Exploring common challenges and unpacking why performance appraisal often fails in organizations, Performance Appraisal and Management uses the latest thinking and research to equip readers with evidence-based tools and strategies for overcoming these obstacles.

The future of the free market depends on fair, honest business practices. Business Ethics: Contemporary Issues and Cases aims to deepen students’ knowledge of ethical principles, corporate social responsibility, and decision-making in all aspects of business. The text presents an innovative approach to ethical reasoning grounded in moral philosophy.

Focusing on corporate purpose—creating economic value, complying with laws and regulations, and observing ethical standards—a decision-maki...

This is a core research design text for courses in experimental design aimed at social scientists, focusing on the methodological and design issues in planning an experiment.

This applied text combines clear explanations of intermediate-level statistics with a rich set of exercises to develop students' skills in selecting, performing and evaluating statistical tests. Each exercise involves writing a brief abstract so that students can translate results into a cohesive and concise story about their data.

The revision of this innovative, bestselling book provides reader with a clear, interactive road map for leadership as a personal journey.

What Does Your Data Team Sound Like? provides an approach that gets teams talking about and applying data effectively in a variety of setting and scenarios.

With case study examples that cover early years and primary, this book takes a child-centred approach by putting the focus on emotional well-being, offering individual strategies for raising literacy standards among children with dyslexia.

A brief, yet in-depth examination of twelve major sociological theories.

2016 Outstanding Publication Award (The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime) Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance provides a systematic overview of the processes and structures commonly labeled "organized crime," drawing on the pertinent empirical and theoretical literature primarily from North America, Europe, and Australia. The main emphasis is placed on a comprehensive classificatory scheme that highlights und...