Social research and statistics

With current socio-economic development trends and changing work landscapes, modern workplaces are progressively becoming a subject of flexibilisation and hybridisation.

Focusing on nascent firms, established growing firms and established plateaued forms within the northern inland New South Wales regional locations in Australia, this book explores the manifestation of entrepreneurship.

This volume delineates the ways in which key areas of healthcare, well-being, patient safety and organisational change overlap with and contribute to unhealthy workplaces for healthcare professionals.

This edited collection brings together voices of the strongest thought leaders on diversity, equity and inclusion in the field of statistics and data science, with the goal of encouraging and steering the profession into the regular practice of inclusive and humanistic leadership.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching human resource management statistics effectively.

This book offers an application-oriented guide to random forests: a statistical learning method extensively used in many fields of application, thanks to its excellent predictive performance, but also to its flexibility, which places few restrictions on the nature of the data used.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Britain stood at the forefront of science and statistics and had a long and respected tradition of social investigation and reform.

Workplace mistreatment is a burgeoning topic of interest, with the majority of workers having experienced it in some form.

This book brings together various threads of research in the field of gender mainstreaming.

Focusing on methodologies, applications and challenges of textual data analysis and related fields, this book gathers selected and peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 14th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2018), held in Rome, Italy, on June 12-15, 2018.

Leadership development aims to disrupt leaders' behavioural and thought patterns.

This anthology debates the idea of giving all people - no matter which profession or position they have (and whether they have a job or not) - the same pay.

This edited collection captures current thinking about and future practices and strategies for human resource development (HRD).

This book analyzes new theories and practical approaches for promoting excellence in human resource management and leadership.

Despite recent high GDP growth rates, Vietnam remains a developing country in need of developing human resources (HR) of both genders.

The peer-reviewed contributions gathered in this book address methods, software and applications of statistics and data science in the social sciences.

This book examines the important role of HR practitioners acting as toxin handlers within their organizations and the dangers they face when dealing with toxic workplace emotions caused by difficult organizational decisions, such as mergers and acquisitions, staff reductions, and restructurings.

Newly revised for Excel 2019, this text is a step-by-step guide for students taking a first course in statistics for advertising and for advertising managers and practitioners who want to learn how to use Excel to solve practical statistics problems in the workplace, whether or not they have taken a course in statistics.

This book is devoted to Corrado Gini, father of the Italian statistical school.

This book presents various perspectives on innovative work behaviour, focusing on problem recognition, idea generation, idea promotion and the realisation of these ideas.

This book provides an introduction to quantitative marketing with Python.

This book elaborates on the combined challenges regarding intrapreneurship, sustainability of human resources management (HRM) and digital transformation faced by today's organizations.

This book offers an integrated and contextualised framework for learning and development (L&D) effectiveness that addresses both the nature of L&D and its antecedents and outcomes in organisations.

This book explores how entrepreneurship education can be embedded throughout the learner's lifetime.

This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of contemporary human reproduction.

This volume ambitiously applies sociological theory to create an understanding of aspects of survey methodology.

This book explores the effective management of HR functions in an African context.

This introductory textbook takes a building-block approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime and justice.

This book examines how contemplative arts practice and a mindful approach to creativity, can be used to offer new possibilities for facilitating team creativity and collaboration in organizational settings.

This book focuses on equality, inclusion, and discrimination within the English-speaking Caribbean region, specifically as it relates to employment, education, society, and the law.

This book focuses on how rivalry influences fan perceptions and behaviors, the role of organizations to responsibly promote rivalries, and discusses how to decrease negative and group-member deviance surrounding sport rivalry.

This book is  a comparative analysis of the value orientations of Buddhist and Christian entrepreneurs and how these values impact business.

Design Research uses scientific methods to evaluate designs and build design theories.

This book examines the ethical and legal aspects of workplace bullying from a global perspective.

This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus linguistics.

This book explores how spirituality can improve an organization's ability to respond to a crisis.

Cultural, economic and political trends are changing the way public administrations are organized and this book examines the new challenges managers face, with the need for a shift from a traditional bureaucratic model to a competency-based approach to organizational design and management in the areas of recruitment, training, career development and assessment.

This volume follows the publication of Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences.

The three parts of this book on survey methodology combine an introduction to basic sampling theory, engaging presentation of topics that reflect current research trends, and informed discussion of the problems commonly encountered in survey practice.

This book offers strategic leaders with essential information for their most important role:  the change management function of positioning the organization for success into the future.

This book discusses the psychological traits associated with drug consumption through the statistical analysis of a new database with information on 1885 respondents and use of 18 drugs.

This comprehensive manual provides a user-oriented overview of U.

This book offers a practice-oriented guide to developing an effective cybersecurity culture in organizations.

This proceedings volume highlights the latest research and developments in psychometrics and statistics.

Researchers and students who use empirical investigation in their work must go through the process of selecting statistical methods for analyses, and they are often challenged to justify these selections.

This scholarly handbook covers all aspects of people with disabilities entering the workplace, including the legal aspects, transitions, types, and levels of employments, the impact of different disabilities, and the consideration of the intersection of disability with other identities such as gender and ethnicity.

The nature of work is changing, due to demographic shifts, globalization, and digitization.

This book offers alternatives to typical leadership, highlighting new ways of thinking about how individuals can lead effectively.

This edited volume expands on Morgan's organizational metaphors through the lens of faith to illuminate organizational function.

This book explores organizational knowledge and how it can be pragmatically exploited within many of today's socio-technical-economic contexts.