Employee engagement: do practitioners care what academics have to say – and should they?

Securing high levels of employee engagement has become a dominant concern for HR practitioners globally, and a lucrative survey and consultancy industry has grown up around the topic. Despite significant parallel interest within the scholarly community, it is questionable whether research published in peer-reviewed journals has had any impact on the practice of engagement. The divergent perspectives of academics and practitioners on engagement are explored within the wider context of evidence-based management and the ‘rigor – relevance’ debate, alongside consideration of the risks of presupposing a simplified binary divide between the two communities. Some suggestions for strategies aimed at creating a stronger connection between the interests of practitioners and those of academics are proposed, whilst bearing in mind academia’s broader and more critical remit

Strategic risk appraisal. Comparing expert- and literature-informed consequence assessments for environmental policy risks receiving national attention

Strategic risk appraisal (SRA) has been applied to compare diverse policy level risks to and from the environment in England and Wales. Its application has relied on expert-informed assessments of the potential consequences from residual risks that attract policy attention at the national scale. Here we compare consequence assessments, across environmental, economic and social impact categories that draw on ‘expert’- and ‘literature-based’ analyses of the evidence for 12 public risks appraised by Government. For environmental consequences there is reasonable agreement between the two sources of assessment, with expert-informed assessments providing a narrower dispersion of impact severity and with median values similar in scale to those produced by an analysis of the literature. The situation is more complex for economic consequences, with a greater spread in the median values, less consistency between the two assessment types and a shift toward higher severity values across the risk portfolio. For social consequences, the spread of severity values is greater still, with no consistent trend between the severities of impact expressed by the two types of assessment. For the latter, the findings suggest the need for a fuller representation of socioeconomic expertise in SRA and the workshops that inform SRA output

New curiosities of literature : and book of the months.

Each volume has added illus. t.p., with vignette.Mode of access: Internet

The falls of Clyde : a melo-drama in two acts /

Includes songs without the music.Mode of access: Internet

Extracts From Göthe's Tragedy Of Faustus

EXTRACTS FROM GÖTHE'S TRAGEDY OF FAUSTUS Extracts From Göthe's Tragedy Of Faustus ([1]) Titelseite ([1]) Preface. ([3]) Extracts From Göthe's Tragedy Of Faustus. ([5]) Illustration 1 (1r) Illustration 2 (2r) Illustration 3 (3r) Illustration 4 (4r) Illustration 5 (5r) Illustration 6 (6r) Illustration 7 (7r) Illustration 8 (8r) Illustration 9 (9r) Illustration 10 (10r) Illustration 11 (11r) Illustration 12 (12r) Illustration 13 (13r) Illustration 14 (14r) Illustration 15 (15r) Illustration 16 (16r) Illustration 17 (17r) Illustration 18 (18r) Illustration 19 (19r) Illustration 20 (20r) Illustration 21 (21r) Illustration 22 (22r) Illustration 23 (23r) Illustration 24 (24r) Illustration 25 (25r) Illustration 26 (26r

Pride shall have a fall; a comedy: in five acts -- with songs.

Attributed also to G. Croly.Mode of access: Internet

Faustus : from the German / of Goethe

FAUSTUS : FROM THE GERMAN / OF GOETHE Faustus : from the German / of Goethe (1) Faksimile vom Titelblatt zu "Faustus" (1

Faustus : A Romantic Drama, In Three Acts ; (Performed For The First Time At The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, May 16, 1825) / [George Soane]. (The Music By R. H. Bishop, C. Horn, And T. Cooke)

FAUSTUS : A ROMANTIC DRAMA, IN THREE ACTS ; (PERFORMED FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE, MAY 16, 1825) / [GEORGE SOANE]. (THE MUSIC BY R. H. BISHOP, C. HORN, AND T. COOKE) Faustus : A Romantic Drama, In Three Acts ; (Performed For The First Time At The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, May 16, 1825) / [George Soane]. (The Music By R. H. Bishop, C. Horn, And T. Cooke) (1) Einband (1) Titelseite (3) Aufführungsvermerk (4) Dramatis Personae (5) Act I. (6) Act II. (18) Act III. (25

Specimens of German romance /

Frontispieces designed and engraved by George Cruikshank.Selection and translation by George Soane.v. 1. The patricians / from the German of C.F. van der Velde -- v. 2. Master Flea / C.T.A. [!] Hoffmann -- v. 3. The blind passenger / F. Laun. The adventurers / A. Oehlenschläger. The mantle / B. Naubert.Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank,Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction,Mode of access: Internet