PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEM: ITS EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE AND JOB SATISFACTION

Performance appraisal is a fundamental action for any association that searches for the development and to make the greatest benefit in this regularly expanding focused condition. The principle reason for this performance appraisal is to compute the power of performance appraisal approach towards the workers and furthermore to think about the connection between performance execution and performance examination. To get to worker's execution, performance appraisal is another approach which is usually utilized on associations to get out progressive updates in representative execution. The basic instrument of a significant performance appraisal framework arbitrary, while the present procedure of performance comprises of tolerating the essentials and the fundamental advances that set the association. As we realize that performance appraisal is a mistaken, human process thus it is an extreme errand to effectively incorporate. At the point when performance appraisal framework was first actualized the procedure was non straightforward. Means representatives were not told about their execution. There was no deliberate work out and the total procedure was appraisal holds self-evaluation by the representative also. Along these lines when the framework has enhanced from non-straight forwardness to straightforwardness.

Beyond Slavery: Abolition and Post-abolition in Brazil

What happened after slavery in the first slave society of the Americas? How did the abolition process shape post-abolition Brazilian society? On September 28, 1871 the Lei do Ventre Livre (Free Womb Law) signaled the end for slavery in Brazil. It created, for the effects of the compensation of slave owners, a general registration of the last slaves, which shows that Brazil officially recognized around a million and a half of them in 1872. How did these last enslaved workers live and politically influence the legal process that resulted in their freedom? Certainly they did so, since between flights, negotiations, and conflicts, the number of slaves fell by half over the following years. In this process, conditional manumission letters became almost like labor contracts, the results of negotiations between slaves and slave owners which gave expectations of freedom to some and prolonged the exploitation of the labor of others. In 1887, abolition seemed inescapable. En masse flights of the last slaves made it a fact, recognized by law on May 13, 1888. How could social relations be reinvented after the collapse of the institution which had structured the country, in all its aspects, since colonization? This dismantling would have consequences that were not only economic but would also redesign the logic of power and the architecture of a society willing to maintain distinct types of citizenship. Old experiences of racism and citizenship were redefined in the process. Former slave owners fought for compensation for their lost property until Rui Barbosa, an old abolitionist and minister of finance of the first republican government, decided to burn the registration documentation in 1889, thereby preventing any compensation proposal for around seven hundred thirty thousand slaves freed by the abolition law. With the Republic (1889), a new racialized rhetoric narrated abolition as the product of the republican action of the “emancipating race,” which guaranteed freedom without conflict to the “emancipated race.” It thus made invisible not only the fundamental action of the last slaves, but also the demographically majoritarian status of the free Afro-descendants in the Brazilian population, evident in the action of numerous black abolitionists. For Afro-Brazilians, the struggle remained to define their place and rights in society. More recently, the political action of the Brazilian black movement in the commemorations of the centenary of abolition (1988) established the idea of incomplete abolition, defining May 13 as the date of the struggle against racial inequality in the country and consolidating the post-abolition period as a field of historiographic research.

Administrasi Ketatausahaan

Administrative administration is a hierarchical subsystem, for this situation the school association. Its fundamental action is dealing with all types of school organization, from correspondence to stock of merchandise. When seen from the above comprehension, the organization doesn't just include correspondence exercises yet in addition includes all material data and data as reports. Organization is significant in light of the fact that organization can help and encourage different subsystems, for example, understudy undertakings, educational plan, staff organization, and others.

Interseccionalidade lésbica? O apelo pelo desmonte de opressões

RESUMOCom o objetivo de aprofundar as reflexões concernentes às opressões vivenciadas por lésbicas em território latino-americano, este artigo destrincha algumas particularidades do movimento lésbico-feminista considerando-o uma ação política, cujo desígnio é o de aniquilar distintos eixos opressores – entre tantos, o racismo, o classismo, o heterossexismo – que agem juntos. Apelos em favor de incorporar a pluralidade de diferenciações humanas e as desigualdades que se originam dessas diferenças tocam em uma ação fundamental para movimentos visionários, a de promover visibilidades.Lésbicas. Opressões. Interseccionalidade. Lesbian intersectionality? The call for the dismantling of oppression ABSTRACTIn order to deepen the reflections concerning the oppression to which lesbians are undergone in Latin America, this article examines some particularities of the lesbian feminist movement, which is considered a political action, whose objective is to annihilate different oppressive strands – racism, classism, heterosexism, among others – that act jointly. Appeals for incorporating the plurality of human differentiations and the inequality that is due to theses differences lead to a fundamental action for visionary movements, which is promoting visibilities. Lesbians. Oppressions. Intersectionality. Interseccionalidad lésbica? El llamado al desmantelamiento de la opresión RESUMENPara profundizar las reflexiones sobre la opresión experimentada por las lesbianas en el territorio latinoamericano, este artículo revela algunas particularidades del movimiento feminista lésbico considerándolo una acción política, cuyo objetivo es aniquilar diferentes ejes opresivos, entre muchos, el racismo, clasismo, heterosexismo, que actúan juntos. Los llamamientos a favor de incorporar la pluralidad de las diferenciaciones humanas y las desigualdades que surgen de estas diferencias se refieren a una acción fundamental para los movimientos visionarios, la de promover la visibilidad.Lesbianas. Opresiones. Interseccionalidad. Intersezionalità lesbica? L'appello allo smantellamento dell'oppressione SINTESEAl fine di approfondire le riflessioni sull'oppressione subita dalle lesbiche nel territorio latinoamericano, questo articolo svela alcune particolarità del movimento lesbico-femminista considerandolo un'azione politica, il cui scopo è quello di annientare diversi assi oppressivi - tra i tanti, il razzismo, classismo, eterosessismo - che agiscono insieme. Gli appelli a favore dell'incorporazione della pluralità di differenziazioni umane e delle disuguaglianze che derivano da queste differenze toccano un'azione fondamentale per i movimenti visionari, quella di promuovere la visibilità.Lesbiche. Oppressioni. Intersezionalità.

Impact of Pituitary Autoimmunity and Genetic Disorders on Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children and Adults

Growth hormone (GH), mostly through its peripheral mediator, the insulin-like growth factor 1(IGF1), in addition to carrying out its fundamental action to promote linear bone growth, plays an important role throughout life in the regulation of intermediate metabolism, trophism and function of various organs, especially the cardiovascular, muscular and skeletal systems. Therefore, if a prepubertal GH secretory deficiency (GHD) is responsible for short stature, then a deficiency in adulthood identifies a nosographic picture classified as adult GHD syndrome, which is characterized by heart, muscle, bone, metabolic and psychic abnormalities. A GHD may occur in patients with pituitary autoimmunity; moreover, GHD may also be one of the features of some genetic syndromes in association with other neurological, somatic and immune alterations. This review will discuss the impact of pituitary autoimmunity on GHD and the occurrence of GHD in the context of some genetic disorders. Moreover, we will discuss some genetic alterations that cause GH and IGF-1 insensitivity and the arguments in favor and against the influence of GH/IGF-1 on longevity and cancer in the light of the papers on these issues that so far appear in the literature.

About odide: A Friendly and Necessary Ion

Iodide is an essential micronutrient present in very small quantities in the human body, with a fundamental action for the adequate synthesis of thyroid hormones, which are critical for cell differentiation, growth and metabolism. In the form of iodide, iodine is widely distributed in the environment, although in an irregular manner, occurring in abundant amounts in the oceans and in coastal areas and scarcely found on islands and mountains. The diet is the main source of iodine, whose intake varies according to the amount present in soil and water and according to eating habits. Governmental policies have been adopted to satisfy and guarantee the necessary daily supply of iodine, such as fortification of industrialized salt for domestic iodine consumption or addition to the bread commonly consumed in a given region, or the offer of iodized oil to the population, or even iodine supplementation through medications. Iodide deficiency is the main avoidable cause of brain damage to fetuses and children, as well as retardation of psychomotor development. Thyroid hormones are almost universally involved in the development and proliferation of fetal neural tissue. Permanent lesions of the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum may occur, with loss of, or damage to the brainstem or spinal cord, affecting cortical areas that integrate highly specialized stimuli, which become poorly defined on an anatomical basis, including silent areas of the associative cortex. One of the more significant metabolic problems due to dietary iodine deficiency is the presence of goiter (increased volume of the thyroid gland). Thyroid carcinoma is the most frequent endocrine neoplasia affecting the human species and plasma iodine concentration is related to the development of specific subtypes of this neoplasia. An increased prevalence of follicular carcinoma, a more aggressive tumor, has been observed in areas of iodine deficiency, while the correction of this deficiency is associated with a higher prevalence of papilliferous carcinoma, a less aggressive form. CONCLUSION: An ideal plasma iodide concentration is necessary to insure the proper mental development of fetuses and young children and to minimize the aggressiveness of thyroid cancer from follicular cells in humans.

A service network perspective to evaluate service matching in early design

PurposeService matching is defined in this paper as the process of combining a new service with one or more existing services. A recurring problem for service designer is to match new services with existing ones. This process may be seen as the fundamental action for the development of a service network. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the consequences that may follow from service matching.Design/methodology/approachThrough an analogy with living organisms in natural ecosystems, the service relationship deployment (SRD) allows the investigation of the possible relationships between matched services.FindingsThis paper presents a new method, named SRD, developed to support the process of service matching in the early design phases of a new service. The description of the method is supported by some practical examples.Originality/valueThe focus of the scientific community on the problem of matching new services with existing ones, is very limited. This paper proposes a new methodology to address this issue.

A preliminary approach to study the behavior of human fingertip at contact via experimental test and numerical model

<p>How human fingertip deforms during the interaction with the environment represents a fundamental action that shapes our perception of external world. In this work, we present the <em>proof of concept</em> of an experimental <em>in vivo</em> set up that enables to characterize the mechanical behavior of human fingertip, in terms of contact area, force and a preliminary estimation of pressure contour, while it is put in contact against a flat rigid surface. Experimental outcomes are then compared with the output of a 3D Finite Element Model (FEM) of the human fingerpad, built upon existing validated models. The good agreement between numerical and experimental data suggests the correctness of our procedure for measurement acquisitions and finger modeling. Furthermore, we will also discuss how our experimental data can be profitably used to estimate strain limiting deformation models for tactile rendering, while the here reported 3D FE model has also been profitably employed to investigate hypotheses on human tactile perception.</p>

Democratising E-Democracy

As tensions and conflicts are inherent in modern society, the Internet can do little but project tension and conflict back to the socio-political reality. As a result, although there has been significant progress in developing e-democracy over the last decades, the authors observe that many scholars/practitioners still pay little attention to three fundamental action items for overcoming these tensions and conflicts: catering for social justice outcomes in the design stage of programmes, projects, and initiatives; appraising the ways in which people change themselves through their interaction with technologies; linking local enactments of e-democracy to global agendas and evaluation experiences. Ignoring these aspects has impeded a full appreciation of the impact of e-democracy on democracy itself. Adopting a systems change approach derived from Hargrave and Van de Ven's (2006) collective action model to define a roadmap for impact, the authors propose to leverage international e-democracy events for eliciting a collective reflection on how to dynamically (re-)configure the priorities of e-democracy. They use the example of their attempt to do this with the We Decide learning landscape to show how they are starting this reconfiguration. Basically, the intention is to enable both practitioners and researchers to build bridges that have never been there, and to open up new conversations about “democratising e-democracy.”

Democratising E-Democracy

As tensions and conflicts are inherent in modern society, the Internet can do little but project tension and conflict back to the socio-political reality. As a result, although there has been significant progress in developing e-democracy over the last decades, the authors observe that many scholars/practitioners still pay little attention to three fundamental action items for overcoming these tensions and conflicts: catering for social justice outcomes in the design stage of programmes, projects, and initiatives; appraising the ways in which people change themselves through their interaction with technologies; linking local enactments of e-democracy to global agendas and evaluation experiences. Ignoring these aspects has impeded a full appreciation of the impact of e-democracy on democracy itself. Adopting a systems change approach derived from Hargrave and Van de Ven's (2006) collective action model to define a roadmap for impact, the authors propose to leverage international e-democracy events for eliciting a collective reflection on how to dynamically (re-)configure the priorities of e-democracy. They use the example of their attempt to do this with the We Decide learning landscape to show how they are starting this reconfiguration. Basically, the intention is to enable both practitioners and researchers to build bridges that have never been there, and to open up new conversations about “democratising e-democracy.”