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
What should be a research
question? And type of
question?
Is there any glass ceiling
effect for females in the
electric distribution
companies?
Descriptive type
This is just describing the
presence of a phenomenon
The purpose of research
(fact finding, relationship
building, causal)
Fact finding
This research is about to
know the presence or
absence of a particular
phenomenon prevailing in
the society and its purpose
is to get awareness.
Selection of subjects (who
will be the respondents,
how will you select them,
which technique will you
use to select the
respondents?)
I. Subjects will be all
potential female
candidates
II. Census would be
used instead of any
sampling technique
I. The female not
eligible for top
position cannot be
taken as sample
II. Census is used
because population
is not so large to
select sample. All
population should be
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