The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0263-7472.htm Performance measurement in facilities management: driving innovation? Michael Pitt and Matthew Tucker School of the Built Environment‚ Liverpool John Moores University‚ Liverpool‚ UK Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to examine the state of knowledge of performance measurement in facilities management‚ in particular regarding the concepts underlying benchmarking in relation to its
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PERFORMANCE‚ COMPENSATION‚ AND THE BALANCED SCORECARD* Christopher D. Ittner‚ David F. Larcker‚ and Marshall W. Meyer The Wharton School The University of Pennsylvania November 1‚ 1997 *This research was funded by the Citicorp Behavioral Sciences Research Council‚ whose support is gratefully acknowledged. © 1997‚ Christopher D. Ittner‚ David F. Larcker‚ and Marshall W. Meyer PERFORMANCE‚ COMPENSATION‚ AND THE BALANCED SCORECARD A growing number of firms are replacing their financially-based
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Owning a car has several advantages and disadvantages. To be owner of a method of transportation gives you freedom but sometimes it cost too much. On one hand owning a car‚ there is the opportunity to be totally free‚ to have a high degree of flexibility. When I was a freshman I used to go to the College by tube. More than often classes were postponed late in the evening‚ when subway was closed. In these cases I had to sleep to some friends of mine because I have no way to come back home. During
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RESEARCH REPORTON “PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL” IN BANKINGSECTOR Submitted for the fulfillment for the award of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION(Sikkim Manipal University) (SESSION: 2009-2010) Submitted By:Ekta Bhatia MBA IV SemesterRoll No. 510919106 Submitted To:Under the Guidance of: Mr. Pankaj Upadhyay Lecturer Sikkim Manipal University Mr. Pankaj Upadhyay Lecturer Sikkim Manipal University 1 DECLARATION I‚ Ekta Bhatia‚ hereby declare that the project titled ““PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL” IN
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Apes and Language: A Review of the Literature By Karen Shaw For Professor Dyer ’s Class March 2‚ 2005 Over the past 30 years researchers have demonstrated that the great apes (chimpanzees gorillas and orangutans) resemble humans in language abilities more than had been thought possible. Just how far that resemblance extends however has been a matter of some controversy. Researchers agree that the apes have acquired fairly large vocabularies in American Sign Language and in artificial languages
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targets to be set g) motivating higher discretionary input 1.2 What resources might be required in a business organisation? Resources could Include: * human resources * recruitment‚ selection and induction procedures * knowledge * competence * data and information from internal and external sources * client/ customer information * stake holder/shareholder input * intellectual property * processes and procedures‚ policies‚ operations‚ continuous improvement processes
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Enabling Team Performance through Effective Review‚ Coaching and Feedback Veera Kandukuri* Abstract Most employees want to be successful contributors to an organization. They want to know what is expected of them and how they can most effectively achieve those expectations. Performance management is the systematic process that a manager applies to involve employees in accomplishing a unit’s mission and goals
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investigated in psycholinguistics •Language Comprehension •Language Production •Language Acquisition Psycholinguistics is a branch of cognitive science What will be covered in this class? • How do we produce and recognize speech? • How do we perceive words‚ letters‚ and sentences? • How do we learn and recall information from texts? • How can we improve texts to make them easier to understand? • How does the brain function to process language? • What are the causes and effects
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Endangered Languages CONOR MCDONOUGH QUINN Languages that are threatened with the loss of natural generational transmission are referred to as endangered languages. Language endangerment generally occurs in the later stages of language shift‚ that is‚ when a speech community moves away from their earlier variety‚ dialect‚ or language to a new one or new set thereof (Fishman‚ 1991). While the processes of endangerment and extinction have likely been constant throughout the history of human language‚ the
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THE LANGUAGE OF HUMOUR – THE HUMOUR OF LANGUAGE IRONY AND HUMOUR IN INTERPERSONAL VERBAL ENCOUNTERS Zsuzsanna Ajtony Abstract: In this paper the problem of verbal humour and irony is approached from a sociolinguistic perspective‚ starting from the Semantic Script Theory of Humour (Raskin 1985)‚ which establishes that all humour involves a semantic-pragmatic process. Humour should be understood and appreciated shared sociocultural knowledge; a common code should exist between speaker and recipient
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