The Board

Subject: Your next steps

As we wait for IRB approval, you will need your writer to do the with the following: 1. Identify the five organizations we will recruit participants from. 2. Identify potential gatekeepers in these organizations (CEOs, HR managers, etc.) that you can directly contact to recruit participants. 3. I can then guide you in conducting the interviews once we receive IRB approval. Once you complete the steps above then:  research and prepare a contact document with potential organizations and their gatekeepers. Once you contact and receive approval from the gatekeepers, I will guide you on how to follow the interview protocol. The presentation should be based on your manuscript in 10 slides. Last step: Once the organizations respond, you will screen for those that allow the study. The target is to access at least five organizations. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 3 with more details:

Recruitment will start by identifying a few candidate organizations known to be pioneering AI in HRM. As recommended by Saunders et al. (2023), direct approval from these “gatekeepers” will be obtained to ensure unobstructed access to potential participants. This step will also be crucial in purposefully identifying potential candidates with the required knowledge and experience. The target will be for at least five participating organizations, each providing three or more respondents. After obtaining gatekeeper approval, an initial invitation with an informed consent form will be sent via email to individuals meeting the inclusion criteria. Based on guidance from Dillman et al. (2014), three reminders will be sent to potential participants.