Reward as a way of motivating workers in a workplace, assignment help

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My topic is: Reward as a way of motivating workers in a workplace

Following the APA format and the Final Project Template, prepare the “Method Section” that describes the methodology used to test your hypotheses. This should include (a) participants, (b) procedures, (c) measures and/or instruments, and (d) data analysis plan.

Support your assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

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Week 8: Method Section (6–8 pages)

For Week 8, you write the “Method Section” of your Final Project. Consider research methodologies and designs appropriate to solve your research problem. Then decide which research paradigm, i.e., qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methodology, you plan to use in your study. In addition, describe your strategies for data collection and analysis. Below are key areas you need to address to complete the Methods Section.

Participants (1–2 pages)

  • Population

oDefine the population.

    • State criteria for selecting participants.
    • State population size (if known) or approximate/estimated size.
  • Sample and Sampling Procedures
    • Identify and justify the type of sampling strategy.
    • Explain specific procedures for how the sample will be drawn.
      • Sampling frame (Inclusion and exclusion criteria)
    • Use a power analysis to determine sample size and include:
      • Justification for the effect size, alpha level, and power level chosen
      • Citation of the source of calculation or the tool used to calculate sample size

Procedures (1–2 pages)

  • Procedures For Recruitment, Participation, and Data Collection (students collecting their own data)
    • Thoroughly describe recruiting procedures and particular demographic information that will be collected.
    • Describe how participants will be provided informed consent.
    • Describe how data are collected.
    • Explain how participants exit the study (for example, debriefing procedures, etc.).
    • Describe any follow-up procedures (such as requirements to return for follow-up interviews, treatments, etc.).
  • Procedures For Recruitment, Participation, and Data Collection (students using archival data)
    • Include all procedures for recruitment, participation, and/or data collection associated with the main study.
    • Describe the bounds of the data to be extracted (e.g., records from 2005-2008).
    • Describe the procedure for gaining access to the data.
    • Describe necessary permissions to gain access to the data (with permission letters located in the IRB application).

Measures/Instrumentation (2–3 pages)

  • Instrumentation and Operationalization of Constructs
    • Identify each data collection instrument and source (published or researcher produced)
    • For published instruments provide:
      • Name of developer(s)
      • Appropriateness to the current study
      • Mention of permission from developer to use which permission letter included in the appendix
      • Published reliability and validity values relevant to their use in the study
      • Where/with what populations used previously and how validity/reliability are/were established in the study sample
    • For researcher-developed instruments provide:
      • Basis for development
        • Literature sources
        • Other bases (such as pilot study)
        • Evidence of reliability (internal consistency, test-retest, etc.)
        • Evidence of construct validity
      • Establish sufficiency of instrumentation to answer research questions
    • For studies involving an intervention or the manipulation of the IV:
      • Identify materials/programs applied as treatment or manipulation.
      • Provide information on the developer of the materials/programs/manipulations.
        • If published, state where, how, and with what populations used previously
        • If researcher developed, state basis for development and how developed.
      • Provide evidence that another agency will sponsor intervention studies (such as clinical interventions).
    • Operationalization: For each variable describe:
      • Its operational definition
      • How each variable is measured or manipulated
      • How the variable/scale score is calculated and what the scores represent

Data Analysis Plan (1–2 pages)

oIdentify software used for analyses.

oProvide explanation of data cleaning and screening procedures as appropriate to the study.

oRestate the research questions and hypotheses here as written in Chapter 1.

oDescribe in detail the analysis plan including the elements below including:

§Statistical tests that will be used to test the hypothesis

§Rationale for inclusion of potential covariates / confounding variables

§How results will be interpreted (key parameter estimates, confidence intervals/probability values, odds ratios, etc.)

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The impact of reward as a way of motivating workers in a work place
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Research methodology

Population, sampling design and procedures.
Population in research can be defined as a setoff elements which might include objects or human
beings possessing common characteristics desired in a sampling technique by the researcher.in a
study, population can be considered as being composed of two categories; the target and the
accessible population. The target population comprises of the entire people who the researcher
wishes to apply or generalize the study findings on or rather the people who the study is aimed at
bringing changes or improvements on and the accessible population defines the group of the
population that the researcher can access who are limited to a region, country, street etc.
.This study will focus on collecting data from ten respondents. From one state In the U.S.A, an
individual will be selected to make a list of five organizations in the state which award their
employees. The researcher will use snowball sampling which is a non-probability sampling
technique to select the respondents. One individual will be selected randomly from every
organization and then each individual will be used to identify two individuals within their
respective organizations who have been rewarded before using this type of sampling will be
more effective since a selected individual working in an organization will be used to identify two
other people who he/she knows have been rewarded by the organization before. Without doing
this, the researcher could be faced by a big challenge in identifying individuals in an organization
who have been rewarded before since some employees just joined the organization, and then
organizations reward individuals who they feel are keying in a lot of efforts and performance.
Identifying individuals who have been rewarded before will make the course of this study easier
and more specific since it makes it possible for the researcher to focus on particular respondents
whose selection is not affected by the researcher but rather an individual within the organization

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Research methodology

who might have more knowledge about the organization than the researcher. Employees who
have not been rewarded before will not be used as respondents in the research s...


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