HCM 2004 W1 Assignment Case Study
HCM 2004 W1 Assignment Case Study
Considered different styles of leadership and identified the best style to address the issue with ES employees.
Discussed how leaders/managers should address workplace issues based on specific styles of leadership.
Identified intrinsic and extrinsic rewards that can motivate and increase productivity in the workplace.
Mapped the motivational tools selected to the desired outcomes.
Demonstrated an understanding of perception and thinking and their effects on organizational behavior.
Identified behavioral characteristics that would lead to poor quality work.
Defined and demonstrated the importance of communication in problem solving.
Identified communication barriers that can cause miscommunication with staff.
Used correct spelling, grammar, and vocabulary.
Justified ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from texts, Web sites, and other references. Cited the sources in the correct APA format.
Case study is a research methodology, typically seen in social and life sciences. There is no one definition of case study research.1 However, very simply… ‘a case study can be defined as an intensive study about a person, a group of people or a unit, which is aimed to generalize over several units’.1 A case study has also been described as an intensive, systematic investigation of a single individual, group, community or some other unit in which the researcher examines in-depth data relating to several variables.2
Researchers describe how case studies examine complex phenomena in the natural setting to increase understanding of them.3 4 Indeed, Sandelowski5 suggests using case studies in research means that the holistic nature of nursing care can be addressed. Furthermore, when describing the steps undertaken while using a case study approach, this method of research allows the researcher to take a complex and broad topic, or phenomenon, and narrow it down into a manageable research question(s). By collecting qualitative or quantitative datasets about the phenomenon, the researcher gains a more in-depth insight into the phenomenon than would be obtained using only one type of data. This is illustrated in the examples provided at the end of this paper.
Method
The steps when using case study methodology are the same as for other types of research.6 The first step is defining the single case or identifying a group of similar cases that can then be incorporated into a multiple-case study. A search to determine what is known about the case(s) is typically conducted. This may include a review of the literature, grey literature, media, reports and more, which serves to establish a basic understanding of the cases and informs the development of research questions. Data in case studies are often, but not exclusively, qualitative in nature. In multiple-case studies, analysis within cases and across cases is conducted. Themes arise from the analyses and assertions about the cases as a whole, or the quintain, emerge.6