Social research and statistics

Today, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, trends in disability, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers are all driven by the coming explosion in the number of people over the age of 65.

Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys summarizes a workshop organized to draw upon recent advances to improve the measurement of physical and cognitive disability in population surveys of the elderly population.

Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is an innovative book for career development students and professionals aiming to creatively progress their coaching practice.

Develop a network of successful business relationships in China!

'500 Tips for Trainers' is a treasure trove of more than 500 enlightening, practical suggestions.

Finally - a people management guide that goes way beyond the typical "e;problem employee"e; books to help you understand and manage the entire emotional culture of your organization.

Effective performance management systems are essential in any successful organisation.

The Ostrich Effect goes beyond the typical "e;how to"e; approach of most books that deal with difficult conversations at work.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

This book provides deep insights into intercultural collaboration among business partners, employees, managers, and entrepreneurs in Chinese-African professional interactions.

This innovative book provides a fresh take on quantitative data analysis within the social sciences.

The official study guide for the Workforce Management Technology Certification, containing core knowledge for time and labor management The worldwide standard for the time and labor management technology profession, Workforce Asset Management Book of Knowledge is the official guide to the Workforce Asset Management Certification.

The authors call culture the secret sauce!

`To career used to mean to swerve wildly or to go swiftly.

The new edition of An Introduction to Statistical Concepts is designed to help students really understand statistical concepts, the situations in which they can be used, and how to apply them to data.

This book challenges the divide between qualitative and quantitative approaches that is now institutionalized within social science.

If you're new to the safety field, or if you've just been given safety responsibilities, making sense of your compliance responsibilities can be overwhelming!

This book focuses on issues that are relevant for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

Two experienced HR communications consultants show how to dramatically improve the effectiveness of every HR message.

This book locates 101 practical coaching supervision techniques in their theoretical context.

How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management?

Personnel economics, the use of economics for studying human resource issues, is becoming a standard course in business and economics departments around the world.

This book presents what the training within industry (TWI) program is and how its presence affects the understanding of work standardization, focusing on the practical aspects of the implementation of work standardization in the elimination of human errors in manufacturing and service processes.

Discover how healthy buildings, culture, and people lead to high profits Organizations and employees now spend an average of $18,000 per year per employee for health costs, a 61% increase in 10 years.

This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars to engage in a dialogue on key developments in the study of security.

This book explores the perspectives of experienced practitioners, sharing ideas about building and sustaining organizational strength through workforce development practices and systems.

Organization leaders typically look at each job position, characterized as identical based on pay and job description, in the same way.

One of the "e;six best books for data geeks"e; - Financial TimesWith over 200 images and extensive how-to and how-not-to examples, this new edition has everything students and scholars need to understand and create effective data visualisations.

In this Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Michigan Business School guru and worldwide consultant Noel Tichy brings his special brand of organisational transformation to a practical level that guarantees a leader at every level of an organisation.

While the west has experienced multiple post-war economic, social and political revolutions, India by contrast has had two distinct moments of transformation in the past century: Independence in 1947 and the economic liberalisation that began in 1991.

Courage can shape our lives, as well as the workplace and business outcomes.

Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education.

Drawing on the authors' thirty years of combined experience in the field, this authoritative, step-by-step guide to conducting focus groups features dedicated chapters on all aspects of the research process.

Female Ambition traces the development of women in the workplace, and focuses on a host of critical issues such as current governmental legislation and the family unit, family-responsible companies, personal leadership and the management of time in the workplace and at home.

This study, originally published in 1919, examines certain aspects of industrial psycho-physiology, and explores the importance of the close collaboration between science and industry.

The principles of sound human resource management are generally understood, but too often practitioners believe the same policies and programs will work in all contexts.

THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION .

This book discusses the psychological traits associated with drug consumption through the statistical analysis of a new database with information on 1885 respondents and use of 18 drugs.

A comprehensive, balanced account of the theory of statistical inference, its main ideas and controversies.

With over 20 million people on its payroll, the government is the largest employer in the country.

In Online Recruiting and Selection, Reynolds and Weiner provide an accessible introduction to implementing and operating Web-based tools for hiring in organizations.

Develop essential learning and employability skills to excel in business studies "e;A book that will see you through your business degree, from day one to several years after graduation.

The pricing profession has come a long way: from having a pure clerical function back in the 1970s to a more strategic one today, pricing professionals are increasingly accepted as fully fledged members of marketing and finance teams.

This book, first published in 2006, draws on a broad range of social data collection methods to formulate a set of data collection approaches.

This book explores how changes in the new world economy are affecting the education of male and female workers.

In the decade before 1900, the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano was one of the most original and influential pioneers of modern mathematical logic.

This useful resource gives time-pressed managers the proven, practical information they need to help their people accomplish more.

This book reveals the secrets of the art of facilitation and shows how to use it to initiate group empowerment.

Everyone wants: High schoolers to graduate well-prepared for jobs.