Sampling and Data Collection Plan

Sampling and Data Collection Plan

 Nietheia King

QNT 561

May 30, 2016

Jonathan Edelman, Professor

Sampling and Data Collection Plan

Each student from Team D was asked to provide a sampling and data collection plan pertaining to the previous week’s findings of the Business Research Project. Company A is a multi-conglomerate that ran into a problem in Germany with some ethics issues and not able to hold on to its locations in Germany.  A potential resolution regarding the matter is to administer research and to effectively arrange for the employees being directly affected, to be interviewed or surveyed.  Below is a brief description of the findings.

Population

In this research project he target group would be Company A employees in Germany.  Only those who are willing participants of the study.  These workers will extent from diverse age groups, various cultures and backgrounds.  Contact with the workers would be allowed in between the hours of work, before work, or after work.  If employees want to come in early or stay later than their shift, they could do so.  Also, on the days that business is slow, interviews could be performed.

Sampling Size

Desired accuracy will determine the suitable sampling size, the greatest assurance, and the massive amount group of workers to study (Cooper & Schindler, 2014).  One more outlook that could influence the sampling size, is if the company is sampling all of Germany or just the main areas the ethical issues mainly occurred.  Company A’s sampling size for research examination will have to be significantly enormous considering huge number of workers in Germany.  The company will also allow each associate the chance to voice his or her worries so each employee will know their opinion matters.

Sampling Method

There are numerous kinds of methods that can be used to sample, such as: stratified sampling, simple random sampling, cluster sampling and systematic sampling (Cooper & Schindler, 2016).  An efficient way of measuring the perceptiveness of a group of individuals that is overly large to interview is Random Sampling.   In the research of Company A, the method used will consist of the Random Sampling to avoid favoritism and to assure that being bias will not happen.

Instruments Used

Many times bigger groups are divided into smaller groups in order to quickly aid to the task at hand.  According to Cooper & Schindler, 2014, “some examples of instruments used to collect data are : informal and formal surveys, direct and participating observation, interviews, focus groups, expert opinions, case studies, existing records and literature search (Cooper & Schindler, 2014).” The instruments that will be utilized in this specific study are formal and informal surveys.  These surveys will be given in a company email and they will also be handed out to those employees who are not as computer savvy.  While steering this study, it is optimistic that after the evaluated results, suitable alterations can be made to suit current and future employees