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HOW TO DISCOVER PROBLEMS?

LITERATURE
SEARCH

ATTENDANCE in Natural Observation


seminars /conferences

EVALUATION OF Serendipity
COMPLETED
RESEARCHES

ENVIRONMENTAL
MAPPING / RRA
SOURCES OF RESEARCH PROBLEMS

PROBLEMS IN Concerns in the workplace


THE WORK
ENVIRONMENT


Interpersonal relations

Communication processes

Decision-making process

Leadership dimensions and styles

Management innovations

Sources of stress

Resolving conflicts
SOURCES OF RESEARCH PROBLEMS

TECHNOLOGICAL Modernization issues


& SCIENTIFIC
ADVANCEMENT


Drug addiction

Use of Nuclear Energy in treatment
of diseases

Personnel displacement due to
automation

Climate Change/Environmental
Accounting/Pollution Problems
SOURCES OF RESEARCH PROBLEMS

COMPLETED Recommendations for research


RESEARCHES

INSTITUTIONAL Research thrusts


AGENDA
SELECTION OF A RESEARCH PROBLEM


Guidelines in the determination of a research topic

IS IT WORTH DOING?

IS IT FEASIBLE?

TIME
MONETARY RESOURCES
HUMAN RESOURCES
ACCESS TO DATA
RESEARCHER’S COMPETENCE

ARE FACTORS MEASURABLE?


Considerations in choosing a research problem

WORKABILITY •
Does the contemplated study remain within
the limits of your resource and time?

Will you have access to the necessary
sample in the numbers required?

Can you come up with an answer to the
problem?

Is the required methodology manageable
and understandable to you?

CRITICAL MASS •
Is the problem of sufficient magnitude and
scope to fulfill the requirement that
motivated the study in the first place?

Does the study target enough variables?

Has it identified enough potential results?

Will it give enough data to write about?
Considerations in choosing a research problem

INTEREST •
Are you interested in the problem area,
specific problem and potential solution?

Does it relate to your background? To your
career interests?

Will you learn useful skills from pursuing the
study?

Will others be interested in it?

THEORETICAL •
Does the problem fill a gap in the literature?
VALUE •
Will others recognize its importance?

Does it improve upon the state of the art?

Will it lead to a publishable report?

Does it help explain why something
happened?
Considerations in choosing a research problem

PRACTICAL •
Will the solution to the problem improve
VALUE respondent’s condition?

Are practitioners likely to be interested in the
results?

Will society be improved by the outcome?

Will your own practice likely change as a result?
How to formulate a research problem?

Identify main area of interest

Dissect the main area of interest into sub-areas

Select the sub-area to be the study focus

Identify main research questions to be answered

Formulate the specific objectives of the study

Assess the feasibility of time, literature

Develop a title for the study

Rtle

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