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Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives
Edited by Daniel Wheatley
The growing diversity of contemporary paid work has provoked increased interest in understanding and evaluating the quality of working lives. This Handbook provides critical reflections on recent research in the field, including examining the inextricable links between working life and well-being.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 27 Sep 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781788118767
- eISBN:
- 9781788118774
- Pages:
- c 352
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- Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives
- Chapter 2: Generating and measuring impact: insights from research on the quality of working lives
- Chapter 3: Using a lifecourse approach to research patterns of paid and unpaid work
- Chapter 4: Reviewing measurement instruments in job insecurity research: perceived job insecurity and the gender lens perspective
- Chapter 5: Accessing and understanding autism spectrum conditions in the workplace
- Chapter 6: Research ethics and the “elephant in the room”: encountering violence in fieldwork concerning unpaid labour
- Chapter 7: Accessing ‘hard to reach groups’ and emotions in the research process: ‘work an honest day and get the usual raw deal’
- Chapter 8: Using discursive methods to research the quality of working lives
- Chapter 9: Observing neo-villeiny and other forms of non-standard work
- Chapter 10: Ethnographic methods with limited access: assessing quality of work in hard to reach jobs
- Chapter 11: Using case study research to capture the quality of working lives
- Chapter 12: Combining gendered strategies, a narrative approach and coaching: examining the effect of behavioural ambidexterity on individual well-being and high performance work
- Chapter 13: Effective use of secondary quantitative data sources
- Chapter 14: Secondary data analysis of large survey data: researching the quality of paid and unpaid working lives
- Chapter 15: Quantitative methods of examining the impact of the physical work environment
- Chapter 16: Using the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition to quantitatively assess the gender pay gap
- Chapter 17: Econometric analysis of educational mismatch and earnings using survey data from Ghana
- Chapter 18: Use of quantitative and qualitative methods to research migrant workers in low-skilled work
- Chapter 19: Conducting small scale primary mixed methods research into the impacts of work-related travel
- Chapter 20: Evaluating new techniques of evidence-based management using narrative evidence synthesis
- Chapter 21: Using occupational history calendars in semi-structured interviews to capture long working lives: a small sample approach using sequence analysis
- Index
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- 27 September 2019
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- Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives
- Chapter 2: Generating and measuring impact: insights from research on the quality of working lives
- Chapter 3: Using a lifecourse approach to research patterns of paid and unpaid work
- Chapter 4: Reviewing measurement instruments in job insecurity research: perceived job insecurity and the gender lens perspective
- Chapter 5: Accessing and understanding autism spectrum conditions in the workplace
- Chapter 6: Research ethics and the “elephant in the room”: encountering violence in fieldwork concerning unpaid labour
- Chapter 7: Accessing ‘hard to reach groups’ and emotions in the research process: ‘work an honest day and get the usual raw deal’
- Chapter 8: Using discursive methods to research the quality of working lives
- Chapter 9: Observing neo-villeiny and other forms of non-standard work
- Chapter 10: Ethnographic methods with limited access: assessing quality of work in hard to reach jobs
- Chapter 11: Using case study research to capture the quality of working lives
- Chapter 12: Combining gendered strategies, a narrative approach and coaching: examining the effect of behavioural ambidexterity on individual well-being and high performance work
- Chapter 13: Effective use of secondary quantitative data sources
- Chapter 14: Secondary data analysis of large survey data: researching the quality of paid and unpaid working lives
- Chapter 15: Quantitative methods of examining the impact of the physical work environment
- Chapter 16: Using the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition to quantitatively assess the gender pay gap
- Chapter 17: Econometric analysis of educational mismatch and earnings using survey data from Ghana
- Chapter 18: Use of quantitative and qualitative methods to research migrant workers in low-skilled work
- Chapter 19: Conducting small scale primary mixed methods research into the impacts of work-related travel
- Chapter 20: Evaluating new techniques of evidence-based management using narrative evidence synthesis
- Chapter 21: Using occupational history calendars in semi-structured interviews to capture long working lives: a small sample approach using sequence analysis
- Index