Job and work analysis

methods, research, and applications for human resource management

Thoroughly updated and revised, this second edition presents the most important and commonly used methods in human resource management in detail. The authors offer practical tips on how to conduct a job analysis, as well as anecdotes from their own experiences, to help organizations create ...

Global shift

mapping the changing contours of the world economy

The fifth edition of "Global Shift" is now completely revised and updated using the latest available sources. Every chapter has been extensively rewritten to take into account not just new empirical developments but to incorporate new ideas on production, distribution, and consumption in the global ...

Policing

This is the first course guide that has been developed for students of policing. It identifies the core themes and additional source material, providing an essential overview for students and a reference point for use throughout their studies. "The Policing Course Companion" is designed to ...

Criminology and social policy

In this lively and engaging text, Paul Knepper discusses the difference social policy makes, or can make, in any response to crime. He also considers the contribution of criminology to the debates on major social policy areas, such as housing, education, employment, health and family ...

Reading Freud

psychoanalysis as cultural theory

Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to that Freud and brings together for the first time: an overview of Freud's work which enables the reader to ...

Politics and practice in economic geography

How do geographers do economic geography? This is the first sustained discussion of methodological issues in economic geography in the last twenty years. It comprises: an extended discussion of qualitative and ethnographic methods; an assessment of quantitative and numerical methods; an examination of post-structuralist and ...

Key concepts and techniques in GIS

Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform Geographic Information Science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyse spatial data. Short and clearly focussed chapters ...

Child-centred education

reviving the creative tradition

Against an increasingly authoritarian background of testing and instruction, concern is growing about disengagement and loss of depth and quality in education at all levels. Child Centred Education seeks to explore the role of Primary education within this debate. The book will inspire teachers and ...

Victims, crime and society

'Focusing on key issues, themes and concepts within victimology, this edited collection provides an accessable and comprehensive critical analysis of crucial areas within victimisation. The main theories are related to, and integrated with, empirical research in an engaging style.' Dr Anette Ballinger, Keele University 'This ...

Developing caring relationships among parents, children, schools, and communities

Developing Caring Relationships With Parents, Children, Schools, and Communities focuses on parents and teachers as adult learners, who should be growing and learning along with the children in their care. It is a strengths based approach to looking at parents, families and teachers. It synthesizes ...

Comparative policing

the struggle for democratization

How do police forces around the world move toward democratization of their operations and responses? Analyzing police forces from 12 different countries, Comparative Policing: The Struggle for Democratization assesses the stages of each country's police force based on the editors' development of a "Continuum ...

Using software in qualitative research

a step-by-step guide

Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide combines several aspects of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS), helping the reader choose the most appropriate package for their specific needs and get the most out of the software once they are using it. The text ...

Human geography

This Four-Volume Set begins with a discussion of the histories and geographies of geographical knowledge. While human geography#s succession of #theoretical turns# is important in understanding the discipline, this work also demonstrates the multiple, textured ways in which geography explains how we represent ourselves ...

Advertising strategy

creative tactics from the outside/in

Table of Contents: 1 Copy and creativity 2 Getting started 3 Issues in a changing marketplace 4 Concepting (what's the big idea?) 5 Design for writers 6 Campaigns 7 Headlines and taglines 8 Body copy 9 Print 10 Out-of-home 11 Direct mail 12 Radio ...

Marketing

"The Sage Course Companion on Marketing" is an accessible introduction to the subject that will help readers to extend their understanding of key concepts, and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. It provides support on how to revise for exams, and prepare ...

Criminal justicie

The SAGE Course Companion on Criminal Justice has been designed as an accessible reference tool to introduce students to the subject and encourage them to extend their understanding of key concepts and so make the most of their undergraduate course. It provides students with essential ...

Handbook of gender and women's studies

Gender and women's studies is one of the most challenging fields within the social sciences - the dynamics of gender relations and the social and cultural implications of gender constructions offer a lively forum of debate. "The Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies" presents ...

Globalization and violence

The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. "Central Currents in Globalization" is an integrated collection of four multi-volume sets that represent the systematic mapping of globalization studies. The series sets out the contours ...

Criminal and social justice

"Criminal and Social Justice" provides an important insight into the relationship between social inequality, crime and criminalization. In this accessible and innovative account, Cook examines the nature of the relationship between criminal and social justice - both in theory and in practice. Current social, economic, political ...

The sociology of the body

mapping the abstraction of embodiment

Over the last twenty years the social sciences have witnessed a remarkable inter-disciplinary surge of interest in the body. The latter is now recognized as a core concept, and is the subject of intensive study at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. But how can we map ...

Encyclopedia of world poverty

Poverty is more than just lack of income, it is deprivation from basic capabilities, rights, and freedoms that provide individuals the necessary choices and opportunities they need to lead a life they value. The Encyclopedia of World Poverty provides extensive and current information, as well ...

Encyclopedia of human geography

Human geography in the last decade has undergone a conceptual and methodological renaissance that transformed it into one of the most dynamic and innovative of the social sciences. Long a borrower of ideas from other disciplines, geography has become a contributor in its own right ...