Employee Retention

Module 5 DQ 1

Assessment Description

To maximize the effectiveness of a planned campaign to raise community awareness of available services, a mental health provider has contracted a researcher to investigate how residents in an urban immigrant community seek mental health services. What types of useful knowledge could the researcher generate using qualitative methodology to investigate this problem? Explain. What types of knowledge regarding this problem cannot be credibly and dependably generated using qualitative methodology? Explain.

Note: Rather than providing insights into the topics of mental health, immigration, or urban community services, focus your discussion post on the research methodology, research design, and data collection process to resolve this applied research example.

Module 5 DQ 2

Assessment Description

Based on your quantitative analyses of employee contributions to the workplace, you have learned that several employees continue to be dissatisfied and may leave. Turnover is costly and disruptive, so your manager wants you to investigate how employee perceive their work environment and motivation to stay with the organization. What types of useful knowledge could the researcher generate by using qualitative methodology to investigate this problem? What types of knowledge regarding this problem cannot be credibly and dependably generated using qualitative methodology? Support your position.

Note: Rather than providing insights into the topics of employee perceptions or employee retention, focus your discussion post on the research methodology and design, to resolve this applied research example.