This volume will be a practical resource for managers, researchers, faculty, and students in the fields of industry, engineering design, human resources, labor relations, sociology, and organizational behavior.
Similarly, Sartori argues that “the organization of the state requires more than any other organization to be kept on course by a structure of rewards and punishments, of 'good' inducements and scary deterrents” (1994:203).
The Committee and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened in September a workshop to discuss ways to foster greater collaboration and sharing of information among principal investigators of several longitudinal surveys of ...
Education and Training for Aviation Careers National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, ... Indiana University MARGARET BATY, International Women's Air and Space Museum, Dayton, Ohio SANDY BAUM, ...
This volume examines the adequacy of federal statistics on children and families.
This book offers numerous practical insights and raises key questions for research on conflict resolution in a transforming world system.
This volume considers basic issues of performance, exploring how techniques for quick learning affect long-term retention, whether an expert's behavior can serve as a model for beginners, if team performance is the sum of individual members ...
Equally important, this book examines a range of solutions: Prevention and intervention efforts directed to individuals, peer groups, and families, as well as day care-, school- and community-based initiatives.
Perhaps most significant, the book documents how very early in life learning really begins.
This volume will be of practical interest to human resource and employee assistance program managers, policymakers, and investigators.
This book provides historical perspective on working children and adolescents in America and explores the framework of child labor laws that govern that work.
Alcohol and Public Policy: Beyond the Shadow of Prohibition
Understanding Violence Against Women provides direction for increasing knowledge that can help ameliorate this national problem.
The committee's research agenda has been designed to supplement the work of other groups, particularly the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, which issued its final report in December 1997.
Findings and recommendations in this volume will be of interest to managers and executives of research and consulting organizations in the public and private sectors, as well as to economists and policy makers.
This book presents the latest information on the prevalence, incidence, and costs of musculoskeletal disorders and identifies factors that influence injury reporting.
This volume will be of great interest to policymakers, social services providers, health care professionals, police and court officials, victim advocates, researchers, and concerned individuals.
This book reveals how our systems for collecting and analyzing trade data have fallen behind the times-and presents recommendations for new approaches to accuracy and usefulness of these economic data.
Charting a course toward a better-informed illegal drugs policy, this book will be important to federal and state policy makers, regulators, researchers, program administrators, enforcement officials, journalists, and advocates concerned ...
This volume examines social influences on violent events and violent behavior, particularly concentrating on how the risks of violent criminal offending and victimization are influenced by communities, social situations, and individuals; ...