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PhD assignment

Details:

For this portion of the assignment, you will write a Mini Research Prospectus of 1,600-2,150 words in length using the Purpose Statement approved by your instructor in Part 1 of this assignment.

Use your approved Purpose Statement from Mini Research Prospectus Part 1. In its final form for inclusion in this part of the assignment, the statement should be 100-150 words in length.

The following is the Purpose statement approved from part I assignment

1) How do work environment factors relate to employee turnover intentions?

The main aim of this quantitative study is to examine if there exists a correlation between environmental factors and turnover intent among child welfare workers within the State of Oklahoma Child Welfare System. The primary question of this study is how environmental factors relate to turnover intent among workers. The logic of the study is to determine various factors such as loud noise, working conditions, work level stress that possibly has impact on an employee's intent to leave the job. The study cannot totally eliminate the factors but concentrate on ways to minimize the stressors that lead to employee turnover and intent to leave their job. The method of the study will be formulating research questions which can be answered using descriptive and correlation design (Applebaum, Fowler, Osinubi, & Robson, 2010). The study primarily focuses on child welfare workers in six of the counties in Oklahoma and selection will be random of 50 employees each from six counties. According to Applebaum et al. (2010), there was a relationship between environment factors such as noises and intend of turnover and eliminating the environmental factors can reduce turnover and improve job satisfaction.

2) Perform the following tasks to complete the assignment:

a) Write a concise review of literature of 750-1,000 words that accomplishes the following:

i) Identifies the main contributors to and the key theories in the research topic.

ii) Critically examines the quality of prior research as well as the existing empirical issues, theoretical issues, and conflicts.

iii) Critically examines the methods used to investigate the problem of interest and analyzes the differences in methodologies that may have contributed to varied research results.

iv) Develops the research question and guides the selection of the method.

b) Write 750-1,000 words that describe the method you will use and that detail the steps you will take to answer your research question.

This section must accomplish the following:

i) Presents the design of the study and justify the use of a specific research method.
ii) Describes and justifies how the data is to be collected, including the

(1) Population (subjects) to be studied.
(2) Data collection instruments to be used.
(3) Data collection plan to be employed, which specifies the conditions under which data are to be collected.
(4) Specific activities to be conducted that are intended to reduce bias and increase validity.

iii) Specifies the intended data analysis procedures and analytic tools to be used.