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Research Methods (STA630)
Assignment 2 Marks 30
Federal government took notice of the complaints of females about difficulty in promotions to top positions in government organizations. The project to conduct a research to find out the actual situation is assigned to your research institute.
Director of your institute, elaborating the project, defined the phenomenon of difficulty in getting promotion to top positions told that “this is called glass ceiling because this is invisible barrier (glass) through which women can see the top positions but cannot gain them.” The decision was to take ten government owned companies across the country for research. He also provided a sheet containing the data of these companies. Important data are given below:
Number of companies
Key positions of each organization
Potential candidates for each organization’s key position
Potential female candidates for each organization’s key position
Females holding key positions in these organizations
10 3 7 2 2 out of 30
You as a part of this research team need to address the following issues and convince team head for your choice and logically support your arguments.
Issues Your choice Logic Marksdivision
What should be a research question? And type of question?
3+
The purpose of research (fact finding, relationship building, causal)
3+
Selection of subjects (who will be the respondents, how will you select them, which technique will you use to select the respondents?)
6+
Data collection method (telephonic interview, personal interview and or Mixed)
3+
Note: You have to choose from the choices given.
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