Research Design in Management and Organisational Settings

The assignment will outline a rationale for a research design, including selection and justification of an appropriate methodology and an outline indication of research aims. The rationale should also demonstrate a critical appreciation and satisfactory knowledge of the requirements of public and professional ethical codes and their implications for management and social science researchers and indicate provision for ethical safeguards and the intended benefits to users and participants of the research proposal.

More about the course: The module explores the relationship between philosophical presuppositions in researching management and methodological issues involved in research design. It is grounded in epistemology and ontology that allows for one to critically comprehend ongoing debates in management theory and research; develops a critical awareness to the understanding of how taken-for-granted assumptions and values influence versions of reality and socially constructed. It reviews epistemologies and methods in social science and principles of the major intellectual traditions in qualitative and quantitative research (e.g. positivist; hermeneutic; constructivist), and considers the legal and ethical basis of precautionary and protective aspects of research practice and implications of ethical requirements for research design.

This module enables the development, understanding and articulation of:

? Underlying principles of the major qualitative and quantitative research traditions;
? The relation between methods and overall research aims;
? The role of participants in the research process;
? Ethical considerations ? law, protection, integrity, user and participant benefits and viability;
? The purposes, role and efficacy of research dissemination and the need to plan for dissemination from an early stage.

I am uploading a word document called M2 with a tentative table of contets of this assignment and information on the research question with aims. In this document highlighted in yellow are the parts I am going to write myself, but I wrote notes in each of them so that you know what I will be writing about. In green are parts I would need you to write as they are purely theoretical. As this is being written, I am already conducting all the field research indicated, – I just need the theoretical stuff put in writing in this assignment.
Contact me via email for any questions because through phone I wont be available since I?m out of the country for a while.

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