Basic Tools for Process Improvement Module 4 AFFINITY DIAGRAM AFFINITY DIAGRAM 1 Basic Tools for Process Improvement What is an Affinity Diagram? An Affinity Diagram is a tool that gathers large amounts of language data (ideas, opinions, issues) and organizes them into groupings based on their natural relationships (Viewgraph 1). The Affinity process is often used to group ideas generated by Brainstorming. Why should teams use the Affinity process? The Affinity process is
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Research Methodology – Open Doors – Extending Hospitality to Travellers with Disability 1. How did ODO operationalise the definition of an adult with a disability? What arguments could you make that the definition was too inclusive or too narrow? Disability was defined by ODO as “having blindness, deafness or a condition that substantially limits one or more basic physical activities such as walking, climbing stairs, reaching, lifting or carrying”. Respondents were screened based on
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INFORMATION COLLECTION TOOLS – ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES Information Collection Tools Observation Advantages Collect data where and when an event or activity is occurring Does not rely on people’s willingness to provide information Directly see what people do rather than relying on what they say they do Relatively inexpensive Good source of background information Unobtrusive Provides a “behind the scenes” look at a program that may not be directly observable May bring up issues not noted
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few hypotheses for it, which we have tested by our primary and secondary data that we have collected by survey. The data we have collected can be divided into two categories are Primary Data and Secondary Data. Primary data refers to the data collected from the survey that we have conducted among the samples of the target consumers who are assumed as representatives of the target population. Secondary data refers to the data that we have collected from various articles, magazines and websites. Our
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random sampling and convenience method (CIMA 2010). They stated that they used this because; they believe that it gave them the opportunity to survey a wider range of students. The benefits of using this method are that it is convenient to collect data, simple and less time consuming. However this sampling method can be prone to bias. They asked some general questions first, in order to know more about the students they were questioning. The majority of the questions they asked were about the hardware
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study. 4 1.4 Research question(s). 4 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 5 3. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY 6 3.1 Research design. 6 3.2 Data sources 7 3.3 Data collection techniques. 7 3.4. Issues of reliability and validity. 8 3.5 Sampling techniques. 8 3.6 Definitions of key terms, concepts and variables. 9 3.7 Data analysis and interpretation. 9 3.8 Ethical considerations. 10 3.8.1 Confidentiality. 10 3.8.2 Informed consent
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services or the club-fitting services. There were teams assigned to each of the three groups. Each team used a different data collection method. Team 1 was assigned to the Harrisonburg residents that were 18-70 years old, and they used the mall intercept method. According to Brown, Suter, and Churchill, Jr. (2014) the mall intercept method is “A method of data collection in which interviewers in a shopping mall stop or interrupt a sample of
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PROJECT PROPOSAL GRIEVANCE HANDLING PROCEDURES AND THEIR IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF GHANA COCOA BOARD 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Grievance is a sign of an employee’s discontentment with his job or his relationship with his colleagues. Grievance generally arises out of the day to day working relations in an organization, an employee or a trade union protest against an act or policy of the management that they consider as violating employees rights. An organization will
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How to hasten up the search and rescue of the lost trekkers Jatin Ashra DSV, Stockholm University Abstract Consider a recent incident of flight MH370, where even with state of the art GPS systems, we do not know the where about of the flight even after so many months. In today’s world, even with available latest technology, it has become difficult to search some things like an aero plane etc. Imagine how difficult the task of search and rescue team might be to locate people who might
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