Faculty of Business and Law Ethics Approval

Faculty of Business and Law Ethics Approval Form, January 2018
Faculty of Business and Law
Postgraduate Taught Research Ethics Application Form
Title of Project
The impact of teamwork on organisational
productivity: A case study of Tesco f&f, Saudi
Arabia
Name of Researcher
Naif Alorabi
SECTION A
YES NO N/A
1 Will you describe the main research procedure to
participants in advance, so that they are informed
what to expect?
2 Will you tell participants that their participation is
voluntary?
3 Will you obtain consent from participants?
4 If the research is observational, will you ask
participants for their consent to being observed.
5 Will you tell participants that they may withdraw
from the research at any time and for any reason?
6 With questionnaires/interviews, will you give
participants the option of omitting questions they
do not want to answer?
7 Will you describe the main research procedure to
participants in advance, so that they are informed
what to expect?
If you have ticked No to any of questions 1-7, then your project is NOT
low risk
8 Will your project involve deliberately misleading
participants in any way?
9 Is there any realistic risk of any participants
experiencing either physical or psychological
distress or discomfort?
10 Will it be possible to link identities or trace
information back to individual participants in any
way?
11 Will the study involve discussion of sensitive
topics (e.g. sexual activity, drug use, ethnicity,
political behaviour, potentially illegal activities)?
12 Will financial inducements (other than reasonable
expenses, compensation for time or a lottery /
draw ticket) be offered to participants?
If you have ticked Yes to questions 8-12, then your project is NOT low
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Faculty of Business and Law Ethics Approval Form, January 2018
risk
YES NO N/A
13 Does your project involve work with animals?
14 Do participants fall into any of the following special groups?
If they do, please outline on page 2 how you will take account of their
needs.
Note that you may also need to obtain satisfactory Disclosure
and Barring Service (DBS) clearance
YES NO N/A
a) School Children?
b) People with learning or communication
difficulties
c) Patients
d) People in custody
e) People engaged in illegal activities (e.g.
drug-taking)
SECTION B
Please provide full details of your project below
(if insufficient detail is provided and the precise nature of the study is
not clear your supervisor will NOT approve the project and your form
will be returned)
State the aims and objectives of this research:
The aim of the research is to investigate the impact of teamwork on
organisational productivity by referring to the case study of Tesco f & f in Saudi
Arabia.
Research objectives
The given below objectives is used for completing the research:
• To explore the conceptual understanding about teamwork and organisational
productivity
• To critically evaluate the factors evaluating teamwork and organisational
productivity with respect to Tesco f & f in Saudi Arabia
• To evaluate the association between teamwork and organisational
productivity
• To offer an appropriate suggestion in order to overcome teamwork concerns
and enhancing organisational productivity in the context of Tesco f & f in Saudi
Arabia
How will participants be recruited? Who will they be (i.e. number,
age, and gender?):
The participants will be asked to volunteer to fill the questionnaire online.
Before starting the questionnaire form filling, the participants asked to agree
on informed consent agreement. Attached to this form and the researcher
explain the aim of the study to him/her. In this investigation, 100 workforces of
Tesco f & f in Saudi Arabia is chosen randomly in order to share their
perspective that is supportive in addressing the impact of teamwork on
organisational productivity. Along with this, in this investigation, 18 to 45 years
and above ages of respondents is selected. Moreover, female, males, and
others people is selected for conducting the survey.
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