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Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory, Third Edition (Applied Psychology)
Robert E. Ployhart , Benjamin Schneider , and Neal Schmitt
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory, the new third edition of a classic in the field, shows how organizations of all sizes can use effective staffing procedures as a source of sustained competitive advantage. Practically, the book shows how to choose, develop, and administer effective staffing procedures, including conducting job analyses, defining and measuring job performance, identifying predictors of performance that are both valid and legally defensible, and using this information to make sound hiring decisions. All three authors are active practitioners and recommendations based on their experiences are interwoven throughout the chapters. The authors are also grounded in a scientific, conceptual perspective that informs what they say and do in the staffing area. They review cutting-edge theory and research in diverse areas of importance to the practice of staffing, and identify scientific advances as well as areas that should be informed by additional research. Examples of such cutting-edge issues include: multilevel staffing models linking individual, group, and organizational levels; comprehensive consideration of diversity and cross-cultural challenges; the opportunities and challenges of the use of information technology in staffing; the legal, professional, and ethical challenges facing staffing practitioners; modern statistical approaches (e.g., structural equation modeling, item response theory, hierarchical linear modeling); and integrated models of staffing predictors and frameworks for understanding predictor and criterion spaces. Each chapter contains real-world examples and illustrations, a discussion of best practices, practical recommendations, and directions for future research. In doing so, Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory is a modern version of a genuine classic.

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Saved me $100.......2007-10-04

I ordered this book on 10-2-2007 and I received it the next day. The shipping was a little under $4.00. I called my bookstore at my school and was told that the schools copy of this book is $142.00. I was upset when I found out that i couldnt even get it used. But I checked this site and saw this one and brought it that day? My Professor was impressed with the copy of this text and that it covers everything that we are learning in this course. Thank you for helping a single mom of 2 save money!

Fantastic reference.......2007-02-21

Ignore the bogus rating provided by the other reviewer -- this is an exceptional book for those interested in an advanced coverage of selection and staffing. The major strength of this text is that it starts with an excellent coverage of relevant research methods topics, including validity, that are critical for students or practitioners learning about selection. The book then moves into coverage of specific predictors, and the reviews for each are concise, informed by up-to-date research, and take into account the perspective of both researchers and HR professionals. I use this book extensively when teaching selection and recommend it for all I/O Psychologists and HR professionals.

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Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice, Third Edition

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Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice, Third Edition
John Bratton , and Jeffrey Gold
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice 10th Edition

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Human Resource Management offers a critical and analytical commentary on the evolving area of HRM. Balancing the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject Human Resource Management is an invaluable course companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition is also packed with new features, including web links and a brand new website, and offers a complete teaching and learning package.

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Overly complicated.......2003-10-31

There is no denying that this book has everything the aspiring human resource manager or theorist needs to know but it is presented in such a style as to be at times virtually unreadable.
Admittedly this is a complex subject but it can be expressed in much clearer terms and indeed has been by other author's on this subject such as Marchington.

In summary this is not a bad book but for someone new to the area or looking for an easily readable summary of the latest developments in this field a more easily digestable text is recommended. This perhaps is one for those people who already have a degree of understanding in this area although it is ironically aimed at those who do not.

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An awaited component to NMS review books, NMS Review for the USMLE Step 3 keeps the gold standard. The question-and-answer format correlates with the revised USMLE format. There are 600 multiple-choice items contained in four separate 150-question examinations, designed to cover important clinical encounter frames and physician tasks, and to consider each clinical setting found on the actual USMLE Step 3 exam: office-based, hospital-based, emergency department-based and satellite clinic-based. Answers are followed by detailed discussions. This thorough review and preparation book also features clinical encounter levels from USMLE Step 3, namely, the initial visit setting, continued care and emergency care.

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A steal at less than $40: this book has a cost/benefit ratio that's impossible to beat.......2007-03-28

Regardless of what one prefers to believe, physicians tend to be, on average, of only slightly higher intelligence than the standard person. As such, most of their learning is obtained via the same methods as the general population: repetition and forced, timely recall. I invoke this bit of information in order to provide an appropriate frame for the flavor of my review.

"Review for Usmle Step 3" is essentially a question bank--and it is a colossal one at that, with 750 questions available spanning five examinations. The questions are of the "single best answer" variety, with a few negative (i.e., which of the following is NOT...) inquiries thrown in the selection. Following every examination, there is a question-review section, within which evidence is outlined for why one answer is right and the others are incorrect.

There is also a CD-ROM included with this book--encoded within it is a software program with which one may practice the same questions present in the book on their computer.

I found this book to be an excellent resource for self-assessment prior to sitting for the USMLE step 3. The five written tests were a great way for me to home in on my weak areas, as every question explanation includes a mini-legend which demarcates the question's medical discipline focus (i.e., OB/GYN, internal medicine, pediatrics, etc., or some combination).

This medical-discipline-area information enabled me to do some rough calculations as to my knowledge deficit in each area. Before I challenged the next practice exam, I would "bone up" in the discipline in which I calculated myself weakest. It was in this way that I was able to review weak areas systematically, instead to just "reading everything". There are several online question bank services which perform this same evaluation automatically, but none can claim that they provide this information for $40!

There are several caveats:

1. The book is somewhat dated.
2. Some questions drift from the case-format seen in a majority of USMLE Step 3 items.
3. There are too many questions per case (up to 5 or 6, while the USMLE contains a maximum of 2 or 3).
4. A few questions require remarkably specific knowledge regarding numerical parameters which designate disease (i.e., fasting glucose tolerance test disease cut-off values)--in modern exams, laboratory min-max tables eliminate nearly all "number-knowledge" requirements.
5. Presence of several "negative-answer" format questions (NOT, EXCEPT, etc.)

There is a CD-ROM included with the book. The CD-ROM is essentially a rehash of all questions covered in the book--if you really need your questions to be available to you at all times, then perhaps the CD-ROM will benefit you.

To the medical student/resident with a limited budget: great book for diagnosing your weak spots.
To the medical student/resident with an unlimited budget: subscribe to Qbank or another, equivalent, online question bank; by the way, the rest of us hate you. Kidding.
To all: this book alone is not enough; questions are important, but you need to create an "information scaffold" in your mind--pick up an adjunct review textbook as well.

Good luck on your exam.

Why bother?.......2006-09-25

Just do qbank or qbook. Don't buy, don't borrow, don't waste your time.

okay study book.......2006-05-26

This question book is an okay review of subjects if you perfer a Q/A format way of learning. However, the question format and style of questions are not similar to the USMLE Step 3. There are few Negative questions (eg. all of the following except) in the USMLE Step 3 and at the most, there are 3 questions following a passage (In NMS, there can be up to 6-7 questions following a passage). I found the NMS review to be too detailed (like questions we see in Step 1 and 2- eg) indirect inguinal hernias are medial to what structure.....)
I found the Kaplan Q book the most similar to the style and content of USMLE Step 3 (However, the passages in Kaplan tend to be very long and detailed). A good review book is Crush Step 3 as well. Good Luck!

Great review book...........2006-03-09

I'll admit, I made a mistake. I decided to hold off taking Step 3 until two months before my pediatric residency was finished. Back then, it wasn't required to maintain your residency in this state. So you can imagine, after nearly 3 years of pediatric medicine, how far removed I was from a lot of adult medical issues. I used two books, this one and "Crush step 3." Both were definitely helpful, but I felt this one by far helped me the most. Sure the question formats are not exactly like the real test. But Q and A style studying tends to make me retain the information much better than just passive reading. The explanations are quite thorough and the difficulty of the questions were just about the same for the real test. NMS has always been good to me when taking the previous two steps of the USMLE, and they didn't let me down with step 3.

if you were to use just one question book...........2005-06-05

Hopefully you have more time than that. I took my step 3 in 2005, used both NMS and Qbook for questions and review, given this edition of NMS was published in 2002 and Qbook 2004, and I was paranoid. But if I only had time for one question book, I'd prefer NMS, as Qbook tends to go into too much detail that I probably would not need to pass my exam, and NMS really did a very good job in the explanations.

Do you need Qbank? I didn't get it because, 1. it is very expensive; 2. it lacks the flexibility in studying as it requires you to sit in front of the computer; 3. it can be very tiring, as if I no longer feel bad enough that I had to dish out $600+ for the test and sit through 2 days of exam; 4. after step 1 and 2, I really do not need to familiarize myself any more with the computer interface (NMS also comes with a computer question format along with the hardcopy); 5. Qbank is pretty up to date if that's a concern. And I have always wondered if the questions overlapped between Qbook and Qbank. I wrote to Kaplan, they never wrote me back.

Now, hopefully NMS will come up with a newer edition soon, otherwise if you are taking your step 3 in 2006 or later, you may want to think twice. However, I will still give this a 4 star in 2005.

NMS Review for USMLE Step 3 (National Medical Series for Independent Study)

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NMS for boards

NMS Review for USMLE Step 3 (National Medical Series for Independent Study)
Mitchell H Rosner , and Andrew E Lazar
Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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The thoroughly updated Second Edition of this popular and widely used review book offers excellent preparation for the USMLE Step 3. This edition contains six simulated USMLE tests, totaling 900 questions followed by answers and explanations. Questions are organized into clinical encounter frames and written in a case-based interactive format that closely simulates the actual examination. They expose readers to all the physician tasks and practice settings--office, hospital, emergency department, and satellite clinic--that are tested on the exam. The comprehensive coverage includes internal medicine, general surgery, psychiatry, pediatrics, neurology, and obstetrics/gynecology. A bound-in CD-ROM contains questions that simulate the computer-based test format.

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NMS for boards.......2007-04-11

Great book,really helpful.Questions are much harder than you'll find on the boards.

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G. Beutler's Methods of Celestial Mechanics is a coherent textbook for students as well as an excellent reference for practitioners. The first volume gives a thorough treatment of celestial mechanics and presents all the necessary mathematical details that a professional would need. The reader will appreciate the well-written chapters on numerical solution techniques for ordinary differential equations, as well as that on orbit determination. In the second volume applications to the rotation of earth and moon, to artificial earth satellites and to the planetary system are presented. The author addresses all aspects that are of importance in high-tech applications, such as the detailed gravitational fields of all planets and the earth, the oblateness of the earth, the radiation pressure and the atmospheric drag. The concluding part of this monumental treatise explains and details state-of-the-art professional and thoroughly-tested software for celestial mechanics. The accompanying CD-ROM enables readers to employ this software themselves and also serves as to illustrate and reinforce the related theoretical concepts.

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This handbook attempts to select or define robust procedures that ensure the best use of resources and enable laboratories to generate consistent, reliable data. Written in concise, easy-to-read language and illustrated with worked examples, it is a guide to current best practice and establishes a control framework for the development and validation of laboratory-based analytical methods. Topics include samples and sampling, method selection, equipment calibration and qualification, method development and validation, evaluation of data and statistical approaches for method performance and comparison.

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A troubling story, beautifully told

Fast and easy read

Sweet with a sharp sting

A 5 Star book if ever there was one!

Refuses to let go

Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris
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In Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris returns to the small-town, postwar France of Chocolat. This time she follows the fortunes of Framboise Dartigan, named for a raspberry but with the disposition of, well, a lemon. The proprietor of a café in a rustic village, this crabby old lady recalls the days of her childhood, which coincided with the German occupation. Back then, she and her brother and sister traded on the black market with the Germans, developing a friendship with a charismatic young soldier named Tomas. This intrigue provided a distraction from their grim home life--their father was killed in the war and their mother was a secretive, troubled woman. Yet their relationship with Tomas led to a violent series of events that still torment the aging Framboise.

Harris has a challenging project here: to show the complicated, messy reality behind such seemingly simple terms as collaborator and Resistance. To the children, of course, these were mere abstractions: "We understood so little of it. Least of all the Resistance, that fabulous quasi-organization. Books and the television made it sound so focused in later years; but I remember none of that. Instead I remember a mad scramble in which rumor chased counter-rumor and drunkards in cafes spoke loudly against the new regime." The author's portrait of occupier and occupied living side by side is given texture by her trademark appreciation of all things French. Yes, some passages read like romantic, black-and-white postcards: "Reine's bicycle was smaller and more elegant, with high handlebars and a leather saddle. There was a bicycle basket across the handlebars in which she carried a flask of chicory coffee." But these simple pleasures, recorded with such adroitness, are precisely what give Framboise solace from the torment of her past. --Claire Dederer

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In her bestselling and critically acclaimed novel Chocolat, Joanne Harris told a lush story of the conflicts between pleasure and repression. Now she delivers her most complex and sophisticated work yet, an unforgettable tale of mothers and daughters, of the past and the present, of resisting and succumbing -- an extraordinary work of fiction lined with darkness and fierce joy.

When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a scrapbook of recipes and memories that Framboise has inherited from her mother. And soon Framboise will realize that the journal also contains the key to the tragedy that indelibly marked that summer of her ninth year....

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A troubling story, beautifully told.......2007-08-14

Despite beautiful and sensuous prose, this is not an easy read. It demands perseverence from the reader but in the end patience is rewarded: it delivers so much. Its structure is composed of two parallel tales, one set in the present and one comprised of 40-year-old memories of German-occupied France. Harris pulls no punches as she examines the actions and motivations of people living in times that often demanded troubling compromises ... and worse. Few are spared. The role of the good mother is turned on its head. A cold eye is cast on the myth of the noble Resistance. Provocative questions are raised about the innocence of childhood. But the stories inexorably move towards their united climax to show how wisdom and love require acknowledgment of the truth, which sometimes is slow in revealing itself. The ultimate message of "Five quarters of the Orange" is that wisdom and love have their own schedule and it's never too late for either.

Fast and easy read.......2007-06-20

This is a popular book--though it was more popular in Europe than the States. It begins with a mystery. As the mystery unfolds, it reveals character and culture. The main action of the book is told as back-story. A middle-aged woman returns to her native community in rural France. The story is wonderfully atmospheric. The atmosphere is created through an infusion of delightful food and wine and snippets of WWII era French culture. It is no doubt a popular book with the Martha Stewart crowd. But there is a more sinister story, the real story involves Nazis and a community lynching. The story itself is unique enough to keep the Better Homes and Gardens aspect from overwhelming the narrative.

I think the only thing that kept this from being a great book was the author's reliance on mystery. She holds back information. And though this technique did move me through the narrative, and the author did eventually deliver on her promises, I could not help but wonder if the strong mystery aspect was not in someway making up for something the book lacked. I hate to refer to that old American classic, Gatsby, but I will. Where Fitzgerald used the mystery only so long as it was necessary, letting the device fall away to reveal a narrative driven by characters and their actions, there is little beyond the mystery in Harris's novel. Once the mystery is solved, the novel ends.

Sweet with a sharp sting.......2007-04-29

After reading Chocolat (before the movie came out), I wanted to try another of Joanne Harris's novels. I picked up Five Quarters of the Orange at an airport and was impressed. The story is woven into a compact and powerful book that looks at life in Nazi occupied France. In the small village of Les Laveuses, you discover the small town life that stills continues even with Nazi occupation: farms, harvest, the change of people to the seasons, love, hate, gossip, etc.
Framboise Dartigen narrates this story, both from a child's perspective and as an elderly woman. The two stories slide back and forth and give a vivid and powerful feeling of what life was like on that small farm and in that small village. The interactions between the family are drawn richly and with precision. An incedence when Frambouse is younger drives the family from the town, and she only returns many years later and under another name. The story unfolds to reveal the secret but not to the very end of the book.
The story is dark and the amounts of cruelty between siblings, mother and daughter is drawn with a sharp, slicing knife. Harris' writing uncurls slowly, like the pealing orange on the cover, the sights, sounds, and smells from her wonderfully chosen words draws you in. I must admit that the book does slow a little in the middle but gets it upward momentum back again towards the end. Many who loved Chocolat may be turned off by the dark tone of this book, yet it is Harris' skill at words and character development that really lend you to appreciate the story that is being told. I would recommend this novel for both the beautiful and ugly imagery it conjures.

A 5 Star book if ever there was one!.......2007-04-15

An adroit, mesmerising novel. I could not put this down, so astonishing and gripping was this story and Harris's subtle, impactful writing. I wanted it to go on forever, couldn't wait to get to the conclusion; the sign of a great book.

Refuses to let go.......2007-01-13

A French widow recalls her girlhood in a village beside the Loire, as she tries to keep the secret that caused her family to be expelled from the town. Joanne Harris is a compelling storyteller; I think there are only a few, and possibly none, who are better. Her stories gently capture the reader and refuse to let go. Along the way, she seems always to incorporate descriptions of foods and cooking that make me want to spend more time with my own cookbooks! This novel grips and tugs and compels, and what more could you ask?

Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel (P.S.)

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Interesting chilldhood tale

Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel (P.S.)
Joanne Harris
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Interesting chilldhood tale .......2007-06-19

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris contained a mystery that kept me reading until I finished the book in just 3 nights. Harris wrote the book like the main character Framboise was just sitting around telling a childhood story to a friend over coffee. Reading the story, I felt comfortable as "Framboise's friend" and enjoyed her tale of adolescence. In the beginning of the story, Framboise casually tells us "I know, I know. You want me to get to the point... It has taken me fifty-five years to begin. At least let me do it in my own way." Harris' use of details and descriptions helped to paint of vivid picture in my mind of Framboise's childhood. I liked the way Harris described Framboise's older sister Reine-Claude in comparison to Framboise, "At twelve, my sister has already ripened. Soft and sweet as dark honey, with amber eyes and autumn hair... next to her I looked like a frog, my mother told me, an ugly skinny little frog with my wide sullen mouth and my big hands and big feet." The book describes the conflict of mother and daughter relationships. Harris shows that no matter how badly we don't want to end up like our parents, we can't help but to inherit some of their qualities. Framboise's mother tells her nine year old daughter "Hard as nails... I used to be like that...I always wanted to fight everybody too." When the older Framboise is stressing about her declining business while her daughter and granddaughter were departing from their summer visit, "I could see in her eyes that she felt I was unreasonable, but I could not find enough warmth in my heart to tell her what I felt... a sudden terror overwhelmed me. I was behaving like my mother... Stern and impassive, but secretly filled with fears and insecurities. I wanted to reach out to my daughter... but somehow I couldn't. We were always raised to keep things to ourselves. It isn't a habit that can be easily broken." Harris also details what it is was like to live in Nazi occupied France. We read about this time period in history books but it was eye-opening to see this from the perspective of the families who lived through this period of change and uncertainty. She writes about the German soldiers going to people's homes to take their food and prized possessions. Even when the families tried to hide their belongings, the German soldiers still found and took what they wanted. I also liked how Harris hinted at upcoming events at the ends of chapters to keep the reader interested in the story.

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Five Quarters of the Orange
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