Social research and statistics

When this book was first published in 1990, there were massive economic changes in the East and significant economic challenges to the West.

Understanding Employee Engagement is a comprehensive source for the science and practice of employee engagement.

The skills needed in today's business world are not the same as they used to be.

All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things 'correctly', while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric.

Make sense of the managed care systems that dominate the world of EAP professionals and programs today!

This book will be essential reading for anyone involved in the management of blocks of flats, or considering acquiring the management of their block.

The book discusses international assignment-related decision-making by emerging market firms and their employees.

Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences.

Dramatic changes are taking place in the world of international business as we move forward in the twenty first century.

Written by prominent UK labour lawyers, this textbook is comprehensive and engaging, with detailed commentary and integrated materials.

This practical resource provides guidance for writing professionals to sustainably tackle the organizational writing challenges of any professional environment.

This volume, first published in 1988, examines the challenge to management which is posed by ever more sophisticated applications of information technology.

This book provides a systematic introduction to ethnographic methods for data collection, analysis and representation.

Collaboration between organizations on different continents can raise issues of economic development, health, the environment, risk sharing, supply chain efficiency and human resource management.

The step-by-step guide to a winning sales team The Sales Boss reveals the secrets to great sales management, and provides direct examples of how you can start being that manager today.

Author Jansson merges different perspectives and ideas into a powerful theory on international marketing of industrial products, mainly modern approaches from marketing, organization theory, and institutional economic theory.

Ports and Inland Waterways is a review of sources of statistics on ports and inland waterways in the United Kingdom and covers subjects such as foreign traffic by commodity; coastwise traffic by commodity; special traffic; scheme and non-scheme port traffic; container and roll-on traffic; contents of containers; driver accompanied and unaccompanied road goods vehicles; and restow movements.

The Lost Leaders presents the personal stories of women who achieved success in corporate leadership, but have chosen to abandon their careers, providing a fascinating glimpse of the culture that exists in the contemporary corporation.

Supervision is increasingly required for a coach's and a mentor's professional development, and engaging in reflective practice with peers can be a valuable way of meeting these needs.

Rather than focusing on SPSS menus and the graphic user interface, How to Use SPSS Syntax focuses on the syntax rules in SPSS, a more encompassing approach that allows readers to replicate statistical analyses by storing them in a file for future use.

Integrating Analyses in Mixed Methods Research goes beyond mixed methods research design and data collection, providing a pragmatic discussion of the challenges of effectively integrating data to facilitate a more comprehensive and rigorous level of analysis.

Focusing on HRM developments in thirteen developing countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this book explores the contextual functions of HR in these countries.

Human Resource Development, 3rd edition, provides a complete and integrated introduction to the processes, practices and perspectives of HRD in the workplace from a theory and practice perspective.

`This is an impressively detailed, clearly written book.

This is your definitive guide to designing your social survey.

This Harvard Business Review collection, featuring the work of celebrated author and advisor Michael D.

Les mutations que subit le monde du travail ne sont pas sans influence sur les relations industrielles.

American charitable giving veers from the hyperbolically generous to the hyperbolically stingy.

Human resources and management consultants are frequently asked to help their clients address fundamental breakdowns within their organizations.

This sharp, stimulating title provides a structure for thinking about, analysing and designing case study.

This book aims to show how the multilevel approach successfully overcomes the divisions that emerged during the rise of the social sciences- specifically, here, demography and statistics-from the seventeenth century to the present.

Nowadays, managing and promoting diversity is of paramount importance to the future of sustainability and the political and business agenda.

This is the ideal book to get you up and running with the basics of qualitative data analysis.

Sample design is key to all surveys, fundamental to data collection, and to the analysis and interpretation of the data.

This book offers a refreshing approach that provides unique insights, examples, tools, techniques, checklists, and templates for successful collaborations.

The Euro-crisis of 2009-2012 vividly demonstrated that European Union policies matter for the distribution of resources within and between European nation-states.

Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped.

"e;A welcome and overdue contribution to the field.

Straight Talk: Oral Communication for Career Success has a fresh new approach that gives tools needed to communicate with confidence.

Investigates eight dimensions of competition which are active yet covert in the lives of managers.

Allcorn and Diamond argue that the workplace has become ever more threatening to employees, and that they respond by creating psychological defenses that make the workplace ever more dysfunctional.

Temporary employment has become a focus of policy debate, theory, and research.

Growth models are among the core methods for analyzing how and when people change.

No matter which point you're currently at on the developer advocacy journey - whether you've already implemented a developer advocate function or you're exploring the possibility - this book is for you.

An observational study is an empiric investigation of the effects caused by a treatment, policy, or intervention in which it is not possible to assign subjects at random to treatment or control, as would be done in a controlled experiment.

Employment Relations is widely taught in business schools around the world.