Question

As part of the requirements by the university for an academic degree, final year students
are required to undertake a research and write a report called a dissertation. Unfortunately,
some students joined at the very last part of the semester and hence missed the introductory and foundation lectures. One of them approached you for assistance on what research is about and to deepen his/ her knowledge on the following issues. Briefly help this new
student on these to be able to also carry out a successful and sound research;

a. The definition of research. Briefly explain to him/her.
b. Any two occasions on which the term research is wrongly used according to
Walliman (2005).
c. The processes that he/she must go through to successfully carry out a sound
research.
d. Any two qualities of a quality research
e. Any three qualities that he /she should exhibit if he/she desires to be a quality
researcher.
f. The five common mistakes that researchers make; just list them.
g. Given that the student is also the manager of a firm, inform him on when a business
research should be conducted.

2. Indicate whether the following statements are true or not true and justify your response;
a. The sole purpose of research is to solve a problem.
b. Research Methodology and Research Methods mean and imply the same thing.
c. Systematic sampling involves choosing respondents based on reason that the
respondents sampled gives you the right information.

d. It is the research problem and questions that drives the title but not the reverse.

3. Past research indicates important gender differences in the use of networks (Hanson and
Blake 2009), and suggests that male SME owners are more likely to successfully network
and benefit from networks-driven performance in contrast to female SME owners (Watson 2012). In particular, as many women come to self-employment from domestic or nonmanagement background (Cromie and Birley 1992), and thus are likely to have previously

Answer 1

a) Research is what researcher do.Resaerch is an activity done by the researcher by searching something new from the existing bunch of knowledge.Research can be providing with solutions to some problems.Resaerch can be providing with solutions to some problems.Resaerch is a term which comprises two accepts like " Re" and "Search" so research is finding out something new from knowledge world.

b) - (i) Population specifications - Researcher will not understand who they must survey because people might be having multiple choice consuming multiple product

(ii) Sampling and sample frame errors- It happens when the wrong subpopulation is used to select a sample

c) - (i) Choose a topic

(ii) Select information source

(iii) Determine strategy

(iv) Execute research

(v) Evaluate

(vi) Process and revise the survey results

d) 2 qualities of quality research

(i) It must generate new questions and logical research

(ii) Quality research must have good research design and methods,it must have sampling is fit for purpose

(iii) Research must be sufficient for another researcher to replicate the study

e) 3 qualities of quality researcher

(i) Commitment

(ii) Motivation

(iii) Abstract

(iv) Excellence

f) 5 common mistakes researchers make-

(i) Failing to give close attention to all of the reagents used

(ii) Failing to document the concerns how experiments are undertaken

(iii) Taking short cuts

(iv) Working alone or unsupervised

(v) Failing to make exact statistical assumptions

g) If a student is a business manager he must conduct business research from the day one of the implementation of business activity because his/her aspiration is to make profits in business .Later he /she must go through the process of business where survey inputs helps business based on demand and supply to flourish business.