Social research and statistics

This book presents a cross-cultural investigation into the interplay between social capital and subjective well-being.

This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations.

This book presents a collection of results from the interdisciplinary research project "e;ELLI"e; published by researchers at RWTH Aachen University, the TU Dortmund and Ruhr-Universitat Bochum between 2011 and 2016.

Focusing on nascent firms, established growing firms and established plateaued forms within the northern inland New South Wales regional locations in Australia, this book explores the manifestation of entrepreneurship.

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This book contributes to the discussions on the role of spirituality in organizing and leading, taking a philosophically and theologically rigorous perspective.

This textbook introduces graduate students in education and policy research to data and statistical methods in state-level higher education policy analysis.

Modern workplaces are following a strong trend of increasing flexible working practices and approaches, offering more flexibility in working times, working places, work organization, and work relations as the result of new information and communication technologies.

This book provides students with a concise introduction to test bias from a psychometric point-of-view without statistics.

This book closely interrogates the construct of identity and the role it plays in career development.

Adopting evolutionary and behavioral approaches, this volume presents the latest research advances in knowledge competencies and human capital, as well as the changing structural dynamics, highlighting their links with entrepreneurial activities.

This edited volume highlights the use and practice of values in Organization Development (OD).

This book introduces and applies the stochastic modeling techniques and the first exit time theory in demography through describing the theory related to the health state of a population and the introduced health state function.

This book is a practical, step-by-step introduction to microsimulation in demography.

This edited work expands the theory of followership by drawing on biblical examples to illustrate the role of faith in being a better follower.

This introductory textbook presents research methods and data analysis tools in non-technical language.

This book investigates the relevance of Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a theory of motivation, whilst taking into account variances in culture and individual experiences and perspectives.

This book explores the Complementary Management Model.

This book explores how public opinion is used to design, monitor and evaluate government programmes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

This book investigates the preferences of young job seekers for different aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in comparison to other non-CSR related employer attributes.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to human resource development (HRD) in Southeast Asia and offers a holistic framework for the phenomenon of Regional HRD in Southeast Asia.

This book presents the fundamentals and applications of solution-focused coaching both in individual coaching and in coaching entire teams.

This proceedings book highlights the latest research and developments in psychometrics and statistics.

The book focuses on the historical, political, economic, and cultural elements of Korea and the strong influence these have on women leaders in the nation.

This book addresses the importance of human factors in optimizing the learning and training process.

This book explores the fundamentals of multidimensional scaling (MDS) and how this analytic method can be used in applied setting for educational and psychological research.

The situation for career counselors today is particularly complex.

This book introduces multidimensional scaling (MDS) and unfolding as data analysis techniques for applied researchers.

This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied.

The book presents a critical framework for assessing whether organisational practice and function reinforces unseen potential differences amongst individuals in the workplace.

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.

This volume examines migration between Africa and Europe, rather than just from Africa to Europe.

This book, adopting a multidisciplinary approach, investigates the definition of autonomous work and the kind of protection it receives and should receive in a global perspective.

This textbook provides a self-contained presentation of the main concepts and methods of nonparametric statistical testing, with a particular focus on the theoretical foundations of goodness-of-fit tests, rank tests, resampling tests, and projection tests.

This book provides the student, researcher or practitioner with the tools to understand many of the most commonly used advanced statistical analysis tools in criminology and criminal justice, and also to apply them to research problems.

Investigating how international market actors create market morality on a global level, this book reflects on the unresolved questions and debates regarding the relationship between business and society.

This book is the first to introduce applied behavioral, social, and health sciences researchers to a new analytic method, the time-varying effect model (TVEM).

This book provides an evidence-based approach to understanding declining levels of employee engagement, offering a set of practices that individuals and organizations can adopt in order to improve productivity and organizational performance.

This book demonstrates, in detail, why annual performance appraisals might still work in hierarchical environments, but largely fail in agile ones.

This book deals with leadership trends in the next decade and beyond.

This book on statistical disclosure control presents the theory, applications and software implementation of the traditional approach to (micro)data anonymization, including data perturbation methods, disclosure risk, data utility, information loss and methods for simulating synthetic data.

This book constructs a multi-disciplinary interpretation of emotion, specifically applied and discussed within Organizational Change environments.

Examining the theoretical connections between identity and diversity, this new book explores how diversity management practices can be better informed by an enhanced understanding of the relationship between the two fields.

In times of globalization, digitalization and demographic change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fragility and complexity of the world of work.

In contemporary times, most organizational functions (such as finance, marketing, and supply chains) have assessed their impact on the environment.

In this book new mathematical and statistical techniques that permit more sophisticated analysis are refined and applied to questions of current concern in order to understand the forces that are driving the recent dramatic changes in family patterns.

Dieses Buch liefert eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die Grundlagen der Datenauswertung mit dem freien Statistikpaket R.

Praxisnah und anschaulich vermitteln die Autoren einen einführenden Überblick zur Unternehmensführung.

Through a global series of case studies, this pioneering book delves into refugee entrepreneurship - a major economic, political and social issue emerging as a top priority.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of organizational diversity management, intended to help readers implement effective strategies and maximize the value of organizational diversity.