QUESTIONNAIRES

Questionnaires

[Kate McGee]

Questionnaire

Introduction

Virtually all research will involve some numerical data or contain data that could usefully be quantified to help your answer your research questions and your objectives. Quantitative data refers to all such data and can be a product of all research strategies. This method is the easy way to collect information from large numbers of sample. For the purpose, of clarification and a further discussion with the author's supervisor a brief description for some of these research method is provided below:

Experiments commonly referred to a traditional method that contributes to the study of natural science, social science and psychology. Such methods the researcher manipulates variables in control manner.

Surveys are used to collect a large amount of data from a sample of a large population. This approach allows the collection of a large amount of information in at a particular time of a study.

Case studies are used when the overall objective of the study is to obtain thorough and comprehensive information of the research subjects. Case studies provide insights and systematic information regarding a research area or subject.

Grounded Theory: The concept of grounded theory refers to the data gathering without developing any theoretical structure. It means that a theory is established from the data that are generated though a series of observations and then such data is used to make predictions about the research.

Ethnography: This method is used to make an interpretation about the attributes of the participants that are studied in the research. Interviews, observations, and questionnaires are parts of such strategy.

Background

Primary data can be defined as the new data collected for the specific purpose of the research. This usually includes the use for various forms of interviews and questionnaire. The main medium to obtain the primary data is through a questionnaire, which has been developed on the basis of the literature reviewed by seeking advice from managers in the companies, concerning effective leadership and its impact on organisations. A questionnaire is a written list of questions, the answer to which is recorded by respondents. The questionnaire will consist of questions for which descriptive answer have to be provided by the respondents (Dillman, 2000, 2).

Interview

In the interviews, semi-structure question will be used as much as possible as this allow the respondent to their opinion freely, which would enable the researcher to gather more data and more knowledge on the subject even though supplementary data have to be eliminate, which would not fit the purpose. This would not be possible in structured questions as there may be several answers to a question given individual circumstances, which the respondent would not be able to explain.

Questionnaires

Questionnaires will be a mix of structure and unstructured questions. Structure questions will be used to find out the percentage of similar answer to a given condition while unstructured question will be use whenever there is necessity for a wider view on the part of the respondent. Other forms of interview method such as postal email interview will be not used as the ...