THE IMPACT OF HOME WORKING ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION. FOCUS ON THE UK CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.

Title of Project

Impact of home working on employee motivation. Focus on the UK construction industry.

Name of Researcher

SECTION A

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Will you describe the main research procedure to participants in advance, so that they are informed what to expect?

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Will you tell participants that their participation is voluntary?

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Will you obtain consent from participants?

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If the research is observational, will you ask participants for their consent to being observed.

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Will you tell participants that they may withdraw from the research at any time and for any reason?

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With questionnaires/interviews, will you give participants the option of omitting questions they do not want to answer?

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Will you tell participants that their data will be treated with full confidentiality and that, if published, it should not be identifiable as theirs?

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If you have ticked No to any of questions 1-7, then your project is NOT low risk

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Will your project involve deliberately misleading participants in any way?

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Is there any realistic risk of any participants experiencing either physical or psychological distress or discomfort?

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Will it be possible to link identities or trace information back to individual participants in any way?

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Will the study involve discussion of sensitive topics (e.g. sexual activity, drug use, ethnicity, political behaviour, potentially illegal activities)?

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Will financial inducements (other than reasonable expenses, compensation for time or a lottery / draw ticket) be offered to participants?

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If you have ticked Yes to questions 8-12, then your project is NOT low risk

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Does your project involve work with animals?

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Do participants fall into any of the following special groups?

If they do, please outline on page 2 how you will take account of their needs.

Note that you may also need to obtain satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance

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a) School Children?

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b) People with learning or communication difficulties

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c) Patients

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d) People in custody

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e) People engaged in illegal activities (e.g. drug-taking)

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SECTION B

Please provide full details of your project below

(if insufficient detail is provided and the precise nature of the study is not clear your supervisor will NOT approve the project and your form will be returned)

State the aims and objectives of this research:

Research Aim

To investigate the impact of home working on employee motivation in the UK construction industry.

Research Objectives

· To explore literatures on the concept of home working and its effect on the level of employee motivation.

· To examine using questionnaires challenges of home working and its impact on employee motivation.

· To study the participants, view on the context of homeworking from the data collected from a range of quantitative data sets.

· To offer sensible recommendations on the merits and demerits of homeworking and how it would underpin employee motivation across the industry.

How will participants be recruited? Who will they be (i.e. number, age, and gender?):

Participants would be worker in the construction industry. A total of 60 individuals would participate in this research and their ages ranging between 22-55years.

Details of the informed consent process (If required, use the Informed Consent and Participant Information Sheet templates provided and submit with this form):

Description of the method (please submit your research instrument (survey questionnaire, interview questions that you will be using to collect data with this form if relevant):

The method of data collection for this research would be survey questionnaires.

Where will this research be conducted?

The research would be carried out in the University.

What steps have been taken or will be taken to ensure appropriate permissions are obtained? (N.B. provide a copy of correspondence i.e. letter, emails granting you permission must be submitted with your ethics submission):

For this research, I ensured that I received an email from my supervisor stating that I can proceed with my research, and it does not pose any harm to humans or the environment.

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