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Prentice Hall Federal Taxation 2003: Comprehensive and Tax Analyst OneDisc Tax Research Program
Thomas R. Pope , Kenneth E. Anderson , and John L. Kramer Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0131763156 |
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Finding & Keeping Great Employees
Jim Harris , and Joan, Ph.D. Brannick Manufacturer: AMACOM/American Management Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0814404545 |
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FINDING AND KEEPING GREAT EMPLOYEESWhat makes an employee great? According to Harris and Brannick, great employees are those who match the culture of the company they work for and whose personal values align with the organization's core purpose.
Finding and Keeping Great Employees identifies four basic organizational purposes-operational excellence, customer service, unleashing technology, and spirit. By focusing on one of these as their core purpose and using it to drive their selection and retention strategies, organizations will gain a long-term competitive advantage and create a workplace full of self-motivated employees who are highly -purpose-driven.
Based on research into best practices at more than 250 companies, this breakthrough book shares how some of today's most progressive organizations are doing just that -- and shutting down the revolving door -- by leveraging their core purpose and corporate culture to attract and retain great employees. Written in a crisp, reader-friendly style, with numerous examples and case studies, it shows managers and HR professionals how to:
* simplify and streamline the recruiting process
* improve organizational focus by benchmarking their company's practices against the world's best-run companies
* achieve a good 'fit' between employees and corporate culture
* become the employer of choice within their industry, their market, and their community.
In today's tight labor market, finding employees that are 'keepers' is critical to success. This book offers a powerful new action plan to help companies find and keep employees who will enable them to find and keep success.
Dr. Jim Harris, President of The James Harris Group (Pensacola, FL), is a professional speaker who tracts workplace trends and their impact on employee motivation and retention.
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What makes an employee great? According to Harris and Brannick, great employees are those who match the culture of the company they work for and whose personal values align with the organization's core purpose.
Finding & Keeping Great Employees identifies four basic organizational purposes -- operational excellence, customer service, unleashing technology, and spirit. By focusing on one of these as their core purpose and using it to drive their selection and retention strategies, organizations will gain a long-term competitive advantage and create a workplace full of self-motivated employees who are highly purpose driven.
Based on research into best practices at more than 250 companies, this breakthrough book shares how some of today's most progressive organizations are doing just that -- and shutting down the revolving door -- by leveraging their core purpose and corporate culture to attract and retain great employees.
Written in a crisp, reader-friendly style, with numerous examples and case studies, it shows managers and HR professionals how to:
In today's tight labor market, finding employees that are keepers is critical to success. This book offers a powerful new action plan to help companies find and keep employees who will enable them to find and keep success.
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Insightful!.......2001-03-22
Core Culture and Alignment.......2001-01-16
In this context, Jim Harris and Joan Brannick, in Chapter 2, focus on culture. They argue that aligned companies base their staffing and retention processes upon one of four forms of core culture:
1. Customer Service- The underlying purpose of a customer-service culture is to create customer solutions (more detailed discussion see Chapter 3).
2. Innovation- The underlying purpose of an innovation culture is to create the future (more detailed discussion see Chapter 4).
3. Operational Excellence- The underlying purpose of an operationally excellent culture is to create a process that minimizes costs while maximizing productivity and efficiency (more detailed discussion see Chapter 5).
4. Spirit- The underlying purpose of a culture of spirit is to create an environment that inspires employee excellence (more detailed discussion see Chapter 6).
They write that "the four core cultures are separate but equal. No one core culture is superior to another. None is more likely to quarantee outstanding financial performance than another. All are equally powerfull in driving long-term organizational success", and argue that "the key to finding and keeping excellent employees is to align your staffing and retention to the one core culture that best propels your company's succes". Then they list the benefits of alignment as following:
* Alignment is strategic.
* Alignment is simplifies the staffing and retention process.
* Alignment strengthens the core culture.
* Alignment builds strong company connections.
* Alignment builds strong job connections.
* Alignment builds strong personal connections.
* The ultimate benefit is a unique competitive advantage: the ability to consistently find and keep to talent.
Finally, they define three steps to the process of alignment as following:
1. The organization must clearly understand how each core culture uniquely contributes to employee connectedness.
2. The organization must embrace one core culture as its operational driver.
3. Management must then align all staffing and retention strategies to the core culture.
Highly recommended.
Practical Guidance & Breakthrough Thinking.......1999-11-25
The breakthrough thinking in this book is establishing a clear link between corporate culture and staffing and recruiting efforts. The authors encourage readers to define their culture clearly, then be intentional about matching recruiting efforts and retention programs to the culture. By providing examples of best practices that match each of four basic organizational cultures (operational excellence, customer service, innovation, and spirit), the authors provide readers with practical guidance on how to align staffing and retention efforts with the cultures at their companies.
I found most helpful of all the guidance the authors provide on retention. In 25 years of work as an HR professional, I've found that the topic of retention is a lot like the weather - everyone talks about it, but nobody knows how to make it better! This book is different. The authors describe specific ways to influence retention and build a company where employees will want to stay. Immediately after reading this book, I went to work creating a retention plan built around nine specific management practices that will support my company's culture and foster retention. My counterparts on the company's leadership team are enthusiastic about the plan, and are actively at work implementing the management practices.
Finally, I recommend this book because it is well written. The authors avoid jargon and buzzwords. They speak from the heart about HR practices that will engage the soul and generate employee commitment.
A book that every business owner should read........1999-04-12
THIS BOOK IS A "STALL BUSTER".......1999-04-01
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Finding and Keeping Great Employees -- An Innovative Approach.(management): An article from: Qualified Remodeler
Gale Reference Team Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000Q36DAM Release Date: 2007-05-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Qualified Remodeler, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 843 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Black Health Library Guide to Stroke (Black Health Library Series)
Lafayette Singleton , Kirk A. Johnson , and Linda Villarosa Manufacturer: Henry Holt & Co (P) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0805022902 |
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Needed and will be useful in the African-American community.......1999-07-03
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The Black Health Library Guide to Stroke -
LaFayette Singleton - Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co. Publishing- ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000PS8338 |
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Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005 : Explorers of the Photon Odyssey (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402043295 |
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The 2005 meeting in Taormina, Italy was attended by 127 professionals who develop and use the highest quality detectors for wavelengths from x-ray to sub-mm, with emphasis on optical and infrared detectors. The meeting consisted of overview talks, technical presentations, poster sessions and roundtable discussions. These proceedings capture the technical content and the spirit of the 2005 workshop. The 87 papers cover a wide range of detector technologies including CCDs, CMOS, APDs, and sub-mm detectors. There are papers on observatory status and plans, special applications, detector testing and characterization, and electronics. A special feature of these proceedings is the inclusion of pedagogical overview papers, which were written by teams of leading experts from different institutions. These proceedings are appropriate for a range of expertise levels, from undergraduates to professionals working in the field. The information presented in this book will serve as a valuable reference for many years to come. This workshop was organized by the Scientific Workshop Factory, Inc. and the INAF- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania.
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Organic Sulfur Chemistry: Structure and Mechanism
Shigeru Oae Manufacturer: CRC Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0849347394 |
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This volume contains fundamental knowledge regarding the structure and mechanisms of organic sulfur chemistry. Topics include sulfur bondings, effects of sulfur groups, stereochemistry around sulfur, substitution, ligand coupling within s-sulfurane, oxidation, reduction and rearrangement. References in this work total over 2,300. Anyone with an interest in organic sulfur chemistry will find this book to be fascinating reading.
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An Introduction to Magnetohydrodynamics (Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics)
P. A. Davidson Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521794870 |
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Magnetic fields are routinely used in industry to heat, pump, stir and levitate liquid metals. There is the terrestrial magnetic field that is maintained by fluid motion in the earth's core, the solar magnetic field, which generates sunspots and solar flares, and the galactic field that influences the formation of stars. This introductory text on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) (the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and conducting fluids) is intended to serve as an introductory text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics, applied mathematics and engineering. The material in the text is heavily weighted toward incompressible flows and to terrestrial (as distinct from astrophysical) applications. The final sections of the text, which outline the latest advances in the metallurgical applications of MHD, make the book of interest to professional researchers in applied mathematics, engineering and metallurgy.Customer Reviews:
Excellent introduction to physics behind the MHD equations.......2003-02-15
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An Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics and Magnetohydrodynamics (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
M. Goossens Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1402014333 |
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Most of the visible matter in the universe exists in the plasma state. Plasmas are of major importance for space physics, solar physics, and astrophysics. On Earth they are essential for magnetic controlled thermonuclear fusion.
This textbook collects lecture notes from a one-semester course taught at the K.U. Leuven to advanced undergraduate students in applied mathematics and physics. A particular strength of this book is that it provides a low threshold introduction to plasmas with an emphasis on first principles and fundamental concepts and properties.
The discussion of plasma models is to a large extent limited to Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with its merits and limitations clearly explained. MHD provides the students on their first encounter with plasmas, with a powerful plasma model that they can link to familiar classic fluid dynamics. The solar wind is studied as an example of hydrodynamics and MHD at work in solar physics and astrophysics.
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Introduction to Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series)
Martin Walt Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521616115 |
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This book is an introductory textbook on the physical processes occurring in the Earth’s radiation belts. The presentation is at the advanced undergraduate or first year graduate level, and it is appropriate for students who intend to work in some aspect of magnetospheric physics. The treatment is quantitative and provides the mathematical basis for original work in this subject. The equations describing the motion of energetic ions and electrons in the geomagnetic field are derived from basic principles, and concepts such as magnetic field representations, guiding centre motion, adiabatic invariance, and particle distribution functions are presented in a detailed and accessible manner. Relevant experimental techniques are reviewed and a summary is given of the intensity and energy spectra of the particle populations in the Earth’s radiation belts. Problem sets are included as well as appendices of tables, graphs and frequently used formulas.
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Physics of the Solar Corona: An Introduction with Problems and Solutions (Springer Praxis Books / Astronomy and Planetary Sciences)
Markus J. Aschwanden Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 3540307656 |
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Solar science has evolved rapidly over the past ten years as the results of a new generation of solar space missions have become available. This book provides a thorough introduction to the subject of solar physics, based on those spacecraft observations. The author introduces the solar corona, which has a temperature of several million degrees, and sets it in the context of basic plasma physics before moving on to discuss plasma instabilities and plasma heating processes. The latest results on coronal heating and radiation, which are fundamental processes in all stars, are presented. Spectacular phenomena such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections are described in detail, together with their potential effects on the Earth. The author draws together observations made at many wavelengths from hard X-rays, soft X-rays, extreme UV and radio wavelengths. This paperback study edition of Markus Aschwanden’s highly acclaimed Physics of the Solar Corona will include 50 pages of problems and solutions which will much enhance the value of the book to students.
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Plasma Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of Astrophysical, Geophysical and Laboratory Plasmas
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521448107 |
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Plasma Physics is an authoritative and wide-ranging pedagogic study of the "fourth" state of matter. The constituents of the plasma state are influenced by electric and magnetic fields, and in turn also produce electric and magnetic fields. This fact leads to a rich array of properties of plasma described in this text. The author uses examples throughout, many taken from astrophysical phenomena, to explain concepts. In addition, problem sets at the end of each chapter will serve to reinforce key points. A basic knowledge of mathematics and physics is preferable to fully appreciate this text. This book provides the ideal introduction to this complex and fascinating field of research, balancing theoretical aspects with practical and preparing the graduate student for further study.
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An introduction to magnetohydrodynamics
P. H Roberts Manufacturer: American Elsevier Pub. Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007DXE62 |
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An Introduction to the Geometry and Topology of Fluid Flows (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402002068 |
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Leading experts present a unique, invaluable introduction to the study of the geometry and typology of fluid flows. From basic motions on curves and surfaces to the recent developments in knots and links, the reader is gradually led to explore the fascinating world of geometric and topological fluid mechanics. Geodesics and chaotic orbits, magnetic knots and vortex links, continual flows and singularities become alive with more than 160 figures and examples. In the opening article, H. K. Moffatt sets the pace, proposing eight outstanding problems for the 21st century. The book goes on to provide concepts and techniques for tackling these and many other interesting open problems.
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Introduction to Alfven Waves (Series on Plasma Physics)
Rodney Cross Manufacturer: Adam Hilger ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0852742452 |
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Introduction to magneto-fluid mechanics: Lectures delivered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Summer 1962
Tien Sun Chang Manufacturer: Oak Ridge National Laboratory ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006RM6OU |
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Introduction to plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics
Hans J Kaeppeler Manufacturer: Allison Division, General Motors Corp ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007I4WLI |
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A Raising Up: Memories of a North Carolina Childhood
R. C. Fowler Manufacturer: Coastal Carolina Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1928556078 |
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This clear-eyed, poignant tale of a young, spirited boy growing up on a North Carolina tobacco farm during the Great Depression and World War II is based on the author's childhood recollections. R.C. is an extraordinary character, a boy who dreams of flying planes and seeing the world, despite the fact that his day-to-day existence is dictated by the realities of extreme poverty. Readers will warm to his charm, laugh at his misadventures, and marvel at his determination.R.C. Fowler uses simple, unaffected language to tell his story, depicting vivid characters in a stark landscape. A brave and unsparing narrative of one boy's coming-of-age, A Raising Up demonstrates a deep understanding of the human heart. Students of Southern history will find this book of special interest, as will anyone who loves a good yarn, entertainingly told.
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The Good Ole Days.......2002-07-28
A RAISING UP:MEMORIES OF A NORTH CAROLINA CHILDHOOD.......2000-07-16
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Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and the South's Fight over Civil Rights
Jack Bass Manufacturer: Anchor Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0820325317 |
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Thrust into the center of a raging storm over civil rights, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., was the youngest federal judge in the country at the time of his appointment in 1955. During his twenty-four years on the district court in Montgomery, Alabama, Johnson handed down a string of precedent-setting decisions that were vastly unpopular at the time but that would prove to have profound consequences for America's future.Not only did Johnson's trailblazing opinions greatly expand the access of African Americans to their constitutional rights, but his opinions also helped to dismantle discrimination against women, prison inmates, and the mentally ill. Johnson paid a heavy price for his judicial vision, however, for he had to endure public scorn, death threats, and the outrage of a society that felt itself and its values to be under siege. Eventually Johnson prevailed, winning honor even in his native Alabama and a respected place in the history of the civil rights movement. Taming the Storm is the story of an authentic American hero and the era he did so much to define.
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Judge Johnson - Southern Hero.......2005-04-12
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TAMING THE STORM: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE FRANK M. JOHNSON, JR. AND THE SOUTH'S FIGHT OVER CIVIL RIGHTS
Manufacturer: Doubleday New York ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I8R7Q4 |
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