Assignment:
Sample research proposal (Quantitative)
Please help me develop an abbreviated quantitative research plan. Here is the research problem:
Applied Management and Decision Sciences
Organizations are human systems. As such, each member of the system brings to bear the full range of psychological and emotional behavior while also applying themselves to their work which is highly prescriptive and ostensibly rational. Because of this, human systems experience high levels of inefficiency as emotions, personality, and unconscious impulses interfere with the objectivity and logical processes at work.
The question is, to what extent do individuals' idiosyncrasies interfere with the expectations of their performance? A secondary question is, are there managerial tools to mitigate these forces among employees while they are in the workplace?
I, then, need to complete the following:
1. Create a problem/purpose statement.
2. Draft an introduction for your abbreviated research plan.
3. Provide viable research questions and hypotheses.
Generate a written research plan that addresses the following questions:
1. What are your research questions? To what extent can you test them? How would you justify the viability of your questions?
2. What are your hypotheses? How would you test them?
3. Why would this design be the most appropriate for answering the research questions? Conversely, why would qualitative and mixed methods designs not be appropriate?
4. What quantitative approach would you select for this study? Why is that approach the most appropriate one for answering the research questions?
5. What theoretical framework or perspective would you use?
6. What is your target population? How would you identify and recruit participants? What factors would contribute to determining appropriate sample size? You will not need to calculate sample size for this assignment.
7. What are the independent and dependent variables?
8. If appropriate for your plan, what instruments might you need?
9. What data collection procedures might you use? Why would those be the most appropriate methods to use? How would that data help to answer your research question(s)/hypotheses?
10. What are threats to validity? How might you mitigate them?
11. How might you analyze the data?
12. What are the ethical considerations related to the plan?