Research Design & Methods 250words

Ethical Considerations

Informed Consent

A written consent form will be delivered to the company management team and all employees who will join the survey. In the consent form, the purpose of the survey, what would be require to do by the participants, how much time will be taken, how will data be stored and disposed will be explained.

Beneficence

Though our survey is supposed to address the issue of low engagement of “some” employees, all employees will be covered as survey participant instead of certain employees identified by as low engagement. The questionnaire will be carefully designed so that no one would feel targeted.

If interview is decided in the next phase of survey, the Appreciated Inquiry might be adopted. Appreciated Inquiry is a process aiming positive changes in organizations through thoughtful inquiry and discussion which allowing the organization to identify the positive core strengths related to the area of improvement investigated and to propose actions to improve (Cooperrider, 2012).

Data privacy

To ensure all participants speaking the truth so that the quality of the survey is guaranteed, employee name will not be required. Any personal information that is irrelevant to the survey will not be asked. A non-disclosure agreement will be signed by all team members and be delivered to the research company.

Data storage and disposal

The company and employee data will be used only for this survey. Anyone other than the team member and the subject teacher will not receive the data. Upon the end of the research, all files containing employee data will be deleted by the team members.

Expected Outcomes

The survey will identify the real causes of low engagement and productivity in the organization therefore will provide guidance to their management decisions.

The employer

· Knowing: The company would have a clear picture of the employees’ attitude to work, the co-workers and the organization.

· Acting: The survey result will guide the organization’s management priorities in the near future such as directing the designing of formal HR policy and procedures and taking corrective actions to fix the problems.

· Achieving: The organization would obtain both direct profit (increased revenue due to high productivity) and indirect cost saving (higher morale and lower grievance) and eventually realize better organizational performance (Tangen, 2005).

The employees

· The employees will reflect themselves throughout the survey process thus better understand their thoughts towards work, relationship and the employer. By doing so, employees are supposed to realize their strengths and weaknesses and improve themselves in the future.