Social research and statistics

This book compels professionals to actively imbibe self-awareness in their thought process in order to help them manage complexities in business.

The new edition of An Introduction to Statistical Concepts is designed to help students really understand statistical concepts, the situations in which they can be used, and how to apply them to data.

This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step approach to data collection, cleaning, formatting, and storage, using Python and R.

The Organization Gap (1972) addresses the gap which exists between the organization theory to be found in the literature on the subject, and the urgent everyday problems a manager is called on to tackle.

This book advances an ecologically grounded approach to International Political Economy (IPE).

This volume approaches the history of Japanese-German relations from a business history perspective.

The fundamental premise of Thinkback--based on overwhelming scientific evidence--is that intelligence is not fixed at birth and that, with consistent effort, we can dramatically improve our capacities.

The current way of treating people at work has failed.

Statistics for Psychology emphasizes the logic behind statistics by placing definitional formulas center stage.

Over the last two decades, the process of European integration has become interwoven with the theme of citizenship and the debate on the democratic quality of the EU and of its institutions has become more salient.

This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world.

In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacotruing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations.

Presents empirical findings from different South-East Asian countries to demonstrate that Chinese businessmen employ a variety of strategies in their networking, entrepreneurship and organisational and firm development; and concludes that much more research is needed in order to provide a full understanding of Chinese business success.

'The most comprehensive and authoritative comparative analysis of employment relations .

A project is more than an assembly of methods, tools and resources.

This book explores the process of assessing success in the field of conflict resolution, with a focus on the Action Evaluation method pioneered by the author.

The modeling of item response data is governed by item response theory, also referred to as modern test theory.

The analysis of the various components of human work is the most important approach to a systematic study of people at work.

With a focus on the European labour market, this book seeks to understand how digital transformation affects changes in employee-employer relations.

FORWARD to Professorship in STEM: Inclusive Faculty Development Strategies That Work provides best practices on how to design and implement inclusive workshops aimed at supporting faculty and staff in their career development.

Supervision assures the quality of professional practice through careful monitoring; it heals wounds through wholesome listening and support and offers a unique and free space to develop that which we all want to progress: our personal relationships.

The creation, accumulation, and use of copious amounts of data are driving rapid change across a wide variety of industries and academic disciplines.

There is already considerable literature on learning at the individual level and a growing body of literature on group and organizational learning.

This best-selling text in the Management Work and Organisations series analyses personnel management and HRM from a critical perspective, questioning their place in the labour process and broader socio-politico-economic context.

Belief is not knowledge, but we tend to hold our beliefs as if they represent knowledge, selecting whatever evidence is required to justify them.

Business Intelligence (BI) is a solution to modern business problems.

Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology is a core text for criminology and criminal justice research methods courses.

Focusing on the status of highly educated women in the workplace, this book examines how a particular demographic and workforce group can help to close the gender gap worldwide.

This important new collection provides not only a comprehensive overview of how organizational interventions can improve health and well-being in the workplace - addressing its causes rather than the symptoms - but also the practical issues faced in their design, implementation and evaluation.

Within an era of growing reliance on digital technologies to instantly and effectively express our beliefs, values and allegiances, the interest in digital methodologies among sociologists of religion continues to increase.

The #1 book for the leading HR certifications, aligned with the updated HRBoK PHR and SPHR certifications, offered by Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI), have become the industry standard for determining competence in the field of human resources.

Is your company's top talent jumping ship as good replacements become harder to get?

Combining a strong theoretical underpinning with a wide range of case studies and practical examples, this authoritative textbook provides a deep understanding of career systems, on both an individual and an organizational level.

This unique addition to the Success in Research series addresses the importance of understanding and achieving impact for the purposes of gaining research funding and reporting achieved impact for the Research Excellence Framework (REF).

This international collection examines violence and abuse in and around organisations.

The Roles of Organisation Development by Dr Annamaria Garden introduces a radically new and original framework to explain organisation development work and how it is done.

Diva, Prima Donna, Maestro, Virtuoso: creative geniuses with the ability to deliver artistic excellence.

Mary Lynne Derrington's Qualitative Longitudinal Methods: Researching Implementation and Change addresses the use of the qualitative longitudinal methods, their unique methodological features, and the challenges and benefits to this approach.

This book investigates strategy formulation by comparing military & Business practices.

A practical workplace guide to handling conflict effectively Managing employees and encouraging them to work together toward a common goal is an essential skill that all leaders should possess.

First published in 1992, this book explains how pension funds work in order to highlight their impact on the economy as a whole.

This edited volume contains original chapters by some of the leading researchers and writers in HRD.

Transform learning and development practices to make your programs relevant and meaningful Existing training and development practices need a major overhaul.

This study, originally published in 1919, examines certain aspects of industrial psycho-physiology, and explores the importance of the close collaboration between science and industry.

Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research offers a truly balanced, inclusive, and integrated overview of the processes involved in educational research.

If the difference between a student's success and failure were something specific you could teach, wouldn't you?

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of co-operative inquiry: a way of doing research with people where the roles of researcher and subject are integrated.

The results of the empirical investigation of Japan and Korea show that the user firms in both countries, represented by car makers, have involved themselves in the technical and entrepreneurial entry into machine tools along with making active investments.