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The Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was a ‘gadfly’, executed for corrupting the youth of Athens with his dangerous ideas. Yet the Socratic approach is a useful antidote to pompousness. Ethics has now become a highly technical area. One could argue that it is of most value if it is acerbic
A central question in business ethics is the following: Why should the powerful and advantaged not exploit the weak in order to survive in a competitive business world? How would you respond to this challenge? Be sure you fully consider the logic and persuasiveness of any suggested answer.
Why should you study business ethics? Some possible answers are given below: because you hope it will be useful for yourself and for the people you work with; because you have a duty to become informed, as part of being a management professional; as part of your personal development.Expand the
We have included in the last chapter of each part a series of questions which may be used to link real contexts, cases and exercises to the theoretical ideas in the book.Note that the five discussion questions given below relate to material covered in Chapters 1–4 but may introduce new ideas and
prescribe how decisions should be made in line with sound moral principles (and with the above presumption).
describe the values which should hold in organisations, presumably in combination with experience and the findings of the social sciences. It should be noted that this presumption is not obvious in some approaches;
provide a critique of the process of value formation in organisations and in the free market economy. Some writers (see Chapter 2) argue that business ethics has become far too ‘owned’by the business community to be incisively critical;
describe and categorise, as moral or otherwise, how decisions are made in organisations;
describe and categorise (that is, provide a language for) the process of value formation in organisations and in the free market economy;
What would happen if we included every possible variable in a conceptual model? What are the implications for research design?
Where do you think most spurious relationships come from, faulty statistical analysis or faulty conceptual models?
What problems might you experience in trying to use nominal or ordinal data in multivariate analysis?
‘It’s not necessary to understand how multivariate statistics work, so long as you have a user-friendly statistics software package.’ Discuss.
How does an intervening variable differ from a moderating variable?
What should you take into account when you are deciding whether to accept a causal relationship based on bivariate data?
What might happen if you skip univariate analysis of your variables and go straight to bivariate analysis?
Why should you always be sceptical about the statistical significance reported for a test? Doesn’t it mean that a relationship must exist (or not exist)?
If you have gathered data about a large number of variables from a large sample, why shouldn’t you try to induce your hypotheses from a matrix of correlation coefficients?
Is it true that managers don’t need to know about statistical significance because you can tell the answer to most practical problems simply by‘eyeballing’ the data?
‘It is always better to use the most sophisticated software package and the most advanced statistical tests on your data if you want to get a good mark.’Discuss.
Many researchers treat ordinal responses as equally spaced. What would be the implications of this practice for a linear regression?
Why are missing data a problem in quantitative research?
When should you start planning your data matrix and your data analysis in a quantitative research project?
You are carrying out a project in an organisation in order to obtain an academic qualification. How would you resolve the conflicts between the requirements of the organisation and your academic institution?
Imagine you were taking the role of consultant in one project and researcher in another. What differences would you expect in the way you would carry out the work? Are there any inherent conflicts between these two roles?
Who are the customers of your project? What are the requirements of each and how will you go about managing them?
What are the ethical challenges that your project is likely to face?
You have been working in a team within an organisation, looking at how they have adapted to new hours and methods of working over a period of several months. During an interview with the plant manager, you see a note on her desk that has asked her to nominate groups who could be eligible for
Would it be ethical for you to do a research project with a tobacco company? Would a financial incentive help you to make the decision?
Investigate the ethical requirements of your organisation. How do they compare with the general principles set out in this chapter? How do they compare with the requirements of one of the organisations listed (for example American Psychological Association)?
A friend has suggested that you join a marketing project, looking at the marketing strategies of Virgin, The Body Shop and Apple. The project requires you to have access to the organisations. Do you envisage any problems with this?
What problems would you expect in gaining access to individuals and organisations for the purpose of carrying out your research?
What is the difference in the nature of the activities you will be doing in D3, compared to the other phases of the project?
Can you do a case study on an organisation without visiting it?
How do you know when to stop collecting data?
How can having multiple researchers be helpful to the quality of your research?
Surely cases are just like journalism and consulting?
What does triangulation mean and how might it be applied in other (noncase)areas of research?
Can you use questionnaires and ethnography in the data collection of one case study?
How many cases are enough?
What are the different forms of case research?
Why are case studies so popular among student research projects?
What forms of data, other than words, could you collect as part of a qualitative research study?
Are verbal statements really data?
Why is it a good idea for you to transcribe your own data? What are the drawbacks of this?
What are the risks involved with participant observation?
How is ethnographic research different from nonparticipant observation?
What is the role of the interview schedule and how does this compare with a questionnaire?
Why is it a good idea to tape record unstructured interviews?
Think of three examples of data that could be collected by remote observation. What would be the main method of actually gathering the data in each case?
How can an interview be used in both quantitative and qualitative designs?
What are the main methods associated with a qualitative research design?
Sherif’s experiment (Research in action 6.7) was set in a summer camp –literally a field experiment. Although he could control the random assignment of boys to groups, and the boys competed on similar tasks in a similar environment, Sherif couldn’t control the boys’ interactions with other
How do laboratory experiments, field experiments and quasi-experiments differ?
What are good practices in setting up a survey?
From a research methods point of view, what might be wrong with the statement, ‘I haven’t decided what to look at yet, but I will be using a questionnaire’?
What reliability and validity issues does secondary analysis present?
Does secondary analysis always mean quantitative data and hypothesistesting?
What are the main advantages and disadvantages of secondary analysis?
How can I use secondary data to answer my research questions?
What is secondary analysis?
What research designs are associated with the quantitative approach?
What is ‘truth’ in the context of the research that you have come across?How close to ‘the truth’ do these research projects come?
Why should we try to disprove a hypothesis rather than to prove it?
What subject areas within business and management are likely to take a quantitative or qualitative approach?
Why do we need to know about research philosophy?
Is it acceptable in quantitative research to develop hypotheses from‘interrogating’ a large data set with statistical techniques? What principles might this violate?
If the overall goal of research is to find ‘truth’, why should we judge qualitative research by the standards of quantitative research, or vice versa?
Are there any research methods that can only be used in quantitative research and any that can only be used for qualitative research?
Why should you consider research philosophy between the research definition stage and the research design stage?
Is anything on the internet ‘fair game’ as far as research materials go?
Is plagiarism a ‘victimless crime’?
Is ignorance of your university’s rules about plagiarism an adequate defence if you are caught?
Why is knowing how to use citations and references an essential skill for researchers?
‘A good literature review is one that describes everything ever written on my topic.’ Yes or no?
In quantitative research, is it OK to do your literature review after you’ve collected and analysed your data?
‘If I am trying to solve a practical problem, reviewing the literature is irrelevant.’ Discuss.
Why is the process of peer review considered so important in scholarly publishing?
Can you believe everything you read on the internet?
Should you consult the internet or the library first to find out more about the theoretical aspects of your research topic?
How can defining your project scope at this stage of the research process improve the quality of the research project?
How can filling out a research proposal improve the quality of the research process?
How would you express your ideas at different stages in the development of those ideas? How would a mind map be used here?
What are the ethical implications of using previous student projects as a source for your own project ideas?
Does every research project have to be linked to a particular business and management area of study? Why or why not?
What are the sources of ideas that you could usefully use for your project either to start you off or expand on the ideas that you have?
Where do you position yourself in Figure 3.2?
‘Previous work is so yesterday. Why not just start it again? After all, it was about time there was some fresh thinking in management.’ What do you think of this statement?
If you have access to a set of project requirements for your academic work or business project, use them to answer this question. What are the requirements of projects that you will be carrying out? Investigate the documentation provided by your institution and compare them with the characteristics
Who is responsible if the group process falls apart? Who could you ask for advice if you start having group problems?
Why don’t groups always perform up to the potential of their most capable members?
Why should you manage the research process systematically, as well as the research outcomes?
Are there any other ways of expressing objectives rather than time, cost and quality?
Why should objectives be ‘SMART’?
How many goals should you try to achieve in a single project?
What is the difference between a mini-project and an activity?
Is project management applicable to student research projects?
Identify the stakeholders in a recent research project or other project you have carried out. What were the needs of each stakeholder and how were they expressed, if at all? If you have carried out projects previously, what have you learnt about the management of stakeholders from this experience?
How can project stakeholders influence the definition, design, doing and description of a research project?
What are the four stages of business and management research?

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