Risk Assessment: The Human Dimension begins by looking at quantified risk assessment and considers, by using case studies, how accident causation can be considered from the three main perspectives of hardware failures, human error and failures of systems and cultures. The book then goes on to...

Cover -- Guest editorial -- Facing disaster: the great challenges framework -- Complexity, creeping normalcy and conceit: sexy and unsexy risks -- Long-term trajectories of human civilization -- There is plenty of time at the bottom: the economics, risk and ethics of time compression -- Islands...

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Plan for the Book -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1. HR Measurement Makes Investing in People More Strategic -- Chapter 2. Analytical Foundations of HR Measurement -- Chapter...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Explanation Disconnect -- Chapter 2: The Comprehension Disconnect -- Chapter 3: The Translation Disconnect -- Chapter 4: The Perception Disconnect -- Chapter 5: The Vocation Disconnect -- Chapter 6: The Cultivation...

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction to Psychological Capital -- 2 PsyCap Efficacy: Confidence to Succeed -- 3 PsyCap Hope: The Will and the Way -- 4 PsyCap Optimism: Realistic and Flexible -- 5 PsyCap Resiliency: Bouncing Back and Beyond -- 6 Selected Cognitive and Affective Strengths: Potential...

Intro -- THE MAINTENANCE CREW FOR THE HUMAN MACHINERY -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. THE SUBJECT AND HOW TO DORESEARCH ON IT -- 1. How Personnel Management Changed in theNetherlands -- 2. Research philosophy:The case for qualitative research -- PART II. THE HEART OF THE MATTERAN ESSAY ON...

This e-book is inspired by our recent review of the IC literature in Guthrie et al. (2012, p. 74) in which we found that the public sector is one of the least addressed areas of IC research. This is surprising considering that the public sector contributes a significant proportion of GDP in most...

This edited collection explores the links between human capital (both in the form of health and in the form of education), demographic change, and economic growth. Using empirical as well as theoretical perspectives, the authors investigate several important issues in the context of human...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Impact of Race and Inequality on Human Capital Formation in Latin America during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter 3: Education and Inequality in North America in the Long Term with Special Reference to the United States -- Chapter 4:...

This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a global, long-run perspective, focusing on a variety of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The authors analyze the increasing...