Social research and statistics

Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people.

The successful collection of data is a key challenge to obtaining reliable and valid results in applied linguistics research.

At last a social scientist's guide through the pitfalls of modern statistical computing Addressing the current deficiency in the literature on statistical methods as they apply to the social and behavioral sciences, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist seeks to provide readers with a unique practical guidebook to the numerical methods underlying computerized statistical calculations specific to these fields.

Univariate and multivariate multilevel models are used to understand how to design studies and analyze dataa in this comprehensive text distinguished by its variety of applications from the educational, behavioral, and social sciences.

Empirical Political Analysis introduces readers to the foundations of social science research.

This book bridges the gap between theory and practice, incorporating real-world case studies to show how organisations and leaders can adapt after the global unrest and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and more recent challenges.

This book is aimed at business schools around the globe.

In Global Taiwanese, Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates in London and Toronto, along with professionals living in Taipei, use their shared Taiwanese identities to construct and maintain global and local networks.

This book presents an understanding of work-family balance for working adults belonging to a number of different family structures (e.

Applying role theory and Putnam's two-level game framework to the European migration crisis of 2015, Magdalena Kozub-Karkut expertly shows how the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland used the crisis to contest their roles in the European Union (EU) and how each country and the V4, as a group, subsequently used their new contested roles in the bargaining process within the EU structures.

If you take a chain, pile it up and then push it, what direction will it go?

The aim of the Managing Networks of Creativity is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management (including strategic management, organization science, organizational behaviour, and entrepreneurship), economics, sociology, regional studies, and political science.

The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "e;skills,"e; unqualified for a professional career, underemployed.

Focusing on posting of workers, where workers employed in one country are send to work in another country, this edited volume is at the nexus of industrial relations and European Union studies.

Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) hold a unique place in the healthcare industry.

Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise.

This book explores how culture and tradition have impacted the tendency for African women to opt for entrepreneurship.

Everything you need to harness Millennial potential Managing Millennials For Dummies is the field guide to people-management in the modern workplace.

This book focuses on the nature and role of entrepreneurship in modern developed and emerging economies and societies, its relation to governments and universities, and its role in the often-forgotten informal economy.

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A guide to identifying and practicing useful scientific research for researchers, administrators, policy makers, lawyers, and journalists.

An invaluable, step-by-step guide to data management in R for social science researchers.

Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement.

Encouraging a long overdue shift in thinking, this book gives managers and executives the means to maximize employee potential by first showing them how to increase the improvement power of their HR departments.

Merit-based tests and contests have become popular methods for allocating rewards - from trophies to contracts, jobs to grants, admissions to licenses.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace.

When you take on responsibility for other people you need a framework to understand and address how they think, feel and behave.

Veterans in the United States: Statistics and Resources presents the most pertinent and compelling statistics in one easy-to-follow, useful, and informative volume.

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

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management.

Demographic change is affecting societies and organizations alike.

This book explores the psychological and social dynamics of continuous, disruptive and discontinuous change.

This book is a collection of 16 empirical cases in critical Cross-Cultural Management (CCM).

Prepare future managers with an understanding of HR skills.

Successful managers seek out, build, and maintain effective relationships with others.

This book answers the question of how to maintain effective labour regulation as the market for labour moves towards globalization.

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Participatory video is a growing area of research and an increasingly popular tool among practitioners, researchers, and NGOs working with communities around the world.

Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries.

Traditional approaches in the wide field of employment relations focused on a small and clearly delineated set of actors, such as trade unions and employers' organizations, operating within the constraints given by formal, nationally confined institutions.

The field of Organizational Psychology and Occupational Stress is complex and multifaceted.

Have you ever thought about a career in HR?

This book examines the progress made in e-enabling the HR function and the relationship with outsourcing.

Written by an internationally renowned team of experts and underpinned by cutting-edge research, International Human Resource Management tackles a broad range of controversial and often marginalised issues associated with globalisation and its impact on multinational companies and employees.

Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Evaluation in Today's World: Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability is a timely and comprehensive textbook that guides students, practitioners, and users of evaluations in understanding evaluation purposes, theories, methodologies, and challenges within today's sociocultural and political context.

How can we be sure that all those projects, programmes and activities that depend for their quality, efficiency and effectiveness on people's performance have met their objectives?

Although traditional manufacturing (textiles, clothing, footwear, furniture, etc) has been in decline in developed countries, it still represents an important part of European employment due to its labour-intensive character.

It may seem surprising that the economic choices we make in society are often determined by ideas rather than scientific evidence or financial resources.