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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: A Guide for Community Indicators Projects: Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being

Autor M. Joseph Sirgy
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This training book is designed to help professionals enhance their knowledge of community quality-of-life indicators, and to develop viable community projects. Chapter 1 describes the theoretical concepts that guide the formulation of community indicator projects. Chapter 2 creates a sample community indicator project as a template of the entire process. Chapter 3 describes the planning process: how to identify sponsors, secure funding, develop an organizational structure, select a quality-of-life model, select indicators, and so on. Chapter 4 focuses on data collection. Finally, Chapter 5 describes efforts related to dissemination and promotion of community indicators projects. Written by a stalwart in the field of quality-of-life research, this book provides the tools of sound community project planning for quality-of-life researchers, social workers, social marketers, community research organizations, and policy-makers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031102103
ISBN-10: 303110210X
Ilustrații: XIII, 217 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2022
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Part I Introduction. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Theoretical Foundations. - 3. An Example. - Part II Planning. - 4. Organizing. - 5. Making Decisions About Indicators. - Part III Implementation. - 6. Data Collection. - 7. Data Analysis. - 8. Data Reporting. - 9. Promotion. - 10. Follow-Up.

Recenzii

“The book is theoretically consistent, methodologically precise, and clear, and it further includes examples that allow the reader to have a clear vision … . This book can be defined as extremely useful and definitely up-to-date … . My congratulations to Prof. Sirgy on this new book that only reaffirms his academic excellence … since this text book is and it will be greatly useful to the new generation of academics, researchers, professionals, and policy-makers.” (Graciela Tonon, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 18 (3), 2023)

Notă biografică

M. Joseph (Joe) Sirgy is a management psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979) and the Virginia Tech Real Estate Professor Emeritus of Marketing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA) and Extraordinary Professor at the WorkWell Research Unit at North West University – Potchefstroom Campus (South Africa). He has published extensively in the area of marketing, business ethics, and quality of life (QOL). His awards include: International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies’ (ISQOLS’) Distinguished Fellow Award, ISQOLS’ Distinguished QOL Researcher, Academy of Marketing Science’s (AMS) Distinguished Fellow Award, AMS’ Harold Berkman Service Award, Virginia Tech’s Pamplin Teaching Excellence Award/Holtzman Outstanding Educator Award and University Certificate of Teaching Excellence, the EuroMed Management Research Award, and the Macromarketing Society’s Robert W. Nason Award. Best paper awards include articles published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, the Journal of Travel Research, and Applied Research in Quality of Life. His editorial responsibilities include co-founding editor of Applied Research in Quality of Life, editor of the QOL section in the Journal of Macromarketing, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Macromarketing, and co-editor of the ISQOLS-Springer book series Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making.

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This training book is designed to help professionals enhance their knowledge of community quality-of-life indicators, and to develop viable community projects. Chapter 1 describes the theoretical concepts that guide the formulation of community indicator projects. Chapter 2 creates a sample community indicator project as a template of the entire process. Chapter 3 describes the planning process: how to identify sponsors, secure funding, develop an organizational structure, select a quality-of-life model, select indicators, and so on. Chapter 4 focuses on data collection. Finally, Chapter 5 describes efforts related to dissemination and promotion of community indicators projects. Written by a stalwart in the field of quality-of-life research, this book provides the tools of sound community project planning for quality-of-life researchers, social workers, social marketers, community research organizations, and policy-makers.

Caracteristici

Trains social workers and policy makers in preparing community QoL projects Provides guidelines for top-down and bottom-up approaches to community plans Incorporates the technical aspects of using big data in QoL community projects