From first planning to writing up your research, this complete guide will help you push your project forward. Walking you through every step you need to take, it helps you build your knowledge of theory and methods and offers straightforward guidance to empower you to make good research decisions and learn best practice. This fifth edition: Draws on over 70 case studies of research in action to demonstrate potential pitfalls - and how to avoid them. Adds a new chapter on data management, providing how-to guidance on storing your research data. Provides more than 150 activities to help you develop your understanding of key concepts and advance your research methods knowledge. Illustrates how research methods skills transfer to the workplace, helping you boost your employability. Accompanied by online resources including videos, case studies and further reading that bring methods to life, this accessible book is still the definitive research companion for any student doing a research project.

This is the definitive introduction to coaching and mentoring, written by an experienced and multidisciplinary team. Taking you all the way through from the emerging theory to informed practice, the book covers: * Skills, purposes and outcomes of coaching and mentoring processes * The many settings in which they take place - public, private and voluntary * Coaching and mentoring's evidence base and how it is assessed * The professionalization of coaching and mentoring and a move towards integration. Supported by a wide range of case studies, activities, further questions and topics for discussion, this book is a comprehensive but accessible introduction. The authors take a critical approach and go beyond the basics, to support your development as a critically reflective practitioner. It is essential reading for those studying coaching and mentoring, and professionals looking to integrate coaching and mentoring into their organizations.

Practical and clear, this book guides business and management students through the entire research process. Starting with the basics and fully grounded in the context of actually doing research, this is the perfect companion as they tackle a research project head on for the first time. The book helps students build their understanding and develop the skills they need to establish good practice when planning and carrying out research within the business world. This second edition offers: A key focus on employability, highlighting the value of research beyond academia and helping students develop their transferable skills Easy to follow guidance about how to succeed at a range of assessments Full online support for every step of a research project from design to dissemination, including video, top tips, journal articles and more Showcasing examples and case studies drawn from across the global business landscape, including HR, marketing, organization studies and tourism and leisure, this book helps students successfully and confidently apply and use their methods knowledge.

If you believe what the sources have to say about Marcus Crassus, he was a cruel general, a money loving miser, and only had interest in furthering his own political career. This book serves as an attempt to right some of those lies, innuendos, and slanders by presenting an alternative view of his life and reexamining the 'primary' and secondary sources to gain a better understanding of just who Crassus was.

Anecdotal and refreshing in its perspective, The History that Was Never Spoken, is a brief foray into important moments of history that are often neglected, but still reverberate with import and meaning. David Gray is a scholar in training. His love for the stories behind our history is both admirable and contagious. You'll find wit here along with insight, and much to provoke thought, discussion, and further research. This is a young historian at the genesis of his career. His book speaks to all of those who enjoy looking beyond the mere facts of history to seek a deeper meaning and inspiration. ~From Mark Banchi "History is the poor man''s soap opera." ~David E. Gray

This is the definitive introduction to coaching and mentoring, written by an experienced and multidisciplinary team. Taking you all the way through from the emerging theory to informed practice, the book covers: * Skills, purposes and outcomes of coaching and mentoring processes * The many settings in which they take place - public, private and voluntary * Coaching and mentoring's evidence base and how it is assessed * The professionalization of coaching and mentoring and a move towards integration. Supported by a wide range of case studies, activities, further questions and topics for discussion, this book is a comprehensive but accessible introduction. The authors take a critical approach and go beyond the basics, to support your development as a critically reflective practitioner. It is essential reading for those studying coaching and mentoring, and professionals looking to integrate coaching and mentoring into their organizations.