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Question 01

What is the embedded methods argument against multi-strategy research?

a) That multi-strategy research does not allow the researcher to be properly embedded in a specific context.

b) That multi-strategy research does not allow a dominant theory to embed itself during data analysis.

c) That multi-strategy research does not conform to the fact that all research methods are embedded in certain epistemological and ontological commitments.

d) That multi-strategy research gives too much emphasis to epistemological and ontological commitments.

Question 02

How might business researchers who adopt a multi-strategy approach respond to the embedded methods argument?

a) That the greater the variety of research methods used the smaller the epistemological contradiction.

b) That it is hard to sustain the idea that each research method has fixed epistemological and ontological implications.

c) That it is hard to sustain the idea that epistemological and ontological assumptions have any bearing on research methods.

d) That a multi-strategy approach should only be adopted to investigate issues that are not epistemologically or ontologically contentious.

Question 03

What is the logic of triangulation?

a) The use of shapes is an important way of understanding the perception of a respondent.

b) That three separate strategies should be used in all research designs.

c) That all research should include quantitative and qualitative methods.

d) That an investigation using one strategy can be cross-checked using another.

Question 04

What should the business researcher do if their multi-strategy approach produces inconsistent results?

a) Start the whole research project again.

b) Treat one set of results as definitive.

c) Extend the number of research methods used.

d) Re-analyse the data in an attempt to locate more consistent results.

Question 05

Which of the following is a way in which qualitative research can facilitate quantitative research?

a) By using knowledge of context to inform survey design.

b) By allowing for more representative sampling.

c) By negating the need to pilot a questionnaire.

d) All of the above.

Question 06

How did Storey et al (2002) use quantitative research to facilitate qualitative research?

a) By generating hypotheses about flexible employment that could be tested using qualitative methods.

b) By providing an in-depth understanding of different contexts in which flexible employment was prevalent so that they could then be explored further.

c) By providing a basis for selecting case study companies where there were links between innovation and flexible employment.

d) By establishing the meaning employees on flexible contracts assign to their work so that this could be more effectively measured using qualitative methods.

Question 07

Why might an ethnographer utilise a quantitative method?

a) To provide their findings with greater validity.

b) To obtain information about a group they have been unable to observe.

c) To obtain more detailed information about a group they have observed.

d) To establish the causal relationship between the variable they are investigating.

Question 08

What benefit could a researcher looking at the links between HRM and organisational performance gain from a multi-strategy approach?

a) A comparison of organisational rhetoric with employee reality.

b) A more holistic understanding of the possible causal relationship between HRM and organisational performance.

c) A longitudinal assessment of the change in the relationship over time.

d) All of the above.

Question 09

In what way can a multi-strategy approach help to solve a puzzle?

a) By providing another data source when response rates are low.

b) By helping business researchers discover what is obvious.

c) By enhancing the external validity of a study.

d) By helping to re-assess unfavourable results.

Question 10

Multi-strategy research is not necessarily superior to mono-method research because:

a) It can't overcome problems with research that is poorly designed.

b) It is not always appropriate to answering all research questions regardless of topic.

c) It requires researchers to have the skill and training in different methods.

d) All of the above.

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