Discussion: Unethical research in a business setting

Utilizing the internet, Library, and/or your textbook, choose one example of unethical research in a business setting:

Summarize the research. Explain what the difference is between a good source and a bad source for your research project. Abrams text page 49.

Explain why research might be considered unethical.

Explain what ethical considerations there are and how to avoid these issues in your research project.

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Section B:

Select an organizational issue, problem, or topic that you would like to research. Write 1 research question or hypothesis regarding that, in preparation for the assignments in Units 3-5 based on the work you did here in Part 1 DB.

Part #3 IP – Selecting Strategy

Select an organizational issue, problem, or topic that you would like to research based on the work you did in unit one with the worksheets from the Abrams text. You have the option to either write a narrative 800-1,000-word paper or create a 6-8 PowerPoint slides (not including title/reference slides) describing your proposed research.

Either choice requires you to include the following information:

The business, organizational problem, or topic

The problem statement

The research strategy that you will use to explore the problem

1 research question

Your rationale for selecting your proposed research strategy

1 research instrument that you will use to collect data

Abrams, Rhonda. Successful Business Research: Straight to the Numbers You Need-Fast!. The Planning Shop, 2006. [Bookshelf Online].

In addition, you must develop a questionnaire or survey. Complete the following steps:

Create 5 questions for your questionnaire.

Send your research survey to at least 5 people (via email, survey monkey, or other options are fine).

You will interpret the results of this survey/questionnaire in Last Part.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument