Critical Realism In Qualitative Research: An Essay.

Principles of conducting business research

Discuss about the Critical Realism in Qualitative Research.

Prior of writing assignment 1 and assignment 2, I had to attend a 12 week learning course for learning research practice. The rationale of the learning program was to aid me to write my literature review and organize my research proposal on the topic of “advantage and disadvantage of social networks in business”. It has been great experience in my life to pursue the learning experience of 12 weeks. Such learning experience can be highly essential for developing my personal life as well as career life. In this reflective journal, I will elucidate my whole learning experience all through the 12 week learning course in weekly manner.

In this week, I learned several strategies and process of preparing business research. In this week, I learnt the common principles of conducting business research. These research principles are applicable to prepare any kind of business research. Most interestingly, I learned the difference between business research and academic research. From my opinion, this learning experience can be highly supportive to prepare any type of business research in precise format. Apart from that, the learning experience can be highly important to enhance my overall knowledge about business area and research area management.

My week 2 learning was about designing and planning of business research. In this week, I understood that research design is different from research method in regards to their functioning. In this week, I came to know about the concept like experimental, cross-sectional, longitudinal, case study and comparative research, which are quite essential for completing a successful business research. From my perspective, such learning experience can help me a lot to design a business research in perfect manner in my future academic life. The learning of social networking in business can help me in implementing social networks in business organizations where I might work in my future career. I have gained huge insights in the business progress scope through the implementation process of social networks in business.

The third week was associated with writing and reviewing the business research. In this week, I learned that completion of successful business research needs a proper understanding of reviewing the main ideas behind the research topic. It was evident that I have to be extremely clear to structure the business research properly. I realized the significance of social values for completing the business research successfully. Therefore I can say that search learning experience would be highly important for enhancing my social values through a greater understanding of social life and personal values. It would also enhance my interaction skills with my surrounding people though a greater understanding of social values.

Designing and planning business research

My 4^th week learning program was linked to the understanding of ethical principles in terms of research study towards sustaining the ethical values all through preparing the business research. The learning course taught me the core ethical codes and guidelines for the professional association. Such ethical principal can help me to comply with all the ethical compliances during conducting research. Moreover, the learning of ethical principles would definitely help me to maintain ethics in my personal life and also in my professional life. It would be quite easier for me choose between the right and wrong things in my personal and professional life.

In 5^th week, I studied the details about the qualitative research process. In this week, I learned that qualitative research is mostly dependent on visual materials in terms of collecting accurate research data. This research is entirely different from quantitative research. The qualitative research is generally dependent on open ended questions to assemble the necessary research data. In this week, I studied different kind of lecture slides for having a great understanding about my research topic. Apart from that, I also watched different videos on YouTube for having an in-depth perceptive about research topic from the scholars uploaded by the renowned research scholars. Such in-depth information collected from highly informative scholars has enhanced my insights about the research process and business opportunities.

My learning course in 6^th week was related to the understanding of interview method necessary for conducting qualitative research. I came to know that qualitative interview needs random sampling process to assemble accurate information, which is white flexible and reliable. On the other hand, I faced huge complexity to learn the facts of focus group research. After reviewing several lecture slides and studying different learning contents on the website, I decided that interview method is much flexible then focus group research management. In this way, I decided to choose interview method to collect descriptive qualitative data regarding my research topic.

In 7^th week, I studied all the details regarding qualitative data analysis process. It was something like analyzing the descriptive data collected from the selected research respondents. Most fascinatingly, I learned the codified norms for guiding the qualitative data analysis process. In this week, it was discussed that secondary data analysis is quite prominent to extract the right meaning of qualitative data. From my business research, I got clear idea about the analysis of qualitative data. Hence, I can say that my business research has provided me practical experience to conduct research in accurate manner.

Writing and reviewing business research

In this week, I learned regarding the sampling of quantitative research. I understood that the measurement process related to quantitative research indicates the search indicators. Apart from that, the learning process taught me several types of sampling methods and their association with business research. I realized that probability sampling provides much more accurate and biasfree quantitative data to reach at accurate research result. While considering my business research, I selected accurate sampling technique and adequate sample size for collecting detailed quantitative data. Hence, it is clear that my business research was truly intended to provide me hands on experience to conduct business research in successful manner. It connected my theoretical understanding about business research with practical understanding for better implementing research studies.

In 9^th week, I studied and understood the importance of structured interview towards asking interview question to the selected respondents of research in a standard manner. Furthermore, in this week, I learned the effective ways of framing self completion questionnaires, which is almost same to the structured interview. Throughout the completion of my assignment 1, I gathered detailed information regarding my business research topic. In this way, the opportunities and scopes identified in literature review provided me the ways of designing self completion questionnaires to assemble quantitative research information. It gave the overall direction to conduct business research in right direction leading to authentic research outcome.

In 10^th week, I came to know about the alternative way of survey based measurement, which is similar like structure observation method for the assessment of collected data. This method is actually incorporated with recording of behavior and precise rules of the respondents selected in the research process. In this week, I also learned the traditional content analysis in regards to analyze qualitative data. In this context, the research questions must be transparent enough for the great understanding of research participants. While preparing assignment 2, I chose exact methods of gathering most precise research information for reaching at authentic research result.

In this week, I understood the significance of secondary analysis for completing business research in successful manner. Secondary data analysis is always associated with high volume data and high quality data. Although, I understood several advantages related with secondary data analysis. Apart from that, I realize that the official statistics associated with secondary data is less likely to generate errors in research result. In this way, I become aware of two kinds of data analysis, which are like qualitative and quantitative analysis. The learning experience would be extremely essential for completing my business research in successful manner.

In 12^th week, I studied the rising implication of mixed method research to prepare business research. I also studied the limitations associated with mixed method which are like ontological impediments and epistemological impediments. Such learning experience in terms of qualitative research and quantitative research would be highly essential for me to conduct any kind of business research in my future career. Apart from that, I faced several challenges and difficulties throughout conducting my business research. In this way, I learned to deal with several challenges and difficulties for overcoming them. Hence, I can say that the learning experience has taught me to deal with different types of challenges and difficulties in my personal life as well as career life

Conclusion

While concluding my reflective journal, I can say that the 12 week learning experience was extremely essential for my career life and my personal life. The learning experience has effectively fulfilled its rationale of facilitating me in preparing my assignment 1 and assignment 2. I perfectly understood the “importance of social networks for the development of business”. In this way, it enhanced my entrepreneurial skills for developing my career life. I faced several challenges in conducting the research towards its successful completion. In this way, I have learned to deal with the challenges in my personal life and professional life.

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