Psychological stress is a natural concomitant of any creative activity. It is much more so if the activity relates to an intensely competitive area like business. Entrepreneurs, being creative individuals, often experience such stress at various stages of the development of their enterprise. On...

The continuous appraisal or evaluation of adult education programmes by external agencies has been an integral part of the design of this programme since the time the Ministry of Education stepped up adult education in the late seventies. Several faculty members of the Indian Institute of...

This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and what does not and in this discussion draws attention to the fact that even a simple assessment requires more than providing a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive...

Foreword -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to this edition -- Acknowledgments -- Performance management: an overview -- Defining and planning performance -- Defining and building competencies -- Performance analysis for individual and organizational development -- Reducing biases in...