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". . . the writing makes this book interesting to all levels of students. Bobko tackles tough issues in an easy way but provides references for more complex and complete treatment of the subject. . . . there is a familiarity and love of the material that radiates through the words."
--Malcolm James Ree, ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS, April 2002
"This book provides one of the clearest treatments of correlations and regression of any statistics book I have seen. . . . Bobko has achieved his objective of making the topics of correlation and regression accessible to students. . . . For someone looking for a very clearly written treatment of applied correlation and regression, this book would be an excellent choice."
--Paul E. Spector, University of South Florida
"As a quantitative methods instructor, I have reviewed and used many statistical textbooks. This textbook and approach is one of the very best when it comes to user-friendliness, approachability, clarity, and practical utility."
--Steven G. Rogelberg, Bowling Green State University
Building on the classical examples in the first edition, this updated edition provides students with an accessible textbook on statistical theories in correlation and regression. Taking an applied approach, the author uses concrete examples to help the student thoroughly understand how statistical techniques work and how to creatively apply them based on specific circumstances they face in the "real world."
The author uses a layered approach in each chapter, first offering the student an intuitive understanding of the problems or examples and progressing through to the underlying statistics. This layered approach and the applied examples provide students with the foundation and reasoning behind each technique, so they will be able to use their own judgement to effectively choose from the alternative data analytic options.
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The book was great.......2007-09-19
I received the book promptly and it was in excellent condition!Correlation and Regression: Principals and Applications for Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Management (Organizational Research Methods)
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Written in a clear, easy-to-follow style, Ethnography in Organizations evaluates the wide range of ethnographic research that has been--and continues to be--conducted in organizations. Beginning with the classic definition of bureaucracy and rational organization presented by Max Weber, author Helen B. Schwartzman analyzes three main paradigms--functional studies, structural analyses, and interpretive research. Using the Hawthorne Study as a starting point, this useful volume explores such topics as the roles and methods used by organizational ethnographers, the problems and prospects for conducting fieldwork in organizations, the "incorporation" of American life, and the role that everyday, but often overlooked, routines play in the production and reproduction of organizations, institutions, and society. Replete with vivid examples and illustrations taken from both public and private sector settings, Ethnography in Organizations is a must for anyone conducting research in an organizational setting.
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Take the pressure off your busy schedule with these standards-based library lessons! Quick and easy to implement, these proven 20-minute instructional lessons, organized by grade level, equip you with everything you need to effectively teach library and information literacy skills to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Based on AASL/AECT standards and McREL benchmarks, each lesson plan includes standards, learning objectives, teaching directions, reproducible worksheets and graphics, learning styles, teaching team, and related resources. Students will learn how to effectively employ print and electronic resources to find the information they need, and you will be thrilled with how effortlessly you can bring information and literary appreciation into every classroom and still have time for other library and teaching responsibilities!
Customer Reviews:
Not what I expected........2005-09-10
With a title like "Lesson Plans for the Busy Librarian," this book seemed like a must have for me, a busy librarian. When I received the item I was very disappointed to find that none of the lessons were that unique or interesting. In addition to being the same old thing, the clip art is subpar, and the organization is very random. Let me just say this, I have owned the book for over a year and am yet to use a single lesson plan from it.
Save your money..........2005-07-20
As a "busy librarian" the title drew the money from me in a hurry, but I was disappointed by the lack of depth- lots of coloring! Occasionally I use some of the reproducibles when I have a sub, however the quality of the graphics are poor.
Better books out there.......2004-07-15
I am an elementary school librarian. While this book has a few good lesson plans, I find the majority of them to be overly simplistic. Also, a lot of the graphics on the reproducibles are of very poor quality.
Time saver for teachers too!.......2003-01-03
Although directed to librarians, this book is also fantastic for elementary teachers. It's indexed to the Language Arts standards, learning styles and Multiple Intelligences. It contains patterns, instructions, hands-on activities and more, for literature-based multi-disciplinary units. A super resource!
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"Presented in a clear, understandable format, this book provides a broad . . . comparative starting point for researchers considering various techniques for interpreting data."
--Choice
Analyzing and interpreting the mounds of notes you have accumulated from the field can be daunting tasks. Sometimes it’s unclear which analytic strategy will best answer the questions that first drew you into the field in the first place. This brief volume outlines four key interpreting strategies for dealing with qualitative data: ethnomethodology, semiotics, dramaturgical analysis, and deconstruction. The author examines the strengths and weaknesses of each strategy and shows you when to use them. In addition, each technique is applied to a single data set to illustrate potential differences in results.
Strategies for Interpreting Qualitative Data is an ideal tool for teaching students to analyze and interpret qualitative data. Professionals involved in qualitative methods, sociology, anthropology, and nursing will find assistance in this volume.
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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.
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Published in cooperation with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and its journal Organization Science How do organizations change, develop, grow, or terminate over time? In this volume, editors George P. Huber and Andrew H. Van de Ven focus on longitudinal field research methods for studying organizational change--methods that are fundamental to understanding the dynamics of organizational life and to developing and testing theories of organizational adaptation, change, innovation, and redesign. The chapters focus on the design and conduct of longitudinal research in the field and deal with methods to analyze and interpret process patterns in longitudinal data. The authors, all renowned organizational researchers, emphasize a wide range of methodological issues involved in longitudinal field research, including ethnographic methods, longitudinal and comparative case studies, event history analysis, and real-time tracking of events. They also address various procedures that can be used to tabulate, code, and interpret both quantitative and qualitative data collected in the field. For any scholar or researcher in organization studies, Longitudinal Field Research Methods is an essential resource.
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"The book is a very sound piece of work defining a set of soft tools that can be applied to organizational situations. It is centered on the concept of the open systems and where this is deficient, it brings in a political model. This reader enjoyed the book and looks forward to a further volume."
--Systems Practice
How can organizations handle the opportunities and threats posed by rapidly changing markets and external conditions? How can they improve their overall effectiveness? The second edition of
Diagnosing Organizations contains up-to-date treatments of techniques and models for diagnosing how organizations deal with challenges like these. The book also shows how consultants and applied researchers can help managers find ways to enhance organizational effectiveness. The completely revised edition of this best-selling book presents the latest techniques for gathering and analyzing diagnostic data. It also covers models and methods for diagnosing organizational designs, everyday practices, fits among organizational components, organizational politics, and power relations. Ethical and political dilemmas of consulting and diagnosis are also explored. The book retains its original coverage of the process of working with members of a client organization to plan and administer a diagnostic study and communicate its results. This second edition also continues to focus on group processes and the quality of working life.
Professionals and researchers in management, evaluation, public administration, and sociology will appreciate the practical guidelines this volume offers.
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Diagnosing Organizations - A step by step approach.......2000-05-01
Michael Harrison's book Diagnosing Organizations Methods, Models and Processes, is just that, a book that explains and gives a format for consultants to utilize while diagnosing an organization. Harrison's approach is more academic in nature and is very detailed. The methodology used in Harrison's book is meant to equip a consultant with the necessary information, tactics, and tools to best complete an organizational diagnosis accurately. The methodology Harrison puts forth is also designed to aide the consultant to be able to provide the client with clear, objective, valid and reliable data and information regarding (but not limited to) various existing work functions, the working environment and employee morale. Thus, in order to be able to come to a point of understanding of where exactly the organization is at today and to strategize what needs changed. In addition to, how the consultant can effectively create such an organizational change to help the clients get to tomorrow. Throughout his book, Harrison stresses the importance of the role of the consultant. A consultant might be called in for many reasons. The client organization might seek to use the diagnosis as an independent or "outside" resource for evaluating organizational work functions, existing programs, or as a means to carry out organizational change. The consultant's job is very broad, especially in relation to assisting the client with implementing organizational change. It is very important for the consultant and the client to have an open and communicative relationship and to agree upon the terms of the relationship and contract at the very first meeting or initial contract agreement. It must be understood that in order to perform his or her job to their best abilities the client must trust and support the consultant and the consultant reserves the right to end the diagnosis at any time for any reason (withholding information or not collaborating with the consultant are examples). Harrison uses the open systems model of diagnosis as a means for the consultant to evaluate the entire organization. The open systems model is a method that views the organization in an objective manner and attempts to interpret organizational activities without focusing on the political powers that might exist within the organization. This model encourages consultants to examine every aspect of the client's organizational functions and for the consultant to look beyond the problems presented and addressed by the client. The open systems model evaluates the condition of the client's inputs, outputs, goals, strategies, culture and other important facets of the organizational process. By examining every aspect of the organization, the consultant can better understand the origins of the problems and design methods to effectively accommodate change. The diagnostic process itself is broken down into three key steps. The first step in the process is to identify how the study will be conducted and what type of relationship will exist between the client and the consultant. As mentioned previously, it is of utmost importance that the client and the consultant reach an agreement that is amicable for both parties before any work begins. The second phase in the process deals with the how the consultant's view on how the diagnosis should proceed taking into account the client's concerns and timeline. The third step in the process entails the various scientific and analytical methods of data collection and analysis. Harrison explains that these three steps do not necessarily have to be completed in the order listed, but should always be present in any organizational diagnosis to ensure accuracy.
Harrison stresses that the role of a consultant is not to tell the client what they want to hear. At the same time, nor is it the consultant's place to use the client's organizational problems as a platform for his own research ideas or interests. Rather, a good consultant will listen to what the client expresses as their concerns, set those concerns aside and go about the organizational diagnosis to get a true concept of where the organization is and see if it adds up to the client's original statements of concern. Yet, at the same time, the consultant must keep the client's needs in mind throughout the entire diagnostic process and also not let the client's needs compromise the scientific method utilized in the collection and analysis of data. The dynamics of the individual to the group, the group to the organization and the individual to the organization are examined throughout the book. By analyzing these perspectives a description of the working relationship that each group within the organization can be understood in addition to the effects each group has upon the others. The descriptions and various information that the consultant gathers during personal interviews, observation and other methods can then be used as an informational tool to show how and what motivates employees to perform in addition to how various groups and their interactions with each other might be causing organizational dysfunction. Harrison also examines the distribution of power amongst groups in the organization in relation to how that power is used to effectively turn resources into services or products. Often, groups within an organization may not possess the power to fully achieve their objectives or tasks while other groups in the same organization might abuse or neglect their power indicating too much power might have been given to said group. The analysis of power distribution goes much further than just the hierarchy of the organization and can tell the consultant a great deal. However, this is often one of the more "touchy" and difficult areas to assess. It is critical that the client is willing to endure the analysis of the power distribution and to hear the consultant out in relation to his findings. Ultimately, a redistribution of power might be suggested to improve work effectiveness of the divisions and organization to create a more efficient organization. Yet, this very discussion makes many clients nervous for a redistribution of power is much more than shifting power and responsibilities. The client and consultant also must take into account the psychological factors that accompany power and empowerment and the taking away of power from individuals or a group. I found the case nine example on page 99 of the text very easy to identify with in relation to power relationships and it also helped me begin thinking and analyzing my place of employment more. Strengths and Weaknesses of the Book: Harrison's book, Diagnosing Organizations Methods, Models and Processes, provides details and examples for what seems might be every case scenario that a consultant could face. His examples give the reader a better understanding of the open systems model in addition to applicable case scenarios to transfer the theoretical into practice. Harrison's focus on the "macro" organizational elements of environment, organizational structure, technology, goals and strategies, inputs and outputs rather than the traditional low morale, or high turnover was fascinating. By understanding how these macro or "underlying" elements work and effect the organization the consultant is able to derive the reasons for low employee morale or high turnover rates. This new way of looking at organizational problems and organizations as a whole is very enlightening.
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Meta-analysis is a way of synthesizing previous research on a subject in order to assess what has already been learned, and even to derive new conclusions from the mass of already researched data. In the opinion of many social scientists, it offers hope for a truly cumulative social scientific knowledge.
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