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Business Research Methods 3rd Edition Alan Bryman, Emma Bell - Solutions
If it is a self-completion questionnaire, have you made sure that the instructions to yourself and to anyone else involved in interviewing are clear (for example, which questions should be answered next with fi lter questions)?
If it is a structured interview schedule, have you made sure that the instructions to yourself and to anyone else involved in interviewing are clear (for example, which questions should be answered next with fi lter questions)?
Have you piloted the questionnaire with some appropriate respondents?
Have you tried to put yourself in the position of answering as many of the questions as possible?
Could any questions that are not strictly relevant to your research questions be dropped?
Do the questions allow you to answer all your research questions?
Have you considered whether or not there are any existing questions used by other researchers to investigate this topic that could meet your needs?
Have you devised a clear and comprehensive way of introducing the research to interviewees or questionnaire respondents?
Are there any circumstances when the diary approach might be preferable to the use of a self-completion questionnaire?
What are the main kinds of diary used in the collection of business research data?
Why might a vertical format for presenting closed questions be preferable to a horizontal format?Diaries as a form of self-completion questionnaire
Why are self-completion questionnaires usually made up mainly of closed questions?
What steps can be taken to boost postal questionnaire response rates?Designing the self-completion questionnaire
‘The low response rates frequently achieved in research with postal questionnaires mean that the structured interview is invariably a more suitable choice.’ Discuss.
Are the self-completion questionnaire and the postal questionnaire the same thing?Evaluating the self-completion questionnaire in relation to the structured interview
What are the main issues that lie behind the critique of structured interviewing by feminist researchers?
What are response sets and why are they potentially important?
How might repertory grids be used in qualitative analysis?Problems with structured interviewing
Make a list of the projective methods that could be used in a study of organizational culture and consider how they might be applied.
What is the critical incident method and how has it been applied in business and management research?
What is the difference between probing and prompting? How important are they and what dangers are lurking with their use?Other approaches to structured interviewing
How strong is the evidence that interviewers’ characteristics can signifi cantly affect answers?
How strong is the evidence that question order can signifi cantly affect answers?
To what extent is rapport an important ingredient of structured interviewing?
Prepare an opening statement for a study of manual workers in a fi rm, in which access has already been achieved.
‘Given the lower cost of telephone interviews as against personal interviews, the former are generally preferable.’ Discuss.Conducting interviews
Are there any circumstances in which it might be preferable to conduct structured interviews with more than one interviewer?
Why do structured interview schedules typically include mainly closed questions?
Why might a survey researcher prefer to use a structured rather than an unstructured interview approach for gathering data?
How successful is the structured interview in reducing interviewer variability?
Why is it important in interviewing for survey research to keep interviewer variability to a minimum?
(To be asked if interviewee replied No to question 1)Have you received feedback concerning your job performance at any time during your employment by this organization?Yes ____ No ____
How frequently do you receive feedback concerning your job performance?(Ask interviewee to choose the category that comes closest to his or her current experience.)Once or twice a week ____ Once or twice a month ____ A few times a year ____ Once or twice a year ____
(To be asked if interviewee replied Yes to question 1)Who provided you with this feedback?(Ask respondent to choose the category that represents the person who most often gives them feedback and to choose one category only.)Line manager ____ Personnel manager ____ Other ____ (specify) ____
Have you received any feedback concerning your job performance during the last twelve months?Yes ____ No ____(if No proceed to question 4)
‘Non-sampling error, as its name implies, is concerned with sources of error that are not part of the sampling process.’ Discuss.
‘The problem of generalization to a population is not just to do with the matter of getting a representative sample.’ Discuss.Error in survey research
‘Quota samples are not true random samples, but in terms of generating a representative sample there is little difference between them, and this accounts for their widespread use in market research and opinion polling.’ Discuss.Limits to generalization
In what circumstances might you employ snowball sampling?
Are non-probability samples useless?
What is non-response and why is it important to the question of whether or not you will end up with a representative sample?Types of non-probability sampling
What factors would you take into account in deciding how large your sample should be when devising a probability sample?
The mean job satisfaction score is 34.3. The standard error of the mean is 8.57. What is the 95 per cent confi dence interval?
A researcher is interested in levels of job satisfaction among manual workers in a fi rm that is undergoing change. The fi rm has 1,200 manual workers. The researcher selects a simple random sample of 10 per cent of the population. He measures job satisfaction on a Likert scale comprising ten
How likely is she to achieve a representative sample?The qualities of a probability sample
A researcher positions herself on a street corner and asks one person in fi ve who walks by to be interviewed: she continues doing this until she has a sample of
If you were conducting an interview survey of around 500 people in Manchester, what type of probability sample would you choose and why?
How far does a stratifi ed random sample offer greater precision than a simple random or systematic sample?
What are the main types of probability sample?
What is probability sampling and why is it important?
What is the signifi cance of sampling error for achieving a representative sample?Types of probability sample
What are the main areas of potential bias in sampling?Sampling error
What are the goals of sampling?
What do each of the following terms mean: population; probability sampling; non-probability sampling; sampling frame; representative sample; and sampling and non-sampling error?
How central is the adoption by quantitative researchers of a natural science model of conducting research to the critique by qualitative researchers of quantitative research?
‘The crucial problem with quantitative research is the failure of its practitioners to address adequately the issue of meaning.’ Discuss.
Why might replication be an important preoccupation among quantitative researchers, in spite of the tendency for replications in business research to be fairly rare?The critique of quantitative research
Outline the main preoccupations of quantitative researchers. What reasons can you give for their prominence?
What are the main criteria for evaluating measurement validity?The main preoccupations of quantitative researchers
‘Whereas validity presupposes reliability, reliability does not presuppose validity.’ Discuss.
What are the main ways of thinking about the reliability of the measurement process? Is one form of reliability the most important?
Why might multiple-indicator approaches to the measurement of concepts be preferable to those that rely on a single indicator?Reliability and validity
What is the difference between a measure and an indicator?
Why is measurement important for the quantitative researcher?
Do the steps suggest a deductive or inductive approach to the relationship between theory and research?Concepts and their measurement
To what extent do the main steps follow a strict sequence?
What are the main steps in quantitative research?
Were the actions taken by Holliday (1995) and described in Research in focus 5.8 ethical? (Explain your viewpoint using the framework provided in this chapter.) Would you have behaved differently in these circumstances? If so, how?
Read one of the ethical guidelines referred to in this chapter. How effective is it in guarding against ethical transgressions?
How easy is it to conduct ethical research?
How helpful are studies like Milgram’s, Zimbardo’s, and Dalton’s in terms of understanding the operation of ethical principles in business research?
Why does deception matter?
Why is the privacy principle important?1.What principles concerning the use of personal data are expressed in the 1998 Data Protection Act?
What are some of the diffi culties of following this ethical principle?
Why is the issue of informed consent so hotly debated?
What are some diffi culties with following this ethical principle?
Does ‘harm to participants’ refer to physical harm alone?
Outline the different stances on ethics in social research.Ethical principles
Why are ethical issues important in relation to the conduct of business research?
Once your research has been completed, have you met obligations that were a requirement of doing the research (for example, submitting a report to an organization that allowed you access)?
Does your strategy for keeping your data in electronic form comply with data-protection legislation?
Once the data have been collected, have you taken steps to ensure that the names of your research participants and the location of your research (such as the name of the organization(s) in which it took place) are not identifi able?
Have you taken steps to ensure that the confi dentiality of data relating to your research participants will be maintained?
Have you taken steps to ensure that your research participants will not be deceived about the research and its purposes?
Do you appreciate that you should not divulge information or views to your research participants that other research participants have given you?
Are you confi dent that the privacy of the people involved in your research will not be violated?
Does your research conform to the principle of informed consent, so that research participants understand:what the research is about?the purposes of the research?who is sponsoring it?the nature of their involvement in the research?how long their participation is going to take?that their
Have you checked to ensure that there is no prospect of any harm coming to participants?
If only certain types of research need to be submitted, have you checked to see whether or not your proposed research is likely to require clearance?
Have you found out whether or not all proposed research needs to be submitted to the body in your institution that is responsible for the oversight of ethical issues?
Have you read and incorporated the requirements for doing ethical research in your institution?
Have you read and incorporated into your research the principles associated with at least one of the major professional associations mentioned in this book?
Are there activities in which we should or should not engage in our relations with them?
How should we treat the people on whom we conduct research?
Why is it taken so seriously by researchers?
What is plagiarism?
What is the role of the bibliography and what makes a good one?Avoiding plagiarism
What are the three main referencing styles used in academic work and which of these is preferred by your institution?
Why is it important to reference your work?
What is a keyword and how is it useful in searching the literature?Referencing your work
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