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Your manager was impressed with the quantitative data collection plan that you initiated over a year ago and has now asked you to delve more deeply into how to motivate employee performance. Now, your questions become those of how and why? To understand more about how to motivate your staff members, you determine that a qualitative methodology will be the best approach. What are appropriate sources of data for this type of research? Describe how you would document and organize your qualitative data for future analyses? Using the research literature, justify why this would be the best approach for data collection.

1, Zanitta

In this scenario, the case study design seems to be the most logical method to use when determining staff members' motivations at work. Another method, that can be utilized when determining the how and why of employees' motivations is the phenomenology method. The purpose of the design is to focus on describing or interpreting the lived experiences of individuals (Greenberger et al.,2021) The design interviews the response of participants or observations, and the researcher makes commentary on the descriptions. The purpose is to focus on subjective experiences. In this approach, I would interview the staff, and gain perspective on their reasoning for working. I would then apply the phenomenology approach and determine if their  moral reasoning derived from their motivation at work or lack of. There can be several perspectives on job satisfaction and motivation. Incorporating interviews gives a personal and logical perspective. 

Reference 

Greenberger, S., Maul, J., Walker, N., & McClendon, C. (2021). Overview of qualitative designs. In Grand Canyon University (Ed.), GCU doctoral research: Foundational principles of research design. https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/grand-canyon-university/2021/gcu-doctoralresearch_foundational-principles-of-research-design_1e.php

2, Victoria

One of the key aspects of qualitative research is to have open-ended questions and allow those being asked to elaborate their answers (Yilmaz, 2013). Focus groups and interviews would be two crucial data collection methods I would use. Focus groups allow you to take the general group and split it up into smaller, more detailed groups. There are various different types of data you can collect from focus groups. They allow you deep dive into a topic while also keeping the questions open ended. Interviews one on one allow you to get even more specific. Qualitative research can be too broad but these interviews allow you to understand what type of data you need and give you direct data towards it. Both focus groups and interviews need to be documented properly. They need to be recorded thoroughly and word for word. However, the information from them needs to be outlined and narrowed down. Both the broad information and the more narrow details should be documented for future use.

Yilmaz, K. (2013). Comparison of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Traditions: epistemological, theoretical, and methodological differences. European Journal of Education, 48(2), 311–325. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26357806

3, Deana

Two types of data collection will be considered to investigate employee performance and what motivates them to perform better. First, a focus group will be used to identify the common themes of employee motivation and performance. Since this is a sequential-funnel-based design, finding common themes from the focus group will allow the researcher to investigate common perspectives (Abeza et al., 2022). Once the common themes are identified, action research can be employed to identify problem areas, develop a plan, implement strategies to change outcomes, and collect data again to make adjustments where necessary (Klima Ronen, 2020). By identifying themes and problems first, an action plan can be created for each problem or looking at solving issues that make the biggest impact on employee performance. This will eliminate addressing every issue but putting the problems with common themes together to create an action plan that will take care of multiple issues identified.

 

Abeza, G., O’Reilly, N., & Séguin, B. (2022). The Sequential-Funnel-Based Focus Group Design: Adapting the Focus Group for Research in Sport Management. Journal of Global Sport Management, 7(1), 43–70.

Klima Ronen, I. (2020). Action research as a methodology for professional development in leading an educational process. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 64. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2019.100826

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4, Olamide

Most employees need motivation to feel good about their jobs and perform optimally. Some employees are money motivated while others find recognition and rewards personally motivating. Motivation levels within the workplace have a direct impact on employee productivity. (Ganta, 2014)

When employing a qualitative methodology to gather important data about the level of motivation in an organization, a single method is recommended which is an in-depth interview.  An in-depth interview can be described as interviews in which participants are encouraged and prompted to talk in-depth about the topic under investigation without the researcher’s use of pre-determined, focused short-answer questions. (Setiawan, 2020)

In analyzing the data, text documents need to be analyzed by a constant comparison of data and continuous memo writing. All materials gained from the in-depth interview needs to be carefully read. Thereafter, the text should be coded line-by-line into codes that were kept close to the participants’ own wordings. All codes from the same focus group interview were compared and compiled. The properties and dimensions of the codes were further explored and developed in analytical memos. In order to capture the longitudinal aspects of the employees’ experiences of working with the model, all focus groups’ interviews from one work group were compared to the others.

We all know how vital motivation is for success, but "being motivated" is a different story. Every person has unique requirements. What motivates or inspires one individual may be entirely different from what motivates or inspires another. People's needs alter over time, their desires differ, and their maturity levels or emotional intelligence differ. It's tough to comprehend what inspires people without first determining what they require and desire from their jobs.

References

Ganta, V. C. (2014). Motivation in the workplace to improve the employee performance. International Journal of Engineering Technology, Management and Applied Sciences, 2(6), 221-230.

Hellman, T., Molin, F., & Svartengren, M. (2019). A qualitative study on employees’ experiences of a support model for systematic work environment management. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(19), 3551.  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193551

Setiawan, D. A. (2020). A qualitative study of employees’ motivation factors on organization : A case study from one company in Indonesia. Hasanuddin Economics and Business Review, 3(3), 112. https://doi.org/10.26487/hebr.v3i3.1998

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5. Kevin

A researcher best approach will be to use common qualitative methods. They would be to utilize observation methods by recording what you observed, seen, and heard and providing detailed notes when delving into the staff members . Another method would be to interview the staff members while asking questions in one-on-one interviews. The method of having focused group sessions will be to ask questions and provide discussion with the staff members in improving employee performance. The methodological  qualitative approach would be to use a general way of thinking about your research. There are many actions and outcomes that employees may have when communicating with them in providing value and making the research more relevant and beneficial to a researcher and employees alike(Piil, K., Jarden, M., & Pii, K. H. (2019). This will allow you to implicitly or explicitly in your qualitative research when using methods of data analysis and as the role of the researcher, using stages to support your research. There are three main methods of motivating staff members. As a researcher proving studies that involve extensive examination on what happen in the past with the employees will help guide you as a researcher. A researcher can also use grounded theory that involves a hypothesis of theories when collecting data and analysis. This will also support inductive reasoning. Another way of supporting the employees is to look at the ethnography of those who work for that company. This will allow you to understand individual people and their cultures.

A researcher may also delve into exploring phenomena though developing understanding and creating insight to support their company’s empowerment. The working hypothesis for that company can have a qualitative design that may show a diverse reaction. Qualitative designs will show a focus on local and individual conditions that can be useful to support your observation (Scott Greenberger et. al, 2021). Another qualitative approach can evolve and grow with contemporary trends for employees but also supportive of employees of the organization (Noyes, J. et.al, 2019). The role of the researcher can also show as a participant with the company can show a heightened sensitivity when dealing with the employees and can interest with the reflexivity with the employees (Scott Greenberger et. al, 2021).

Reference:

Noyes, J., McLaughlin, L., Morgan, K., Roberts, A., Stephens, M., Bourne, J., Houlston, M., Houlston, J., Thomas, S., Rhys, R. G., et al. (2019). Designing a co-productive study to overcome known methodological challenges in organ donation research with bereaved family members. Health Expectations. 22(4):824–35.

Piil, K., Jarden, M., & Pei, K. H. (2019). Research agenda for life-threatening cancer. European Journal Cancer Care (Enel), 28(1), e12935.

Scott Greenberger, June Maul, Nancy Walker, and Cristie McClendon 2021Foundations of Quantitative and Qualitative Research. In Grand Canyon University (Ed.), GCU doctoral research: Foundational Principles of Research Design (1st ed.). Grand Canyon University

6.Ambersol

Performance and reward systems can be utilized as sources of data on how to motivate employee performance. Performance management and rewards systems are key levers that can be used to support and drive individual and group performance. Improved performance is closely related to the level of an employee's organizational commitment to a system of rewards that can meet employee's intrinsic and extrinsic needs (Taba,2018), This in turn can lead to overall organizational performance and rewards systems that are cultural in that they provide a glimpse into the way a organization manages the performance of the employees and to what extent they are willing to differentiate and reward for their performance. I will document and organize qualitative data by using a intelligent business dashboard. Dashboards are a type of metrics that require motivations for the kinds of data that document success. Individual metrics can automatically collect data sources and display it onto a dashboard. This is the best approach for data collection because work performance metrics and latencies can be easily measured and by using dashboards it can automate reporting that is easily shared with a team or other staff members.

Reference

Taba, M. (2018). mediating effect of work performance and organizational commitment in the relationship between reward system and employee's work satisfaction. Journal of Management Development.,37(1), 65-75.  https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1108/JMD-11-2016-0256.

7, Richard Hale

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Compare and contrast the differences between data sources between qualitative and quantitative methodology. There are very few sources that would be appropriate for both methodologies. Most data sources are mutually exclusive; they are either appropriate for QUALITATIVE methodology OR QUANTITATIVE methodology but not both.