Social research and statistics

Work-Life-Integration ist der durch die drei Megathemen Digitalisierung, Klimawandel und Corona forcierte neue Arbeits- und Lebensstil, der Beruf, Familie und Freizeit sowie private und soziale Verantwortung verzahnt und organisierbar macht.

Many managers and organizations still assume that employees who devote long hours to their jobs with no family interference are "e;ideal workers"e;.

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics.

This volume presents a compilation of composite indicators created in order to measure important aspects of the quality of European societies.

This book brings together various threads of research in the field of gender mainstreaming.

This new edition surveys the full range of available structural equation modeling (SEM) methodologies.

This book enables readers who may not be familiar with matrices to understand a variety of multivariate analysis procedures in matrix forms.

This book explores the unique socioeconomic challenges encountered by female leaders in China, India, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries where traditional cultural expectations and modernized values coexist.

The book discusses the various aspects of diversity of corporate boards in terms of gender, age, nationality, tenure, education, experience and personalities.

For the past 100 years, we've progressively dehumanized our places of work.

This book shares the theoretical advancements that have been made regarding psychological ownership since the development of the construct and specifically the practical applications within multi-cultural and cross-cultural environments.

This book examines how individuals and organizations in Africa have found ways to integrate work and life roles effectively.

This volume presents selected papers on recent management research from the 20th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, which was held in Vienna in 2016.

This book provides a comprehensive exchange of information on current developments in the management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

Cultural, economic and political trends are changing the way public administrations are organized and this book examines the new challenges managers face, with the need for a shift from a traditional bureaucratic model to a competency-based approach to organizational design and management in the areas of recruitment, training, career development and assessment.

This book focuses on the latest developments in behaviormetrics and data science, covering a wide range of topics in data analysis and related areas of data science, including analysis of complex data, analysis of qualitative data, methods for high-dimensional data, dimensionality reduction, visualization of such data, multivariate statistical methods, analysis of asymmetric relational data, and various applications to real data.

This book answers the question of how soft factors such as corporate cultures and individual and corporate values can be transparently steered.

Contemporary Security Management, Third Edition teaches security professionals how to operate an efficient security department and how to integrate smoothly with other groups inside and outside their own organizations.

This book offers all important industrial communication systems for buildings in one single book!

This book is the first in the field to explore the use of music in negotiation, conflict resolution and leadership development.

Providing insight into the currently applied models, basic definitions and functions of work discipline systems within organisations, this book analyses the risks, limitations and the potential of developing organisational discipline structures.

In this book the authors create a statistically validated scale measuring the display of each of the nine fruit of the spirit in employees.

This book brings together cutting-edge research on consulting in a single volume, thus helping to make the state-of-the-art in the field of consulting research more accessible, to promote better practices in business, and to spark further research.

This book provides a broad understanding of what it means to internationalise entrepreneurially.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to other cultures - the often-unfamiliar ways that people from other cultures think, speak and act.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution signals a sea change in the way we lead our organisations.

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.

This book examines noise-monitoring technologies and tools for registering the threshold of development of the latent period of the transition of a facility or product into an emergency state and controlling the dynamics of this development.

Dieses Fachbuch erklärt praxisnah und mit Fallbeispielen, wie Führungskräfte und Verantwortliche des betrieblichen Gesundheitsmanagements ihre Mitarbeiter gesund, leistungsstark, kreativ und innovativ halten und vor Burnout schützen – in einer digitalen Arbeitswelt voller Stressfaktoren und psychischer Überbelastung.

Human resource (HR) governance is a relatively new construct that has recently begun attracting more and more attention in both research and practice.

This book explores the interplay of farm mechanization, human factors and climatic and other environmental uncertainty in agriculture, using an ergonomics based approach to discuss solutions to the traditionally acknowledged vulnerability of the sector.

This book adds to the discussion from Volume 1 by providing insights and stimulating new thinking about the changing nature of services and marketing, service work and workers, and service experiences during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, particularly focusing on services marketing.

This new book examines the relationship between agency theory and executive pay.

The Coaching Relationship discusses how we can integrate process perspectives such as the quality of the coach-coachee relationship, and professional perspectives including the influences of training and supervision, for more effective outcomes.

This book systematically assesses the value systems of active Muslims around the globe.

This is the first book to provide a systematic description of statistical properties of large-scale financial data.

Die klassischen Methoden der hierarchischen Führung sind in der unternehmerischen Praxis der Gegenwart nicht mehr geeignet, die dramatischen Herausforderungen zu bewältigen, vor denen Unternehmen heute stehen.

Focusing on the status of highly educated women in the workplace, this book examines how a particular demographic and workforce group can help to close the gender gap worldwide.

This volume gathers peer-reviewed contributions that address a wide range of recent developments in the methodology and applications of data analysis and classification tools in micro and macroeconomic problems.

The book presents a methodology for detecting intervention needs on existing healthcare buildings and estimating the related costs, to perform a sustainable financial planning for modernization, regulatory adjustment and performance upgrade.

Examining the consequences of the outsourcing of public services, this book explores the transformation of working conditions, employment relations and the role of the state under marketisation strain.

This book examines the well-covered subject of leadership from a unique perspective: history's vast catalogue of leadership successes and failures.

How can we be happier, healthier and more satisfied in life?

This book presents the proceedings of CRIOCM_2016, 21st International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, sharing the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe.