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Decision Making for Business

This refreshing book on social research methods understands the pressures that modern students face in their work-load and supplies an authoritative study guide to the field. It will fulfil a long-standing need in undergraduate research methods courses for an unpatronising, reliable aid to making sense of research methods.

Making Policy in Europe

Plural Self

Issues around identity, agency and reflexivity are opened up and explored in a refreshing new perspective that deepens our understanding of organization and institutions. Body and Organization thorougly invigorates the study of process and brings the organization to three-dimensional life for a new generation of students and researchers.

This text argues that the methodology of quantitative research is a unified discipline with basic notions, procedures and ways of reasoning which can be applied across the social, behavioural and life sciences. Key designs, models and methods in research are covered by leading contributors in their field.

Will the cycles of boom and bust, peace and war of the past 500 years continue? In this title, noted international contributors examine the question of future dominance of the core global systems and include comprehensive discussions of the economic, political and military role of the Pacific Rim, Japan and the former Soviet Union.

An examination of the social and territorial divisions within Europe. Topics covered include: gendered and regional changes in employment; social integration and citizenship issues arising from migration and racial differences; and welfare state responses to the growing number of older people.

How can researchers produce work with relevance to theoretical and formal traditions and requirements of public academic knowledge while remaining faithful to the experiences of research participants based in private settings? This book explores this key dilemma and examines the interplay between theory, epistemology and the detailed practice of research.

This incisive examination of identity, community and cyberspace shows how new technologies are altering the nature of identity, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation. `Contains valuable insights for scholars teaching and researching in this field' - Political Science

This work highlights key marketing issues in contexts characterized by diversity of markets, competitors and consumers. Cases draw on students' ability to think about broader strategic issues such as global standardization versus customization.

Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life. The contributors show the varying balance between constraint and creativity, links between consumption and production, and the patterns which shape access to symbolic and material resources.

`Interpreting Islam is a useful contribution in the field of Islamic studies, not because of the questions it happens to answer - not too many - but because it helps one udnerstand why some of the questions are at all posed' - Kingshuk Chatterjee, The StatesmanIslam is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the West. Myths and stereotypes surround it. This clear and penetrating volume helps readers to make sense of Islam. It offers a penetrating guide to the diversity and richness of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society. Throughout, the emphasis is upon the value of pluralistic approaches to Islam, rather than condensing complexity with unifying concepts such as `Orientalism'. Interdisciplinary in scope and organization, the book cuts through the bewildering and seemingly anarchic diversity of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society. The methodological difficulties and advantages of Western researchers focusing on Islam are fully documented. The book demonstrates how gender, age, status and `insider'/`outsider' status impacts upon research and inflects research findings.

This work seeks to clarify the social relationship between organization and its representation. The contributors: relate organization theory to sociological representation theory; and look at the work and organization with the aim of showing that they are part of popular culture.

This work demonstrates the link between individual, clinical work and its wider social significance, and shows how society's problems inevitably find their way into the private "confessions" of counselling clients.

A broad ranging and critical overview of the many themes of social constructionism and its relevance to contemporary social and political issues. Links the discourse of constructionism to the wider social and political world and demonstrates that social science is enriched by postmodernism.

An up-to-date compendium of key articles, this reader should be a useful introduction to management and organizational behaviour. It brings together pieces written on the art and science of management, deliberately counterposing them to highlight alternative perspectives.

This resource provides a sensible, skills-based, humorous, and psychologically savvy approach to public speaking in schools, community, and professional settings. Now educators can enjoy the security, confidence, and support they need to create and deliver dynamic speeches.

The Joint Committee presents 28 certified standards for assessing evaluation practices in elementary and secondary classrooms. These standards are broken down into four essential attributes of sound evaluation.

The Joint Committee presents 28 certified standards for assessing evaluation practices in elementary and secondary classrooms. These standards are broken down into four essential attributes of sound evaluation.

This essential reading instruction teaching tool offers hard evidence to show how effective readers use specific strategies to extract and comprehend information.

This guide encourages school leaders and teachers to develop creative strategies for student equity and advancement using tools like accountability, equity audits, and proactive redundancy.

This indispensable handbook includes professional development plans that meet the specific needs of dual-language programs, strategies for building learning communities for dual-language teachers, and tips for involving parents.

This volume focuses on strategic leadership, the impact of external and internal factors on organizational leadership, and how effective educational leaders manage the competing demands of autonomy and accountability.

This resource provides excellent tools to navigate your way, including building a platform, using management skills, building your profile as a leader, and more!

Mandel outlines how educators can design meaningful learning experiences that will effectively develop a student's ability to thrive in the twenty-first century's workforce.

This book gives you the "nuts and bolts" needed to design and implement a gifted program to maximize the benefits to students, teachers, schools, and parents.

This accessible resource presents program evaluation as a trouble-free process that any educator can effectively complete to turn measurable results into meaningful outcomes.

Be the architect for your school's long-lasting, positive transformation using proven "Structural Dynamics" strategies outlined in this indispensable guide.