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Overview
This revision of a best selling research methods textbook introduces social science methods as applied broadly to the study of issues that arise as part of organizational life. These include issues involving organizational participants such as managers, teachers, customers, patients and clients, and transactions within and between organizations.
In this new edition, chapter 19 now focuses on describing the modeling process and outcomes. An entirely new chapter 20 now addresses challenges to modeling. It goes substantially beyond a discussion of statistical inference. It also discusses issues in interpreting variance, explained estimates, and standardized and unstandardized regression coefficients. A new capstone chapter 21 helps students recognize good research. This textbook is accompanied by an Instructor's Manual for course use.
Synopsis
Schwab (University of Wisconsin-Madison) introduces social science methods as applied to the study of issues that arise in organizational life. These include issues involving organizational participants such as managers, teachers, customers, patients, and clients, and transactions within and between organizations. This second edition features extensive revisions and two new chapters on modeling and interpretation of research models. The final chapter provides a guide for conducting and evaluating research. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR