Social research and statistics

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge?

This book provides a comprehensive exchange of information on current developments in the management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women?

Objectivity and subjectivity are key concepts in social research.

There has been growing interest on business models among academics and practitioners in recent years, as business model describes how an organization creates, distributes and captures value and, therefore, can be considered the DNA of the organization.

The intention behind this book is to illustrate the deep relation among human behavior, data-centric science, and social design.

This book analyzes spatial and temporal patterns of international trade from a geographical perspective.

This book focuses on three main areas, each of which is central to economic theorising: firms' organisation and behaviour, technological change and the process of globalisation.

Narrative research has become increasingly popular in the social sciences.

Mikhail Zhilkin, a data scientist who has worked on projects ranging from Candy Crush games to Premier League football players' physical performance, shares his strong views on some of the best and, more importantly, worst practices in data analytics and business intelligence.

Embarking on your own psychology research?

The internet is a compelling tool for research, enabling efficient, cost-effective data collection and facilitating access to large samples and new populations.

Mapped to the CIPD Level 7 module of the same name, International Human Resource Management is a critical textbook for all HR students.

Canada's future prosperity is of utmost concern to citizens, industry leaders and policy makers.

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management.

This volume presents research on women's experiences, attitudes and perceptions, considering their work roles and in the context of their lives outside work.

Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries.

Courage can shape our lives, as well as the workplace and business outcomes.

This book integrates the fundamentals of asymptotic theory of statistical inference for time series under nonstandard settings, e.

This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity.

The business leader's toolbox for increasing morale, decreasing turnover, and contributing more than ever to your company's bottom line What if you could create a culture where everyone is committed to the greater good of the organization?

Vorurteile sind in allen Bereichen des Arbeitslebens vorzufinden.

Our work life is changing.

Most often managers come up through the ranks of employees and are chosen because of their success, drive, abilities, education, other accomplishments, and personal factors.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution signals a sea change in the way we lead our organisations.

The Interview in Staff Appraisal, first published in 1975, sets out to ensure that the work appraisal is used constructively and within a well-designed system.

In times of rising expectations and decreasing resources for the public sector, performance management is high on the agenda.

This book provides:* a broad description of the telecommunications industry* details of an in-depth study of the telecommunications group Ericsson* a description of how the strategic states model has worked for companies

The Coaching Shift: How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the World Around You offers practical guidance on how to adopt a coaching mindset and how to build a coaching skill set to unlock better communication, stronger relationships, and high performance in others.

This compact reference surveys the full range of available structural equation modeling (SEM) methodologies.

Project Managing E-learning provides an essential framework, based on the globally accepted IPECC model, for planning, designing, delivering, managing and evaluating e-learning projects successfully.

Dieses Buch widmet sich den modernen Helden im Management.

Driving impact while managing resources are what most organizations strive to balance in their leadership-development efforts.

This book explores how the ethically inconsistent behaviour in workplaces can be rooted in moral fibers of the decision-makers, and/or in their varying moral foci depending on the philosophical cornerstones, on which those rest.

This book presents the state of the art of two areas: intelligent residential buildings and the behaviour of their occupants.

Scenario-Based e-Learning Scenario-Based e-Learning offers a new instructional design approach that can accelerate expertise, build critical thinking skills, and promote transfer of learning.

Human resource management, an essential part of public school administration, is particularly vulnerable to legal interpretation and challenge.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to designing rigorous and effective network science tools using the statistical software platforms Stata, R, and Python.

Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics: With Examples in R and Python covers the theory and practical implementation of graph methods in R and Python for the analysis of people and organizational networks.

As we begin the third decade of the twenty-first century, women have entered the workplace in unprecedented numbers, are now outperforming men in terms of educational qualifications, and are excelling across a range of professional fields.

Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) are a relatively new development in South Africa, having emerged in the 1980s, and this groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive overview of these EAPs in South Africa.

Make your foray into successive approximations successful and as easy as possible.

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

Evaluation at work has attracted much criticism and its damaging effects are well known, so why does it continue to gain ground in every field?

Regionalization and Harmonization in TVET contains the papers presented at the 4th UPI International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET 2016, Bandung, Indonesia, 15-16 November 2016).

Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology-questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself.