Activities 1 and 2

Activity 1

Grounded Theory:

This is the development of an hypothesis from the findings of data collection the reverse of a traditional research method which would begin with hypothesis and then begin the data collection.


Hypothesis:

This is the name of the statement which describes the effect of 2 or more variables on a subject. e.g 'to do x by means of y in order to achieve z'

Activity 2

Looking at Table 3 and its advantages and disadvantages of workers as researcher I feel a major advantage of being a worker as a researcher is the link between the subject and yourself. Not only is it the insider knowledge of the subject matter but also the withstanding relationship that you have built between them. As Bell (1996) mentions ‘research is directed towards a greater understanding and improvement of practice over a period of time’ if the relationship between the researcher and the worker is weak and hasn’t been established or going to last for a very long period of time the researcher doesn’t get the chance for the research they have proposed to have an impact to improve their work within the organisation. This therefore doesn’t benefit the workers practise or prove that there was any benefit in carrying out the research project.