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BS3992 Researching Contemporary Management IssuesAssessment 1 – Practical Skills Assessment
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Full Fernando, M. and Chowdhury, R. M. Honkaniemi, L., Lehtonen, M. H. and
bibliographic M. I. (2010) The Relationship Between Hasu, M. (2015) Well-being and
details of article Spiritual Well-Being and Ethical innovativeness: motivational trigger
(in Harvard Orientations in Decision Making: An points for mutual enhancement.
Referencing Empirical Study with Business European Journal of Training and
style) Executives in Australia. Journal of Development, 39, (5) 393-408.
Business Ethics, 95, (2) 211-225. Available at: https://www-emerald-
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Section A
(200 words
approx.)
1. Purpose of To ‘examine the relationship between To investigate ‘employees motivation
article spiritual well-being and ethical to participate in innovation at the
orientations in decision making’. workplace’ in relation to well-being.
2. Summary of The research question is: Firstly, aiming to find out if people
research perceive well-being and
‘Is there a predictive relationship
question/iss innovativeness as interdependent
between spiritual well-being and
ue variables leading to one another.
relativistic decision making?’
(Fernando and Chowdhury, 2010:214). Secondly, aiming to evaluate
Aiming ‘to identify individual factors ‘whether the organisational level or
influencing senior executives' ethical job type affects the perceptions of
decision’ by investigating whether links between well-being and
spiritual well-being is interdependent innovativeness’ in relation to
on relativism among executives. motivational communication.
And lastly, investigate ‘what kinds of
perceptions people have’.
3. Research Quantitative data collection – Qualitative data collection – analysed
, approach analysed using deductive and using inductive and interpretivist
positivist approaches adopting survey approaches adopting case study
methodology. methodology.
4. Main theory Ethical decision making developed The theoretical model of well-being
quoted from moral philosophies of idealism and innovativeness.
and relativism.
5. Key Fisher, J. (1998) Huhtala, H. and Parzefall, M. (2007)
literature
Forsyth, D. R. (1980) Vroom, V. H. (1964)
referred to
Demerouti. E. and Bakker, A. B. (2011)
Hakanen, J. and Roodt, G. (2010)
Section B
(1300 words
approx.)
6. Critique of According to the Saunders et al. The primary data presented is
methodology (2009) research onion diagram, in subjective relating to senses and
epistemology theory the primary data opinions. Linking to researcher
presented is objective relating to inclusive knowledge through
unbiased and factual results. Linking inductive approach that investigates
to external knowledge through the ‘perceptions that employees,
deductive approach that tests two team-leaders and directors have
hypotheses H1 and H2. However, the about the relationships between
actual ethical behaviour is not innovativeness and well-being‘.
measured. Future studies can focus on
This study holds a philosophical
subjective testing by observing
stance of interpretivism related to
managerial behaviour in ethical
cross-sectional semi-structured
situations in relation to spiritual well-
thematic interviews measuring 14
being. This way the in-depth
employees from Office and Service
knowledge of participants can be
centre view of ‘perceptions about the
obtained and analysed.
connections between well-being and
This study holds a philosophical stance innovativeness’. This empirical
of positivism related to cross-sectional research uses open-ended interview
web-based survey analysis measuring method that even though ‘shows that
1910 executives response for a reciprocal motivational relationship
‘idealism, relativism, and spiritual between’ both variables is plausible
well-being as well as … demographic and ‘locates the potential trigger
and professional status’. This empirical points for a cycle’, is too opinionated
research uses observational method (only 14 participants) and based on
that even though correlates spiritual cross-sectional interviews. Future
well-being and idealism, does not research can be conducted on a
examine the extent of a relationship longitudinal and quantitative basis.
and causation between both.
This study is further developed from
Therefore the future research can
the expectancy theory (Vroom, 1964)
adopt 'field experiment rather than a
and well-being and innovativeness
survey'. This approach has better
model (Huhtala and Parzefall, 2007)
external validity because it can be
by further investigating the
implemented in real-life settings
‘perceptions of the links between
(natural scientific approach) and
well-being and innovativeness’,
performed in larger organisations.
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