Research Critique



Research Critique

Introduction

In every field, whether business or education, medicine or engineering, the role of research is indispensable for the growth of the field. For that purpose, it is significant to impart best possible knowledge to students about research. Performing the process of research is not enough; practitioners, scholars and students must also know how to utilize the research that already exists. Performing the process of critique about the research report also provides a great deal of information and can ultimately result in the advancement and growth of the field by pointing out the positive, negative, strong and weak points of the research report. Critiquing and analyzing research also helps in grasping in-depth information about the research process and research methods. The aim of this paper is also to perform the critical analysis of two research studies. To fulfill the purpose of this paper two research studies are selected and then these studies are analyzed in a critical way.

Selected Research and Article

Critical analysis of the research report means studying the report thoroughly and then perform an in depth analysis of the reports. This process of critiquing a research report is so deep that it even criticizes the title of the report. It seeks whether the title of the study being criticized is succinct, short and clearly suggests the theme of the study or not. This suggests that the process of criticizing a research report is not only about talking about the methodology and results of the study. This paper also undertakes all the necessary steps to perform the critical analysis of the study. So, the first aspect that is criticized here is the title of the research studies.

The two studies that are selected for the purpose of analysis are related to the business and management filed. The first study is titled as “A quantitative correlation study of emotional intelligence and employee turnover intentions in the information technology workplace” by Paulette L Stephens. The research study that is selected for this paper belongs to the field of social research and marketing. The study is performed by two researchers Sonyaa Grier and Rohit Deshpande. The title of the study is “Social Dimensions of Consumer Distinctiveness: The Influence of Social Status on Group Identity and Advertising Persuasion”. This study was published in Journal of Marketing Research in the year of 2001.

The title of the first study is short and easy to understand. Whereas, the title of the second study is confusing and long. The title of the study should be concise and must communicate the main topic of the research.

Purpose of Researches

The purpose of the first research is to assess what is the relationship between perception of employees about emotional intelligence (EI) in their supervisors and employee turnover in the IT workplace. This means that this study aims to know how emotional intelligence of supervisors in an IT form affects the employee turnover (Stephens, 2011).

The study that is selected for this paper does not show problem statement but the background ...