Overview
1st assignment PrimaryResponse: Within the Discussion Board area, write 500–700 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:
Before posting your Primary Response, create an outline, write a draft based on this outline, check your work with Draft Coach, and edit and revise as necessary. Provide scholarly sources to support your discussion as appropriate. Your responses should be the product of your own critical thinking and deductive reasoning.
Research Rationale
Although you will not solidify your research design until you have completed the work involved in developing a great literature review, there are some key elements you can begin to determine now.
Please find and review the following article:
- Rojon, C., & Saunders, M. N. (2012). Formulating a convincing rationale for a research study. Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 5(1), 55–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/17521882.2011.648335
Discuss the following: Based on your reading in Unit 5, debate the differences among research approaches (AKA paradigm, worldview, tradition) to inquiry, research design (e.g., correlational, quasi-experimental, ethnography), and research methods (i.e., actions you take to conduct the research). Argue the approach that is most aligned with the phenomenon that you have chosen to study. Justify how the research approach that you intend to take will inform your study design. Imagine (in writing) the research method that you will use to conduct your research. Second assignment (Please used additional references/sources not just those one from the CTU library username santayna.folkes Password Mommyme77! This is to login
Go to the CTU Library and open the ABI Inform database. Find and review the following articles:
- Chapman, J. (1998). Do process consultants need different skills when working with nonprofits? Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 19(4), 211–215.
- Poul, R. C., & Klyver, K. (2006). Management consultancy in small firms: How does interaction work? Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 13(3), 299–313. https://doi.org/10.1108/14626000610680217
Part II
Respond to the following:
- Nonprofit organizations are likely sources of potential clients who would be eager and willing to engage doctoral students as consultants. Many consultants find the needs of nonprofits to be slightly different from those of other sectors. Review the above articles, and summarize the considerations that you, the action research and process consultation (AR / PC) consultant will keep in mind as you work with a nonprofit organization.
- What are the most important considerations you must keep in mind if you are consulting in a small organization (less than 25 people)? Support your response with the literature.
- What are the key considerations you must keep in mind as you consult with nonprofits or small organizations as it pertains to systems theory?