Social research and statistics

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching social science statistics effectively.

This book applies cutting-edge methods from cognitive and evolutionary theories to develop models of conflict between hierarchically-structured cognitive entities under circumstances of imprecision, uncertainty and stress.

This book provides an overview of current approaches and research focusing on implementation of strategic learning.

This book reports on research and developments in human-technology interaction.

There is a huge need for supportive mentoring among students, doctors in training and general practitioners.

Rosaline Barbour draws on her extensive teaching experience to provide a clear, user-friendly introduction to the craft of doing qualitative research.

Based on extensive original research, this book explores how far the Soviet pattern of industrial workplace organisation, characterised by a high level of management discretion, authoritarian control and the use of punitive methods on the shop-floor, has been replaced by internationally established practices, with a greater emphasis on a lean organisation and employee involvement in quality improvement.

Scan statistics, one of the most active research areas in applied probability and statistics, has seen a tremendous growth during the last 25 years.

This study, first published in 1958, explores the behaviour of industrial workers in a social context.

Is the fall in overall productivity growth in the United States and other developed countries related to the rising share of the service sectors in the economy?

HR departments are in transition.

Adult education occurs whenever individuals engage in sustained, systematic learning in order to affect changes in their attitudes, knowledge, skills, or belief systems.

"e;This is not yet another step-by-step guide to research methods.

This book presents practical approaches for facilitating the achievement of excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources.

The new world economy is tough on job security.

Recognizing that complexity calls for innovative, conceptual, and methodological solutions, this unique book offers practical guidance to policymakers, managers, and evaluation practitioners on how to design and implement complexity-responsive evaluations that can be undertaken in the real world of time, budget, data, and political constraints.

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.

Technology has become a necessary and everyday part of studying.

Written in Johnny Saldana's elegant and accessible style, Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind boldly pursues the challenge of teaching students not just how to collect and analyze data, but how to actively think about them.

Addresses increased diversity in government work forces, and management strategies appropriate for managing diversity.

This book fills the need for a communication-based, public sector framed book.

This book aims to mark fifteen years of contributions to the field of style research in cognition and learning presented at the annual conference of the European Learning Styles Information Network.

This title, first published in 1962, explains a system of job evaluation suitable for managerial and professional posts, and calls for a radical rethinking of the essential requirements for senior jobs.

In Social Networks of Meaning and Communication, Jan A.

Working with a discouraged, disorganized, cynical team?

The term humanisation was introduced in humanistic studies to develop a humanist way of thinking about organisations and human relations.

Using an accessible, nontechnical approach, the third edition of Regression Basics introduces readers to the fundamentals of statistical regression.

Many organizations approach the issue of employee engagement and motivation by tapping into age, gender and other stereotypes.

Reasonable accommodation is defined as any change in the work environment or in the way business is usually conducted that results in equal employment opportunity for an individual with a disability.

Although world-class firms like GE and Motorola have relied on Six Sigma to build their performance cultures, these processes are all too often left out of human resources (HR) functions.

Absence management is a key priority for most organisations due to the costs involved and the impact that it can have.

Why 'Managing across diverse cultures in East Asia'?

With the rise of a knowledge-based economy a change in the approach to the role of employees has come.

'Lifelong learning' is moving from buzzword to reality for ever latger numbers of workers.

Written with a learning-by-doing approach in mind, 10-Step Evaluation for Training and Performance Improvement gives students actionable instruction for identifying, planning, and implementing a client-based program evaluation.

This book introduces the foundations of multilevel models, using Monopoly(R) rent data, from the classic board game, and the statistical program Stata(R).

Building on the success of the bestselling The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (2007), this title provides a much-needed and up-to-date overview, integrating some revised and updated chapters with new ones exploring recent developments in grounded theory and research methods in general.

Essentials of Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice helps students understand the vital role that research and statistics play in the study of criminology and criminal justice by showing them how to conduct and interpret statistics in real-world settings with a step-by-step approach to solving problems.

Recently a revolution has taken place in organizations around the world to transform their performance management systems from burdensome chores into a valuable business practices.

Providing a complete and contemporary overview of the evolving and fascinating world of work, this new edition of Work and Organizational Psychology is the perfect textbook, outlining not only key theoretical ideas, but how they relate to the role of psychologists advising today's organizations.

Bringing together leading theorists, researchers and policy makers with expertise in using realist methods, this book is a definitive guide to putting realist methodologies into practice.

Making Personnel Personal: Human Resource Leadership for K-12 Schools isa guidebook for current and aspiring superintendents, principals, and board members in effectively navigating HR matters.

In the digital-driven economy era, an AI-oriented competency framework (AIoCF) is a collection to identify AI-oriented knowledge, attributes, efforts, skills, and experiences (AKASE) that directly and positively affect the success of employees and the organization.

This clear and detailed analysis, first published in 1976, of recruitment methods, staff development techniques, staff motivation, and organisational structures will be valuable to data processing managers and personnel officers alike.

This multidisciplinary work shows the movement today of academic research in social sciences in Senegal.