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    MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS


    1 Positivist research aims to:
    (a) uncover socially constructed meanings
    (b) examine the positive results of change
    (c) discover universal laws that predict human behaviour
    (d) uncover surface illusions so people can change their world

    2 If a research starts with a theory from which several hypotheses can be derived this research project can
    best be described as:
    (a) deductive
    (b) basic research
    (c) applied
    (d) inductive

    3 In quantitative research collected data are represented by:


    (a) numbers
    (b) words
    (c) theories
    (d) hypotheses

    4 The interpretivist paradigm is usually associated with:


    (a) quantitative data
    (b) deductive reasoning
    (c) qualitative data and inductive reasoning
    (d) qualitative data and deductive reasoning

    5 When Human Resource Departments utilize standardized selection tests they are involved in:
    (a) critical investigations
    (b) the interpretative approach
    (c) subjective appraisal
    (d) the scientific approach

    6 An operational definition is one that:


    (a) provides a definition of work operations
    (b) defines a variable in a way it can be measured
    (c) is a critical definition
    (d) cannot be measured

    7 When results from the same study repeated by other researchers are the same we have:
    (a) an operational effect
    (b) replication
    (c) incongruency
    (d) a positivist paradigm

    8 The research cycle is:


    (a) the annual application for research grants
    (b) the move from theory to hypothesis
    (c) the move from data to theory
    (d) the sequence of inductive and deductive approaches
    9 When a subject tries to outwit the researcher we have:
    (a) an intelligent subject
    (b) a reactive subject
    (c) a non-conforming personality
    (d) a reaction from the researcher

    DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
    1 Discuss or debate in class the advantages and disadvantages of the scientific method and qualitative
    approaches to research.

    2 Discuss or debate in class in which major ways the method of science differs from non-scientific
    methods of enquiry?

    3 Fred Kerlinger, an American authority on research methods, once said, ‘There is no such thing as
    qualitative data. Everything is either 1 or 0’. Debate this statement.

    CLASS ACTIVITY
    1 Select any population of interest and identify quantitative and qualitative variables of the population
    that could be selected for study.

    ANSWERS TO MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS


    1 (c), 2 (a), 3 (a), 4 (c), 5 (d), 6 (b), 7 (b), 8 (d), 9 (b)

    ANSWERS TO MULTIPLE CHIOCE QUESTIONS AT END OF CHAPTER 2


    QU 2.6. (d), 2.7 (b), 2.8 (c), 2.9 (c), 2.10 (c), 2.11 (a), 2.12 (c).

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