Author: Richard A Swanson PhD
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publisher
Keywords: documenting, workplace, expertise, organizations, diagnosing, improving, performance, tools, analysis
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2007-02-28
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1576753417
ISBN-13: 9781576753415

This revised and expanded version of "Analysis for Improving Performance" provides the tools for doing the crucial - yet often overlooked - upfront analyses essential to the success of any performance improvement effort. Human resource development expert Richard A. Swanson’s step-by-step method allows program developers and managers to: assess an organization’s real business needs and the status of its supporting systems; analyze necessary worker skills, knowledge, and attitudes; specify performance requirements and evaluation standards; and produce a viable and comprehensive perfo

Authors:Richard A. Swanson, Elwood F. Holton III,
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publisher
Keywords: development, resource, human, foundations
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-08-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1576750752
ISBN-13: 9781576750759

Foundations of Human Resource Development is a careful presentation of the basic theory and practice of human resource development. It clearly frames and explains HRD in a manner that is useful for HRD beginners and experts. Working definitions and core values derived from the history of HRD are presented are presented along with present challenges. In addition, the complimentary learning and performance perspectives in the profession are threaded throughout the book. The areas of Personnel Training and Development and Organization Development are covered in detail and connections between theo

Authors:Richard A Swanson PhD, Elwood F Holto,
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publisher
Keywords: development, resource, human, foundations
Number of Pages: 538
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1576754960
ISBN-13: 9781576754962

In this 2nd edition of Foundations of Human Resource Development, the leading scholars in the field present the essential guidebook for the human resource development (HRD) profession. Drawing on an extensive, rigorous knowledge base, Swanson and Holton update their classic single volume compilation of the foundational materials of the profession. Their work is supplemented with contributions from Richard W. Herling, Sharon S. Naquin, Wendy E. A. Ruona, Richard J. Torraco, and Karen E. Watkins.

Authors:Richard A. Swanson, Elwood F. Holton III,
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Keywords: performance, berrett, koehler, organizational, publication, series, perceptions, assess, learning, amp, results, organizations
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1576750442
ISBN-13: 9781576750445

When organizations commit resources to training or implement new policies, they want to see measurable results. Using real-life examples and step-by-step instructions, this consummately practical guide shows human resources professionals how to quantify outcomes in three major areas: performance, learning, and perceptions.

Authors:E. S. Swanson, E. S. Swanson, S. A. Dytman,
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Keywords: october, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, nucleons, excited, proceedings, workshop, physics, nstar
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2003-09
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 9812384189
ISBN-13: 9789812384188

This book covers recent advances in the physics of nucleon resonances, including new experimental results from laboratories in the USA, Europe, and Asia, and new developments in effective field theories, quark models, and lattice gauge theory.

Author: D. G. Swanson
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: inhomogeneous, plasmas, tunneling, conversion, mode, theory
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1998-07-02
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0471247766
ISBN-13: 9780471247760

A fresh look at the phenomenon of mode conversion with tunneling. This volume provides a thorough analysis of plasma wave resonance absorption—a mode conversion process used in wave heating and diagnostics worldwide. The only book to incorporate mode conversion into a general treatment of plasma physics and plasma waves, it describes a broad range of applications and develops methods of mode conversion that are more advanced and precise than others in use today. This monograph presents the complete theory underlying the diagnostic implications of the process, combining estimates of tunn

Author: R. N. Swanson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: life, thought, third, series, medieval, studies, academics, schism, cambridge, universities
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2002-08-08
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0521522269
ISBN-13: 9780521522267

The election of both Urban VI and Clement VII to the papacy in 1378, by the same body of cardinals, presented the church with an apparently insoluble constitutional difficulty. Dr Swanson examines the reaction to this situation from a hitherto unconsidered perspective: that of the universities to whom Europe turned to formulate the theories which would solve the problem. He examines the attempts by the academics to gain support for their various schemes and shows how these produced conflict at various levels: locally, between factions within individual universities; nationally, between rival u