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Human Performance Improvement Building Practitioner Performance

Human Performance Improvement Building Practitioner Performance

Organizations are under pressure to build and sustain competitive advantage with and through people. For that reason managers continue to demand results from workers and look for as many ways as possible to increase productivity and decrease the costs of doing business. Human performance improvement (HPI) is a systematic approach to securing better performance from people. This book provides a thorough overview of the theory and practice of HPI looking at the long-term action plan and specific interventions that can improve productivity and address performance problems. This new edition provides up-to-date references and sources examines the manager’s role in HPI in more detail than previous editions and explores how to build on human performance improvement strengths and opportunities. Written by a group of highly respected authors in the field this book will show you how to discover and analyze performance gaps plan for future improvements in human performance and design and develop cost-effective interventions to close performance gaps. HPI is not a tool reserved exclusively for training and development practitioners human resource specialists or external consultants. Almost anyone can use it including managers supervisors and even employees making this book vital reading for anyone looking to improve human performance. | Human Performance Improvement Building Practitioner Performance

GBP 35.99
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Women's Intercultural Performance

Women's Intercultural Performance

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. Contemporary feminist performance is explored in the contexts of current intercultural practices theories and debates. Holledge and Tompkins provide ways of thinking about and analysing contemporary performance and representations of the performing female culturally-marked body. The book includes discussions of: * ritual performance by women from Central Australia and Korea * the cultural exchange of A Doll's House and Antigone * plays from Algeria South Africa and Ghana * the work of the Takarazuka revue company * the market forces that govern the distribution of women and women's performance. This is an essential read for anyone studying or interested in women's performance. | Women's Intercultural Performance

GBP 130.00
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Vital Performance Historically Informed Romantic Performance in Cultural Context

Vital Performance Historically Informed Romantic Performance in Cultural Context

Historically Informed Performance or HIP has become an influential and exciting development for scholars musicians and audiences alike. Yet it has not been unchallenged with debate over the desirability of its central goals and the accuracy of its results. The author suggests ways out of this impasse in Romantic performance style. In this wide-ranging study pianist and scholar Andrew John Snedden takes a step back examining the strengths and limitations of HIP. He proposes that many problems are avoided when performance styles are understood as expressions of their cultural era rather than as simply composer intention explaining not merely how we play but why we play the way we do and why the nineteenth century Romantics played very differently. Snedden examines the principal evidence we have for Romantic performance style especially in translation of score indications and analysis of early recordings finally focusing on the performance styles of Liszt and Chopin. He concludes with a call for the reanimation of culturally appropriate performance styles in Romantic repertoire. This study will be of great interest to scholars performers and students to anyone wondering about how our performances reflect our culture and about how the Romantics played their own culturally-embedded music. | Vital Performance Historically Informed Romantic Performance in Cultural Context

GBP 36.99
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Performance Studies: The Basics

Performance Studies: The Basics

Performance Studies: The Basics offers an overview of the multiple often overlapping definitions of performance from performance art performance as everyday life and rituals to the performative dimensions of identity such as gender race and sexuality. This book defines the interdisciplinary field of performance studies as it has evolved over the past four decades at the intersection of academic scholarship and artistic and activist practices. It discusses performance as an important means of communicating and of understanding the world highlighting its intersections with critical theory and arguing for the importance of performance in the study of human behaviour and social practices. Complete with a helpful glossary and bibliography as well as suggestions for further reading this book is an ideal starting point for those studying performance studies as well as for general readers with an interest in the subject.

GBP 18.99
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Performance Art Education and Practice

Performance Art Education and Practice

Performance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through activities and practice prompts that are framed by seminal moments in the history of the medium as well as the current theoretical discussions surrounding performance. The book begins by introducing the terminology related to performance art and its early history. The basic elements of performance including the body objects space the public and the public sphere are approached through thematic and conceptual correlations such as objects as autobiography body as an expression of gendered identity performance and the everyday the augmented body the archive of performance and public space as space for intervention. Case studies analysed in each chapter are accompanied by reflective questions and discussion topics. The book proposes a wide range of exercises and comprehensive practice prompts that aim to enhance performance skills promote experimentation and encourage an experiential understanding of the theory history and concepts relating to performance art. Performance Art: Education and Practice is addressed to students of Fine Arts and Performance Studies from beginner to intermediate level performance and visual artists who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and creative range and artist-teachers who are interested in developing their own curriculum and workshop content. | Performance Art Education and Practice

GBP 32.99
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Performance: A Critical Introduction

Performance: A Critical Introduction

Since its original publication in 1996 Marvin Carlson's Performance: A Critical Introduction has remained the definitive guide to understanding performance as a theatrical activity. It is an unparalleled exploration of the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted its importance to disciplines from anthropology to linguistics and how it underpins essential concepts of human society. In this comprehensively revised and updated third edition Carlson tackles the pressing themes and theories of our age with expanded coverage of : the growth and importance of racial and ethnic performance; the emergence of performance concerned with age and disability; the popularity and significance of participatory and immersive theatre; the crucial relevance of identity politics and cultural performance in the twenty-first century. Also including a fully updated bibliography and glossary this classic text is an invaluable touchstone for any student of performance studies theatre history and the performing and visual arts.

GBP 35.99
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Performance Studies An Introduction

Performance Studies An Introduction

Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively accessible overview of the full range of performance with primary extracts student activities key biographies and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. This fourth edition has been revised with two new chapters up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances and an in-depth exploration of the growing international importance of performance studies. Among the book’s topics are the performing arts and popular entertainments rituals play and games social media the performances of the paleolithic period and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences performing arts poststructuralism ritual theory ethology philosophy and aesthetics. Performance Studies: An Introduction features the broadest and most in-depth analysis possible. Performance Studies: An Introduction is the definitive overview for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies the performing arts and cultural studies. This new edition is also supported by a fully updated companion website offering a variety of interactive resources teaching tools and research links. | Performance Studies An Introduction

GBP 43.99
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Conceptual Performance Enacting Conceptual Art

Conceptual Performance Enacting Conceptual Art

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits character and concept of performance. Conceptual Performance sets out the history theoretical basis and character of this genre of work through a wide range of case studies. The volume considers how and why principal modes and agendas in Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s necessitated new engagements with performance as well as expanded notions of theatricality. In doing so this book reviews and challenges prevailing histories of Conceptual art through critical frameworks of performativity and performance. It also considers how Conceptual art adopted and redefined terms and tropes of theatre and performance: including score document embodiment documentation relic remains and the narrative recuperation of ephemeral work. While showing how performance has been integral to Conceptual art’s critiques of prevailing assumptions about art’s form purpose and meaning this volume also considers the reach and influence of Conceptual performance into recent thinking and practice. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre performance contemporary art and art history. | Conceptual Performance Enacting Conceptual Art

GBP 35.99
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Performance Art in Portugal

Performance Art in Portugal

This book explores histories which have only recently been rediscovered by artists and researchers. This study explores the history of Portuguese performance art in its various speculative and performative forms. The author approaches this relationship with the re-emergence and centrality of these (semi-)peripheral histories at an international level whilst identifying some of their unique traits: their cycles of emergence and retraction in Portuguese history; their multiple and complex ontologies; the intertwined relations between the art of performance and the social performance of the Portuguese (regarding topics as sensitive and fracturing as those of the long dictatorship the colonial war and the revolutionary process or even the integration of Portugal in the European Community and more recently the various 21st century social political and economic crises). This reading in turn covers the development of the relationship between performance and hybridism namely analyzing the recent dimension of meta-hybridism in the processes of artistic homage that contemporary Portuguese creators have been establishing through access to the histories and archives of this historical genre. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies performance art and arts in general. | Performance Art in Portugal

GBP 130.00
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Performance Assessment in Strength and Conditioning

Performance Assessment in Strength and Conditioning

It is an essential skill for any strength and conditioning coach to be able to reliably assess the physical performance of their athletes and communicate the results and their implications to performers and coaches alike. Performance Assessment in Strength and Conditioning is the first textbook to clearly and coherently suggest the most appropriate and reliable methods for assessing and monitoring athletes’ performance as well as including detailed sections on testing considerations and the interpretation and application of results. The book explores the full range of considerations required to reliably assess performance including questions of ethics and safety reliability and validity and standardised testing before going on to recommend (through a comparison of field- and laboratory-based techniques) the optimal methods for testing all aspects of physical performance including: injury risk jump performance sprint performance change of direction and agility strength power aerobic performance body composition Closing with a section on interpreting presenting and applying results to practice and illustrated with real-life case study data throughout Performance Assessment in Strength and Conditioning offers the most useful guide to monitoring athlete performance available. It is an essential text for upper-level strength and conditioning students and practitioners alike.

GBP 42.99
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Performance Measurement and Theory

Performance Measurement and Theory

In this volume first published in 1983 the editors aim to achieve an understanding of performance from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The papers in this volume will not only spur further research but will also provide an opportunity for some careful considerations of how performance is measured in various applied settings. The book is divided into four major areas; intraindividual issues interdividual/organizational dynamics methodology and philosophies. This title will be of interest to students of business studies psychology and human resource management. | Performance Measurement and Theory

GBP 35.99
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Performance as Research Knowledge methods impact

Performance as Research Knowledge methods impact

Performance as Research (PAR) is characterised by an extraordinary elasticity and interdisciplinary drive. Performance as Research: Knowledge Methods Impact celebrates this energy bringing together chapters from a wide range of disciplines and eight different countries. This volume focuses explicitly on three critical often contentious themes that run through much discussion of PaR as a discipline: Knowledge - the areas and manners in which performance can generate knowledge Methods - methods and methodologies for approaching performance as research Impact - a broad understanding of the impact of this form of research These themes are framed by four essays from the book's editors contextualising their interrelated conversations teasing out common threads and exploring the new questions that the contributions pose to the field of performance. As both an intervention into and extension of current debates this is a vital collection for any reader concerned with the value and legitimacy of performance as research. | Performance as Research Knowledge methods impact

GBP 36.99
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The Public Productivity and Performance Handbook

The Public Productivity and Performance Handbook

A productive society is dependent upon high-performing government. This third edition of The Public Performance and Productivity Handbook includes chapters from leading scholars consultants and practitioners to explore all of the core elements of improvement. Completely revised and focused on best practice the handbook comprehensively explores managing for high performance measurement and analysis costs and finances human resources and cutting-edge organizational tools. Its coverage of new and systematic management approaches and well-defined measurement systems provides guidance for organizations of all sizes to improve productivity and performance. The contributors discuss such topics as accountability organizational effectiveness after budget cuts the complementary roles of human capital and “big data ” and how to teach performance management in the classroom and in public organizations. The handbook is accompanied by an online companion volume providing examples of performance measurement and improvement manuals across a wide variety of public organizations. The Public Performance and Productivity Handbook Third Edition is required reading for all public administration practitioners as well as for students and scholars interested in the state of the public performance and productivity field. | The Public Productivity and Performance Handbook

GBP 230.00
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Community Performance An Introduction

Community Performance An Introduction

Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts dance and theatre offering reflection on the ethical issues inherent to the field. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner perfectly answering the needs of a field where teaching is orientated around practice. Offering a toolkit for students interested in running community arts groups or community performance events this book includes: international case studies and first-person stories by practitioners and participants sample exercises both practical and reflective study questions excerpts of illustrative material from theorists and practitioners This second edition has been completely revised with over 25% new content to bring the book up to date with developments in both society and performance including the rise of social media updates in the contexts of social justice new standards and norms in social practice and the changing faces of funding evaluation and professional development. The book can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume Community Performance: A Reader to provide an excellent introduction to the field of community arts practice. | Community Performance An Introduction

GBP 35.99
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The Psychology of Performance

The Psychology of Performance

Why is performing under pressure often so difficult? What strategies can help us deliver our best performance? How can we boost our self-confidence? The Psychology of Performance explores the key psychological factors that affect our ability to cope under pressure whether it’s competing in a sport appearing in front of an audience or meeting a tight deadline. It looks at how we develop skills through learning and practice and how self-confidence and decision-making can be sharpened to boost our expertise. The book explains how to develop the best mindset for performance and shows how factors such as sleep nutrition and rest and recovery can influence our moods and how we function. When we need to perform a task with little room for error The Psychology of Performance helps us to understand how to do this to the best of our ability.

GBP 12.99
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Professional Practice in Sport Performance Analysis

Professional Practice in Sport Performance Analysis

The use of performance analysis as an evaluative tool in the coaching process is now strongly embedded. This book aims to explore a range of contemporary topics relating to current and future working practices of practitioners in the discipline. Professional Practice in Sport Performance Analysis delivers practically centred insights into the reality of working in the industry including the technological theoretical and personal competencies required. This new book delves into the realities of working as an analyst within the evolving and complex coaching process which practitioners need to navigate in order to successfully deliver their job role. It uncovers the practical realities underpinning knowledge challenges and constraints of working as an applied performance analyst whilst providing a practical guide for those practitioners who are currently or seeking to work as an applied performance analyst. Grounded in practice and experience Professional Practice in Sport Performance Analysis helps educate and encapsulate the working realities of the modern-day performance analyst and will be critical reading for students of performance analysis coaching skill acquisition and development.

GBP 34.99
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Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

The coaching process is about enhancing performance by providing feedback about the performance to the athlete or team. Researchers have shown that human observation and memory are not reliable enough to provide accurate and objective information for high-performance athletes. Objective measuring tools are necessary to enable the feedback process. These can take the form of video analysis systems post-event both biomechanical and computerised notation systems or the use of in-event systems. Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is fully revised with updated existing chapters and the addition of 12 new chapters. It is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to this core discipline of contemporary sport science. The book offers a full description of the fundamental theory of match and performance analysis using real-world illustrative examples and data throughout. It also explores the applied contexts in which analysis can have a significant influence on performance. To this end the book has been defined by five sections. In Section 1 the background of performance analysis is explained and Section 2 discusses methodologies used in notating sport performance. Current issues of performance analysis applied research such as chance momentum theory perturbations and dynamic systems are explored in Section 3. Profiling the essential output skill in performance analysis is examined in depth in Section 4. The book’s final section offers invaluable applied information on careers available for performance analysts. With extended coverage of contemporary issues in performance analysis and contributions from leading performance analysis researchers and practitioners Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is a complete textbook for any performance analysis course as well as an invaluable reference for sport science or sport coaching students and researchers and any coach analyst or athlete looking to develop their professional insight. | Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

GBP 54.99
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Music Performance Encounters Collaborations and Confrontations

Music Performance Encounters Collaborations and Confrontations

Why do most musical performers and musical researchers continue to inhabit divergent epistemic spaces? To what extent is the act of musical performance coextensive with the act of doing musical research and vice versa? At what point in the research process can a performative act transform into a scholarly one and a scholarly act into a performative one? These and other related questions form the central focus of this book with each chapter offering a fresh perspective on a particular topic in music performance studies: improvisational traditions historical performance practices analysis and performance sports psychology cross-cultural musical interactions and institutional challenges. This book is aimed at music researchers teachers students and practising musicians interested in the intersection of academic and performance research; as such it seeks to bridge the divide between the research of university-trained musicologists scholars from other fields who focus on music and the growing community of musical artist-researchers. Material in this book is supported by performance outcomes offered by the contributors on a separate YouTube channel and on the Routledge online portal. | Music Performance Encounters Collaborations and Confrontations

GBP 130.00
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Performance Planning and Review Making employee appraisals work

Performance Planning and Review Making employee appraisals work

Managing employees' performance is central to the role of every manager. Yet few organisations or managers are satisfied with their performance management systems - and few employees look forward to their performance reviews. This discontent has two main causes: first employees' performance is often managed in isolation from the plans and targets of the work group or business unit; and second the organisation is using inappropriate systems and methods of performance management. Performance Planning and Review describes how systematic performance management - planning monitoring reviewing rewarding and developing what individual employees and work teams do - is the key to organisational success in today's complex and competitive world. Using practical examples the author outlines the options available to organisations and managers and discusses how to work out what is best for your organisation. Performance Planning and Review has been popular with managers human resources specialists students and others since its original publication. This new edition has been substantially revised to capture the latest research and good practice. It includes extensive coverage of new techniques like 360-degree feedback and to open up new areas such as performance planning and review for teams. | Performance Planning and Review Making employee appraisals work

GBP 130.00
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The Problems of Viewing Performance Epistemology and Other Minds

The Problems of Viewing Performance Epistemology and Other Minds

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member and breaks new ground by counterintuitively claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience. Given that viewers come to each performance with differing amounts and types of knowledge they each make different assumptions as to how the performance will unfold. Often modified by other viewers and often after the performance event knowledge of performance is made more accurate by superimposing the experiences and justified beliefs of multiple viewers. These differences in the viewing experience make knowledge surrounding a performance intersubjective. Ultimately this book explains the how and the why audience members have different viewing experiences. The Problems of Viewing Performance is important reading for theatre and performance students scholars and practitioners as it unpacks the dynamics of spectatorship and explores how audiences work. | The Problems of Viewing Performance Epistemology and Other Minds

GBP 36.99
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Coaching for Sports Performance

Coaching for Sports Performance

Coaching for Sports Performance provides a practical overview of the many disciplines necessary to be an effective coach. Using experts from across the sports science fields this book teaches readers the core concepts in a practical easy to understand style separated into four sections. Part I explains the fundamentals of effective coaching including the development of coaching philosophies best practices for coaching effectively how athletic technique matures and what coaches can and cannot do in specific health-related situations. Part II provides practical ways to improve athletic performance where readers learn the fundamentals of biomechanics and how to use technology to analyze performance the physiological functions and adaptations to exercise how the body can be physically trained and properly fueled and mental strategies to optimize athletic outcomes. Part III introduces the business side of coaching the important responsibilities involved in sport management and practical methods for marketing as well as working with the media. Last Part IV offers specific strategies for coaching across age and skill levels. Chapters are split into youth and high school collegiate and professional athletes and the nuances of coaching each level are explained. Being called Coach is an honor but with this title comes the responsibility of being professional knowledgeable and effective. Coaching for Sports Performance provides the platform for becoming a successful coach and assisting athletes in achieving their potential. Coaching for Sports Performance provides a practical overview of the many disciplines necessary to be an effective coach.

GBP 48.99
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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. With all 22 practitioners from the original series represented this is the definitive first step for students scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.

GBP 84.99
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Performance Psychology Theory and Practice

Performance Psychology Theory and Practice

Anyone who has ever competed in a sport taken an exam or appeared on stage understands the importance of performing at the right time. Those who excel in these conditions often develop ways to cope with the stress involved but what cognitive and emotional strategies allow some people to thrive under pressure whilst others are inhibited by it? In Performance Psychology: Theory and Practice Stewart Cotterill examines not only how stressful situations can affect performance but also the means by which we can reach our potential regardless. Featuring chapters on decision-making emotion resilience and mental toughness cognition and perception ageing and experience confidence and recovery this is the definitive textbook in the field mapping the core theoretical concepts but also offering practical guidance on how performance can be improved. Also including chapters on motor skills and nutrition it is a complete and comprehensive overview of this growing field of study. Including study questions and further reading in each chapter Performance Psychology: Theory and Practice will appeal not only to students and researchers across applied psychology but also coaches and performers looking for ways to realize their potential when it really matters. | Performance Psychology Theory and Practice

GBP 39.99
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The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners companies collectives and makers from the fields of Dance Theatre Music Live and Performance Art and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students researchers and practitioners. This is the follow-on text from The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader which has been the key introductory text to all kinds of performance for over 20 years since it was first published in 1996. Contributions from new and emerging practitioners are placed alongside those of long-established individual artists and companies representing the work of this century’s leading practitioners through the voices of over 140 individuals. The contributors in this volume reflect the diverse and eclectic culture of practices that now make up the expanded field of performance and their stories reflections and working processes collectively offer a snapshot of contemporary artistic concerns. Many of the pieces have been specially commissioned for this edition and comprise a range of written forms – scholarly academic creative interviews diary entries autobiographical polemical and visual. Ideal for university students and instructors this volume’s structure and global span invites readers to compare and cross-reference significant approaches outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings. For those who engage with new live and innovative approaches to performance and the interplay of radical ideas The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader is invaluable.

GBP 49.99
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