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Armstrong, Tim, filmmaker
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XX(297283.1)
Publication Date
2015 2004
Summary
Effective performance appraisals add value to your organization. They motivate your top employees to do even better. And they tell under-performers exactly what is expected and how to improve. Unfortunately, performance appraisals are often regarded as mere formalities. Reviews are sometimes done late-or skipped. Clear guidance falls by the wayside, and halfhearted work goes unchallenged. In this video,you'll follow two story lines. One involves a small business, taking steps to formalize a review process for the first time. The other presents a large corporation attempting to energize an existing system. Watch as two very different managers prepare for challenging review meetings-and see them apply skills that defuse tension and achieve the desired results.
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Video recording
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Kanopy (Firm)
Call Number
XX(295752.1)
Publication Date
2015 2006
Summary
Getting a job is one of life's big challenges. But how does it look from the employers' point of view? This documentary looks at how a small business, a hospital, and a supermarket recruit their staff. SMALL BUSINESS: Small business SNS supplies computer networks to schools and has to work out their job specification for a new position from scratch. They advertise the job by means of word of mouth and look at how well presented the applicants' letters and CVs are. HOSPITAL: East Kent and Canterbury hospital is looking to fill a vacancy for an office job with important responsibilities - ensuring cancer patients get their treatment on time. Unlike the small business, the hospital advertises the job both in the local newspaper and internally - and the wording of the ad is a crucial consideration. SUPERMARKET: Giant supermarket Asda asks its candidates to fill in an application form - except it's more like a questionnaire designed to weed out people with the wrong personality. Asda also asks candidates to come to a group assessment which involves a form of psychometric testing. THE INTERVIEW: All three organisations make their final decisions at the interview stage. The small business interviewers mark their candidates under particular headings, such as enthusiasm and leadership. The hospital puts a lot of store by supporting statements. In the supermarket, body language and appearance turn out to be important factors.
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Henson, Alica.
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332.65094965 22
Publication Date
2009 2008
Summary
This is the first authoritative guide to the prospects for business and investment in Albania. It shows how this small European state is opening up for business having recently strengthened its ties with the EU through a Stabilization and Association Agreement. Macroeconomic performance has improved sharply in recent years, thanks to policies under IMF-backed programmes, prompting new interest from the international business community.
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Shipside, Steve.
Call Number
650.1
Publication Date
2009 2008
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A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help propelled its author to fame and rapidly became one of Victorian Britain's most important statements on the allied virtues of hard work, thrift, and perseverance. Smiles's most celebrated book sold 20,000 copies in its first year of publication and later became known as the 'bible of mid-Victorian liberalism'. Self-Help is often viewed as the precursor of today's motivational and self-help literature. Here, Samuel Smiles's text is interpreted for the modern day world.
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Electronic Resources
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Wray, Robert D.
Call Number
635.9775 22
Publication Date
2008
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Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit offers useful, up-to-date information for anyone who enjoys being and working outdoors and is seeking a profitable hobby or small business venture. This updated fourth edition by Robert D. Wray now includes the latest techniques and tools for harvesting trees, new methods of transport, the most recent data on herbicides, and advice on how to run a Christmas-tree business today. A perennial bestseller?previous editions have sold over 10,000 copies?this illustrated guide covers selecting land, choosing species, planting, harvesting, and managing a plantati.
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Electronic Resources
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WetFeet.com (Firm)
Call Number
332.04154 22
Publication Date
2008
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Electronic Resources
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Frey, Robert S.
Call Number
658.804 22
Publication Date
2008
Summary
The Fifth Edition of this perennial bestseller is the ultimate resource for small and mid-sized businesses, as well as non-profit organizations and public-sector agencies, looking to achieve effective, efficient, and disciplined business development, proposal development, and knowledge management (KM) processes that in turn support winning new business.
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Electronic Resources
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Davies, Paul (Paul J.)
Call Number
658.110954 22
Publication Date
2008
Summary
New Business in India is focused on how to enter the Indian domestic market, which is currently growing at nearly 10% per annum. The book is important as it is based on first-hand experience and real insights into the market in India, establishing a company and business, and developing the marketing and sales programme for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) companies. Serving as a comprehensive introduction to entering the market, this book, in short, is able to take business planners and developers working in both large and small companies through the processes the.
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Electronic Resources
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Sŏng, So-mi.
Call Number
355.070973 22
Publication Date
2008
Summary
"Congress is in the process of reauthorizing the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which expires in 2008. One issue being considered in the reauthorization is whether to allow partial use of SBIR set-asides for SBIR program administration costs and, if so, at what levels. Currently, the use of SBIR funds to administer the SBIR program is prohibited, and SBIR administration must be funded from other sources. The authors estimate that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spends, on average, an additional 6 percent on top of the SBIR set-asides to administer its SBIR program. That percentage is higher than that for government programs that predominantly award grants (rather than contracts), at or lower than levels for other government R & D programs, and lower than the total compensation levels for venture-capital organizations. Further analysis is required to understand the benefits of alternative levels of administrative investments for the DoD SBIR program."--Page ix.
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Electronic Resources
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Eibner, Christine.
Call Number
331.25540973 22
Publication Date
2008
Summary
More than 60 percent of nonelderly Americans receive health-insurance (HI) coverage through employers, either as policyholders or as dependents. However, rising health-care costs are leading many to question the long-term viability of the employer-based insurance system. Concerns about the economic burden of providing HI are particularly acute for small businesses, which are both less likely than larger firms to offer HI and more sensitive to price when deciding to offer insurance. Small firms may have difficulty containing costs due to their limited bargaining power and their inability to hir.
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Humphrey, Nicholas, 1971-
Call Number
658.0220994 HUM
Publication Date
2007
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Books
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Ross, Emily.
Call Number
658.421 ROS
Publication Date
2007
Summary
"Creating profitable businesses on the internet is no mean feat and, as anyone who has watched the rise of eBay or Amazon knows, the web has forever changed the way we do business. Now the bestselling authors of 100 GREAT BUSINESSES AND THE MINDS BEHIND THEM take a look at some of the smartest, most profitable internet businesses operating today, and reveal that whether big, small, local or on the other side of the planet, when it's web business, it's a small, fascinating world, with potentially limitless opportunities. This collection of 50 case studies from around the world offers valuable inspiration, ideas and lessons on the principles of successful internet businesses"--Book jacket.
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