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This book is intended for working professionals interested in learning quantitative research methods in organizational contexts. It serves as an introductory book that provides a basic understanding and perspective for working professionals beginning quantitative research. While statistical concepts are less emphasized, their organizational application has been highlighted. This book is also designed to support instruction in a 10-week master’s-level course “Quantitative Research in Organizations,” which primarily serves students who are working professionals. Instructors teaching similar courses may use this book to enhance their own instruction.

Human-Centered Project Management: A Systems Approach to Community Projects is an open educational resource designed for students, educators, and community leaders who want to use project management as a tool for meaningful change.

Rather than focusing solely on schedules, budgets, and methodologies, this book presents project management as a human-centered discipline grounded in stakeholder engagement, communication, systems thinking, and informed decision-making. Readers learn how to identify community challenges, define project goals and scope, engage stakeholders, select appropriate project management approaches, develop schedules and budgets, manage risks, and create communication plans.

Organized around a seven-step project planning process, the book combines practical examples, reflection activities, visual models, and real-world applications to help learners move from broad ideas to actionable project plans. Throughout the text, project management is presented not as a collection of isolated tools, but as an interconnected system that helps people work together to create positive outcomes.

While developed to support introductory project management courses, the book may also be used in community engagement, innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, service-learning, and interdisciplinary project-based learning environments.

This book is a compilation of resources consisting of both openly licensed and copyrighted material by various organizations and individuals remixed with some of my original content. Please refer to each section's "Licensing and Attribution," located at the end of the section, for any restrictions or limitations associated with its use. This book is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA except where otherwise indicated. Written and Compiled by JoAnn Wood. Edited by Jared Flake.

This Pressbook is a compilation of resources consisting of both openly licensed and copyrighted material by various organizations and individuals remixed with some of my original content. Please refer to each section's "Licensing and Attribution," located at the end of the section, for any restrictions or limitations associated with its use. This book is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA except where otherwise noted.

We all experience conflict in our daily lives, from small inconvenient conflicts to conflicts that alter the path of our lives. Even though conflict is one of the most natural occurrences in the human experience, most of us don't have effective strategies and frameworks for approaching conflict when it happens. This book provides basic strategies and frameworks for folks that want to learn to turn conflict into an opportunity in their lives that leads to stronger relationships. Produced in partnership with Boise State University’s eCampus Center through the Open Book Summer Grant Program 2020.

This book is intended for professionals (or aspiring professionals) in Learning and Development (L&D), Human Resources Development (HRD), Organizational Development (OD), and Performance Improvement (PI) who want to learn how to design self-administered survey questionnaires using closed-ended questions and response scales, administer those questionnaires, and analyze the resulting quantitative data using Excel.

If you are one of these professionals, begin by assessing your current knowledge and skills in survey design and data analysis. Consider where you fall within the following five levels—novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, or expert. If you identify yourself as a novice or advanced beginner, this book will serve as a practical guide to help you build foundational knowledge and skills. If you are at the competent, proficient, or expert level, you may find this book valuable as a reference or job aid for specific aspects of survey design and data analysis.

This book was adapted for RN-BS students learning population health concepts and applying them through an experiential learning project. Concepts in the book consist of the introduction to population health, community assessments, communication and collaboration, the nurse's role and the impact of disasters on the community, advancing equitable population health policies, epidemiology, environmental factors, infection control and outbreak, along with the introduction, approval, proposal, planning, implementation, completion, and evaluation of an experiential learning experience.

This chapter explores the foundational role of semiconductors in business computing. From raw silicon to high-performance processors, readers will learn how semiconductors are manufactured, tested, and packaged—and why they matter for managers navigating today's tech-driven economy.