...as a process. Observation research-is a social research technique that involves the direct observation of phenomena in their natural setting Convenience sample- is a non-probability sampling technique where subjects are selected because of their convenient accessibility and proximity to the researcher. Probability/nonprobability-Probability sampling, or random sampling, is a sampling technique in which the probability of getting any particular sample may be calculated. Nonprobability sampling does not meet this criterion and should be used with caution. Nonprobability sampling techniques cannot be used to infer from the sample to the general population MIS- Interis a general term for the computer systems in an enterprise that provide information about its business. operations.net vs. Intranet- An intranet is a computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to share information, operational systems, or computing services within an organization Primary Research- consists of a collection of original primary data Secondary Research- Secondary research (also known as desk research) involves the summary, collation and/or synthesis of existing research Focus group-A focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their perceptions, opinions, beliefs, and attitudes towards a product, service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging. Data collection methods – what has the slowest response rate? Questionnaires……………...
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...Discussion of Instructional Problem 3 Differences between Current and Desired State 4 Current Conditions 4 Desired Conditions 4 Data Collection Processes 5 Data Collection Instruments 5 Discussion of Data Collection Instruments Used 5 Sources of Data 5 Discussion of Sources of Data 5 Table 1 – Training Survey 6 Table 2 – Exit Interview Survey 6 Data from Other Sources 7 Summary of Results 7 Data Analysis Techniques 7 Data Results 7 Table 3 8 Table 4 8 Findings of Needs Analysis 9 Goal Statement 10 Appendix A 10 References 10 Discussion of Instructional Problem In my corporate training environment, I have the privilege of training a racially diverse population. The hiring practices of Williams-Sonoma, Inc (hereinafter WSI) provides for a diverse group of people in every training class. Like many companies WSI does not discriminate on the basis of color, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. Our company philosophy is to hire new employees every season for our peak sales period. Of the new employees hired, we retain approximately 10-25% as permanent employees. During the on-boarding we train over 500 new employees every season in a fast-paced hands-on instructor-led training environment. I am one of several trainers that deliver on-boarding training for the new hires. Our training gives each employee the tools to navigate the computer system to take sales calls and to service existing customers with issues on their purchases or...
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...Course Title: Thesis Paper A Research Paper on “How brand elements influence the consumers’ purchase intention of a brand: A study on Horlicks and GlaxoSmithKline” Prof. Dr. Md. Masudur Rahman Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Prof. Dr. Md. Masudur Rahman Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Prepared For: Anisur Rahman ChowdhuryRoll-117, Section A18th batchDepartment of MarketingUniversity of Dhaka | Prepared By: Submission Date: 31 March, 2016 Letter of Transmittal March 30, 2016 Prof. Dr. Masudur Rahman Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Subject: A Research Paper on “How brand elements influence the consumers’ purchase intention of a brand: A study on Horlicks and GlaxoSmithKline” Dear Sir, This is an immense pleasure to submit my thesis paper on A Research Paper on “How brand elements influence the consumers’ purchase intention of a brand: A study on Horlicks and GlaxoSmithKline” as a partial fulfillment of BBA program. I hope this paper is informative and comprehensive as per your instruction. Here, I have worked with the consumer of “Horlicks” and tried to analyze their feedback to find out the impact of brand elements of “Horlicks & GlaxoSmithKline” on their purchase intention of Horlicks. Now, I am very grateful to you for your valuable supervision, precious time, effort and support throughout...
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...Answer:The location of our fieldwork is in the Lake District and we are studying the Torver Beck, the river found in the south of the Lake District. The long profile of the river is 600m and falls by 550m after 5km from source to mouth. The area was formed by glaciation 18,000 years ago which has left a U-Shaped Valley. This means it was suitable for our investigation because it has a relatively short long profile (5km) and making it easier to access the river. Due to the Torver Beck's natural history and its surrounding human influences, it is good to see what these factors have on channel characteristics The Area of Study (2) 2 of 16 1 of 16 The Area of Study (1) The investigation was carried out in the Lake District (North-West England). It contains mainly rural characteristics (such as country roads). It also has an older, more sparsely populated area with its main employment in agriculture or tourism. Our investigation, more specifically, will be carried out on the Torver Beck River. Which has an altitude of 600m in the highlands and drops by 550m as you near the coast. There are many human influences onto the river; mainly the slate quarry, the regions sheep farming and Coniston Town's Settlement Question - Describe the location of your fieldwork and explain why it was suitable for your investigation Why was it suitable for our investigation? 1) Relatively safe to access the river, 2) Relatively short long profile, 3) Relatively easy to reach the...
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...ANDSECONDARY DATA We explore the availability and use of data (primary and secondary) in the field of business research.Specifically, we examine an international sample of doctoral dissertations since 1998, categorizingresearch topics, data collection, and availability of data. Findings suggest that use of only primarydata pervades the discipline, despite strong methodological reasons to augment with secondary data.IBRAHIM NAVEENReg. No. IPHRM 5001Diploma in Human Resource Management Batch 01INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT * 2. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA CONTENTSINTRODUCTION --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02IMPORTANCE OF DATA AND DATA COLLECTION --------------------------------- 02DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES ------------------------------------------------------- 02PRIMARY DATA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03IMPORTANCE OF PRIMARY DATA ------------------------------------------------------- 03SOURCES OF PRIMARY DATA -------------------------------------------------------------- 04ADVANTAGES OF PRIMARY RESEARCH ----------------------------------------------- 05DISADVANTAGES OF PRIMARY RESEARCH ------------------------------------------ 07SECONDARY DATA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08IMPORTANCE OF SECONDARY DATA --------------------------------------------------- 08SOURCES OF SECONDARY DATA ---------------------------------------------------------...
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...Identification of the technique of performance appraisal followed in BSNL. 2. Employee attitude towards the present appraisal system. 3. Review of the current appraisal system in order to i. Enhance productivity ii. Attain global standards 4. To provide suggestions & recommendations from the study conducted. RATIONALE/JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROJECT: Performance Appraisal is the important aspect in the organization to evaluate the employees performance. It helps in understanding the employees work culture, involvement, and satisfaction. It helps the organization in deciding employees promotion, transfer, incentives, pay increase. This study will help the researcher to develop an insight about the performance appraisal. This project is also a part of the curriculum of the researcher. This study report can serve as the preliminary information for advance research. DATA SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY: “A Research is a careful investigation or inquiry; especially through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge. It is a systemized effort to gain more knowledge.” RESEARCH DESIGN: Exploratory Research Design SAMPLING PLAN: * Sampling type: Simple random sampling * Sample Size: 30 employees * Sample area: BSNL Office, Ashokartna, Khamadih, Raipur (C.G.) * Statistical tool for analysis of data: Percentage method DATA COLLECTION: Data Sources: * Secondary Data, through the internet and the publishing of the firm. * Primary Data through Questionnaire ...
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...Five data collection techniques are discussed in this week’s readings. Using articles from the library’s full-text databases, find examples of studies that used two different methods of data collection. Paragraph 1: Describe the data collection method used in one study. (Be sure to cite the article which must be from one of AIU’s full-text databases) Paragraph 2: Using the knowledge you gained from the textbook, discuss the pros and cons of the data collection method. (Cite the textbook) Paragraph 3: Describe a different data collection method used in another study. (Be sure to cite the article which must be from one of AIU’s full-text databases) Paragraph 4: Again, using the knowledge you learned from the textbook, discuss the pros and cons of the data collection method. (Cite the textbook) In this discussion I will give a brief summary on two types of data collection methods and give examples of pros and cons for each method. OBSERVATIONAL STUDY Observational study is a method of data collection that involves a process of watching any given type of situation and recording the data that is observed. Depending on how and what data is being observed depends on the type of tool the researcher will want to use in order to collect their information. The researcher conducting this type of study is a passive observer and does not tamper in any way with the variable of interest or any factors that may affect it. When recording observation data, you have to remember that...
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...collaborative work, such as trust, accountability, mutual respect, and fairness”(Sent, 2003). The critical behavior in research analysis will analyze an ethical issue raised in the article, The Causal Generalization Paradox: The Case of Treatment Outcome Research, written by Graham L. Staines. The article by Staines discusses the causal generalization paradox. The ethical issue at the heart of the article is the use of improper sampling procedures. With the vast amount of research taking place and random assignment techniques, less of a priority is being placed upon random sampling. According to Staines,2008 experimental research typically selects units, in part or in whole, at the convenience of the researcher. The researcher then makes no attempt, or often times only a limited attempt, to ensure that this sample is an accurate representation of some larger group or population. This form of convenience sampling is an ethical issue simply because experimental data based upon the use of “convenience samples rather than probability based samples, there is almost never a formal justification, or set of rigorous guidelines, for generalizing the study’s findings to other populations” (Staines, 2008). The generalization paradox and improper sampling procedures may often cause...
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...Illustrations Chapter 3 Role of OD practitioner The role of the OD practitioner is varied and dynamic. Descriptions include; helper, advisor, sounding board, navigator, coach, facilitator, designer, developer, leader, consultant, expert, partner, problem solver, diagnostician, process specialist and collaborator. These roles can be practiced as an employee within the organization or as an external consultant. Internal consultants are the members of the organization and may be located in the human resource department. They perform the OD role exclusively and combine it with other tasks such as compensation practices, training or employee relations. The internal consultants have a variety of clients that includes both line and staff departments. External consultants are not the members of the organization. They typically work for a consulting firm or are self-employed. External practitioners are generally hired to provide a particular expertise that is unavailable internally to bring a different and potentially more objective perspective into the organization development process, or to signal shifts in power. Internal consultants have an advantage over external consultants because they have ready access to and relationship with the client, know the culture of the organization and have insight about the root cause of the problem. Apart from this, internal consultant have vast amount of information, reports and direct observations. External consultants, however, have the advantage...
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...BISE – RESEARCH PAPER Analysis of Informal Communication Networks – A Case Study It is becoming more and more important for knowledge workers to increase their productivity. However, there is a general lack of (semi-)automated, IT-supported data collection and evaluation approaches that allow insights into the processes and structures of an enterprise’s internal networks and the activities of its knowledge workers. The article presents a prototype of an IT-supported instrument (“Social Badges”) that supports automatic collection of informal, personal interaction between (knowledge) workers within an enterprise. The authors’ aim is to introduce a novel approach which improves data quality over legacy methods. The approach uses Social Network Analysis (SNA) to make it easier for executives to analyze and manage informal communications networks. Its practical applicability is demonstrated by a case study. DOI 10.1007/s12599-008-0018-z The Authors Dr. Kai Fischbach Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder Seminar for Business Informatics and Information Management University of Cologne Pohligstr. 1 50969 Cologne Germany {fischbach | schoder}@ wim.uni-koeln.de 1 Introduction If the formal organization is the skeleton of a company, the informal is the central nervous system driving the collective thought processes, actions, and reactions of its business units. (Krackhardt and Hanson 1993, p. 104) Both the volume and importance of knowledge workers are growing as industrialized countries...
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...1. Develop a focus group discussion guide for the research described above. a. What topics should be discussed in what order? * How do children parents decide which hospital to take their children to, when their children need acute care? * Is the quality of service a factor on their decision * Is the financing a determine factor? * Is their decision driven simply by emotion? b. What pre tasking exercises might be relevant? Ask the people who are participating in the focus group to prepare a journal: list the events that took place from the time your child was first sick until your child felt better. c. What exercises might you use during the focus group? * Give the group members a blank sheet of paper. Ask them to draw the kind of hospital they would like, the kind of doctors, nurses and care they would like to have for their child. Immediately tell them that nothing above a kindergarten level is expected. * Guided Fantasies or Visualizations: tell the individuals to close their eyes, and visualize the perfect hospital. * Word Association and Sentence Completion 2. Evaluate the use of the telephone as the method for the survey. After analyzing and evaluating the competitor’s message of Akron Children’s hospital, it was time for the research team to test whether the care-centered brand massage they recommended was going to be effective beyond doubt in influencing parent’s hospital selection. In addition, the focus group and telephone survey...
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...Identification of relevant social factors that affect customer behavior in purchasing car 1.1 Background of the Study The main purpose of this research is to identify the relevant social factors that affect purchase intention in purchasing car. The result of the research could be used as reference by the car dealer and manufacture which allows to understand the requirement of the market demand in Malaysia. Since there are a lot of competitors in vehicle industry provides advance manufacturing technologies and facilities which to be successful, automaker companies have to strengthen the need according to the need of the customer in order to remain in the car manufacturing industry. Carmaker and marketers should not only focuses on manufacturing vehicle and performance of the vehicle instead they also should emphasises on the social factors which influence the buyers decision in purchasing car such as reference group, family factor and social status. Other than that, the basic principle in the current market which is governing is customer orientation and customer centeredness in belief. Currently, the Competitive market is forced to produce the goods according to the customer needs (Tafler, 2007). The study on the consumer purchase behaviour which also refer as consumer behaviour, provides information of the consumer patterns and purchase intention (Nesai, 2009). Other than that, the organization able to survive along the organization could able to supply the needs...
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...CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH DESIGN 3.1 INTRODUCTION In this chapter the researcher describes the plan on how the study will be carried out in order to obtain the required data. This chapter looks at the nature and design of the study concentrating on the various categories of the study design. The chapter will look at research procedure, data collection technique, sampling, population and the location of the study, limitations of the study as well as ethical considerations. Data analysis and presentation will also be included in this chapter. 3.2 NATURE OF THE STUDY The study will be qualitative in nature. According to Babbie (1998), qualitative research refers to non-numerical examination and the presentation of observations for the purpose of discovering underlying meanings and patterns of relationships. Bless et al (2006), also maintain the same line of thinking noting that qualitative research is a research which is conducted using a number of methods which use qualifying words and descriptions to record and investigate aspects of social reality. Given these definitions of qualitative research this study will be best carried out using qualitative study given the fact that it is meant to investigate aspects of social reality. Moreover the study will be investigating people’s opinions and feelings which can be best revealed in words and symbols. 3.3 RESEARCH DESIGN (STRATEGY) Research design refers to a plan of how one intends to carry out the research. Basically it focuses...
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...Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background Sky Bus is a domestic privatized transportation company that runs the vehicles all over the country. They have several branches at different locations of the country, so that they can provide the transportation facilities between the places. They want an online application to be developed, where the details of the bookings done and the customer will be updated from time to time and one can track the details of the available seats immediately 1.2 Purpose of the System The essence of realizing the proposed system is that the system is supposed to give different services to overcome existing and anticipated problems the services are that the system and by this the purpose of the system in the most precise form is to manage and computerize the traditional database, ticket booking and tracking bus and travel made easy. and most importantly the big customer at large and to provide quality service, update and accurate information. . 1.3 Statement of the problem Over view in this part well try to discuss the differences of the current system which brought about the need for the proposed system .I t is hard to define the problem in a concrete manner considering that there was no single system before hand but we will try to see systems which tries to do each module. Ticketing reservation There was no reservation system and the ticketing was done in long lines of people with first come first served manner. Problems...
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...of analysts have focused their attention on the quantity of the research studies rather than the quality of the studies. The result is that most of the research studies especially in the social sciences tend to be futile. This essay will evaluate two articles and summarize data collection instruments, sampling methods and statistic approaches using in the articles. The two articles include the ‘the impact of Information technology on the HR function and transformation’ and ‘how will competition change HRM in Retail and Banking? A strategic Perspective’. The article ‘how will competition change HRM in Retail and Banking? A strategic Perspective’, has applied sampling techniques while the other article has not used the techniques. Some of the sampling methods using in this article include simple sampling and stratified sampling. Let describe the weakness and strength of the two sampling as applied in the article. Simple random sampling is the simplest form of sampling. An item is selected randomly from the population to represent the entire population. For instance, a fruit is selected from a basket of fruits to represent all the fruits in the basket. In the article, the searcher uses the technique to choose the ten organizations which they intended to...
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