QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHOD

Qualitative Research Method

Qualitative Research Method

Research Question

Can strategic planning be an effective tool for efficiency of management in public sector organizations?

Abstract

The above stated research question discuss the effectiveness and efficiency of public sector organizations. Public sector organizations are having change structure from private ones, they are multifunctional, patterned upon the political lead, and most are not operating for fundamental principle of profit making.

In a rapid reform, reorganization and modernization of the public sector times, this study provides a public sector management issues in an appropriate and enlightening prologue. Within the organization confirmed that the instrumental and institutional organization theory point of its unique values, interests, knowledge and power base drawing.

Egalitarian theory and observed studies of management, research concentrated on the five essential characteristic of the union of the community and public sector:

Leadership and governance prevailing there

Reform and Change that can made their system effective

Impacts and consequences (barriers) for effectiveness and efficiency

Hypothesis

Hypothesis 1: The organizational contextual dimension of strategic planning is strongly affected from perceived strategic planning effectiveness.

Hypothesis 2: Diffusion of responsibility. Also quite common and occurs when team members do not stop working to assume full responsibility for the tasks required to be carried out.

Hypothesis 3: Premature closure. Means certain members of a team are rushing individual actions to identify or find the most attractive solution to the problem without this action involves consideration of his peers or superiors.

Research setting

Contextual dimensions

Organizational context can be thought of as “the ecology of the organization" comprising dimensions of the activities and events outside organization. Contextual dimensions of organization include the areas and dimensions of the external environment and the relationships organizations have in the environment.

Culture - all the values ??and common beliefs (note, culture is often the norm, or in the workplace by checking the observed behavior to see)

Environment - external influences and in the political, technical, social and economic nature of the event

Target - the exclusive overall preferences and the wished finish, the Organization.

Size - the digit of public and resources and their width in the association/ organization

Technology - often inimitable needs to attain organizational goals, counting the nature of actions, occupation, type of equipment / facility needs, and other behavior

Data

Method and sampling

To test these hypotheses, on numerous occasions, we need to analyze the relationship of dependence or independence between two variables of a qualitative or categorical. These variables are also called factors, while the various categories of the variable they are often called levels. There are different tests to measure the dependence between two qualitative variables in its different versions. (Poister, 2004, p.115)

Observation in the field

Interviewing

Focus group study

Survey research

Methods of sampling used for qualitative research are:

Random Sampling

Systematic Sampling

Stratified Sampling

Cluster Sampling

Judgmental Sampling

In research for public sector organizations, we will make clusters on basis of services provided by public sector organizations like cluster for hospitals as they provide health services, cluster for security organizations, cluster for maintenance organizations like water and gasoline supplies and so ...