Research Report: The Role of Leadership in Employee Turnover

This report presents a detailed analysis of the research methodology used to investigate the role of leadership styles in employee turnover. The research employs a descriptive research design, utilizing a mixed methodology approach that combines both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The sampling design involves a random sampling technique, with a target population of 100 employees from the retail, IT, and manufacturing industries. Data collection methods include surveys, interviews with managers, and a review of relevant literature. The report justifies the chosen methods and details the precautions taken to meet ethical requirements. The research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how different leadership styles impact employee turnover rates and offers practical implications for organizational management. The report also includes details on the sampling methods and data analysis techniques to ensure replicability.

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Business Research Methodology
(Role of leadership style in Employee turnover)

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Contents
1. Research Design.......................................................................................................................3
2. Sampling Design......................................................................................................................5
3. Sampling Methods....................................................................................................................7
4. Data Collection Method...........................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10

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1. Research Design
The research design is very important in carrying out the research. This design helps in
analyzing the research methods and collecting data, which is a very important concept in the
business. Research design considered as an important framework that includes several research
methods, which are qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods and mixed
research methods. The research method plays an important role in the overall research and gives
better outcomes as per the requirements (Taylor, et al., 2015). The research design is of various
types, which are descriptive, explanatory and exploratory. All three designs work in a different
direction. Descriptive gives various impact on the behavior of the subject. Exploratory research
design supports to analyze the subject properly. The explanatory research design used to choose
the problem.
From all these three-research designs, this research paper used the descriptive design of the
research is used in this research paper which gives various advantages in analyzing the overall
research process. Descriptive research design method involves the analyzing of behavior (Smith,
2015). The descriptive research design gives a definite and right answer and involves several
limitations that used to describe the behavior of the research. From all of the research method
qualitative, quantitative and mixed method, this research paper uses the mixed methodology. The
mixed method of research is one of the best research methods that provide reliability in the
research project. The mixed method includes qualitative and quantitative research method in
which numerical and non-numerical data as per the needs and requirements of the research (Hair,
et al., 2015). Qualitative research method included the questionnaire and surveys and
quantitative include the reviews of authors. So, in this particular process both of the research
methods used as per the proper analysis. Mixed method research used to focus on collecting of
data and data analyzing. The research problems understand in a better way by using this mixed
method of the research. The better outcomes collected by using the mixed methodology. The
mixed methodological approach improves the overall research methods and gives exact results
related to the particular research topic. Qualitative and quantitative research techniques are
important in research methods. Therefore, mixed methodology is very essential in carrying out
better research results.

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This research is based on the role of leadership in employee turnover. To analyse the
leadership effects, the mixed methodology used that give better results of the research. These
approaches used in this research paper and collect the relevant data related to the research topic.
This research uses the design of the descriptive method to understand the proper behavior of the
research project (Jackson, 2015). The relevant data collected with the mixed methodology in
which both the approaches of qualitative and quantitative are used. This method gives better
results and it decreases the complexity of the problems arises in the research. This research
provides a better understanding of the problem.

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2. Sampling Design
The sampling method is very important in the overall research paper. Sampling process helps
the researchers to get the results from a particular population as per the results. The particular
group from the population identified by the sampling method of the study. The target population
selected as the sample needs to collect the data. The sample includes several people who helps in
the investigation. The people who take part in the investigation called as participants. The
selection of the target population is very difficult as the participants are important in
investigating particular data (Lewis, 2015). However, the several problems occur in select
particular group of sample and the one problem is sampling bias (Palinkas, et al., 2015).
The related research project uses the random sampling technique, which is a type of probability
sampling technique. The sampling technique used to select the participants in a random manner
and improve the overall process of the research. The number of participants is 100 employees
selected from the retail, IT and manufacturing industry. These participants selected to understand
the role of leadership in employee turnover. The participants selected by the random sampling
technique because in this randomly participants selected. This technique used to save time and
resources (O’reilly and Parker, 2013). The exact information achieved with this sampling
technique. In this technique, every ember related to population selected randomly that is why it is
called random sampling technique. The participants selected randomly and the participants are
the employees of the company who have better knowledge regarding the role of leadership in
employee turnover. In the research project, sampling is the most important process to analyze the
results related to the collection of data. The certain numbers of the person selected in this
process to get their views on the particular research topic. The participants are selected 100
employees related to the IT or retail sector (Hanington and Martin, 2012). The 100 employee
selected due to get the proper information regarding the research subject and analyze the effects
of leadership properly. This process is very much reliable in the market research and provides
certain levels of information related to the subject of the research. The easiest sampling
technique we were chosen in this project as a random technique helps in easily selected the
participants of the research.
The target population plays an important role in the overall research methods as they give the
exact information and data. The target population is the way to select the participants in the

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research. The sampling method related to the selection of a sample that takes part in the research
process. This method is very cost-effective and time- convenient. It provides the best results of
the research.

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3. Sampling Methods
Sampling methods used to select the participants to get the proper information about the
research. The participants selected by using different methods and the use of information are
mentioned in the overall process of sampling. The method of sampling is not necessary so the
other methods also used to select the participants in the research. The other methods are
purposive or convenience sampling. These methods help in selecting the members will provide
the best information and exact data on the research topic. The recruitment of participants is one
of the important method related to the research as this gives the data of the particular research
topic (Bell, et al., 2018).In the process of recruiting participants, the description of the whole
population is not necessary, as there is no need for the population. There are several processes
include in the sampling that provides the best information. However, to get the best information,
it is important to understand all aspects of the problem and decide the better solution to the
problem. As per the analysis, it is found that it is not necessary that the people with great
technical skills and high position people are the best people in giving the information but the
smaller position people of any organization is more reliable in giving the best information as
they have more experience regarding the work of the organization (Wahyuni, 2012). The
knowledge of the people gives a great impact to the problem and helps to analyze the answers as
per the research topic.
The number of participants is also important to get the required and proper information as per
the turnover of employee by the use of leadership. The participants of research are the employees
that face the leadership affects in the employee turnover. Therefore, 100 employees selected
from the particular organization to get the best results in the research project (Ness, 2015). The
sampling is one of the important method used in the project, supports in the several processes of
research like collecting data in which participants give responses to the research topic. These
participants are used in the collection of data on which the whole research based. The
participants in this project are employees, which have more information related to the research
subject. The process of recruiting participants is very beneficial for the overall research as they
give very wide information (Noble and Smith, 2015).

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4. Data Collection Method
This process is used to collect data and information from several related sources. The data
relates to the answers to the research problem. The several outcomes related to the research
collected in this process. The collection of data includes two methods, which are secondary
method of collecting data and primary collecting of data (Sutton and Austin, 2015). There are
several methods used in collecting data process like quantitative research method and qualitative
research method. Quantitative involves the statistical data related with the definite numbers and
qualitative involves the no n-statistical data. The primary collection of data method includes the
process of the questionnaire, interviews, surveys and observations. Methods of quantitative
collection of data and analysis involve several close-ended questions. Qualitative research
methods do not involve mathematical calculations. These two methods are very important in the
research process. This research project includes both the methods of collection, which are
primary and secondary data collection methods. These methods are important in the overall
research project and provide real information related to the topic (Elo, et al., 2014).
This research method includes both methods of collecting data that are primary method of
data collecting and secondary method of data collecting. The primary collection methods include
the surveys, questionnaire and observations. The secondary method of collection includes several
reviews of authors. The survey has been conducted among the 100 employees and analyzes the
answers related to the impact of leadership in the employee turnover. The interview is conducted
among the five managers of IT and retail sector. These managers relate with the organization
itself and give several answers related to the topic of the research (Grbich, 2012). The secondary
method of collection includes several reviews of authors related to the particular topic and many
journal articles related to the particular topic. Both the methods are used in this research paper
for collecting the relevant data to the research. Several numerical data is also included in this
research, which describes the effect of leadership on the particular process of employee turnover.
The data collecting process needs to analyze the data and investigate the answers of the research.
Both the methods of collecting data improve the quality of the research.

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The questionnaire method used in this primary collection of data method. Questionnaire
process is not so expensive and provides practical answers. This process gives a quick way to get
results and shows the comparability in the answers. The questionnaire offers actionable data and
provides easy visualization. The observation in the questionnaire gives various possible answers
and describes the overall process of the research. It is known as the best method of collecting
data as compared to other methods. In the questionnaire method, the replies are very quickly and
give answers with proper reliability. As compared to other methods, this is the easiest way of
collecting and provides better outcomes as per the subject of the research. The mixed-methods
used in data collection are better as per the use of a single method of collecting data. The mixed
methods of collection provide reliability in the research and give several information about the
research.

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