Trial of Rev. Mr. Avery : a full report of the trial of Ephraim K. Avery, charged with the murder of Sarah Maria Cornell : before the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, at a special term in Newport, held in May, 1833 ... /

At head of title page: Second edition.

Sarah Maria Cornell, or The Fall River murder, a domestic drama in three acts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Letter from William Croswell to Sarah C. Bumstead, 1832 September 10

Brief letter concerning the repayment of a loan.

Novísima geografía elemental según el sistema de Cornell

UANL

The biographies of Madame de Staël, and Madame Roland.

Issued also under title: Memoirs of Madame de Staël and Madame Roland.

Investigating the dynamics of the psychological contract : how and why individuals' contract beliefs change

The overall objective of this thesis is to explore how and why the content of individuals' psychological contracts changes over time. The contract is generally understood as "individual beliefs, shaped by the organisation, regarding the terms of an exchange agreement between individuals and their organisation" (Rousseau, 1995, p. 9). With an overall study sampling frame of 320 graduate organisational newcomers, a mixed method longitudinal research design comprised of three sequential, inter-related studies is employed in order to capture the change process. From the 15 semi-structured interviews conducted in Study 1, the key findings included identifying a relatively high degree of mutuality between employees' and their managers' reciprocal contract beliefs around the time of organisational entry. Also, at this time, individuals had developed specific components of their contract content through a mix of social network information (regarding broader employment expectations) and perceptions of various elements of their particular organisation's reputation (for more firm-specific expectations). Study 2 utilised a four-wave survey approach (available to the full sampling frame) over the 14 months following organisational entry to explore the 'shape' of individuals' contract change trajectories and the role of four theorised change predictors in driving these trajectories. The predictors represented an organisational-level informational cue (perceptions of corporate reputation), a dyadic-level informational cue (perceptions of manager-employee relationship quality) and two individual difference variables (affect and hardiness). Through the use of individual growth modelling, the findings showed differences in the general change patterns across contract content components of perceived employer (exhibiting generally quadratic change patterns) and employee (exhibiting generally no-change patterns) obligations. Further, individuals differentially used the predictor variables to construct beliefs about specific contract content. While both organisational- and dyadic-level cues were focused upon to construct employer obligation beliefs, organisational-level cues and individual difference variables were focused upon to construct employee obligation beliefs. Through undertaking 26 semi-structured interviews, Study 3 focused upon gaining a richer understanding of why participants' contracts changed, or otherwise, over the study period, with a particular focus upon the roles of breach and violation. Breach refers to an employee's perception that an employer obligation has not been met and violation refers to the negative and affective employee reactions which may ensue following a breach. The main contribution of these findings was identifying that subsequent to a breach or violation event a range of 'remediation effects' could be activated by employees which, depending upon their effectiveness, served to instigate either breach or contract repair or both. These effects mostly instigated broader contract repair and were generally cognitive strategies enacted by an individual to re-evaluate the breach situation and re-focus upon other positive aspects of the employment relationship. As such, the findings offered new evidence for a clear distinction between remedial effects which serve to only repair the breach (and thus the contract) and effects which only repair the contract more broadly; however, when effective, both resulted in individuals again viewing their employment relationships positively. Overall, in response to the overarching research question of this thesis, how and why individuals' psychological contract beliefs change, individuals do indeed draw upon various information sources, particularly at the organisational-level, as cues or guides in shaping their contract content. Further, the 'shapes' of the changes in beliefs about employer and employee obligations generally follow different, and not necessarily linear, trajectories over time. Finally, both breach and violation and also remedial actions, which address these occurrences either by remedying the breach itself (and thus the contract) or the contract only, play central roles in guiding individuals' contract changes to greater or lesser degrees. The findings from the thesis provide both academics and practitioners with greater insights into how employees construct their contract beliefs over time, the salient informational cues used to do this and how the effects of breach and violation can be mitigated through creating an environment which facilitates the use of effective remediation strategies.

Modelos para medir el liderazgo

Actualmente las empresas son vistas como sistemas complejos que pueden ser afectados por diferentes variables que pueden afectar su funcionamiento y rendimiento, entre los más importantes y más influyentes se encuentra el tipo de liderazgo con el que cuenten sus empleados ya que en la mayoría de casos este es el que define como va ser manejada la empresa y bajo qué términos. Chester Barnard (1938) señala que el liderazgo se conforma por dos factores: uno técnico y otro moral, por esto mismo describe el éxito de las organizaciones de la siguiente manera "las organizaciones perduran en proporción a la altura de la moralidad según la cual son gobernadas. Por lo que la fortaleza de una organización depende de la calidad de su liderazgo; y esa calidad, a su vez, deriva de la categoría de la moralidad sobre la que se apoya"1 (Barnard, 1968). Por eso es importante que la empresa tenga en cuenta los dos factores tanto productivo como humano, el tipo de liderazgo que se manipule en la empresa define el comportamiento y rendimiento de sus empleados por ende también la productividad y rendimiento de la misma. En relación con lo dicho anteriormente, es importante resaltar que uno de los factores claves en una organización, es el liderazgo, por esto mismo este trabajo va presentar un problema donde vamos a tener que presentar que herramientas o modelos pueden ser usarse para medir exactamente el tipo de liderazgo, antes de todo esto va ser definido de manera teórica para que se tenga claro porque es importante que este deba ser medido en una empresa y demostrar que el liderazgo es uno de los factores que más influye en una empresa. Se identificaran cinco modelos o herramientas para medir el liderazgo, posterior a esto se seleccionaran los más eficientes y acordes con el tema, a continuación se presentara un resumen y un análisis de cada uno de estos para que de esta manera se pueda identificar qué modelo es el adecuado para medir el liderazgo en las empresas privadas.

Políticas sociais e hegemonia: um estudo sobre o processo de formulação da proposta de reforma sanitária

The principles of the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS) - universal attendance, integrated and decentralized administration and the users' participation - were included in the Federal Constitution of 1988 as a result of a political movement around the subject of the health which has begun in the second half of the decade of 70, together with the overcoming process of the authoritarian regimen established in 1964. This movement, which got the name of sanitary movement or movement for the Sanitary Reform, can be understood in its relationship with a process of cultural changing among the Brazilian left, that looked for new forms of facing the democracy and, with it, the social policy. This work part of the premise that one of the main influences to guide this new vision was the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci's thought. We've tried to identify, in the formation of the speech on the Sanitary Reform and in the definition of the political strategies of those that make efforts for it, the influences of Gramsci. To reach this objective, we analyzed the editorials of Saúde em Debate (Health in Debate) magazine, official vehicle of the Centro Brasileiro de Estudos de Saúde (Brazilian Health Studies Center - Cebes), which is still in activity, that represented, in the analyzed period, 1976 to 1988, the critical thought about the reality of the health in the country and finished to be the institution that supported the project of Sanitary Reform.

Don Sebastian, or, The house of Braganza. An historical romance.

Mode of access: Internet.

Honor O'Hara. A novel ...

Summers, Gothic Bib., p. 360.