Meetings Or Teams Influence Collaborative Working And...

meetings or teams influence collaborative working and cohesiveness during decision making and conflict resolution. In order for the researcher to determine what variables are associated with increased collaboration and efficiency, primary data, secondary data, and exploratory studies should be used to develop an appropriate research question. Collaboration and efficiency are both desired characteristics within life and in the workplace. According to Proverbs 27:17 (NIV) â€Å"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.† God teaches us to use our individual gifts to work together as one. The purpose of this essay was to determine what research might be included in the multi-month study to determine the future of the Lewisburg RD†¦show more content†¦According to Cooper and Schindler (2014), â€Å"qualitative research includes an array of interpretive techniques which seek to describe, decode, translate, and otherwise come to terms with the meaning, not the frequency, of certain more or less naturally occurring phenomena in the social world.† Tracy (2010) describes eight criteria for the research – worthy topic, rich rigor, sincerity, credibility, resonance, significant contribution, ethics, and meaningful coherence. The author describes each of the criteria for qualitative resear ch in the journal article as follows: a worthy topic is relevant, timely, significant, and interesting; rich vigor uses sufficient theoretical constructs, data and time in the field, samples, and data collection and analysis processes; sincerity is characterized by self-reflexivity about subject values and transparency about the methods and challenges; credibility is marked by thick description, concrete detail, explication of knowledge, and showing rather than telling; resonance of the research tends to influence readers; significant contribution of the research provides theoretical, practical data that is useful; the ethical criteria for research considers specific situational and culturally ethics; and meaningful coherence