BA5004 - Business Research: Delivering Bad News & Relationships

This assignment is a literature review analyzing how managers should deliver bad news to employees to maintain a positive employment relationship. It uses research methodologies, including qualitative research and systematic literature review, to explore communication strategies, data collection techniques, and ethical considerations. The review emphasizes the importance of effective communication channels, evidence management, and addressing potential legal disputes when delivering unfavorable information. Sampling methods and ethical issues like data protection and privacy are also discussed in the context of organizational research and change management.

Business Research Methods
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Table of Contents
Part 1................................................................................................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
How managers can deliver bad news in more effective way......................................................3
Reason for delivering a bad news...............................................................................................4
Ways to deliver the bad news .....................................................................................................4
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................5
Part 2................................................................................................................................................6
Research Methodologies.............................................................................................................6
Data collection techniques..........................................................................................................6
Sampling.....................................................................................................................................6
Access and ethical issues............................................................................................................7
References .......................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals.....................................................................................................................8
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Part 1
Introduction
Within an organisation, it is important to them for analysing about leadership, and deliver
the bad news in organisational process. It will be helpful for generating sources and make
organisational process involving the delivery for bad news and able to achieve more effective
and integrative framework in an organisational concepts (Almeida, 2021). Life within an
organisation, in punctuated by the bad news and all is related to make effective performance. All
is related to work and use feedback for the customer services in the failure which are related to
confronting bad news. It will be helpful for generating source and achieve conceptual guidelines
to provide consequences and their bad impact on the major changes in the company. This report
consist the ways that are helpful for considering the process. This is related to use approaches to
analyse the company in an effective market for analysing conceptual data for the growth of the
company.
Main Body
How managers can deliver bad news in more effective way
From the view of Robert (2021), This is considered for the growth to work and make
systematic changes in the management style. It will be helpful for generating psychology,
sociology and medical practitioners for the growth and changes in the employees growth. The
need of the employees are related to contain effective communication, that is serve either bad or
good news. It will be helpful for the company to make effective manager and deliver the
concepts for analysing consequences by using qualitative research methodologies. It is
considered for the growth to analyse the news and achieve the progress in an effective ways to
deliver the bad news (Svalastog, 2021). This report show that the organisation and their
management team should follow the effective communication channel and make systematic
review with literature review. There are different responsibilities to work and punctuated for
analysing bad news with amateurs approaches. This is very important for the manager and
leaders of the company to speak laud, communicate the challenges and honestly play the role for
solving issues within the organisation. All of these can minimise the impact of bad news within
the company and achieve more effective ways.
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Reason for delivering a bad news
As per the view of Robert (2021), There are different ways and method which are related
to work and accomplish the need for delivering the concepts to under-welcome the different
concepts. The main reason for delivering the right news in right activities in phases of delivery.
The main reason for analysing the reason for delivery the change in having harmful activities.
This is related to work and make good communication channels is associated to delivering the
bad news from overcoming the harmful activities (Susser and Grimaldi, 2021). For the growth
for overcome the issue and achieve many benefits for analysing the growth for managing
employee and employer relationship. It will be helpful for generating sources and use internal
and effective data range that are related to the growth and conceptual background to deliver the
bad news (Arnab and et.al., 2021). There are different reasons for managing evidence and
commitment for the reports in the company and having different legal disputes for the growth. It
will be helpful for generating source and achieve the marketing concepts to use method and
applied the changes in information related services to serve bad news in the growth of new and
appropriate market. These reason are effective and helpful for generating sources and achieve
methods to complete the performance ability and correction sources to make blame management,
evidence management and commitment in the effective report to for the analysing systematic
growth in the company. All of these are helpful for generating legal complaints to work and
applied the sources in an effective manner.
Ways to deliver the bad news
According to the view of Robert (2021), There are different ways which are helpful for
the companies to deliver the bad news within the organisation. It would be helpful for the
company to work and an effective strategies to deliver the channels. This would be associated to
the growth and make temporal factors. For the use of managerial and effective growth in the
company is related to the organisational challenges and achieve the market in organisational and
justice theory within the organisation. There are different ways that may be helpful for the
company to work and make bad news in the company. All is related to use effective
organisational theory that help the company for achieving effective sources in the organisation
(Asatiani and et.al., 2021). This will be helpful for the company to work and make disclosure to
the growth in an organisation. The company should complete the different phases that are related
to complete growth in an organisation and achieve appropriate management techniques and make
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changes in effective performance feedback. All of these are helpful for generating sources and
achieve suitable growth in an company to distrust the integrating impact on the growth and
challenges while delivering the bad news within an organisation.
Conclusion
From the above report, it is concluded that the company is useful for choose the right
ways and approaches to analyse the management and deliver the effective communication tools.
IT will be helpful for completing the source and make systematic changes in analysing the work
and communicate the bad news within the organisation to other employees. This can be related to
generating chaos in the company and deliver the in appropriate ways for analysing the situation
and overcome the issue in different concepts. Announcing bad news within the organisation
needed a techniques which is helpful for them to provide a suitable framework. This will be
helpful for generating source and achieve progress in the company with different leadership
style.
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Part 2
Research Methodologies
While working on the different research methodologies, the researcher are able to work
and make systematic changes in completion of research. There are two main methods are used
for completing research methodologies that are related to quantitative and qualitative research
methodologies. Qualitative research has been used to collect, analyse and interpreting the non-
numerical data with the research. This method is helpful for generating effective sources in
different platform. The above part 1 is helpful for using effective literature review to make
system in an effective manner. There are different method that make the growth in the research
and utilised useful ways by doing interview, focus group, case study, process of observation and
systematic literature review (Pavarini and et.al., 2021). This method is very sufficient and helpful
for generating sources and make professionalism to applied research methodologies to conduct
above part and achieve in different and effective manner.
Data collection techniques
After analysing the qualitative research methodologies are related to work and make
significant aspect to work and achieve different qualities in the characteristics and management
in the method. It would be helpful for generating effective sources and work for the
organisational changes, observation, frequently appear and make different factors in analysing
and interpreting the qualitative data method. This will be helpful for generating effective sources
in an systematic literature review concepts. It is related to major challenges to accompany the
group of researcher and used a systematic literature review(Zina, 2021). Most of the researcher
are able to work and used competitive analyses in the organisational research. Here, the
researcher use interview method for collecting data and make some appropriate techniques to
consider the view and achieve the behavioural growth in adaptabilities and changes. These are
helpful for collecting information and make effective data collection techniques to achieve
sources in an effective manner.
Sampling
Sampling is the method it will be helpful for managing and different situation for
completing interview methods for collecting information and achieve systematic growth. In order
to complete sampling process, to allow the qualitative research methods. This will be helpful for
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generating the source and complete the characteristics for using techniques and their basic
modelling method for the challenges and issues in the research methods (Cheung, Bell and
Bhattacharjya, 2021). The chosen sample size of the interview is 4, and the respondents are the
employee of the company who are facing issues related to the bad news consideration within the
market association. It will be helpful for the researcher to conduct sampling with non-probability
method.
Access and ethical issues
This is helpful for generating issues and make major changes in different ethical issues
faced while considering the change in an environment. These ethical issues are helpful for
considering consent form, data analysis, data protection and privacy. This is a serious field that
make the growth in addressing issues and make systematic changes in analysing systematic
growth in validity and reliability concern for the growth in analysing systematic for sampling
(Walsh, Böhme and Wamsler, 2021). All is related to analyse the change and make overcome the
objective in for the topic and make growth in analysing the change in systematic review.
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References
Books and Journals
Almeida, A.S.F.D., 2021. A communication plan for a portuguese travel agency: Portugal
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Svalastog, J.M., 2021. The Honourable Guinea and East India Company, 1640–1663.
In Mastering the Worst of Trades (pp. 116-155). Brill.
Arnab, S., Walaszczyk, L., Lewis, M., Kernaghan-Andrews, S., Loizou, M., Masters, A.,
Calderwood, J. and Clarke, S., 2021. Designing Mini-Games as Micro-Learning
Resources for Professional Development in Multi-Cultural Organisations. Electronic
Journal of e-Learning, 19(2), pp.44-58.
Asatiani, A., Hämäläinen, J., Penttinen, E. and Rossi, M., 2021. Constructing continuity across
the organisational culture boundary in a highly virtual work environment. Information
Systems Journal,31(1), pp.62-93.
Susser, D. and Grimaldi, V., 2021. Measuring Automated Influence: Between Empirical
Evidence and Ethical Values. In Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on
AI, Ethics, and Society.
Pavarini, G., McMillan, R., Robinson, A. and Singh, I., 2021. Design bioethics: A theoretical
framework and argument for innovation in bioethics research. The American Journal of
Bioethics, 21(6), pp.37-50.
Zina, O., 2021. The essential guide to doing your research project. Sage.
Cheung, K.F., Bell, M.G. and Bhattacharjya, J., 2021. Cybersecurity in logistics and supply
chain management: An overview and future research directions. Transportation
Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 146, p.102217.
Walsh, Z., Böhme, J. and Wamsler, C., 2021. Towards a relational paradigm in sustainability
research, practice, and education. Ambio, 50(1), pp.74-84.
Online
Robert. J. B., (2021). The Delivery of Bad News in Organizations: A Framework for Analysis.
[Online]. Available through: <https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?
doi=10.1.1.918.3079&rep=rep1&type=pdf>. {Last accessed on 24th August 2021}.
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