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An understanding of business research methods is important
because:
a. Business research is laden with terminology and jargon specific
language.
b. Business research draws on complex research designs.
c. It is imperative to understand frontline staff needs.
d. It helps you to avoid the common pitfalls of research methods, it
helps you to critically read others' research and it helps you to better
understand your own topics of interest.
Ans: d. It helps you to avoid the common pitfalls of research methods, it
helps you to critically read others' research and it helps you to better
understand your own topics of interest.
What implications do values have on research?
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a. They set the price of the research is worth to be sold for.
b. They influence the number of researchers to be involved in the
study.
c. The value of the dataset to other researchers.
d. They influence the ethical decisions of the researcher.
Ans: d. They influence the ethical decisions of the researcher.
How important are ethical issues to your project?
a. They are somewhat important and can be considered at the final
stages of the project
b. They are important to my project but are not something I need to
consider until I have finished collecting my data.
c. They are very important at many stages of the research process.
They have implications for what and who can be researched and for
how research can be conducted.
d. They are of little importance to the topic I plan to study.
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Ans: c. They are very important at many stages of the research process.
They have implications for what and who can be researched and for how
research can be conducted.
Having no research questions or poorly formulated research
questions will lead to poor research because
a. I will only consider epistemological queries
b. Marks are allocated for having a research question and without
them my project will be penalised.
c. I won't know what data analysis method to use.
d. The research is likely to be unfocused and I am likely to be unsure
what data to collect.
Ans: d. The research is likely to be unfocused and I am likely to be unsure
what data to collect.
What is data collection?
a. Collecting the research question and objectives together