Question

Your teacher advised you to conduct a research on topic in which you have lot of interest. You have different topics in your mind which could be selected for the research topic. You discussed with your teacher and finally decided to choose managerial accounting for research. Immediately you have started your work and decided to finish it in the coming 3 months. You have made a critical approach to your research, formulated a plan, collected information through questionnaire, analyze the data and you come up with your findings.

After all the hectic work done, you are done with your research work. Before making it final, you have consulted your teacher to review your research work. You were surprised to know that your teacher is not satisfied at all, and have a long list of findings.

a. How are you going to review your research work again to satisfy your teacher? State your answer with logical reasons.

b. In your opinion, to be a successful researcher, what ethical norms are required for effective and convincing research?

Your answer should be around 400 words for each question.

Answer 1

Part -A :

Reviewing the research:

• we have to review the research from the scratch onwards in order to identify the mistakes
• Ask some expert to review the research because one can't find their own mistakes as we can oversee our mistakes
• Reviewing with different text books or internet sources to get a authenticated work
• Reviewing or recalculating if there are any calculations in the research
• A research should be a in depth analysis instead of describing only few elements. A in depth analysis to be done.
• Taking help of other teachers or experts or some one who has practical knowledge in the subject of the research.

Part - B:

Ethical norms to be followed to be a successful researcher:

• Informed consent - Informed consent means that the person participating in the evaluation is fully informed about the evaluation being conducted. Participants need to be made aware of the purpose of the project, who or what group is funding it, how the findings will be used, if there are any potential adverse impacts of their participation and who will have access to the findings.The main purpose of informed consent is that the participant is able to make an informed decision as to whether they will participate in the evaluation or not. Additional information should also be provided in the event that the participant becomes distressed in any way during their participation
• Voluntary participation - It means that evaluation is free from coercion.It can be challenging to encourage high risk youth to become engaged in a program and it is therefore difficult when participants choose not to continue in a program. It is the right of participants to leave a program of this nature at any time, therefore no pressure should be placed on those who choose not to continue. Explanations are also not required
• Do no harm - Harm can be both physical and/or psychological and therefore can be in the form of: stress, pain, anxiety, diminishing self-esteem or an invasion of privacy.t is imperative that the evaluation process does not in any way harm (unintended or otherwise) participants
• Confidentiality - Confidentiality means that any identifying information is not made available to, or accessed by anyone.Confidentiality also ensures such identifying information is excluded from any reports or published documents.
• Anonymity - Anonymity is a stricter form of privacy than confidentiality, as the identity of the participant remains unknown to the researcher.Because if they are known to the researcher then it may become a biased research.
• Only assess relevant components - Only assess those components that are of relevance to the program/initiative being conducted. High risk populations are sometimes being used as guinea pigs or a captive audience to ask all sorts of questions in research that are of interest to groups conducting the program/initiative but not relevant to the program nor will be to the group who are involved in the program. It is important to keep research as simple as possible and to remain focused on the intention of the research and what the data gathered will be used for