BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Internal Validity, Observational Techniques, Quasi
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All research in organizational behaviour beings with a question about work or organizations. Hypothesis is a formal statement of the expected relationship between two variables. Variables are simply measures that can take on two or more values. Observational research techniques are the most straightforward ways of finding out about behaviour in organizations and thus come closest to the ways in which we develop common sense views about such behaviour. Participant observation: participant observation is when the researcher becomes a functioning member of the organizational unit they are studying to conduct the research. Direct observation: direct observation is when the researcher observes organizational behaviour without participation in the activity being observed. Experimental research is a research that changes or manipulates a variable under controlled conditions and examines the consequence of this manipulation for some other variable. Control group is a group of research participants who have not been exposed to the experimental treatment.
