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hw.docxFind a tool in the literature that could be used in your method section. Describe it in a discussion thread and respond to two of your classmates in quality way.
Here is some classmates answers:
I need a respond to each answer more than a paragraph.
1) I particularly liked the tool regarding ranking, rating, and sorting for my case study. I thought it would be a simple and easy way to find information about why people make certain choices. I am studying the effectiveness of the DARE program, and I wish to gather information about people in the Kansas City community. Different random samples will be taken from the youth of Kansas City. I also like the community environmental assessment tool for my case study. I will use this tool to gather information in order to provide a framework of how community members believe the DARE program to be effective. They will report specific cases about observations they may have seen within the community. I will try to establish an environmental score by using number values given to the insiders to determine the value of change. The values will help will help determine the importance of one factor compared to another. From there I can start to come up with ideas of where the opportunities may exist. Creswell, John. 2014. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
2) I found an article that used a “Brief Job Stress Questionnaire” to observe any correlation between job stress and job satisfaction over a two-year interval (Kawada 2014). They were able to conclude that work overload or quantity of work didn't play a factor in satisfaction. They did conclude that lack of job control and support from the supervisor did play a significant role. This survey is a limited sample of the actual survey used in government and almost identical in type of questions and responses used to quantify the data. I could use this in the methods section as an example, if I am not able to obtain the actual survey. This tool also shows the widely used 4-point Likert-type scale used to score answers. I believe the actual survey expands the answer scale to include a neutral middle-point answer, although I am not sure if or how it is used in scoring. Below is the survey they used represented in their appendix. T. Kawada and T. Otsuka / Job stress and job satisfaction 399 Appendix Fifteen items for the evaluation of job demand (D), job control(C), support (S), and degree of job satisfaction in the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ) D-1. You have to do an enormous amount of work. D-2. You cannot complete all your work in the allotted time. D-3. You have to work very hard. D-4. You have to focus your attention quite a lot. D-5. You do a difficult job that requires a high level of knowledge and skill. D-6. You have to constantly think about your work during working hours. C-1. You can work at your own pace. C-2. You can decide the order in which you do your work and the way you do it. C-3. You can reflect your own opinions on the workplace’s work strategy. S-1. You can often communicate with supervisor. S-2. You can often communicate with co-worker. S-3. You can strongly rely on supervisor if you have some trouble. S-4. You can strongly rely on co-worker if you have some trouble. S-5. Your supervisor kindly spends his/her time on your private problem. S-6. Your co-worker kindly spends his/her time on your private problem. JS-1. You have job satisfaction in your work. Responses to the job demand items are scored on a 4-point Likert-type scale (4. agree; 3. somewhat agree; 2. somewhat disagree; and 1. disagree). Responses to the items on job control, support, and job satisfaction are scored on a 4-point Likert-type scale (1. agree; 2. somewhat agree; 3. somewhat disagree; and 4. disagree). Reverse scoring of Job demand items was adopted to make concordance with scales on job control and support. Summation on each factor on job strain was made. Kawada, Tomoyuki, and Toshiaki Otsuka. 2014. "Change in job stress and job satisfaction over a two-year interval using the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire." Work 49, no. 1: 107-111. Business Source Premier, EBSCOhost(accessed November 6, 2014)
