管理学专业代写/essay/assignmnents/paper/report代写-PREPARATION SESSION

管理学专业代写/essay/assignmnents/paper/report代写

MGT 682

ASSIGNMENT 2 PREPARATION SESSION

  • Specific Requirements explained and how to achieve them
  • What is a secondary data collection (and how to evaluate
its quality)
  • The quality criteria of qualitative research

The assignment

Important formalities:
  • Include a completed cover sheet (available from MOLE)
  • Use Student Number, MGT682-2 (e.g., 150011001,
MGT682-2) as the documents file name and also as
the assignment title in Turnitin.
If you dont follow these rules a 5 mark penalty will be
applied (and enforced this time!)

####### Also hand in on time!!! On Turnitin on 24rd of May before 12 noon

The assignment general things

  • Try to keep within the word count however, if you run
over it is not a big problem
  • FOLLOW the instructions as well as you can and have a
look at the marking criteria!
  • There are no explicit literature requirements, however you
will very likely need to refer to literature at certain parts of
your assignment (e.g. when discussing validity etc.)
  • IMPORTANT: As with all academic papers, you need to make ALL

####### your sources that you use for this assignment explicit! Use the

####### Harvard or APA referencing style.

Specific Requirements

####### 1 Context 200 words

  • Please state your research question, your objectives and your research approach. Briefly describe: – Briefly describe your data collection? – Please state: is it a quantitative OR a qualitative study, OR does it involve (mainly) secondary data collection? (If you plan to do more than 1 in your dissertation, then please choose 1 for this assignment). Who are the potential participants? How are they recruited?
How to solve this

####### You can use your dissertation or the study you used for Assignment 1

####### in the winter semester, but you need to make clear this time what your

####### research approach is (deductive? Inductive?) and your objectives need

####### to be clear.

####### If you dont have participants: What is the unit of analysis? How is that

####### selected?

The Specific Requirements can be
found on MOLE in the
Coursework Specification Form.
I just copied from there.
Specific Requirements

####### 2. Data collection and Analysis 500 words

Note: You only need to answer 2a OR 2b here.

  • If you plan a quantitative study or a secondary data collection please go to 2a. If you plan a qualitative study please go to 2b.

####### How to solve this

####### Actually the decision also depends on the research approach.

  • Are you testing a specific assumption? Is your research positivist?

####### Then preciseness of measurement, generalisability is important

####### quantitative criteria become important.

  • Are you exploring something more inductively? Are you interested in a

####### rich dataset? Is your research constructivist/interpretivist? Then

####### qualitative criteria are important.

####### If you have a deductive approach (which most often involves a

####### quantitative study but can sometimes involve a qualitative study as

####### well) use the quantitative criteria

Specific Requirements
  • 2a. If you plan a quantitative study or a secondary data collection,

####### please state a hypothesis of your study and name its variables.

  • How will you measure these variables? [Which information in the secondary data relates to these variables?] Be as specific as you can!
  • Please discuss: how can you ensure reliability and validity of your measurements?
  • Which type of scale level do these data/measures possess?
  • Which statistical test do you choose to test this hypothesis and why?
How to solve this
  • Name the measurement instruments, report cronbach alphas (if

####### available), show that other people have used this strategy to measure

####### these concepts (cite literature),

  • Scale level for each of the variables is it nominal, ordinal, interval

####### scaled data?

  • Which type of test? See the table in the quantitative analysis session
Specific Requirements
  • 2b. If you plan a qualitative study, please describe in detail:
    • How is the data in your study collected?
    • How will you ensure credibility, transferability, dependability and reflexivity in your

####### study?

  • Please describe step-by-step: how will you analyse the data you collected?
  • Which information will you report in your results section?
How to solve this
  • Please apply the criteria credibility, transferability, dependability and

####### reflexivity to your own research. Dont be general discuss them in the

####### light of your study

  • Which technique will you use to analyse your data? (e.g. template

####### analysis?…)

Specific Requirements
3. Ethical issues 350 words
  • Please discuss in detail:
    • What is the potential harm for the participants? If so, how will this be managed to ensure appropriate protection and well-being of the participants?
    • How is data confidentiality handled and how is the data of this research stored?
    • Which ethical issues will not be /hardly be affected by this research and why?
    • Is consent needed from the participants?
How to solve this
  • See the ethics tutorial exercise, use the 6 criteria that were

####### discussed.

  • To what do the participants need to give their consent? (e.g. are there

####### audio recordings, observations etc. taking place)

  • Its very likely that there will be no harm to participants etc., but you

####### need to explain why and illustrate how each of these (potential)

####### ethical issues will be dealt with.

Is there a risk? How would you deal with this ethical issue?
Harm to participants
Informed consent
Confidentiality & anonymity
Data protection
Invasion of privacy
Deception
Specific Requirements
  1. Information sheet draft 450 words
  • Note: You only need to answer 4a OR 4b here.
  • 4a: If you are doing a quantitative or qualitative data collection: Please design an information sheet about the data collection, providing enough information for the participants so they can give informed consent.
  • 4b: If you are doing a secondary data collection: Please design an information sheet about your study that could be sent to the organisations or people from whom the data originally came from.

####### How to solve this

  • Please have a look at the ethics tutorial exercise and the additional

####### information provided on MOLE. Your information sheet needs to answer to

####### specific questions, illustrated on the research ethics website. We look for

####### those so keep it structured!

  • There is no penalty if the word count on your information sheet exceeds 450
Other useful tips
  • Please seek the help of MASH
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mash for the statistical analysis
of your study
  • Thing to remember from this module good research
depends on how it is conducted and why it is conducted in
that way and not on whether it involves a quantitative or
qualitative or secondary data analysis (but obviously the
type of analysis must be suitable).

All the best for your assignment

and your dissertation!

Thank you for your attention.
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