Research Design Methods And Applications

Research Design and its applications

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Research Design and its applications

Ethics in Research

Researchers have found out that there are different dimensions of ethics in research. The first is Procedural ethics. It is a mandatory kind of ethics and needs to be followed by everyone while conducting research. The Institutional Review Board ensures that ethical procedure like signing consent before asking candidates to be the part of a research, right to privacy, protecting human from harm and deception. Such terms come under procedural ethics and those should strictly be followed by every researcher. The second is Situational ethics that deals with a moment that comes up in a field or in a particular situation and needs to be taken care of. Like someone might have felt some discomfort due to a specific research question and that should be properly handled. The third one is relational ethics that recognize mutual respect and values each other dignity. It connects the researcher with the participants of the research ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"U0OFYI1T","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Ellis, C, 2007)","plainCitation":"(Ellis, C, 2007)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":176,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/LY9XXHSK/items/3XYQM9HM"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/LY9XXHSK/items/3XYQM9HM"],"itemData":{"id":176,"type":"article-journal","title":"Telling secrets, revealing lives: Relational ethics in research with intimate others. Qualitative inquiry,","page":"3-29.","author":[{"literal":"Ellis, C"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2007"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Ellis, C, 2007).

Unethical Research Practices:

Some of the business researchers have to test their products on animals or humans and they do it without telling the side effect of the products. Some of the pharmaceutical companies do research and experiment to promote their drugs. Like research has been done on the effect of Syphilis on patients. It was done on live black people who have no excess to medical care. It was actually an experiment to help affected people but then it turned out to be an experiment on the live people. It was a deception and the principals of ethics have not been followed. The principles like, consent of the people, human dignity, respect of the affected vulnerable people, minimizing harm and maximizing the benefits of research were not followed. As the participant were not informed that they were tested and the doctor is not just examining them for their own sake ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"F5ICQonq","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Reverby, S. M., 2001)","plainCitation":"(Reverby, S. M., 2001)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":175,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/LY9XXHSK/items/WT384YZ9"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/LY9XXHSK/items/WT384YZ9"],"itemData":{"id":175,"type":"article-journal","title":". More than fact and fiction: Cultural memory and the Tuskegee syphilis study. Hastings Center Report,","page":"22-28.","volume":"31(5),","author":[{"literal":"Reverby, S. M."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2001"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Reverby, S. M., 2001)

The ethical considerations like the consent of the participants are very important. Secondly, the identity and information of the participant should not be revealed thirdly such life-threatening experiments would not be conducted on humans and animals.

These should be avoided in research by signing consent paper from the candidates and by explaining them the nature and objectives of the research properly.

A survey should be started with a consent paper and the nature of the question should not be disrespectful and should not harm someone's emotions and those should not be controversial.

My research topic and question:

My research topic is workplace gender discrimination and the research question that I am going to address in the whole research is, “what are the causes of gender discriminations in the workplace?”

Hypothesis

H1. Gender discrimination in the workplace is the result of poor company morale.

H0: Gender discrimination in the workplace is not the result of poor company morale.

Generating Survey Questions

Answer the following questions in 1-2 lines.

• What could be the possible causes of workplace gender discrimination?

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• Do you think that poor company morale is the main cause of workplace gender discrimination?

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• Do you think that female employee is not as capable as males?

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• Which gender effects more as a result of gender discrimination in the workplace?

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• Do you think that the culture of the organization has to do with the workplace gender discrimination and what would you suggest to minimize it?

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The survey will focus on both the gender and all the employees of the company including managers and everyday employees. The specific organization that will have high rates of gender discrimination in the workplace will be preferred to examine, but if such organizations will not be available then it will be done across the field. The research will include a sample size of 100-200 employees from such organizations.

References

ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Ellis, C. (2007). Telling secrets, revealing lives: Relational ethics in research with intimate others. Qualitative inquiry,. 3-29.

Reverby, S. M. (2001). . More than fact and fiction: Cultural memory and the Tuskegee syphilis study. Hastings Center Report,. 31(5), 22-28.