In this free course, Understanding different research perspectives, you will explore the development of the research process and focus on the steps you need to follow in order to plan and design a HR research project.
The course comprises three parts:
This overview of the research perspectives will enable you to take the first steps to develop a work-based project – namely, identifying a research problem and developing the research question(s) you want to investigate.
By the end of this course you should have developed a clear idea of what you want to investigate; in which context you want to do this (e.g. in your organisation, in another organisation, with workers from different organisations); and what are the specific questions you want to address.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B865 Managing research in the workplace .
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