Part of an ongoing effort to systemize the consideration of individual differences (e.g. age, sex, and cognitive style) and universal background (e.g. circadian rhythms, sleep, and temperature) into experimental research in psychology. This book draws from psychology and other fields related to human performance to bring together information about the effects of gender on underlying factors that may, in turn, affect performance. Also reviews the best current thinking about sex differences in real world performance.

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“Profit from the Positive is a rare business book that is deeply credible and compels you to act right away. If you put its tools and techniques into practice, you will become a better leader.” ―Tom Rath, from the ForewordYou're constantly challenged to grow your business, increase productivity, and improve quality―all while reducing or keeping budgets flat. So what's a manager to do?You've streamlined processes. You've restructured. You’ve sought customer and employee feedback. You've tried everything. Now, try something that works. Profit from the Positive is a practical, groundbreaking guide for business leaders, managers, executive coaches, and human resource professionals. Whether you lead three employees or 3,000, this book shows you how to increase productivity, collaboration, and profitability using the simple yet powerful tools from the new field of Positive Psychology.Featuring case studies of some of the most forward-thinking and successful companies today―Google, Zappos, and Amazon, to name a few―Profit from the Positive provides over two dozen evidence-based tools you can apply immediately. Learn how to:• Set habits, not just goals• Recognize the Achoo! effect• Stop asking the wrong questions• Hire for what's not on the resume• Turn strengths into a team sport• Preview, don't just review, performanceThe best part? These strategies don't cost a dime to implement! Trained by Dr. Martin Seligman, who is known as the father of Positive Psychology, Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin translate the scientific research and make it accessible to the business world.

Product Description: History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance...read more

Managing staff performance is an effective mechanism for developing both staff and organizational growth. By clarifying an organization’s objectives, translating these into clear individual goals, and reviewing these goals regularly, performance management provides a well-structured and effective management tool. This new edition of Armstrong’s Handbook of Performance Management looks at the results of major research in this area. Armstrong considers how evidence-based material can inform one’s understanding of performance management, and he provides practical guidance on how this evidence can be interpreted and applied.

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Product Description: The idea of using models to inform business practice seems appealing, as it suggests the abstraction and control of a large, complex subject by means of a smaller, easily manipulated mechanism. In reality, however, many models prove inadequate when translated into business methods...read more

Product Description: In this resource guide for fostering youth empowerment, Stephanie Y. Evans offers creative commentary on two hundred autobiographies that contain African American travel memoirs of places around the world. The narratives are by such well-known figures as Frederick Douglass, W...read more

Product Description: Imagine your best possible organization: a place where people strive for continuous improvement, communicate clearly and honestly, freely share information, respect their colleagues and leaders, make a difference -- and achieve truly extraordinary levels of performance, even in tough times...read more

Product Description: Practical guidelines for implementing the six disciplines of breakthrough learningThe Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning has become a standard for companies serious about increasing the return on their investment in learning and development...read more

Product Description: Increasing productivity is a nonnegotiable for any business that wants to survive, let alone thrive, in today’s climate. The problem is, there is no simple, single, plug-and-play solution that will work for anyone. The industries are too varied, technology is updating too rapidly, and customers are too inconsistent...read more

Effective performance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges, and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development and helps create a work-life balance.Written as an introduction for those thinking of becoming or hiring a coach – personal or corporate – and a reference guide for experienced coaches, Performance Coaching offers a guide to the fundamentals of coaching by illustrating how to develop a best practice approach. Using practical tools throughout the text and international case studies to demonstrate the various cultural challenges, Performance Coaching is a complete resource for developing coaching in any organization.The new edition is completely updated to offer a greater focus on building a coaching culture in organizations and on the challenges that leaders face in understanding and developing a coaching approach. 

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to help you put already-existing performance criteria in a context of your organizational system and assist you in using the criteria to assess problems in your organization. More importantly, this book will help you in designing systemic solutions to the systemic problems you have identified with easy-to-use samples and questions that draw out key areas where the organization needs to improve...read more

Product Description: When work becomes messy and complicated, we stop getting good work done, we lose sight of the things that inspire us, and sometimes we disengage. This book helps you translate your challenges at work into useful insights that boost learning and performance, and make your time spent at work a little better...read more

Product Description: Analytics for Leaders provides a concise, readable account of a complete system of performance measurement for an enterprise. Based on over twenty years of research and development, the system is designed to provide people at all levels with the quantitative information they need to do their jobs: board members to exercise due diligence about all facets of the business, leaders to decide where to focus attention next, and people to carry out their work well...read more