Help your students develop their leadership and management skills. The new edition of this established core text covers important topics such as stress, decision-making, motivation, leadership, teams, communication, and change. Cases, self-assessment exercises, and numerous examples provide students with the opportunity to apply concepts and theories discussed in the chapter.

This book combines practical knowledge and understanding of leadership roles in education with robust theories underpinning leadership and management to offer a model of excellence for those who lead, or aspire to lead, in education.

Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership? This book explores the meanings and understandings of quality and leadership that are present in early years services and how to lead in order to develop and achieve quality in your early years setting.

As the rapid take up of tablets gathers pace in UK schools there is a need for advice on the best approaches, apps and strategies to help teachers achieve successful learning outcomes. This book provides it.

Helping students to successfully visualise SEM by drawing on the graphical interface of EQS and providing plenty of screenshots throughout, this book assumes no prior statistical knowledge and includes practical assistance to encourage students to feel confident about using SEM for their research project.

This concise and practical guide explores the use of Conversation Analysis as a method for conducting research in a business and management Masters dissertation.

With inclusion of theories and causal factors for context, plenty of case studies for real-world application, and pedagogical features to encourage engagement, this book's coverage also goes far beyond the traditional focus on terrorist groups to provide readers with a stimulating and wide-ranging introduction to the subject

With a strong emphasis on reflectivity and reflexivity, this book provides placement students with a guide to critically studying an organization from the inside, and is particularly suited to those needing to do a reflective journal or essay as part of their studies.