"Dennis is carrying out research into the ways 'bullying' is dealt with by HRM managers. He conducts some interviews where he asks the managers to explain the behaviours exhibited in fictional workplace scenarios where bullying is clearly happening. From this data, he develops a hypothesis that managers often call bullying 'strong management'. He then interviews more managers and finds out that calling 'strong management' means HR do not feel they have to deal with the case under the 'bullying' grievance procedures. From this data he develops another hypothesis that HR managers are afraid of the reputational damage having cases of bullying in their organisation would bring. He then sets out to test this in more interviews."
What research strategy is this an example of?
A) Multi-stage sampling
B) Mixed methods
C) Grounded Theory
D) Triangulation

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Grounded Theory involves developing hypotheses and theories through the collection and analysis of data, as Dennis is doing by forming hypotheses based on his interviews and then testing them.

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