Sociology

HRM ethics is a root cause of many important problems in business ethics, and may represent the solution to even more.

In the first edition of this book published in 1988, Shirley Engle and I offered a broader and more democratic curriculum as an alternative to the persistent back-to-the-basics rhetoric of the '70s and '80s.

The faking of personality tests in a selection context has been perceived as somewhat of a nuisance variable, and largely ignored, or glossed over by the academic literature.

Mentoring has become an important aspect of professional development in a wide variety of fields such as education engineering and business.

An exploration of evaluator role and identity.

This book includes contributions from a variety of different perspectives on employee turnover.

Scope of the Book: Personal~Passionate~Participatory Inquiry into Social Justice in Education, the first book in the series, features 14 programs of social justice oriented research on life in schools, families, and communities.

This work looks at new directions in human resource management.

This book was written to bring together a summary of the current knowledge on merit pay and to further advance understanding of this type of incentive pay plan.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

This book offers a first-hand look at the importance of human resource management (HRM) processes to not just one public agency but a large group of public administration entities that rely on a public HRM agency (the Personnel Board of Jefferson County) for its HRM processes.

Religion and spirituality make critical contributions to an inclusive vision for the welfare of minorities, the marginalized and other disadvantaged groups in societies and cultures around the globe.

In many international settings, developing economies are in danger of declining as the digital divide becomes the knowledge divide.

Wedemeyer stresses that learning is a natural idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource.

The book is based on the recently held Symposium on mathematics and its connections to the arts and sciences, namely the second Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS2)Symposium in Odense, Denmark (May 29-31, 2007).

The reprint of Henri Savall's classic Work and People, originally published in French in 1974, is part of the Research in Management Consulting series effort to look backward as well as forward in examining trends, perspectives, and insights - especially from different countries and cultures - into the world of management consulting.

Interdisciplinarity is increasingly viewed as a necessary ingredient in the training of future oriented 21st century disciplines that rely on both analytic and synthetic abilities across disciplines.

Exploring Values Through Multimedia, Literature and Literacy Events was written by teachers and educational researchers for classrooms and schools interested in developing learning communities that develop critical and compassionate future citizens.

(orginally published by Allyn & Bacon 1997)This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service.

The first volume of the series, Maintaining Focus, Energy, and Options Over the Career, examines how individuals enact and keep their career vital over their work life.

This volume will examine the historical emergence of the concept of career including early ideas about the meaning and role of work and how it fits with life.

The Violence Volcano is for managers and workers in all types of business and government organizations, including law enforcement and other first-responders.

Over the past five years the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research has welcomed research projects by the very best qualitative, organizational researchers in the world.

This third book in International Research on School Leadership, focuses on the changing nature of instructional leadership in the 21st century.

The concept of intimacy puts forth important challenges to contemporary cultural psychology.

This book is written with the belief that HRD professionals will continue to learn, change and find ways to reinvent themselves and the profession individually and collectively as we move further into the 21st century.

This book aims at exploring the profound effects of Covid-19 on people's ways of life at home and at work, and offers strategies and expert advice for 'survival' as the world finds itself in a new reality that has formed by the pandemic.

This work fleshes out the assertion about the need for a revisioning of education to address the circumstances in which we now find ourselves.

At the 1998 annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, we organized a roundtable discussion session titled "e;Innovating organizational justice: Cultural, value, and stakeholders' perspectives.

This volume will address major frameworks for understanding family involvement and government support of family involvement projects in the initial chapters.

The field of educational technology is one that requires a high level of problem solving critical thinking, and interpersonal skills to solve problems that are often complex and multi-dimensional.

This work fleshes out the assertion about the need for a revisioning of education to address the circumstances in which we now find ourselves.

Ethical business creates social value.

Scope of the Book: Personal~Passionate~Participatory Inquiry into Social Justice in Education, the first book in the series, features 14 programs of social justice oriented research on life in schools, families, and communities.

The field of educational technology is one that requires a high level of problem solving critical thinking, and interpersonal skills to solve problems that are often complex and multi-dimensional.

Coastal or semi-enclosed seas, coastal or interface zones between land and sea are areas widely coveted by numerous human activities.

Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Critical Annotated Bibliography, is comprised of critical essays accompanied by annotated bibliographies on a host of programs, models, strategies and concerns vis-a-vis teaching and learning about social issues facing society.

This concise monograph addresses the expanding field of family involvement to out of school time (OST).

In response to No Child Let Behind, states have developed mathematics curriculum frameworks that outline their intended curriculum for grades K-8.

Contemporary science teaching approaches focus on fostering students to construct new scientific knowledge as a process of inquiry rather than having them act as passive learners memorizing stated scientific facts.

Optimizing Talent is the must have book for every leader and manager looking to sustain the ultimate workforce.

originally published by University of Missouri (May 2004)Prairie Power is a superb collection of oral histories from the 1960s focused on former student radicals at the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University.

In a most timely volume addressing many of the connections among current fiscal and employment crises to adult education, Learning for Economic Self-Sufficiency highlights the problems and challenges that low-literate adults encounter in various environments.

There is an increasing proliferation of service-learning courses in colleges and universities in the U.

The late Margaret J.

January 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of one of the most famous three minutes of television history.

La obra de Nicos Poulantzas (Atenas, 1936 - Paris, 1979) constituye uno de los mayores intentos dentro del marxismo por desarrollar y sistematizar una teoria del Estado.

In Esperanza School: A Grassroots Community School in Honduras, Eloisa Rodriguez takes us into the daily lived experiences of members of a community school, Esperanza School, situated in a rural area in Honduras.

This third book in International Research on School Leadership, focuses on the changing nature of instructional leadership in the 21st century.

Why with hundreds and hundreds of books on leadership to choose from, why another one?