Justification for Using Qualitative Approach
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Justification for Using Qualitative Approach
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT(Dissertation Chapter – Methodology)
Table of ContentsCHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.............................................................................13.1 Introduction......................................................................................................................13.2 Research approach and design..........................................................................................13.3 Study population, samples and units of analysis..............................................................63.4 Research tools and questionnaire.....................................................................................73.5 Justification for using qualitative approach......................................................................93.6 Data collection method...................................................................................................103.7 Interview for data collection...........................................................................................113.8 Validity of the research method.....................................................................................123.9 Ethics and confidentiality...............................................................................................123.10 Description of Respondent’s Profile and Demographics.............................................133.11 Conclusion....................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY3.1 Introduction Research can be defined as a scientific or detailed investigation to thoroughly study andanalyze the chosen research problem. Methodology is one of the crucial chapters of thedissertation that presents a systematic plan for carrying out research and exploring the issue indetailed way. Alternatively, it describes broadly philosophies, approaches and other key toolsundermining the research methods whether quantitative, qualitative or a mixture of both. Thissection of the dissertation clearly explains how the investigation has been carried out, source ofdata extraction, data collection methods and techniques used for analysis. Thus, the main purposeof the thesis is to introduce used research strategy, empirical methods with enough justification. 3.2 Research approach and design Positivism and interpretivism are the two kinds of philosophies that might be used by ascholar for investigating the issue. Understanding knowledge, belief and justification to manageproblem is important for research studies. Epistemology plays an important role in selection ofresearch philosophy to manage the problem and prepare mitigation plan. It is concerned aboutproviding a philosophical ground to decide the possibility of knowledge and assures its adequacyand legitimacy (Petty, Thomson and Stew 2012). Every investigator needs to obtain informationrelated to the epistemological perspective. Positivism is a scientific approach that is well-structured, organized and measurablenatural world. Positivist researchers discover regularities and pattern of social world usingscientific methods. They have an objective point of view without interfering all the researchphenomena. It often comprises manipulating reality with some variations only on oneindependent variable in order to determine regularities and relationship with the social world.They believe that predictions can be performing using historical observation, explained realitiesand their interrelationship with others. Knowledge claims are not grounded in positivist theoriesas they are dismissed as scientific. It has perfect successful association with the natural andphysical science (Bergold and Thomas, 2012). Such scholars believe that relationship betweenhuman and social reality is totally independent and work objectively to assess cause-effect.However, this paradigm is criticized in literature for organizational reality that is too complex1
and not easy to amend to statistical deduction. Moreover, it is deeply rooted philosophy infunctionalism that is extremely concerned with assessing causal analysis for generalization. Interpretivism philosophy, on the other side, collects qualitative dataset and use methodsi.e. unstructured interview, participant observation and others. They believe that they influenceand effected by the research strategy. Thus, their involvement affects research result becausedifferent investigators interpret inferences differently. The epistemological stance in suchresearch believes that knowledge about reality can be acquire only via social constructionsincluding shared meaning, language and others (Bernard and Bernard, 2012). It does not haveany pre-specified dependent and independent variable; still, the core focus of researcher is onthoroughly exploring the complexity of the issue to make it clear. Interpretivist claim that socialphenomenon must be explained and analyzed in social context, in which, they constructed. Theybelieve that only subjective interpretation helps to explore reality. The current research paper targeted to explore the relationship between competencies ofproject manager and the project success rate in the mining sector of Ghana. Researcherinvestigated such relationship in with a constructivism viewpoint. Underpinning its assumption,scholar believed that research problem can be only investigated through original interactionswith the target individuals to know their belief, opinion and views. It permit scholar making theirown viewpoints along with the comprehensive details of all the participants within subjectivecontext. 2
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