What is your belief ? and Research proposal

IBM 208Win Singphatanakul

Ask yourself first ?Do you believe in that there is always a single

answer for every question? Or Multiple answers?

Are you an unbiased or biased person ?

Do you view the reality as “Objective” something that can be measured objectively.

Do you view the reality as “Human construction” where there is no single answer and the reality cannot be measured.

Do you feel that to find out the answer in the research do you need to interact with the subject or not to interact with the subject?

Qualitative or Quantitative

Are you qualitative or quantitative person?

Two main concepts

Positivist (Quantitative) sees reality as a concrete structure “God has a plan for you”

Interpretivist (Qualitative) sees reality as a projection of human imagination “Multiple answers and choices exist in the world”

Quantitative as positivist

Good quantitative research is seen as precise measurements, statistical analysis and verifiable truth.

The main aim of positivist is to identify universal laws of human behaviour so that we can control and predict events

Qualitative as interpretivist

Qualitative researcher believes that human are complex, somewhat unpredictable.

The role of the research is seen to be the deep understanding of human behaviour

The aim of Qualitative research is to discover how humans construct meanings in their contextual setting.

The differences between the two

Quantitative research is based on deductive reasoning.

Qualitative research involves inductive reasoning

Deductive and Inductive

Deductive:Researcher begins with a theoretical proposition and then moves towards concrete empirical evidence

InductiveIs a process by which we observe certain phenomena and arrive at certain conclusion.

The researcher begins with detailed observations of the world and moves towards more theoretical generalization and ideas.

Research Simple rules

Before conducting a Management research, you have to look at the problem critically

Can you do it ?

If so, where will you find the date?

Even if the data Exist, can you get access to them?

Presuming that you have access to the data, what will you do with them after they are in your possession ?

The research processThere 11 steps in research process

Catalyst for research

Preliminary information gathering and literature survey

Problem definition

Framework Development

Research Objectives

Research design

Data collection

Data analysis

Interpretation of findings

Report preparation and presentation

Management Action

Problem definition: Defining your topic

Define the topic: what are you focusing on? Youth suicide, Environmental, etc.

Define the nature of the research: Is your aim to discover, explore, explain, describe. Or compare

Define the questions you are interested in: Whether you are interested in what, where, how when, why.

Indicate what you are exploringWhether you are looking for impacts, increases, decreases, relationships, correlations, causes etc.

Set the boundariesWhen you face with an interesting ideas that might be related to your research, ask yourself “What does this have to do with my questions”

Defining Topic

What if you are not even sure about the topic area?

You have no idea what interests to pursue?

You are not ALONE…..

You should start with generating ideas by honing your curiosity, using your creativity and exploring your options.

The best way is using concept map (mind map)

Another way is….. to come and see me

Research proposal1. The working title of your project

2. Author

3. Anticipated outputs (whichever are relevant):

4. Intended readers (can include markers or examiners)

5. What is the central question your project will pose? 1. What is the answer it will provide? 2. If your readers had only one sentence to summarise

your project, what would it be?

6. Why will you do the work? 1. What will you do? 2. What will be the results? 3. What can your project add to theory? 4. What can your project add to practice?

7. What might remain unresolved?

Research proposal (cont.)

Research Objectives

Is the problem or opportunity worth ongoing investigation?-(Justification)

Literature Review

Problem Definition

Are you following me ?

What is literature review?

The purpose of literature review is to help researchers narrow down the research questions and know what to look for. Therefore the researchers can

Inform readers of developments in the field

Establish your own credibility

Argue the need for, and relevance of, their study

Good Literature review usually leads logically to a good problem statement.

Group DiscussionDiscuss this question “What are the component of quality of life?”– Think about how would you approach to answer this

question? – What would be the objective of this question?– Is this question worth on going investigation?– Who will read this research?– What type of literature you would look into?– What is the nature of the research?– What are you exploring? Are looking for impacts,

increases, decreases, relationships, correlations, causes?– What is the answer it will provide? – What can your project add to practice? – Any difficulties in conducting this research?– What might remain unresolved?