Jones, D. (2012). DOES SERVANT LEADERSHIP LEAD TO GREATER CUSTOMER FOCUS AND EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION?.\u00a0Business Studies Journal<\/i>,\u00a04<\/i>(2), 21-35.<\/p>\n
What research design was used to guide the study? Was it justified?<\/strong><\/p>\n The study used a grounded research design. It was justified because there was a gap in research regarding the topic and because the study had two specific goals. The study sought to provided a theory regarding the results of the study. Though the article does not specifically call its research design a grounded theory design, it does call the method “interview-driven, relying on open-ended questions” (Jones, 2012, p. 27). The article gives adequate reason as to why this method was chosen, claiming that the open-ended questions allowed participants to expound in detail on the subject of servant leadership.<\/p>\n Rating: 3<\/p>\n Does the qualitative research design address the study\u2019s purpose?<\/strong><\/p>\n The research design does address the study’s purpose. The study incorporated probing questions and clarifying questions in order to keep participants on topic. Because the purpose of the study was to address a concept that is hard to quantify, namely, job satisfaction, the design was fitting.<\/p>\n Rating: 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jones, D. (2012). DOES SERVANT LEADERSHIP LEAD TO GREATER CUSTOMER FOCUS AND EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION?.\u00a0Business Studies Journal,\u00a04(2), 21-35. What research design was used to guide the study? Was it justified? The study used a grounded research design. It was justified because… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs591","category-learning-activity-6-1","category-unit-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/oplearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}