BM631: Research Methods Assignment

 1. Introduction: Research Methods Assignment

Ethical consideration refers to the process of analysing moral implication of the particular policy, decision and action within research. It is pivotal process that ensures fairness and safety of all stakeholders within the study. The current report will define diverse ethical activities and actions that have been undertaken while identifying the influence of compensation on the worker’s motivation. 

2. AIM

Current study is aimed to investigate the influence of compensation strategies on overall performance and motivation of workers within Morrison.

3. Objective & Research Question

Objectives

Ø  To study the concept of compensation strategies and its types.

Ø  To analysis theoretical underpinning related to employees motivation and performance.

Ø  To establish interrelationship between compensation strategies and worker’s motivation within Morrison.

Ø  To suggest effective strategies to Morrison’s manager for boosting overall motivation and performance of employees.

Research question

Q1. What are the organization’s compensation strategies and its types?

Q2. Which theories and models are associated with the employee motivation and performance?

Q3. What is the impact of compensation strategies on overall motivation and performance of the workers?

4. Methodology

Research approach

            Research approach refers to diverse steps that are followed for collecting, analysing and interpreting data (Taherdoost, 2022). This approach has been divided into two parts that includes deductive and inductive approach. Inductive method will be used by researcher for exploring the influence of compensation strategy on overall worker’s motivation. This method offers an opportunity to form large number of assumption which aids in gaining topic specific conclusion. Moreover, this method is based on bottom-up approach which aids in collecting holistic information related to the study.

Research design

            Research design refers to the strategy for answering a research questions and issue. Qualitative and quantitative are the two distinct type of research design which can be undertaken by the scholar (Mulisa, 2022). In the context of present study, qualitative method will be used that aids in exploring opinion and viewpoints of the respondent. This method supports in exploring a reason why particular perception is formed which in turn enhances overall understanding. This will help in identifying how and why employee motivation is influenced by the compensation strategy.

Data collection  

            Data collection is the systematic method of accumulating huge amount of information from the diverse sources (Vijayan et al, 2021). For identifying the influence of compensation strategy data will be gathered using both primary and secondary method. Primary method aids in gaining first hand & original perception of respondent and thereby forms an adequate conclusion. In this regard, 30 employees of Morrison will be surveyed through questionnaires.  Along with this, secondary method will be used that include analysing past data which aids in understanding the experts perception. In this context, diverse books, journals and articles has been evaluated related to compensation strategies and employee motivation.

Research participant

            For determining influence of compensation strategy on employee perception, random sampling method will be used by researcher. In this regard, 30 Morrison’s employee will be selected that aids in collecting highly representative information.

5. Ethical Consideration

a. Respect for autonomy, privacy and dignity

Researcher has concentrated over maintaining autonomy, dignity and privacy with the aim of carrying out study in an ethical and fair manner. In the context of managing dignity and autonomy, an informative sheet has been offered to the respondent. This sheet helps in defining overall aim, rationale and objectives behind conducting study which aids in promoting the transparency (HWANG, 2023). Moreover, this sheet also stated all the potential hazards and benefit of participating in the study. Along with this, informative sheet will include the contact detail of researcher that helps respondent in clarifying their queries easily and thereby promotes ethnicity. Further, dignity will be maintained by offering voluntary participation that helps respondent to leave study at any point of time. Under this, a consent form will be filled up that indicate the respondent’s approval to participate in the research. In addition to this, researcher has focused over managing confidentiality and privacy by storing all confidential information through password protected software. Moreover, researcher has emphasised over managing trust & confidence of respondent by reducing the scope of data exploitation and restricting access of unauthorised people.

b. Scientific integrity

In the course of maintaining scientific integrity, researcher has focused over promoting transparency and honesty within study. For managing integrity, researcher will follow all the legal, ethical and professional standards and regulations (Ethical consideration in research, 2024). Further, research will be aligned with university guidelines that support in avoiding any type of unethical practices. In this context, scope, currency, timeliness, reason and reliability of the past studies will be evaluated based on which relevancy could be determined. Moreover, all the information will be accurately cited to define the original sources of data. Along with this, researcher has involved close ended question in survey which support in avoiding scope of data manipulation and thereby maintaining overall scientific integrity.  

c. Social responsibility

Each employee works with the aim of earning a significant amount of financial and non-financial incentives. This study will define diverse type of compensation strategies to the workers based on which accurate decision could be initiated. Moreover, this study also indicates employee’s motivational factors that help organization in fulfilling their needs effectively. Besides this, outcome of the present study will motivate business entity to offers adequate compensation and thereby avoids the workers exploitation.  Further, this study will help in managing employees’ satisfaction that supports organization in earning higher profits.  

d. Maximising benefit and minimizing harm

It has been identified that managing privacy is major constraint in successfully conducting study. To overcome same, researcher has utilized diverse digital platform to collect and store data which eventually aids in managing confidentiality. Further, lack of employee’s co-operation could result into gaining inaccurate response that influences overall quality of the study. To avoid the same, an accurate questionnaire has been drafted that avoid any personal and sensitive questions. The current study is highly important for all the retail organization, employees and manager of the company (Tumi, Hasan and Khalid, 2022). It will also denote diverse factors that impact employee satisfaction and also clarify various influences of compensation strategies on overall worker’s motivation.

In conclusion, it can be stated that consent form and informative sheet will be offered which supports in maintaining overall ethnicity of the study. Further, researcher will follow all university, legal, ethical and professional standard as to maintain the ethnicity.

Books and Journals

  • HWANG, H.J., 2023. The importance of anonymity and confidentiality for conducting survey research. Journal of Research and Publication Ethics, 4(1), pp.1-7.
  • Mulisa, F., 2022. When Does a Researcher Choose a Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed Research Approach?. Interchange, 53(1), pp.113-131.

  1. Taherdoost, H., 2022. What are different research approaches? Comprehensive review of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method research, their applications, types, and limitations. Journal of Management Science & Engineering Research, 5(1), pp.53-63.

  • Tumi, N.S., Hasan, A.N. and Khalid, J., 2022. Impact of compensation, job enrichment and enlargement, and training on employee motivation. Business Perspectives and Research, 10(1), pp.121-139.
  • Vijayan, V., Connolly, J.P., Condell, J., McKelvey, N. and Gardiner, P., 2021. Review of wearable devices and data collection considerations for connected health. Sensors, 21(16), p.5589.

Online

  1. Ethical consideration in research. 2024. Online. Available through: < https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/research-ethics/>

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