Organizational Research Methods: A Guide for Students and Researchers / Edition 1

by Paul M Brewerton, Lynne Millward

Overview

This timely book provides the reader with clear pointers for how to conduct organizational research appropriately, through planning and making informed and systematic research decisions, to understanding the ethical implications of applied organizational research, to implementing, reporting and presenting the findings to the highest possible standards. It provides an overview of a wide variety of research strategies, methods of data collection (both qualitative and quantitative) and analysis in a volume accessible to both an undergraduate, postgraduate and practitioner readership alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761971016
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/12/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Lynne Millward is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey

Table of Contents

Introduction
Applying Social Science to the Real World
Starting Off the Research Process
Obtaining and Using Access to an Organization
Project Design
Methods of Data Collection
Sampling Considerations
Assessing Performance in Organizations
Data Analysis
Reporting Research Findings

Editorial Reviews

‘This text provides a timely and comprehensive introduction to major research methods in the Organizational sciences. It will be a boon to all students conducting their projects in this area, and may well become a standard reference for staff teaching research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students of business studies or organizational behaviour' - Professor Neil Anderson, Goldsmiths College, University of London

'This reasonably priced text would provide an invaluable starting point for those considering undertaking research in organisational settings' - Paula Roberts, Nurse Researcher

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