Social research and statistics

Skills, facts, strategies, techniques.

The KEY book for both practitioners and students.

For courses in management.

Using a courtroom trial as a metaphor, Training on Trial seeks to get to the truth about why training fails and puts the business partnership model to work for real.

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

In the U.

Whether you are a newly promoted manager, a seasoned business owner or a human resources professional, knowing the ins and outs of dealing with HR issues is critical to your success.

What's a rookie manager to do?

The Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development (LSVD) explains and illustrates the processes by which individuals construct their work experiences, vocational pathways and career patterns through episodes of interaction with affordances they recognize within their contexts, and how counseling can facilitate those processes.

All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories.

Do you need your team or organization to be more engaged, innovative, competitive, agile, collaborative and productive?

Performance appraisals are one of the most important, continuous responsibilities of a supervisor.

Managers everywhere strive to create a safer workplace.

This book offers guidance for understanding benefits options and plan structures, and making better decisions for your organization.

HR leaders and practitioners: master the financial analysis skills you need to become true strategic business partners, gain an equal seat at the table, and get boardroom and CFO buy-in for your initiatives!

Written by five leading executive coaches, Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach is the answer to any businesses’ need for more individualized development resources.

*Interested in purchasing Doing Your Research Project as a SmartBook?

Only 7 percent of communication is verbal and 38 percent is vocal (pitch, speed, volume, tone of voice).

Barbara Annis, the world's leading corporate gender specialist, believes that men and women don't understand each other because they don't appreciate the different ways men and women relate, communicate, problem-solve, and make decisions.

If You Build It, They Will Excel is written to guide and coach today's hospitality services managers on how to become effective and accomplished leaders, and how to build a great culture of excellence at their workplace.

In this completely updated new edition, the best-selling author of 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions and 101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview takes you step-by-step through the hiring process.

(July 2020) Just released the book titled, "e;The Hate In Their Heart, Should Not Be Part Of Your American Management Journey.

Breakthrough Knowledge Transfer Techniques for Every Professional!

Artificial intelligence is changing the world of work.

Many managers engage in destructive behavior that does considerable harm to their subordinates, their organization and eventually themselves.

Whether you're distributing dailies, authoring a commercial DVD, or prepping video clips for the Web, Compressor is essential for creating quality digital content.

Organizations are now competing in two markets, one for their products and services and one for the talent required to produce or perform them.

This accessible and authoritative introduction is essential for education students and researchers needing to use quantitative methods for the first time.

This book has been replaced by Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5354-9.

The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods offers a step-by-step guide to overcoming the challenges inherent in research projects that deal with 'big and broad data', from the formulation of research questions through to the interpretation of findings.

Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work.

Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners?

This book has been replaced by Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling, Fifth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5191-0.

The must-read summary of Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton's book: "e;The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action"e;.

This publication outlines the region’s economic performance in 2018 and analyses trends in the early months of 2019, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year.