Handbook of research methods on the quality of working lives

Contents: 1 Introduction: Researching the quality of working / Lives Daniel Wheatley -- Part I: Researching the quality of working lives: Philosophical, conceptual and practical considerations 2. Generating and measuring impact: Insights from research on the quality of working lives / Carol Atkinson -- 3. Using a lifecourse approach to research patterns of paid and unpaid work / Irene Hardill and Daniel Wheatley -- 4. Reviewing measurement instruments in job insecurity research: Perceived job insecurity and the gender lens perspective / Pinar Bayhan Karapinar, Selin Metin Camgöz and Ozge Tayfur Ekmekci -- 5. Accessing and understanding autism spectrum conditions in the workplace / Anne Cockayne -- 6. Research ethics when research on unpaid labour finds the elephant in the room: Negotiating violence encountered when conducting fieldwork / Irene Sotiropoulou -- Part II: Qualitative research methods on the quality of working lives 7. Accessing 'hard to reach groups' and emotions in the research process: 'work an honest day and get the usual raw deal' / Andrew Smith and Jo McBride -- 8. Using discursive methods to research the quality of working lives / Cath Sullivan -- 9. Observing neo-villeiny and other forms of non-standard work / Geraint Harvey -- 10. Ethnographic methods with limited access: Assessing quality of work in hard to reach jobs / Adam Badger and Jamie Woodcock -- 11. Using case study research to capture the quality of working lives / John Burgess and Julia Connell -- 12. Combining gendered strategies, a narrative approach and coaching: Examining the effect of behavioural ambidexterity on individual well-being and high performance work / Ani Raiden and Christine Räisänen -- Part III: Quantitative research methods on the quality of working lives210 13. Effective use of secondary quantitative data sources / Chris Lawton -- 14. Secondary data analysis of large survey data: Researching the quality of paid and unpaid working lives / Tracey Warren -- 15. Quantitative methods of examining the impact of the physical work environment / Elizabeth J. Sander, Alannah E. Rafferty and Peter J. Jordan -- 16. Using the Oaxaca-blinder decomposition to quantitatively assess the gender pay gap / Michaela Fuchs, Anja Rossen, Antje Weyh and Gabriele Wydra-Somaggio -- 17. Econometric analysis of educational mismatch and earnings using survey data from Ghana / Christian K. Darko and Kennedy K. Abrokwa -- Part IV: Mixed methods research on the quality of working lives 18. Use of quantitative and qualitative methods to research migrant workers in low-skilled work / Anne Green -- 19. Conducting small scale primary mixed methods research into the impacts of work-related travel / Craig Bickerton -- 20. Evaluating new techniques of evidence-based management using narrative evidence synthesis / Adrian Madden, Catherine Bailey, Luke Fletcher and Kerstin Alfes -- 21. Using occupational history calendars in semi-structured interviews to capture long working lives: A small sample approach using sequence analysis / Fiona Carmichael, Jo Duberley and Lorna Porcellato -- Index.