Presents a report from the Cambridge Primary Review, the comprehensive enquiry into English primary education. This book is grounded in evidence from research, official data and the enquiry's thousands of individual and organisational witnesses.

Suitable for students and practitioners of HRM, this title provides a complete resource for understanding and implementing HR in relation to the needs of the business as a whole. It offers in-depth coverage of the key areas essential to the HR function. Including the developments in HRM, it features a chapter on social responsibility.

Covers 50 key topics, organized into the three key areas in which any manager needs to be competent: managing people; managing activities and processes; and, managing and developing yourself. This title provides guidelines that help you to develop a broad base of managerial skills and knowledge and build on existing skills.

Provides advice to managers and team leaders on how to manage people in their teams - getting the best results from them and dealing with any people problems that may arise. This book covers every aspect that involves getting things done through people, including: leadership, motivating people, team building, interviewing, and rewarding people.

A final report from the Cambridge Primary Review, a comprehensive enquiry into English primary education. It is based on the research, official data and the enquiry's thousands of individual and organisational witnesses.

Includes chapters covering: critiques of performance management; coaching; new performance management models; and a performance management toolkit.

Strategic reward is the process of deciding what route to take in developing appropriate reward arrangements and dealing with the issues which arise in making that journey. This title examines the essence and context of strategic reward and the processes involved in developing and implementing strategies.

Managing performance is a critical focus of HR activity. This title reveals what leading organisations are doing to manage their employees' performance and how they are delivering results. It shows you how to improve the management of your employees' performance.

A work on human resource management courses around the world. It's not hard to see why. It covers such techniques as: establishing job values and relativities; developing grade and pay structures; how to reward and review contribution and performance; and, how to reward special groups; running employee benefit and pension schemes.

Offers guidance on putting complex HR strategies into practice. Presenting HRM strategies that have been formulated and developed by practitioners, academics and consultants, this title demonstrates how these can be implemented in a real-world context and in-line with business objectives, in order to effect positive and productive change.

Concentrates on offering a strategic approach to management with critical perspectives on the subject area. This text also includes a range of features to support student learning including a range of case studies and examples, learning objectives, discussion questions, exercises and chapter summaries.

Team work has unique challenges and pressures which a system of team reward can successfully address if correctly implemented. This work brings you the thinking on the issues and addresses questions such as: Should team pay complement or replace individual pay? And, how do you deal with different roles within your team, such as team leaders?

Based on the authors' experience, research and benchmarking activities, this book explains that reward management is about performance - of individuals, teams and the whole organization. It examines in detail the processes and various approaches that can be adopted to achieve and reward outstanding skill and competence levels in the workplace.

Offers you advice on how to determine employee worth, as well as how to structure and implement approaches that recognize it. This book examines the 'why' and 'how' behind the concept, giving you advice and techniques to help you to measure the relative value of people, and coverage of critical issues including equal pay and market pricing.

This is a straightforward guide for line managers who are responsible for personnel matters such as recruitment, discipline, pay, training, handling grievances, union matters and so on. It is written in a jargon-free style and provides clear explanations of personnel terminology.

Reveals the creative force of children's narrative imagination and shows how this develops through childhood. This book offers a way of understanding of the significance of narrative for children's intellectual growth and for learning and teaching. It also explores a series of real stories written by children between the ages of five and fifteen.

Reveals the creative force of children's narrative imagination and shows how this develops through childhood. This book offers a way of understanding of the significance of narrative for children's intellectual growth and for learning and teaching. It also explores a series of real stories written by children between the ages of five and fifteen.

Provides a practical guide to designing, introducing and managing job evaluation processes and the pay structures associated with them. This book deals not only with job evaluation techniques but also with the practical implications of using job evaluation to achieve equal pay and provide data for use in equal pay reviews.

Human Capital Management (HCM) has recently been described as a high-level strategic issue that seeks to analyze, measure and evaluate how people policies and practices create value. This book describes how HCM provides a bridge between human resource management and business strategy.