Research Methods for Organizational Studies

By Donald P. Schwab

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805847278
• ISBN13: 9780805847277
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent primer

This is an extremely accessible book. With no knowledge of statistics you could just pick it up and get going. I think I'll find it to be a great research going forward.

Excellent book

This is an excellent book for beginners which states all the concepts of statistics as applied in research.