Social research and statistics

`The great strength of this book is that it provides a clear and well-structured overview of some of the diverse approaches that are currently available within the qualitative tradition' - British Journal of Educational PsychologyAlthough most undergraduates are able to collect qualitative data without too much difficulty, they are often less successful in turning this into an interesting, theoretically-informed analysis.

Trade between China and Africa is increasing year on year, while the Westincreasingly debates the nature and implications of China's presence.

Introduction to Employment Law is a clear, accessible and jargon-free guide to UK employment law and its application in the workplace.

Your company's workforce is its most valuable asset.

This dynamic guide to doing literature reviews demystifies the process in seven steps to show researchers how to produce a comprehensive literature review.

Researching Language in Schools and Communities is designed for those who intend to carry out and / or study research in children's language development, teaching English as a second language, children's literature, casual conversation, social class and language variation, classroom discourse, reading processes, teaching writing, literacy and curriculum area learning, critical literacies and related areas.

Research in higher education could be more useful, innovative and better designed if we were clearer about the philosophical and epistemological basis of the theories that underlie our research methods.

Volume 2 provides an overview of specialties within sociology and interdisciplinary studies that is both comprehensive and up to date.

The second edition of Qualitative Research focuses on cultivating and bridging theoretical, methodological, and conceptual aspects to provide insight into their interactions in qualitative research.

Today's managers are faced with many conflicting demands and situations.

A Wall Street Journal BestsellerIn a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring.

Economic and political reforms and globalization in the developing world have led to the emergence of companies that are expanding beyond their national borders into the international arena.

Written by internationally renowned experts, each chapter provides a full introduction to a key aspect of research methodology.

This book concentrates on the last twenty years of research in the area of goal setting and performance at work.

This affordable student study guide and workbook to accompany Wendy J.

The globalization of business is a relatively new process.

As globalization explodes, so has international business scholarship.

Getting Started in Research is for people in the earlier stages of development as a researcher.

This book aims to enrich the knowledge and toolkit of executive coaches and help them on their development path towards mastery.

This thoroughly practical and engaging textbook conveys the skills needed to responsibly develop, conduct, scrutinize, and interpret statistical analyses, without requiring any high-level math.

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States.

Regional trade agreements have expanded exponentially over the past decade, and have become a significant, if controversial, factor in the expanse of economic globalization.

Going beyond the mechanics of professional communication, this book combines insights into the overlooked implicit demands of corporate communication challenges with the proven strategies and techniques that distinguish professionals as capable communicators and candidates for promotion.

The goal of this well known book is to provide methods for understanding major EEO laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Financial and Managerial Aspects in Human Resource Management: A Practical Guide explores both financial and management accounting and their links to human resource management decisions and practices.

Whether analyzing attitudes, measuring opinions or observing habits, researchers who investigate people's behaviour need a wide range of techniques at their disposal.

Work organizations can lose their fitness and become sick, just as people can.

This is the era of flexibility.

Dynamic workplaces demand continuous employee learning and development to keep up with current and effective organizational contexts.

The World's Leading Business Minds on Today's Most Critical ChallengeFeaturing Gary Hamel, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John Kotter, Dan Pink, Lynda Gratton, Tammy Erickson, Doug Ready, and others"e;Thinkers50 .

A clear and accessible text on work physiology, this book focuses on important issues in the modern working world.

In einer zunehmend agilen Welt sind effektive Moderations- und Coaching-Techniken der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

What can the lived experience of a neurodiverse social entrepreneur teach us about the strength and innovation that comes from diversity?

For many decades, management in its research and practice has been in need of an alternative approach and paradigm to understanding human behaviours.

Now readers can have medical terms, abbreviations, and patient counseling principles right at their fingertips.

David McGuire's student-friendly introduction looks at Human Resource Development on an individual, organisational and societal level analysing how HRD can play a major role in organisational innovation, in developing communities and society and in operating on a cross-national and international basis.

In Approaches to Social Research: The Case of Deaf Studies, Alys Young and Bogusia Temple explore the relationship between key methodological debates in social research and the special context of studies concerning d/Deaf people(s).

The growing pains of a startup's initial year in business require a keen awareness of uncertainties and a willingness to adapt in order to survive.

Trust is fundamental to epistemology.

This approachable book introduces network research in R, walking you through every step of doing social network analysis.

Master the essential statistical skills used in social and behavioral sciences Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences distills the overwhelming amount of material covered in introductory statistics courses into a handy, practical resource for students and professionals.

Social Research Methods by Example shows students how researchers carry out work on the cutting edge of social science.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change has now published continuously for over 40 years, and this volume continues its tradition of delivering data-driven and multi-method research by scholars who constantly push theory forward.

Full of practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide offers you an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel.

Based on more than ten years of researching, observing, coaching, and building extraordinary teams, this entertaining and thought-provoking book demonstrates how to unify groups of all sizes to maximize performance.

This book documents and explains how strategic human resource management (SHRM) and high performance work systems (HPWS) have been adopted among indigenous enterprises, namely state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and domestic private enterprises (DPEs) in China, from both management and employee perspectives.

How are we to make sense of the way work is organised and controlled?

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.