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This book offers a series of reflections on the field of South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Brown’s experiences of three decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship, and is both a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and elsewhere. Several interrelated questions are woven through the chapters: recovering ‘the literary’; literary studies ‘after theory’; religion and spirituality; ‘other’ modes of writing and reading; rereadings; South African literary history postapartheid; canonicity; national/transnational identity; and multilingualism and translation.
As well as being a book about the changing field of South African literature, Finding My Way is also a series of attempts to find more creative, engaging and intriguing modes of writing about literature and the humanities more generally. It is a book that seeks to recover a sense of the imaginative, the literary, the affective, not only as things to value in the literary texts we read, but also as ways of understanding and reading texts, as ways of writing criticism – of registering how books make us feel, as well as how they make us think.
Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice is the essential
guide to comprehending, developing and implementing effective
reward strategies. This updated seventh edition incorporates the
latest research and developments within reward management,
including the reward implications of Covid and the 'great
resignation' and rewarding remote and hybrid workers. Revisions
will also contain updates on reward structures, equal pay, employee
benefits including wellbeing benefits, total rewards and smart
rewards. This book covers all the crucial aspects of improving
organizational, team and individual performance through reward
processes, including financial and non-financial rewards, job
evaluation, grade and pay structures, rewarding specific employee
groups and ethical considerations Armstrong's Handbook of Reward
Management Practice bridges the gap between the academic and
practitioner and is ideally suited to both HR professionals and
those studying for HR qualifications, including master's degrees
and the CIPD's intermediate and advanced level qualifications. Tips
and checklists and can be found throughout, alongside case studies
from organizations including General Motors, and the UK National
Health Service. Online supporting resources include lecture slides
and comprehensive handbooks for both lecturers and students, which
include learning summaries, discussion questions, literature
reviews and glossaries.
This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective
of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Brown’s experiences of three
decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship. It is
a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the
institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and
elsewhere. Finding My Way also attempts to find more creative,
engaging and intriguing modes of writing about literature and the
humanities universally. It seeks to recover a sense of the
imaginative, the literary, and the affective, not only as things to
value in the literary texts we read but also as ways of
understanding and reading texts, as ways of writing criticism—of
registering how books make us feel, as well as how they make us
think. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.
Influencer Marketing is the most important new approach to
marketing in a decade for those professionals at the leading edge
of purchasing decision making. It shows that key decision makers in
all major markets operate within communities of influencers-
because major decisions are too complex and risky to taken in
isolation. The 'ecosystems' this creates are full of these
critically important people, whose impact on purchasing decisions
is both pivotal and misunderstood. This new book demonstrates that-
* As mass media impact wanes so the role of influencers grows -
marketers need to know why and how to use this knowledge * The
impact of blogs, wikis and other social media is that they enable
new influencers to emerge, and disperse traditional sources of
influence. * Large and small businesses worldwide pour billions of
pounds each year into influencing what they think are their
influencers. This book shows you that most of that money is being
spent on the wrong people, leaving the real influencers all too
often untouched. * Influencers do not do the buying, are not
obvious, cannot be bought, and start off neutral - which is why
their potential to affect sales is so great * Influencers are not
all equal - they can be assessed, ranked and prioritised to be used
effectively * Influencers can be influenced - the question is how
to get to them to generate market awareness, leads and address
sales barriers Influencer marketing is closely related to the
relentless rise and success of word of mouth (WOM) and relationship
marketing, and is now established as one of the armoury of new
techniques professionals must use. For all those involved in
marketing and sales this book will be an essential analysis of how
to identify who has influence, how they apply it, and how you can
turn it to your advantage.
Influencer Marketing is the most important new approach to
marketing in a decade for those professionals at the leading edge
of purchasing decision making. It shows that key decision makers in
all major markets operate within communities of influencers-
because major decisions are too complex and risky to taken in
isolation. The 'ecosystems' this creates are full of these
critically important people, whose impact on purchasing decisions
is both pivotal and misunderstood. This new book demonstrates that-
* As mass media impact wanes so the role of influencers grows -
marketers need to know why and how to use this knowledge * The
impact of blogs, wikis and other social media is that they enable
new influencers to emerge, and disperse traditional sources of
influence. * Large and small businesses worldwide pour billions of
pounds each year into influencing what they think are their
influencers. This book shows you that most of that money is being
spent on the wrong people, leaving the real influencers all too
often untouched. * Influencers do not do the buying, are not
obvious, cannot be bought, and start off neutral - which is why
their potential to affect sales is so great * Influencers are not
all equal - they can be assessed, ranked and prioritised to be used
effectively * Influencers can be influenced - the question is how
to get to them to generate market awareness, leads and address
sales barriers Influencer marketing is closely related to the
relentless rise and success of word of mouth (WOM) and relationship
marketing, and is now established as one of the armoury of new
techniques professionals must use. For all those involved in
marketing and sales this book will be an essential analysis of how
to identify who has influence, how they apply it, and how you can
turn it to your advantage.
Questions of identity, belonging and place are crucial issues in
South Africa today. To Speak of this Land explores these issues in
a way that is academically rigorous but refreshingly accessible.
The author's focus is South Africa - spanning Bushman storytelling,
rock painting, and aboriginal land claims; African-Christian
identity formations; Mazisi Kunene's Emperor Shaka the Great;
Ronnie Govender's Cato Manor stories; the poetry of Douglas
Livingstone; and the rap music of Prophets of da City - but he
draws on comparative material from elsewhere in the world, as well
as stressing the 'global' aspects of 'local' identities. 'If this
is your land, where are your stories?' is the question put by a
Native Canadian community to a group of government foresters who
were mapping and claiming jurisdiction over an area of woodlands in
north-west Canada. To speak of this land offers thought-provoking
answers for a South African context to this internationally
challenging question.
Wilder Lives uses ideas of `wildness' and `rewilding' to rethink
human relationships with our environments in challenging but
affirming ways. If the Earth is indeed 4.5 billion years old, as
scientists currently tell us, recognisably human life has only been
around since the last Ice Age, and as a species we have
single-handedly destroyed our planet's ecosystems in the short
space of a few hundred years, then we urgently need to reconsider
and redefine our identities and behaviours. Can `thinking wild'
help? Can it provide different ways of seeing, engaging, being
human? Can we think of `wildness' as something that may exist in
gradations, or as quality rather than absolute value, and as
something that has important ethical as well as biological
dimensions? Can it lead us to a `world view locating humans in a
satisfactory residence on this historic and storied Earth', as
Holmes Rolston (1988) suggests? Brown's argument in this book is
wide-ranging, inquiring, challenging, but finally inspiring, and
takes us through such questions as wildness and conservation, wild
cities, rewilding language, wildness and food, wild animals, wild
margins, and wildness in the ethics of human-animal relations
This book is a collection of interviews with South African writers,
cultural workers and academics, from differing ideological
positions, about the debates generated by Albie Sachs's paper
'Preparing Ourselves for Freedom'. It aims both to document a
particularly interesting period in our cultural history, and to
stimulate new responses by placing together disparate, and often
conflicting, arguments. What emerges from many of the interviews is
the sense that the debate is only just beginning. The discussion
which Sachs's paper has generated is the start of a necessary
re-evaluation of the relationship between literature and political
events in the light of changes within South African society. These
interviews collated by Duncan Brown and Bruno van Dyk between May
and November 1990 offer a frank and fascinating view of South
African writing in transition.
"Evidence-based Reward Management" presents an analysis of the
current failure of organizations to assess the effectiveness of pay
and reward practices. It considers the reasons for this and
outlines the damaging consequences of it. By examining recent
developments in human capital information and measurement it looks
at how HR can construct effective reward for improved performance,
both for the individual and organization.
The authors present the tools, and techniques that can be applied
to practice evidence-based reward management, including a model
which sets strategic goals, reviews current policies, looks at how
to pilot and make changes and improvements and explains how to
monitor and adapt on an ongoing basis.
Fully illustrated with case studies including McDonald's, Standard
Chartered Bank, and KPMG, "Evidence-based Reward Management" will
help HR professionals to assess and communicate the effectiveness
of reward in a meaningful and informed way.
If you're Robert Corrigan, you awake daily to a world we created.
The sun no longer shines over London. Unbroken clouds seep constant
drizzle, turning buildings green with algae. Your mother made great
sacrifices to elevate you. She taught you to be as opportunistic as
the cancer that threatens to kill her. You, like most Workers, live
with the threat of being demoted to non-Worker, or simply a Non. If
your activity is judged subversive, you may be left without
benefits or support, categorised as a Transient or worse still
become one of the many disappeared. The prospect of managing a
programme like Project Egret is an opportunity you dare not turn
down. You'll face this challenge regardless of DRT's apparent or
ulterior motives. The one percent will sacrifice anything to
maintain what they have and nothing you ever think or do is outside
the realm of their influence. Immortality may be no more than a
corporate dream but if you're not careful you'll awake to an even
worse nightmare.
Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice is the essential
guide to comprehending, developing and implementing effective
reward strategies. This updated seventh edition incorporates the
latest research and developments within reward management,
including the reward implications of Covid and the 'great
resignation' and rewarding remote and hybrid workers. Revisions
will also contain updates on reward structures, equal pay, employee
benefits including wellbeing benefits, total rewards and smart
rewards. This book covers all the crucial aspects of improving
organizational, team and individual performance through reward
processes, including financial and non-financial rewards, job
evaluation, grade and pay structures, rewarding specific employee
groups and ethical considerations Armstrong's Handbook of Reward
Management Practice bridges the gap between the academic and
practitioner and is ideally suited to both HR professionals and
those studying for HR qualifications, including master's degrees
and the CIPD's intermediate and advanced level qualifications. Tips
and checklists and can be found throughout, alongside case studies
from organizations including General Motors, and the UK National
Health Service. Online supporting resources include lecture slides
and comprehensive handbooks for both lecturers and students, which
include learning summaries, discussion questions, literature
reviews and glossaries.
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Caroline Deignan; Illustrated by Emma Duncan-Brown; Maryann Deignan
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Maryann Deignan, Caroline Deignan; Illustrated by Emma Duncan-Brown
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This book draws together contributions from literary studies,
anthropology, ethnomusicology, and African language studies to
analyze the complex functioning of oral texts and models in
differing contexts. It examines the continuing role of orality in
modern society, the adaptation of oral models to printed forms, and
the ability of oral forms to "talk back" to the technology of
print.
Subjects include: orality and Christianity; the role of orality
in the liberation struggle; domestic predicaments by Kiba
performers from the Northern Province; Mandela's Long Walk to
Freedom, and the image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry.
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