...Data Collection Paper Team C RES/341 21March11 Sara Skowronski Data Collection Introduction Review of Literature The first peer-reviewed article was showing how in the 1950s, SUV’s (sport utility vehicle) sales increased tremendously with baby boomers. People were in need of larger vehicles to accommodate their entire family. This was not just for domestic vehicles this also included foreign vehicle. With so many people interested in purchasing the SUV’s, this led to other car companies designing more comfortable, larger vehicles. Another peer-reviewed article was in regards to the searching strategies people used before actually purchasing a new vehicle. Not everyone can walk into a dealership and know exactly what they are looking for in their price range and it is readily available. That is why most people before purchasing a vehicle use a strategy before purchasing. Not everyone’s search strategies are the same, not everyone is looking for the exact type of vehicle. Some automobile companies sent out surveys to some of their customers for a 3 month span to see how satisfied they were with the new vehicles and what the new vehicle may not have had that the consumer would have liked. When the surveys were returned they categorized the responses to see where improvements could be made to accommodate more people. The next peer-reviewed article pertained to how well auto incentives increase business. This article was in...
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...Data Collection Paper University of Phoenix RES/ 341 Research and Evaluation I Data Collection Paper Cuando se requiere colecta data en cualquier momento de nuestras vidas siempre es con el fin de averiguar algo. La colección de esta data nos da información precisa que nos ayuda a llegar a conclusiones precisas con respecto a lo que estamos investigando. Y sin lugar a dudas, los problemas que se investigan con el uso de métodos apropiados mejoran en gran manera el valor de la investigación. De hecho, una investigación es el proceso de búsqueda de soluciones a un problema después de un minucioso estudio y análisis de los factores situacionales (Sekaran, 2003). Y una investigación de cualquier índole requiere una colección de datos. Por ejemplo, un gerente de alguna empresa de producción en la que haya mermado la vena del producto que se produce necesitaría datos precisos que le dejen tomar una buena decisión para lograr hacer los cambios pertinentes con el fin de mejorar las ventas. Con esto en mente debemos destacarlos cuatro niveles existentes de datos. El nominal es uno de ellos. Este se clasifica en categorías y no pueden ser dispuestos en un orden particular. Por ejemplo, cuando hablamos de los distintos colores de cabello o de enero, como masculino y femenino. Otro es el nivel ordinal el cual incluye los datos dispuestos en cierto orden, pero las diferencias entre los valores de los datos no se puede determinar o no tienen sentido. Entiéndase que se establecen...
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...and Data Collection To purchase this visit here: http://mindsblow.us/question_des/BSHS435Week2SamplingandDataCollection/2788 Contact us at: help@mindblows.us BSHS 435 Week 2 Sampling and Data Collection in Research Paper BSHS 435 Week 2 • Student described observation and measurement as they relate to human services research. • Student addressed each of the following points in the paper: o Sampling • What is the purpose of sampling? • How can you avoid bias when selecting samples for human services research? o Data Collection • Describe the scales of measurement used in research • What are the types of reliability? Provide examples of the types of reliability as they apply to human services research or to human services management research. • What are the types of validity? Provide examples of these types of validity as they apply to human services research or to human services management research. • Why is it important to ensure that data collection methods and instruments are both reliable and valid? • What are the advantages and disadvantages of: Telephone surveys Online surveys Focus groups Surveys via websites Which of the above examples of survey research you would like to use if you are collecting data and why? • The paper is 700 to 1,050 words in length. • The introduction provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major points. • The conclusion is logical, flows, and reviews the major points. BSHS 435 Week 2 Sampling and Data Collection ...
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...BISE – RESEARCH PAPER Analysis of Informal Communication Networks – A Case Study It is becoming more and more important for knowledge workers to increase their productivity. However, there is a general lack of (semi-)automated, IT-supported data collection and evaluation approaches that allow insights into the processes and structures of an enterprise’s internal networks and the activities of its knowledge workers. The article presents a prototype of an IT-supported instrument (“Social Badges”) that supports automatic collection of informal, personal interaction between (knowledge) workers within an enterprise. The authors’ aim is to introduce a novel approach which improves data quality over legacy methods. The approach uses Social Network Analysis (SNA) to make it easier for executives to analyze and manage informal communications networks. Its practical applicability is demonstrated by a case study. DOI 10.1007/s12599-008-0018-z The Authors Dr. Kai Fischbach Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder Seminar for Business Informatics and Information Management University of Cologne Pohligstr. 1 50969 Cologne Germany {fischbach | schoder}@ wim.uni-koeln.de 1 Introduction If the formal organization is the skeleton of a company, the informal is the central nervous system driving the collective thought processes, actions, and reactions of its business units. (Krackhardt and Hanson 1993, p. 104) Both the volume and importance of knowledge workers are growing as industrialized countries...
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...Example Falls Patient falls during inpatient hospitalization has become a top safety issue for long term care facilities and hospitals. Inpatient falls have a major impact of length of stay (LOS) especially when fall-related injuries require additional tests (head trauma), surgical interventions (hip fractures), and therapy (physical and rehabilitation therapy). Reducing falls among inpatient (hospitalized patients) is a growing patient safety concern for health care organization. Today, health care organizations are being more proactive in reviewing, evaluating and implementing fall prevention program and strategies. Collecting and analyzing data are vital components for measuring, monitoring, and revising quality and improvement programs. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the case example Falls and examine the data collection methods used to monitor and revise quality improvement programs. Measures to Monitor and Revise Quality Program Implementation According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2010), falls are the leading cause of injury among individuals 65 years and older. Falls can result in severe injuries such as hip fractures and head trauma. The economic impact for medically treating and managing fall and fall-related injuries are astronomical. In 200, the U. S health care system spent over $23 billion dollars on falls and fall related injuries and the cost is expected to increase to over $44 billion dollars by the year 2025. Because of...
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...Course Title: Thesis Paper A Research Paper on “How brand elements influence the consumers’ purchase intention of a brand: A study on Horlicks and GlaxoSmithKline” Prof. Dr. Md. Masudur Rahman Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Prof. Dr. Md. Masudur Rahman Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Prepared For: Anisur Rahman ChowdhuryRoll-117, Section A18th batchDepartment of MarketingUniversity of Dhaka | Prepared By: Submission Date: 31 March, 2016 Letter of Transmittal March 30, 2016 Prof. Dr. Masudur Rahman Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Subject: A Research Paper on “How brand elements influence the consumers’ purchase intention of a brand: A study on Horlicks and GlaxoSmithKline” Dear Sir, This is an immense pleasure to submit my thesis paper on A Research Paper on “How brand elements influence the consumers’ purchase intention of a brand: A study on Horlicks and GlaxoSmithKline” as a partial fulfillment of BBA program. I hope this paper is informative and comprehensive as per your instruction. Here, I have worked with the consumer of “Horlicks” and tried to analyze their feedback to find out the impact of brand elements of “Horlicks & GlaxoSmithKline” on their purchase intention of Horlicks. Now, I am very grateful to you for your valuable supervision, precious time, effort and support throughout...
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...1. Develop a focus group discussion guide for the research described above. a. What topics should be discussed in what order? * How do children parents decide which hospital to take their children to, when their children need acute care? * Is the quality of service a factor on their decision * Is the financing a determine factor? * Is their decision driven simply by emotion? b. What pre tasking exercises might be relevant? Ask the people who are participating in the focus group to prepare a journal: list the events that took place from the time your child was first sick until your child felt better. c. What exercises might you use during the focus group? * Give the group members a blank sheet of paper. Ask them to draw the kind of hospital they would like, the kind of doctors, nurses and care they would like to have for their child. Immediately tell them that nothing above a kindergarten level is expected. * Guided Fantasies or Visualizations: tell the individuals to close their eyes, and visualize the perfect hospital. * Word Association and Sentence Completion 2. Evaluate the use of the telephone as the method for the survey. After analyzing and evaluating the competitor’s message of Akron Children’s hospital, it was time for the research team to test whether the care-centered brand massage they recommended was going to be effective beyond doubt in influencing parent’s hospital selection. In addition, the focus group and telephone survey...
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...your team’s Field Application Project for this class. As described in detail below, you and your team will gather data within an organizational unit, diagnose the challenges the unit is facing, and prescribe action steps the unit can take to overcome these challenges and realize new opportunities. The process of carrying out the FAP is both challenging and rewarding. You will gain valuable knowledge and experience as you work with your team, gather and analyze data to gain an understanding of the roots of the unit’s management dynamics and tensions, and propose a course of action to enhance the unit’s effectiveness. Each year, the FAP reports and presentations are incisive, constructive, and fascinating. I look forward to talking with you about your FAP over the course of the semester and to reading about and hearing your team’s FAP findings and recommendations. CONTENTS 1. Introduction to the Field Application Project 2. Timetable / Project Requirements 3. Choosing a Site 4. Gaining Access 5. Working in Your Study Group 6. General Principles and Guidelines for Data Collection 7. Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Data-Gathering Approaches a. Archival Data b. Interviews c. “Shadowing” Job Incumbents d. Focus Group Interviews e. Surveys 8. Analyzing the Data You Collect For Your FAP 9. Writing Your FAP Report 10. Tips on FAP Presentation 11. A Look Beyond...
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...when she worked at Peppercorn. During the course of their conversation, Erica asked Drew how things were currently operating; Drew replied by saying, “Staffing is a nightmare. We can’t find qualified people anywhere; recruiting and retention has become a constant challenge” (Cummings & Worley, 2008, p. 217). Of course, the other consultants were all ears and wanted to hear everything that Drew had to say. However, although Drew knew there were many symptoms of a much bigger problem, he had no idea what the “root” of the problem was. He would eventually enter into a contract with the consultants to get their unbiased, external point of view as to what the bigger problems really were at Peppercorn. The consultants would use various data collection methods involving the management, workers, and the customers to get a clearer picture as to what the actual problems were and why the students working at Peppercorn were unhappy and why recruitment for additional student help was unsuccessful. Actually, Peppercorn used to be predominantly run by student workers, but in recent years, due to the shortage of student workers, temporary workers had to be brought in to fill the gaps and keep the diner running. There was animosity between the fulltime workers, temporary workers, and the student workers. Each section resented the other for one reason or another and the tension was only getting...
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...Illustrations Chapter 3 Role of OD practitioner The role of the OD practitioner is varied and dynamic. Descriptions include; helper, advisor, sounding board, navigator, coach, facilitator, designer, developer, leader, consultant, expert, partner, problem solver, diagnostician, process specialist and collaborator. These roles can be practiced as an employee within the organization or as an external consultant. Internal consultants are the members of the organization and may be located in the human resource department. They perform the OD role exclusively and combine it with other tasks such as compensation practices, training or employee relations. The internal consultants have a variety of clients that includes both line and staff departments. External consultants are not the members of the organization. They typically work for a consulting firm or are self-employed. External practitioners are generally hired to provide a particular expertise that is unavailable internally to bring a different and potentially more objective perspective into the organization development process, or to signal shifts in power. Internal consultants have an advantage over external consultants because they have ready access to and relationship with the client, know the culture of the organization and have insight about the root cause of the problem. Apart from this, internal consultant have vast amount of information, reports and direct observations. External consultants, however, have the advantage...
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...Identification of relevant social factors that affect customer behavior in purchasing car 1.1 Background of the Study The main purpose of this research is to identify the relevant social factors that affect purchase intention in purchasing car. The result of the research could be used as reference by the car dealer and manufacture which allows to understand the requirement of the market demand in Malaysia. Since there are a lot of competitors in vehicle industry provides advance manufacturing technologies and facilities which to be successful, automaker companies have to strengthen the need according to the need of the customer in order to remain in the car manufacturing industry. Carmaker and marketers should not only focuses on manufacturing vehicle and performance of the vehicle instead they also should emphasises on the social factors which influence the buyers decision in purchasing car such as reference group, family factor and social status. Other than that, the basic principle in the current market which is governing is customer orientation and customer centeredness in belief. Currently, the Competitive market is forced to produce the goods according to the customer needs (Tafler, 2007). The study on the consumer purchase behaviour which also refer as consumer behaviour, provides information of the consumer patterns and purchase intention (Nesai, 2009). Other than that, the organization able to survive along the organization could able to supply the needs...
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...RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON EXPLORING THE EFFECT OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES ON SPORTS PARTICIPATION Introduction This research paper has the intension to investigate the effect of the Olympic Games on sport participation especially for primary school children. This paper will identify the target population, the sampling methods used, methods of data collection and methods of administration. Thus help the city of Edinburgh council to have a general picture of following points: 1) Provide a detailed mapping of the current level of sports participation and the intention for the future 2) Identify the aspects of the games that have been most memorable/ produced greatest impression 3) Explore potential association between impressions from the games and future sports activities. The council is concerned that the findings should be representative of the Edinburgh school children in general, and suggests that age, gender, existing level of sports engagement being important predictors of research result. To generalize from the sample to the population, the sample has to be representative of the population. Observation before the survey I plan to begin with exploratory qualitative techniques: observation of selected primary students to understand the problem and bringing to the surface issues in the research project. This activity often help crystallize the problem or otherwise open the researcher’s eyes to factors and considerations that might be overlooked if he rushed into a full-scale survey. The...
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...Reliability and Validity Walter Boothe BSHS/382 April 23, 2012 Staci Lowe Reliability and Validity In human services, research and testing is conducted in order to provide the most effective program possible. Testing methods should have both reliability and validity. They should be both consistent and specific. This paper will discuss two types of reliability and two types of validity and provide examples of how each can be applied to human services research. Additionally, this paper will discuss methods of gathering data in human services, and why it is vital that these methods have reliability and validity. Reliability Reliability refers to the consistency of a measure. A test is considered reliable if we get the same result repeatedly (Cherry, 2010).Regardless of the reason for testing administering a test , in order for it to be reliable , the results should be approximately the same each time it is administered. Unfortunately, it is impossible to calculate reliability exactly, but it can be estimated in a number of different ways (Cherry, 2010). Two specific types of reliability are inter –rater reliability and internal consistency reliability. Inter –rater reliability is assessed by having two or more independent judges score the test (Cherry, 2010). The scores are compared to determine the consistency of the rater’s estimates. One way to test inter-rater reliability is to have each rater assign each test item a score (Cherry, 2010). Next, test administrators...
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...Survey Paper In the world of research and information gathering there a number of tools and methods that can be used that will assist in the research process. Among these tools are surveys. Surveys allow researchers to obtain information from individuals through questionnaires delivered through mail, electronically via the internet, or in-person. The method of delivery for the current survey will be through the mail. This will enable researchers to reach a large geographical population range, as well as reach customers who may not frequently visit the business locations. The rate of response will inevitably be low, but a 30% return rate will be acceptable to acquire reliable data. The survey will also be available and presented in-person to customers who visit our banking locations. With the information gathered through the survey, our researchers will be able to begin determining the answer to our question. The survey that has been created will enable researchers to address the problem statement of: “are the highest users of banks services concerned about earning interest on their account balances.” This problem statement requires that information be obtained in two key areas. The first area that information must be obtained is to determine who the highest users of the banks services are. Once that information is obtained, we can begin to determine the importance of earned interest on those accounts. This survey is designed to address both key areas of importance, and is formatted...
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...Introduction The following paper addresses the use of data collection used to involve community health workers as partners in evaluation research whose role is not typically that of a trained researcher but could actively participate in the collection of information. The data collection techniques that was employed was qualitative evaluation data that used a voice over internet protocol phone-in system to provide narrative reports as well as the community outreach workers own experiences regarding challenges faced by women in their outreach activities. The data collection method used was the VoIP system that allowed the outreach workers to call a telephone number at anytime and leave a recorded message of any length during the day or night. The VoIP system allows multiple users to call in simultaneously without getting busy signals when compared to the traditional telephone and voicemail systems (Peacock, Issel, Townsell, Chapple-McGruder & Handler, 2011). The use of qualitative method for the collection of data works in sync with the VoIP system because it is used for non-numerical measurements of characteristics such as discrete characteristics of a group of individuals or objects (Elementary Statistics, 2013). The pros of using this method is that it explore more in depth and detail when compared to quantitative research, it is less expensive than quantitative research because you don’t need to recruit as many participants and it offers flexibility as far as locations...
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