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The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues, Statistical Modeling, Analyses, and Policy Concerns. Regarding Data Issues, three chapters cover topics about obtaining reliable information, the production of summary statistics and using the geometric mean, and the importance of using a Demographic framework in better understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical m...

The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues, Statistical Modeling, Analyses, and Policy Concerns. Regarding Data Issues, three chapters cover topics about obtaining reliable information, the production of summary statistics and using the geometric mean, and the importance of using a Demographic framework in better understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical m...

When facing important professional problems, practitioners regularly respond with the latest gimmick, or by throwing everything and anything at the problem. In contrast, scholars regularly slice problems into small segments to study and explain them, without directly addressing the practical problem itself. Both approaches miss the target of sound theory and practice. Most theory development methodologies are incomplete, inappropriate, or tota...

This third edition of a classic, must-have text for the human resource development (HRD) profession includes brand new material on the impact of technology, globalization, and emerging business trends on human resource practice. Human resource development (HRD) is a large field of practice but a relatively young academic discipline. For the last two decades, Foundations of Human Resource Development has fulfilled the field's need for a complet...

When facing important professional problems, practitioners regularly respond with the latest gimmick, or by throwing everything and anything at the problem. In contrast, scholars regularly slice problems into small segments to study and explain them, without directly addressing the practical problem itself. Both approaches miss the target of sound theory and practice.Most theory development methodologies are incomplete, inappropriate, or total...

If research is the seed, this book is the tool to till the soil." -Ken Melrose, Chairman and CEO, The Toro CompanyThis is a basic research textbook for people to learn about planning and conducting research in organisations. The book covers the foundations and methods relevant to doing research in organisations as well as the identification of research questions and the ethical conduct of research. Sections of the book are devoted to quantitat...

Corporations spend millions of dollars on performance improvement, employee training and development, work system redesign, and other organizational improvement efforts. Much of this money is wasted because the preliminary analysis and diagnosis has not been done to link these programs to an organization's real business needs, goals, and processes. The truth is that in order for any performance improvement effort to add value to the organizati...

In Foundations of Human Resource Development, the leading scholars in the field present the essential guidebook for the human resource development (HRD) profession. Drawing on an extensive, rigorous knowledge base, Swanson and Holton update their classic single volume compilation of the foundational materials of the profession. Their work is supplemented with contributions from Richard W. Herling, Sharon S. Naquin, Wendy E. A. Ruona, Richard J...