Gender discrimination at workplace
Directions
For this assignment, you will be asked to prepare for data collection. You should plan on collecting data from 10-15 people if you are doing a survey and 3-6 people if you are doing an interview. If you plan on making observations, plan a minimum of 3 observations at least 5-10 minutes in length, but feel free to make more or longer observations as well. Just keep in mind that you will have to code your observations for emerging themes, so it is important to only collect as much information as you think you can handle.
Your assignment must include:
- Revised research question and hypothesis
- Your paper must begin with your research question and hypothesis.
- Revise the research question and hypothesis if necessary according to your TA’s feedback.
- Please note: You are not resubmitting your entire Assignment 2. We are only asking you to revise your research question and hypothesis if necessary.
- Description of your methodological approach and design
- State whether your method is quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods.
- Be sure to demonstrate correct understanding of this approach.
- Explain why you have chosen this method.
- Indicate your chosen design (e.g., descriptive, correlational, experimental, case study, interview, focus group, ethnography).
- Be sure to demonstrate correct understanding of this design.
- Identify your independent and dependent variables.
- Explain why this design is appropriate to answering your research question.
- State whether your method is quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods.
- Description of your sample
- Describe who will be in your sample (e.g., gender, age, race/ethnicity, profession)
- Describe where you will locate your sample.
- Describe how you will recruit people to be included. This is separate from where you will locate them.
- Explain why this sample is appropriate to answering your research question and tell us why you are interested in this specific population.
- Create Your Instrument
- Create the instrument you plan on using for your study. Do not simply describe it. Be sure that it will elicit quality data that will help you answer your research question. In addition, pay attention to how your instrument is formatted. It should be well organized and easily interpreted.
- If you are doing a survey, include the survey you will be using.
- Surveys should include 5-15 items.
- If you are doing interviews, include your interview questions.
- Interviews should include 5-10 questions.
- If you are doing observations, include an example of what your field notes will look like.
- Field notes should include a description of the location of the observation, the time of day, the number of people, and what they are doing. You must include all relevant information from the setting that you think will help address your research question. Be sure to include your thoughts about your observations.
- If you are doing an experiment, include the procedure and describe how you will measure your variables.
- Be sure to define your independent and dependent variables.
- Procedures must include step-by-step instructions for conducting the experiment.
*Note: Do not complete this assignment using bullet points. This assignment needs to be conducted in an essay format. In addition, please attempt to keep your writing organized. Every paragraph should have a clear purpose. You may want to think of every black bullet point as its own paragraph if it helps you to keep your writing focused.
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Gender discrimination at workplace
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Institution Affiliation
Hypothesis and Research question
The study shows primarily how gender discrimination affects the productivity of a company. It is evident that gender discrimination has been going on in different companies. In most companies you will find that most of the top positions are given to the male leaving the female counterparts with less position. The female may be having the same level of education as the male but promotion opportunities are not offered the same. Gender discrimination is a menace that can be done away with if measures are put in place (Abrams 1989).
The research addressed the following problems:
What the effects of gender based discrimination…………………
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