Field guide to Researching Employee Relations: Using Multi and Mixed Methods Research Designs
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Field guide to researching employee relations: Using Multi and Mixed Methods Research Designs . ed. / Jane Parker; Noelle Donnelly; Sue Ressia; Mihajla Gavin. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2024. p. 71-87 (Elgar Field Guides).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Field guide to Researching Employee Relations
T2 - Using Multi and Mixed Methods Research Designs
AU - Saunders, Mark NK
AU - Darabi, Fariba
PY - 2024/11/20
Y1 - 2024/11/20
N2 - This chapter outlines the nature of multi- and mixed methods designs demystifying the array of names used to describe such designs and considering their philosophical underpinnings. Following a brief consideration of the prevalence of multi-method and mixed methods in employee relations research, deductive and inductive approaches are discussed. Examples of published employee relations research are used to illustrate multi-method qualitative and quantitative, concurrent triangulation and concurrent embedded mixed methods, as well as sequential exploratory and sequential explanatory mixed methods designs. These, along with a detailed vignette highlight their potential for enabling new insights, revealing how such mixed methods designs have been operationalisation. The potential benefits, challenges and pitfalls of using mixed methods, including the need for methodological fit, are then considered. The chapter concludes with a summary of different ways of combining methods, discussion emphasising key issues, alongside implications for employee relations researchers.
AB - This chapter outlines the nature of multi- and mixed methods designs demystifying the array of names used to describe such designs and considering their philosophical underpinnings. Following a brief consideration of the prevalence of multi-method and mixed methods in employee relations research, deductive and inductive approaches are discussed. Examples of published employee relations research are used to illustrate multi-method qualitative and quantitative, concurrent triangulation and concurrent embedded mixed methods, as well as sequential exploratory and sequential explanatory mixed methods designs. These, along with a detailed vignette highlight their potential for enabling new insights, revealing how such mixed methods designs have been operationalisation. The potential benefits, challenges and pitfalls of using mixed methods, including the need for methodological fit, are then considered. The chapter concludes with a summary of different ways of combining methods, discussion emphasising key issues, alongside implications for employee relations researchers.
KW - Multi and Mixed methods research designs
KW - Industrial relations
KW - Business and Management
UR - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035313891
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781035313884
T3 - Elgar Field Guides
SP - 71
EP - 87
BT - Field guide to researching employee relations
A2 - Parker, Jane
A2 - Donnelly, Noelle
A2 - Ressia, Sue
A2 - Gavin, Mihajla
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ER -