Social research and statistics

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 examines the leadership practices and foresight needed for smart cities.

This book offers a comprehensible overview of the statistical approach called the person-centered method.

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 focuses on virtual teams, which are fraught with cooperation problems.

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 offers a clear process for managers, professionals, and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work.

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

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

Based on neuroscience research, this book presents and demonstrates a 'Ten Enablers' model as a framework to help change leaders successfully lead and manage change.

Now in its second edition, Text Analysis with R provides a practical introduction to computational text analysis using the open source programming language R.

This book examines the effective and appropriate integration of project customers in intercultural settings.

The decennial Census is the US Government's largest statistical undertaking, and it costs billions of dollars in planning, execution, and analysis.

The impacts of the digital transformation on society in general, and particularly on people's lives, are the subject of increasing debate among policymakers, researchers and industry.

This textbook considers statistical learning applications when interest centers on the conditional distribution of a response variable, given a set of predictors, and in the absence of a credible model that can be specified before the data analysis begins.

This book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the role of emotional intelligence in promoting innovation in the organizational context.

Newly revised to specifically address Microsoft Excel 2019, this book shows the capabilities of Excel in teaching educational and psychological statistics effectively.

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.