ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |21 pages
Overview
chapter |8 pages
Introduction
chapter |11 pages
A Model of Empirical Research
part |28 pages
Measurement
part |43 pages
Design: Addressing Internal Validity
part |60 pages
Analysis
part |46 pages
Statistical Validation
chapter |15 pages
Statistical Inference Foundations
chapter |29 pages
Statistical Inference Applications
part |16 pages
Generalization
chapter |14 pages
External Validity
part |12 pages
Research Reports
chapter |10 pages
Research Report Writing
part |70 pages
Extensions