WEEK 5 Preparing to Conduct Business Research Part 4
Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 4
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RES/351
May 12, 2015
Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 4
Team B will attempt to cultivate or select the tools our team will use to accumulate data and conduct questionnaires and the applicable test group or inquiry techniques for our quantitative design. We will do so by making contact to the people to be tested or questioned along with collecting data or qualitative information. We will use sampling methods, sampling frames and the appropriate sampling size to determine the qualitative methods. Team B will draw a conclusion by doing a statistical test in order to test the hypothesis.
Our team will use surveys as our instrument to collect our qualitative data which will then be analyzed and converted into quantitative data. These surveys will be administered or offered at different levels according to department, skill level, and tenure. Since this research is steered towards improving the workplace for the current employees it is only fair that all employees within the workplace submit a completed survey. The stratified sampling method will be used to address the issues per department, skill level, and tenure. This will enable researcher the ability to assess the skills training issues per department and the issues concerning pay and workload. “Stratified sampling is a probability sampling technique wherein the researcher divides the entire population into different subgroups or strata, then randomly selects the final subjects proportionally from the different strata” (Sincero, 2012).
In surveys, the sampling frame is the list of cases from which the sample is selected. Easily obtained sampling frames would include telephone directories and lists of electors. These have obvious problems in terms of non-representativeness -for example, telephone directories only list people with telephones who are responsible for paying the bill. It is extremely expensive to draw up a sampling frame where
Anonymous
RES/351
May 12, 2015
Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 4
Team B will attempt to cultivate or select the tools our team will use to accumulate data and conduct questionnaires and the applicable test group or inquiry techniques for our quantitative design. We will do so by making contact to the people to be tested or questioned along with collecting data or qualitative information. We will use sampling methods, sampling frames and the appropriate sampling size to determine the qualitative methods. Team B will draw a conclusion by doing a statistical test in order to test the hypothesis.
Our team will use surveys as our instrument to collect our qualitative data which will then be analyzed and converted into quantitative data. These surveys will be administered or offered at different levels according to department, skill level, and tenure. Since this research is steered towards improving the workplace for the current employees it is only fair that all employees within the workplace submit a completed survey. The stratified sampling method will be used to address the issues per department, skill level, and tenure. This will enable researcher the ability to assess the skills training issues per department and the issues concerning pay and workload. “Stratified sampling is a probability sampling technique wherein the researcher divides the entire population into different subgroups or strata, then randomly selects the final subjects proportionally from the different strata” (Sincero, 2012).
In surveys, the sampling frame is the list of cases from which the sample is selected. Easily obtained sampling frames would include telephone directories and lists of electors. These have obvious problems in terms of non-representativeness -for example, telephone directories only list people with telephones who are responsible for paying the bill. It is extremely expensive to draw up a sampling frame where
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