Social research and statistics

This book explores elements of team dynamics and interactions that block or enable effective ideation.

Tim Teetz stellt basierend auf aktuellen Theorien der Arbeitsgestaltung eine Job Rotation Pilotstudie zur Sicherung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit von Produktionsmitarbeitern vor.

Betriebliches Kompetenzmanagement gewinnt vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen und technologischen Wandels zunehmend auch im Handwerkssektor an Bedeutung.

This book was written to provide resource materials for teachers to use in their introductory or intermediate statistics class.

This encyclopaedia focuses on knowledge management in digital era, retaining and transferring knowledge.

This volume analyzes welfare policies by looking at the making of their target publics.

This entry-level text describes a tested top-down enterprise-wide approach to managing organizations with a predominant portion of their product being scientific or technological research.

This book focuses on the partnership between nursing and human resource management in hospital administration.

In this era of bountiful visual, qualitative and informationalised knowledge of the social world a conscientious guide to social research is ever more valuablethis is a knowledgeably written, highly engaging and genuinely interesting book.

Demand for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Malaysia has been growing extensively, involving various involvement from industry and academia.

In recent years, trust has enjoyed increasing interest from a wide range of parties, including organizations, policymakers, and the media.

During the past two decades, corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees, offering health education, screenings, therapy, and even leisure initiatives.

The Fourth Edition of the bestselling Utilization-Focused Evaluation provides expert, detailed advice on conducting program evaluations from one of leading experts.

The student-focused guide to grounded theory, this book takes you step by step through the whole research process, from creating a research proposal to sharing your findings.

This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.

Managing people is a tricky businessand managers and small business owners need a clear understanding of the essentials of human resources to survive.

Using empirical data, this book uniquely presents the dynamics of innovation within public sector organisations and identifies the most crucial factors that promote innovation or the determinants that enhance innovation activities.

Strategic management of HR in health care is important in delivering high-quality patient care.

Employee engagement (or a lack thereof) can often be linked to poor communication and a detachment from company goals.

This handbook proposes to present best practices in managing and leading the 21st century workforce.

This book covers the key themes related to the introduction, growth development and future of European Works Councils: the European Works Council Directive itself, European Works Council Agreements, Employers' strategies for managing European Works Councils in practice and trade union strategies for the development of European Works Councils.

Originally published in 1970.

This book presents the findings of a survey that analyzes a unique set of data in science and technolog and provides a clear and simple synthesis of heterogeneous databases on the gender gap in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) setting, helping readers understand key trends and developments.

Dieses Lehrbuch erklärt, wie man nach Maßgabe wissenschaftlicher Standards Hypothesen entwickelt und überprüft (empirische Forschung) und wie man die Wirksamkeit von sozialen Interventionen abschätzt (Evaluation).

A practical workplace guide to handling conflict effectively Managing employees and encouraging them to work together toward a common goal is an essential skill that all leaders should possess.

Dieses Fachbuch wendet sich an alle, die bei der beruflichen Integration von Geflüchteten mitwirken.

Empirical data is one of the cornerstones of knowledge in the social sciences, and yet the researcher often takes it for granted, reserving his or her imaginative faculties for finding a theory that 'fits the data'.

Both academic and popular representations of globalization, critical or celebratory, have tended to conceptualize it primarily in spatial terms, rather than simultaneously temporal ones.

Mindfulness-based interventions in organizations offer the potential to build individual and organizational resilience, engage employees and address workplace stress.

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

Focus groups are a popular method for collecting qualitative data in the social sciences.

A comprehensive 2010 summary of interdisciplinary social methods and research strategies for analysis of the complex relationship between environments and societies.

Originally published in 1986.

Responding to the pressing need of business schools to incorporate sustainability thinking into their curricula, this new book offers fresh thinking on how to achieve this in practical terms.

A practical guide to carrying out ethical research with children and young people, this practical handbook examines the ethical questions that arise at each stage of research, from first plans to dissemination and impact.

This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.

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Originally published in 1962, this book analyses and assesses the Swedish Government and structure of both trade unions and employers' organizations, including the spread of unionism to white-collar workers.

This book explores the core themes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) highlighting the digital transformation that has been occurring in society and business.

Job loss is one of the most important issues in the capitalist world today: endless reports document the increasing scale of unemployment.