EPG SHRM Foundation’s Effective Practice Guidelines Series Building a High-Performance Culture: A Fresh Look at Performance Management By Elaine D. Pulakos, Rose A. Mueller-Hanson, Ryan S. O’Leary, and Michael M. Meyrowitz Sponsored by Halogen Building a High-Performance Culture: A Fresh Look at Performance Management This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information regarding the subject matter covered. Neither the publisher nor the author is engaged
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for prosecuting political libel’ has passed in India too. This may be particularly true of a particular species of libel know as ‘sedition’. Simplistically defined sedition is the defamation of the State and the government with certain peculiar characteristics[2]. In India the Sedition is defined as an offence under the Indian Penal Code in Section 124A. This Section was omitted from the original draft of the Code and was
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Introduction Would you ever admit to committing a crime that you didn’t actually commit? Of course not, says common sense. Naturally, it is difficult to understand why anyone would confess to a crime they didn’t commit. However, false confessions are one the leading causes of wrongful convictions.1 As the Supreme Court of Canada noted in R v. Oickle, innocent people are induced to make false confessions more frequently than those unacquainted with the phenomenon might expect.2 In North America
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VENTURE CAPITAL -- AN OVERVIEW OF THE BASIC ISSUES AND CHALLENGES FOR ENTREPRENEURS A NETPRENEUR.ORG SPECIAL REPORT AUGUST 2001 PREPARED BY: ANDREW J. SHERMAN, ESQ. ANDREW J. SHERMAN, ESQ. MCDERMOTT, WILL & EMERY 600 13TH STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005 (202) 756-8610 (202) 756-8087 (FAX) AJSHERMAN@MWE.COM (E-MAIL) WDC99 474195-1.T06139.0012 INTRODUCTION At several recent Netpreneur.org Coffee & DoughNuts events, including the May 23rd program on Ratchets, Cramdowns and Other
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The Hard Side of Change Management LEADERSHIP THE HARD SIDE OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT BY HAROLD L. SIRKIN, PERRY KEENAN, AND ALAN JACKSON FROM THE OCTOBER 2005 ISSUE 1 W $8.95 HEN FRENCH NOVELIST JEAN-BAPTISTE ALPHONSE KARR WROTE “PLUS ÇA CHANGE, PLUS C’EST LA MÊME CHOSE,” HE COULD HAVE BEEN PENNING AN EPIGRAM ABOUT CHANGE MANAGEMENT. FOR OVER THREE DECADES, ACADEMICS, MANAGERS, AND CONSULTANTS, REALIZING THAT TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS IS DIFFICULT
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International NGO Journal Vol. 3 (12), pp. 224-231, December, 2008 Available online at http:// www.academicjournals.org/INGOJ ISSN 1993–8225 © 2008 Academic Journals Article Euthanasia – A dignified end of life! Vaibhav Goel Faculty of Law Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa Ethiopia. E-mail: vaibhav_hnlu@yahoo.co.in. Accepted 27, October 2008 Survival is undoubtedly valuable but some time and in certain condition life becomes painful and impossible or unbearable, in that stage survilance
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Peculiarities of Adverbs in English Lviv - 2010 Contents Introduction Chapter 1. The adverb in English theoretical grammar 1.1 Categorial meaning of the adverb 1.2 Formal characteristics of the adverb 1.3 Syntactic functions and positional characteristics of the adverb Chapter 2. Paradigmatics of adverbs 2.1 Semantic classification of adverbs 2.2 Lexico-grammatical subdivision of adverbs Chapter 3. Syntagmatic valency of adverbs and its actualization in speech
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Introduction Leadership? What is it? What all does it encompass? Can you define it? Over decades, leadership has been a very fluid concept. Various scholars and researches (maybe influenced by the leaders of their respective times) define the term differently with each definition possessing unique features, qualities and its significance to the society as whole. For example, in 1930s, E.S. Bogardus defined it as “a process in which the activities of many are organized to move in a specific direction
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1. Introduction to Emotional Intelligence The intelligence quotient, or IQ, is a score derived from one of several different standardized tests to measure intelligence. It has been used to assess giftedness, and sometimes underpin recruitment. Many have argued that IQ, or conventional intelligence, is too narrow: some people are academically brilliant yet socially and interpersonally inept. And we know that success does not automatically follow those who possess a high IQ rating.
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Jing Wu jingwu@callutheran.edu LEADERSHIP IN GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS INTRODUCTION In Apple’s offices, where are located at Cupertino, California, IT engineers finished the design of the new iPhone. Then the project would be sent to several Japanese companies and ordered sophisticated core components, such as sensors, blue modules, and chips, for the new product. At the same time, depending on the new design, Apple’s partner at Korea also started producing components of screen and battery. After
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