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WU Non Profit Organizations with High Turnover Rates in Employees Discussion

 

Research Problem: Non-Profit organizations have high turnover rates (employees with high burnout, feeling undervalued)

Research Question: What effects can a 4-day workweek have on work-life balance in non-profit organizations?

Research Purpose: To improve workplace happiness and employee work-life balance in non-profit organizations.

To prepare for this Discussion

  • Review your Qualitative Matrix and Qualitative Narrative
  • Review the articles on data saturation and theoretical saturation, and consider which criteria you will follow to estimate “how many.” Remember, in qualitative research, one case can be enough. If your phenomenon is complex or you are interested in a range of experiences, then you will need more cases.
  • Reflect on your research problem and question. What are the essential characteristics of participants that you want to recruit?

The Assignment

Prepare a Discussion post in which you address the following:

  • Present the most current version of your research question and state the phenomenon of interest.
  • Describe the criteria for inclusion and exclusion.
  • Describe in detail the choices for sample size, data saturation, and theoretical saturation. Justify your choices with citations of research studies that use the same strategy and/or of methodological articles that describe the rationale.
  • Put yourself in the participant’s position, and consider the assurances you would want to hear to ensure that your privacy is respected and that your identity will not be revealed when the study is published. Include those assurances in your invitation.

References

Guest, G., Bunce, A., & Johnson, L. (2006). How many interviews are enough? An experiment with data saturation and variability. Field methods,18(1), 59-82.
Mason, M. (2010). Sample size and saturation in PhD studies using qualitative interviews. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11(3), article 8. Retrieved from http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs
Seidman, I. (2012). Interviewing as qualitative research: A guide for researchers in education and the social sciences (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College.