates organization and employee performance Performance provides a practical framework for rethinking what performance management is and how it can be used to better execute strategy. It clearly presents a unified approach for aligning, measuring, rewarding, reporting, and analyzing the performance of an organization and its people that enables executives and managers to move beyond today’s incomplete and fragmented approach to performance management. Featuring real-world illustrations and intuitive, practical, and actionable step

Author: Peter Lückoff
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: performance, persistence, fund, mutual
Number of Pages: 586
Published: 2011-03-01
List price: $111.60
ISBN-10: 3834927805
ISBN-13: 9783834927804

Superior investment performance is the ultimate objective of mutual fund investors. However, past fund performance is no reliable indicator of future performance. Peter Lückoff investigates why fund flows and manager changes act as equilibrium mechanisms and drive the performance of both previously outperforming and previously under-performing funds back to average levels. These results have important implications for investors, investment management companies and regulators.