Social research and statistics

This book is aimed at those studying and working in the field of health care, including nurses and the professions allied to medicine, who have little prior knowledge of statistics but for whom critical review of research is an essential skill.

A practical handbook for making management great again Managing for Happiness offers a complete set of practices for more effective management that makes work fun.

We are living in an uncertain world that is rapidly changing with an overload of information and a continual rise of technologies.

Mid-career faculty are the backbone of the college and university workforce and represent the largest population of faculty in the academy, yet they face myriad challenges that hinder career satisfaction and advancement.

The use of the cognitive interviewing method for survey question testing has proliferated and evolved over the past 30 years.

Providing several new contributions to both the disabilities literature and research on special populations and international perspectives on Generation A, this book explores ways that researchers can help facilitate finding and maintaining employment for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Executives' morality and ethics became major research topics following recent business scandals, but the research missed a major explanation of executives' immorality: career advancement by "e;jumping"e; between firms that causes ignorance of job-pertinent tacit local knowledge, tempting "e;jumpers"e; to covertly conceal this ignorance.

As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English.

As the workforce ages and younger trainers and managers emerge, facilitation skills take on a new importance and, with the increased use of social networks, new facilitation skills are needed.

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

This book is modeled after "e;Eighty-eight Assignments for Development in Place,"e; one of CCL's most popular publications.

First published in 1989, this book presents a unique comparative perspective on the relationship between technological change and human resource management.

Briefcase Books: Manager's Guide to Motivating EmployeesMore than 700,000 Briefcase Books sold!

FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2020 - An Exceptional Book That Promotes Diversity CategoryLONGLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2020 - Society Transformed CategoryA diverse workforce is a business imperative.

Designed to protect the privacy of individual student test scores, grades, and other education records, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 places limits the access of educational researches, and slows research not only in education but also in related fields, such as child welfare and health.

The Second Edition of Theoretical Frameworks in Qualitative Research brings together some of today's leading qualitative researchers to discuss the frameworks behind their published qualitative studies.

This book takes a strategic approach and provides a comprehensive review of books and papers about human resource management (HRM) and labor relations management in China, especially since China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.

In this deep and engaging exploration of diversity in America, author Dick Martin explains how we can bridge personal differences to experience great professional success.

?

The challenge of life and literary narrative is the central and perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world of their own - and others' - creations.

When Leadership Fails is a multidisciplinary resource for researchers and practitioners.

An exciting new edition of our core textbook written specifically for students studying diversity management, it explores all of the key areas of managing diversity in modern organisations.

The book provides an accessible but comprehensive overview of methods for mediation and interaction.

The book explores the relationship between assertiveness and diversity.

The healthcare industry is changing daily.

'This book is refreshing, both as an addition to the general literature and as a text that considers cultural and social issues in studies relating to improving the situation of vulnerable people.

This book provides an overview of cutting-edge approaches to computational social science.

The key developments and advancements in organizational change over the last century are the result of the research, theories, and practices of seminal scholars in the field.

While the topic of international careers and academia has received significant interest, the real contextual opportunities and barriers remain hidden by a dreadful reality across countries, contexts and international virtual spaces in greater numbers than ever before.

Ageless Talent: Enhancing the Performance and Well-Being of Your Age-Diverse Workforce provides organizational leaders, managers, and supervisors with clear, evidence-based tactics by which to develop and manage an aging and age-diverse talent pool.

Servant-leadership may be the answer to the current demand for a more ethical, people-centred leadership where humility, servitude and contribution are key elements.

The first of a two volume set that fully explore the roots of action learning and the legacy of its principal pioneer, Reg Revans.

Originally published in 1970 this book was written by a successful trade union leader.

We may say we want to be inclusive, but what if we really don't?

Empowering, customizable, and backed by organizational research, this book introduces the PROACTIVE work design model and diagnostic tool to help organizations create optimal conditions for proactivity at work to flourish.

This is the official publication for members and member firms of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers (ISVA).

Human resource management is experiencing profound change, new challenges, exciting accomplishments, and much uncertainity.

Understanding the power of subliminal influence makes or breaks leaders.

Written to provide clinicians, educators, researchers, and students in rehabilitation with a comprehensive overview of the theory, practice, and evidence base of goal setting, this first-of-its-kind reference provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art knowledge of the practice.

Building on the concrete advice and practical, powerful strategies revealed in its predecessor, More ProActive Sales Management provides harried sales managers with a proven method for managing the sales process and their people.

Concise and unintimidating, the fifth edition of this bestselling book is the only pragmatic, quick-start guide to the main theories, issues, and approaches to insider action research.

This collection of field research narratives from veteran social and behavioral science researchers acknowledges the unpredictability of managing a project and candidly illustrates real-world problems and solutions.

Japanese Management and Labour in Transition explores the changing face of Japanese industrial relations.

This book seeks to explain the divergent political pathways of twenty six post-communist states, following the breakdown and eventual collapse of communism in 1989-1991.

Sweden has one of the lowest national debts in Europe, a well-educated workforce, and the country consistently ranks in top positions of the best places to live and work in the world.

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

Bayesian analysis has developed rapidly in applications in the last two decades and research in Bayesian methods remains dynamic and fast-growing.