Abstract
This paper is written with a novice social sciences researcher (management, education, public administration, public policy, and human resource development etc.) in mind at the graduate or doctoral level. A mixed methods research design has been made in this paper for a human resource development (HRD) project after extensively reviewing the research literature. This paper is useful for researchers who are looking for a mixed methods research design plan based on a real-world example that can be adapted to their specific research. The paper is based on a research titled, “Transfer of Training: A mixed methods research”. It explains a rationale for the use of mixed methods in an HRD project, followed by the research questions, the research methods and procedures. The paper also debates on sampling and data integration issues, data types, research instruments, data organization and cleaning, data analysis using software such as SPSS and NVIVO and issues of validity and reliability. The paper concludes with a discussion on limitations and delimitations.
Highlights
Introduction & Background1.1 IntroductionThis study is based on a convergent mixed methods research design (Tashakkori & Teddlie, 2010)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which organizations in Pakistan deliver training activities that facilitate training transfer before, during and after training and the way the relationship between these three activities influence training transfer in these organizations
This research is conducted in eight corporations of Lahore which is a major Pakistani city. 200 questionnaires are mailed to the employees in each of the eight corporations invited to participate in the study
Summary
This study is based on a convergent mixed methods research design (Tashakkori & Teddlie, 2010). A convergent mixed methods research design is a procedure for collecting both quantitative and qualitative data from a sample and merging them in the results stage to get a final conclusion (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2018). A mixed methods research design is desirable as compared to a quantitative or qualitative study alone because mixed methods is believed to have many added advantages like providing a complete picture of the problem being researched (Plano Clark & Ivankova, 2016). The second section Research Design Plan discusses the theory and practice of mixed methods research, rationale, the purpose and the research questions, data collection, research design, trustworthiness, credibility, and transferability, and limitations and delimitations of the study. The third and final section Summary & Conclusion summarizes and concludes the paper
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