LDRS 591 Activity 6.1<\/p>\n
Unit 6 Learning Activities<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Carter, D., & Baghurst, T. (2014). The influence of servant leadership on restaurant employee engagement. J<em>ournal of Business Ethics, 124,<\/em> 453-464.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>The authors labelled the study a ‘phenomenological design’, which I was not able to find reference too in our text. I think this study is an example of a case-study research design. The authors studies servant leadership in a bounded system, in this case the employees of a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>As per the criteria cited by Plano-Clark & Creswell (2015, p. 301) for evaluating te research design in a qualitative research report:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the research design guide the conduct of the qualitative study?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The researchers intended to study the relationship between servant leadership and employee engagement. They divided the participants into\u00a0 2 focus groups, and these groups were interviewed by an experienced interviewer, along with observation. The researchers seem to be knowledgeable about the design and cited their literature review. Score 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was the choice of research design appropriate and justified?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The choice of research design seems to be appropriate, given that they sought to study the impact of servant leadership from the employees’ perspective. Score 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were good quality data collection procedures used?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They conducted focus groups . They also collected data by other sources and then triangulated the results. Other than the focus groups, they used internal surveys from the past 2 years; they also conducted a 2 hour observation starting 30 minutes before the focus group where they studies interactions amongst employees and with customers. Date from all these sources were triangulated. Score 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were good quality data analysis procedures used?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will defer this till I learn more in the following chapters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were good quality results and interpretations reported?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They mention that 5 themes emerged during their data analysis. I hope we will learn more about this in the next chapters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the study use a rigorous research design?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study flows in a coherent, easy to follow pattern. The abstract however was not arranged in the format that one expects from a peer reviewed journal article publication. Score 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the use of qualitative research design address the study’s purpose?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This research design was appropriate to help identify the relationship between servant leadership and employee engagement and commitment. It adopted the key elements of a case study research as mentioned by PLano-Clark and Creswell (2015, p. 293)- the research problem called for in-depth exploration; researcher collected multiple forms of data; the researcher analysed data for description and themes; findings included description, themes and lessons learned. Score 3<\/p>\n<p>Totals core 14\/15<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Reference<\/p>\n<p>Plano-Clark, V., Creswell, J. (2015).<em> Understanding research: A consumer\u2019s guide.<\/em> (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LDRS 591 Activity 6.1 Unit 6 Learning Activities Carter, D., & Baghurst, T. (2014). The influence of servant leadership on restaurant employee engagement. Journal of Business Ethics, 124, 453-464. The authors labelled the study a ‘phenomenological design’, which I was not able to find reference too in our text. 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Carter, D., & Baghurst, T. (2014). The influence of servant leadership on restaurant employee engagement. J<em>ournal of Business Ethics, 124,<\/em> 453-464.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>The authors labelled the study a ‘phenomenological design’, which I was not able to find reference too in our text. I think this study is an example of a case-study research design. The authors studies servant leadership in a bounded system, in this case the employees of a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>As per the criteria cited by Plano-Clark & Creswell (2015, p. 301) for evaluating te research design in a qualitative research report:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the research design guide the conduct of the qualitative study?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The researchers intended to study the relationship between servant leadership and employee engagement. They divided the participants into\u00a0 2 focus groups, and these groups were interviewed by an experienced interviewer, along with observation. The researchers seem to be knowledgeable about the design and cited their literature review. Score 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was the choice of research design appropriate and justified?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The choice of research design seems to be appropriate, given that they sought to study the impact of servant leadership from the employees’ perspective. Score 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were good quality data collection procedures used?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They conducted focus groups . They also collected data by other sources and then triangulated the results. Other than the focus groups, they used internal surveys from the past 2 years; they also conducted a 2 hour observation starting 30 minutes before the focus group where they studies interactions amongst employees and with customers. Date from all these sources were triangulated. Score 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were good quality data analysis procedures used?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will defer this till I learn more in the following chapters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were good quality results and interpretations reported?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They mention that 5 themes emerged during their data analysis. I hope we will learn more about this in the next chapters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the study use a rigorous research design?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study flows in a coherent, easy to follow pattern. The abstract however was not arranged in the format that one expects from a peer reviewed journal article publication. Score 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the use of qualitative research design address the study’s purpose?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This research design was appropriate to help identify the relationship between servant leadership and employee engagement and commitment. 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