Social research and statistics

'Does the evidence reflect the reality under investigation?

With a particular focus on the British printing industry, this book tackles the ongoing issue of pay inequality and examines the challenges facing many women today.

The great American pianist Sidney Foster-distinguished professor of piano at Indiana University, and the first Leventritt Award winner-is remembered here by a former student for his outstanding ability and generous character.

John Dunning is the leading authority in the field of international business.

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce examines the systemic and institutional barriers and individual biases that continue to perpetuate a predominately White nonprofit performing arts workforce in the United States.

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics provides a current, succinct, and interesting introduction to the world of HRM with a special emphasis on how data can help managers make better decisions about the people in their organizations.

This book examines the types of web-based testing applications that exist, their technical requirements, and their use in various countries.

In an era of longer hours and shorter contracts, of tighter margins and frequent organizational change, stress can undermine both the mental health and performance of employees.

Summoned by an anonymous Prosecutor, ten contemporary ethnographers gather in an aging barn to hold a trial of Alice Goffman's controversial ethnography, On the Run.

A timely work that reviews the phenomenon of gender and its many manifestations of equality.

This book is packed with hard data and interesting anecdotes.

This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends.

International Hospitality Business: Management and Operations will introduce hospitality managers to the most up-to-date developments in hospitality to prepare you for the rapidly changing world of international hospitality.

Strategic workforce planning can often be complex and technical, so how can organizations demystify the processes to effectively prepare for current and future workforce requirements?

This book is modeled after "Eighty-Eight Assignments for Development in Place," one of the Center for Creative Leadership's most popular publications.

In Faithful Careers Peter M.

Current and historical examples in the labour movement worldwide have helped to debunk the myth that workers cannot run production.

Martyn Hammersley's provocative new text interrogates the complex relationship between research, policymaking and practice, against the background of the evidence-based practice movement.

Now you can access Jean Barbazette's systematic process for creating winning training materials that will help raise your skills to the next level.

Thoroughly updated, this new edition provides an understanding of the case study research method and the tools required for its implementation.

Originally published in 1960.

"e;Employee-organization relationship"e; is an overarching term that describes the relationship between the employee and the organization.

A clear, lively and data-centric introduction to statistics with integrated SPSS (version 22) commands.

The readings in this collection provide a comprehensive guide to the established knowledge and emerging issues regarding democratizing public bureaucracies by making them socially representative.

The Ultimate Guide to Business Writing is a comprehensive guide on how to write any kind of business document.

Volume 1 provides an overview of the core areas of sociology and the development of the discipline that is both comprehensive and up to date.

Discover solutions to common obstacles faced by project managers.

This book examines a new topic in Human Resource Management (HRM), green - or environmental - HRM, analysing the role humans play in environmental management at work and environmental behaviours at workplaces around the world.

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults?

This volume offers phenomenological studies that examine the lived experiences of biblical leaders, emphasizing external summons and a prosocial intention while offering suggestions for future research.

Contemporary Security Management, Third Edition teaches security professionals how to operate an efficient security department and how to integrate smoothly with other groups inside and outside their own organizations.

Arguing that a functional approach to Human Resource Management is fast becoming obsolete, this book explores the many areas of accelerated change in the workplace and how business leaders must evolve their thinking to meet the needs of their workers and managers alike.

Employment and Employee Rights addresses the issue of rights in the workplace.

The role and position of the civil service as core actors in the public sector has been seriously questioned in recent years.

This book takes a unique approach to explaining permutation statistics by integrating permutation statistical methods with a wide range of classical statistical methods and associated R programs.

This handbook provides an overview of major developments around diagnostic classification models (DCMs) with regard to modeling, estimation, model checking, scoring, and applications.

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Knowledge Networking explains the strategic, organizational and human impact of technologies that support knowledge: the internet, groupware, collaborative technologies.

Easy access to simple, reliable definitions and explanations of modern statistical and statistics-related concepts.

Performance appraisal is a key tool for meeting the managerial needs of the modern organization.

This book provides an in-depth coverage on competency mapping and assessment centre and includes an extensive list of generic competencies, competency models for HR, leadership, model for future competency, automobile sector, and academic institutions and experiences of some consultancy assignments.

By examining intercultural relations in seventeen societies, this book answers the fundamental question: ''how shall we all live together?

The Organization Gap (1972) addresses the gap which exists between the organization theory to be found in the literature on the subject, and the urgent everyday problems a manager is called on to tackle.

Throughout the last decade, the 'gig economy' has emerged as one of the most significant developments in the world of work.

The issue of what defines project success (or failure) is complex and often elusive, and dependent on the perceptions of different stakeholders.

Rebecca M.

This report examines the portfolio of research and development (R&D) expenditure surveys at the National Science Foundation (NSF), identifying gaps and weaknesses and areas of missing coverage.

This book provides a detailed examination of the complex negotiation processes surrounding intergovernmental conferences in the European Union.

This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors' strategies in the field of minimum wage policies.