Lesson 1 Flashcards
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Applied Research
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- Practical Focus
- Emphasis on achieving measurable outputs that are specific to particular business/organization
- Results difficult to generalize elsewhere
- Create solutions to social or organizational problems
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Basic Research
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- Concerned with clarifying, validating or building a theory.
- Expand knowledge of social or organizational processes
- Develop universal principles
- Produce findings of significance and value to society
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Experimental + Quasi-Experimental Research
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- Reproducing the techniques of the laboratory experiment with highly structured methods
- Control of variables
- Usually deductive
- Accurate quantitative outcomes
- Generalization from samples to similar populations
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Experimental Research
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- Experimental group receives the ‘treatment’ and results are compared to controlgroup
- Researcher changes the independent variable to see if the dependent variable changes
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Quasi-experimental Research
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- Subjects are not randomly assigned (researcher takes already existing groups)
- The independent variable is not manipulated but difference in the level of the independent variable are measured
- Does not elimante the problem of confounding variables
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Confounding Variables
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Other variables that could explain the effect on the dependent variable
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Phenomenological Research
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- Producing thick descriptions of people’s experiences and perspective within their natural setting
- Aim is to shed light upon the meanings of human experience
- Emphasizes inductive logic
- Relies on qualitative data analysis
- Seeks opinions and subjective accounts of participants
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Analytical Surveys
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- Highly structured
- Emphasis on careful random selection of samples
- Deductive approach
- Control of variables
- Generation of qualitative and quantitative data
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Types of research methodologies (4)
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- Experimental Research
- Quasi-experimental Research
- Phenomenological Research
- Analytical Surveys
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Timeframes in research (2)
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- Cross-sectional study
- Longitudinal study
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Cross-sectional study
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- Short-term research
- ‘Snapshot’ approach where the data is collected at one point in time
- Survey methodology
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Longitudinal study
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- Longer term researcg
- Research changes and development over time
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Forms of studies (4)
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- Exploratory studies
- Descriptive studies
- Explanatory studies
- Interpretive studies
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Exploratory studies
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- Studies seek to explore what is happening andask questions about it
- May help to decide whether the issue is worth researching
- Useful when not enough is known about phenomenon
- Can be done by: literature research, talking to field expert, focus group interviews
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Descriptive studies
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- To provide pticture of phenomenon that naturally occurs
- Can be purely descriptive or normative
- Draws a picture of a situation or shows how things are related to each other
- Cannot explain why an event has occured
