Authors:Sally Banes, Andre Lepecki,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: performance, worlds, senses
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415281865
ISBN-13: 9780415281867

An edited collection of essays on the role of the senses in performance. Sight is the only sense to have been investigated in any great depth in relation to performance so far. This volume is spearheading a growing movement to start examining the other senses and their role in performance. The book covers a lot of ground: all the sense are discussed in relation to Western and non-Western performance, including performance art, opera, dance and drama.

Author: Bob Frost
Publisher: Measurement Intl
Keywords: performance, strategy, improve, deploy, new, using, measuring, metrics
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0970247117
ISBN-13: 9780970247117

This primer distills the essence of an important topic and presents it in plain language for leaders. Measuring Performance show how advanced measures are giving leaders new leverage to create change, manage performance, and produce better results. It covers developing the right measures, using metrics to improve performance, and key issues that arise in deploying metrics.

Authors:Angela Baron, Michael Armstrong,
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Keywords: performance, action, management, managing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $50.13
ISBN-10: 1843981017
ISBN-13: 9781843981015

Managing performance is a critical focus of HR activity. Well-designed strategies to recognise and improve performance and focus individual effort can have a dramatic effect on bottom-line results. The problem is to determine what the processes, tools and delivery mechanisms are that will improve performance in your organisation, as well as determine which ones are best avoided. The authors have tracked performance management processes over the past seven years, and their comprehensive survey reveals what leading organisations are doing to manage their employees’ performance and how they

Author: Hubert K. Rampersad BS MSc PhD
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: performance, achieve, integrity, management, redefining, scorecard, total
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2003-06-10
List price: $68.95
ISBN-10: 0750677147
ISBN-13: 9780750677141

In the post-Enron climate corporate executives are increasingly pressured to increase productivity and create an ethical, trustworthy organizational climate. ’Total Performance Scorecard’ introduces a concept of organizational improvement and change management that combines the Balanced Scorecard model with the learning organization theory. The TPS contains a personal balanced scorecard, which is tied to an organizational balanced scorecard. These scorecards reflect not only performance goals but personal learning and growth goals as well, and the organizational scorecards also add

Author: Robert Bacal
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: performance, managers, series, mighty, improving, lessons, manage
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-11-13
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0071484396
ISBN-13: 9780071484398

Inspire your people and achieve breakthrough productivity Packed with inside tips on achieving performance levels once thought unattainable, How to Manage Performance provides you with the goal-focused, commonsense tools you need to stimulate productivity in any environment. Get the hands-on knowledge and insight you need to: Modernize your thinking Work with employees Set performance incentives Plan precisely with clear goals Conduct effective reviews Identify causes Recognize success Use cooperative communication Manage conflict with grace Document performance Develop employees Continuously

Author: Gay McAuley
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: performance, theory, text, theater, meaning, making, space, theatre
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-12-08
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 047208769X
ISBN-13: 9780472087693

Theater, as distinct from other dramatic media, is essentially a relationship between performer, spectator, and the space in which both come together. Space in Performance examines the way theater buildings function to frame the performance event, the organization of audience and practitioner spaces within the building, the nature of the stage and the modes of representation it facilitates, and the relationship between the real space of the theater and the fictional places that are evoked. The book’s theoretical and methodological framework is both semiotic and phenomenological, based in

Author: Bryan Randolph Gilliam
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: performance, studies, practice, cambridge, republic, weimar, music
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 1994-08-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0521420121
ISBN-13: 9780521420129

Following the collapse and ultimate overthrow of the Wilhelmine Empire, a new generation of artists found a fresh environment where they might flourish. Their optimism was accompanied by attempts to negate their recent past in various ways: by affirming modern technology, exploring music of a more remote past, and celebrating popular music. The essays contained in this volume address these fundamental issues. Examining the way in which German music was performed, staged, programmed, and received in the 1920s not only offers deeper insights into Weimar culture itself but sheds light on our cont