Hiring process of Student Activities Coordinator : Final draft

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Research Design Draft

Antonio McClan

SPT-501-X5560 Research Methods in Sport Mgmt. 22TW

July 16, 2022

Research Design Draft

Appropriate Design and Methodology

Research methodologies refer to the procedures or strategies used to identify, gather, organize, and interpret data on a topic (McLeod, 2022). Questionnaires will be the best methodology for the study since they offer an efficient, user-friendly, and inexpensive method to collect a substantial amount of data from a sizable sample size. This method will also assist in gathering detailed information on individuals' ideas, thoughts, and experiences related to the research issue.

A research design serves as the "blueprint" for the study and often addresses four or more issues. The issues are: the research topic, the relevance of the data, the data a researcher has to acquire, and the analysis of the data obtained. Thus, study topics and target audience will determine the appropriate research design. In this case, the most appropriate research design will be qualitative. This is because this research design will enable the researcher to acquire a comprehensive understanding based on first-hand knowledge of the hiring process, data obtained during the research, data required by the researcher, and ways in which the data will be examined. A qualitative research approach will also consider what the participants say or think. They also make it feasible for creative ways to be implemented because they recognize that each person holds a unique viewpoint. This makes it possible for creative approaches to be implemented.

Strengths and Weakness

The architecture of qualitative research automatically makes it possible for more collaboration, which means that researchers from different fields and backgrounds can contribute numerous perspectives on the same data set (Melvin, 2019). For example, researchers with greater experience with hiring procedures may view the information from different perspectives than researchers specializing in social psychology, resulting in deeper, more comprehensive assessments that consider various viewpoints. However, this particular research design does have a few flaws. Gathering many people's unique insights, experiences, and perspectives is essential to qualitative research. Consequently, collecting all the necessary data from the respondents takes a lot of time, and the subsequent step of integrating the data is not as simple as merely plotting it on a graph. Because of the nature of qualitative data, investigators need to comb through each response to deepening their understanding of why respondents felt or responded to a question in a particular manner. More time will be spent studying qualitative data since findings are more descriptive and less likely to be numerical.

The advantages of conducting research with questionnaires are that it is efficient in terms of expense, it can be generalized, it is trustworthy, and it can be used in various contexts (McLeod, 2022). In addition to being an efficient and cost-effective method of gathering data, questionnaires also have the added benefit of being a convenient method. They can be directed toward any population the researcher deems relevant and administered in various methods. Questionnaire research methods have some flaws, including their inability to adapt to changing circumstances and lack of capacity for depth.

Strategies

The tactics for gathering research and data will be open-ended surveys and questionnaires. These techniques will allow respondents to express themselves freely and in detail rather than forcing them to choose from a finite set of possibilities. The researcher might, for instance, pose an open-ended query such as, "How can a better hiring procedure be devised?"

References

McLeod, S. (2022). Simplypsychology.org. Retrieved 15 July 2022, from https://www.simplypsychology.org/research-methods.html.

Melvin, K. (2019). Embodiment in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 19(1), 288-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2019.1579464