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Description of Secondary Research Usage in the Capstone Project
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Description of Secondary Research Usage in the Capstone Project
As I focus on tackling the topic of the role of leadership in the management of emergencies, I will use a qualitative research methodology that will integrate a descriptive research design. In that regard, the specific research method that I will adopt will entail examining extant literature, including already observed data on the topic area. Precisely, this means that I will utilize secondary research, which I will review comprehensively in line with the scope of my research topic. As McCrocklin (2018) suggests, the use of secondary research will encompass wading through information and relevant data that is already available in different resources to discover the facts that relevantly correspond with the topic area that I will form the focus of my capstone project. Additionally, utilizing secondary research will entail accessing raw datasets that corroborate the analysis of what role leadership plays in managing emergencies, which is vital in deliberating and accounting for all potential concerns and considerations associated with this topic, as Johnston (2017) provides.
An exhaustive and detailed literature review of this secondary research will provide valuable knowledge of and insights into this area of study. The sources of secondary research that I will purpose to use will be authoritative and dependable literature resources obtained through a systematic literature search. I will conduct this literature search using scholarly libraries and databases of trustworthy books and journal articles, conference papers, credible websites, industry reports, government booklets, and periodicals, among other sources of secondary data. I will specify the search and inclusion criteria that I will employ in accomplishing the literature search to ensure that the sources obtained will be relevant or applicable to my topic.
References
Johnston, M. P. (2017). Secondary data analysis: A method of which the time has come. Qualitative and quantitative methods in libraries, 3(3), 619-626.
McCrocklin, S. (December 13, 2018). Sources of secondary research and considerations for emerging markets. Market Research, Research Modes. Washington, DC: GeoPoll Mobile Accord, Inc. Retrieved June 9, 2020, from https://www.geopoll.com/blog/secondary-research-emerging-markets/.
Description of Secondary Research Usage in the Capstone Project (2)
Description of Secondary Research Usage in the Capstone Project
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Description of Secondary Research Usage in the Capstone Project
As I focus on tackling the topic of the role of leadership in the management of emergencies, I will use a qualitative research methodology that will integrate a descriptive research design. In that regard, the specific research method that I will adopt will entail examining existing literature, including already observed data on the topic area. Precisely, this means that I will utilize secondary research, which I will review comprehensively in line with the scope of my research topic. As McCrocklin (2018) suggests, the use of secondary research will encompass wading through information and relevant data that is already available in different resources to discover the facts that relevantly correspond with the topic area that I will form the focus of my capstone project. In other words, secondary research will entail collating, reanalyzing, summarizing, synthesizing, and interpreting extant research (Dixon, 2014; Wery, 2012). Additionally, utilizing secondary research will entail accessing raw datasets that corroborate the analysis of what role leadership plays in managing emergencies, which is vital in deliberating and accounting for all potential concerns and considerations associated with this topic, as Johnston (2017) provides.
An exhaustive and detailed literature review of this secondary research will provide valuable knowledge of and insights into this area of study. The sources of secondary research that I will purpose to use will be authoritative and dependable literature resources obtained through a systematic literature search. I will conduct this literature search using scholarly libraries and databases of trustworthy books and journal articles, conference papers, credible websites, industry reports, government booklets, and periodicals, among other sources of secondary data. Examples of libraries, online or digital repositories, and databases from which I will search these literature sources will include JSTOR, Elsevier, Wiley Online Library, SAGE Pub, ResearchGate.net, Taylor & Francis Online, Springer, and Semantic Scholar, among others that I will deem helpful. I will also outline the specific keywords that I will deploy as search terms for ensuring that I narrow down the literature search to my specific topic area. Examples of the keywords will include leadership in emergency management, leadership competencies and skills, crisis leadership, leadership performance, routine emergencies, and extreme events. I will determine other necessary keywords as I progress with my research work.
I specify five search and inclusion principles that I will employ in accomplishing the literature search to ensure that the sources obtained will be relevant or applicable to my topic. The first of these criteria is that a majority of these resources must have dedicated significant portions that address the employment and role of leadership and related concepts in scenarios involving emergencies. The second criterion will be that these articles and sources must have come from authoritative peer-reviewed journals and other trustworthy websites or online sources such as government and industry publications. The third standard will be that these resources or most of them should have been published or written within the last ten years to guarantee practical application to and legitimacy of my study area.
The fourth criterion will be that all or a significant proportion of these sources should reflect elements of confirmed reliability and validity, either explicitly stated or implicitly implied. What this means is that the validity and reliability of these sources will be determined by taking into considerations several aspects or factors. These factors will be the suitability of the author’s scholarly and academic credentials, the level of evidence they provide, the degree of their possible research biases, the amount of authoritative content authentication reflected, and the structure of their respective bibliographies. The last standard will be that these materials or review resources should have been written in the English language and must depict full and detailed reporting. This will serve to reinforce the authoritativeness of the researchers in involved or authors of these resources.
References
Dixon, S. (2014). Managing the master planning process: How do airport managers incorporate stakeholder contribution in their final master plans?. (Doctoral Thesis, Cranfield University).
Johnston, M. P. (2017). Secondary data analysis: A method of which the time has come. Qualitative and quantitative methods in libraries, 3(3), 619-626.
McCrocklin, S. (December 13, 2018). Sources of secondary research and considerations for emerging markets. Market Research, Research Modes. Washington, DC: GeoPoll Mobile Accord, Inc. Retrieved June 9, 2020, from https://www.geopoll.com/blog/secondary-research-emerging-markets/.
Wery, J. J. (2012). Interventions employed with students with emotional disturbance: A meta-analysis. (Doctoral Dissertation, North Carolina State University).
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A family means many different things to different people. Traditionally, most people understand a family as the basic social unit that is made up of parents and their children collectively considers as a group, irrespective of whether they leave together or not. It may also consist of one or more adults taking care of kids. Such relations are basically base of legal marriages or relation through blood. Convention understanding however considers a family as a group of people with past history, a present reality, and a future expectation of interconnected mutually influencing relationship. In this easy I will define my family in traditional and conventional perspectives and also discuss the external and internal boundaries that exist in the family.
Our family is made up of seven members; two parents, three children a grandparent and an uncle. Though there are other person that would be considered members of this family at an extended level, I consider the above seven members to by my family since we stay together, support each other emotionally and share resources. We stay and middle income level neighborhood and use the same last name. Our family can fit in the traditional definition of a family since it consists of adults taking care of children. Our family can also be understood in convention terms through the fact that we share a past history, have a present reality and have the same expectations of the future.
Our sense of being family is also expressed in the way we define ourselves to the outsiders. This is visible in the way we us the four external boundary management techniques (i.e. labeling, explaining, legitimizing and defending). Labeling involves the use of “title and positions that give an orientation to a situation” (6). Through labeling, we are able to communicate to the outside parties clearly expressing who is who in our family. Timothy is my father and Magdalene my mother. Evelyn is our eldest sibling who was adopted by our parents following the death of their friend (biological parents to Evelyn). Wendy is our second born and am the third and last kid. Rosemary is my grandmother and Wilson my uncle. Explaining involves providing elaborations to make labels used on family members clear or understandable (7) We normally use explanations to tell other people how the labels come about, for example Rosemary is my grandmother because she is a sister to my father’s mother, and Wilson my uncle because he is my mother’s brother. Legitimizing on the other hand involves invoking law or custom to show that family relationships conform to set standards (7). We try to legitimize our relationships for instance; Evelyn is our sister because she was legally adopted by our parents. Last, defending is, basically, “shielding oneself or family from external attacks, maintaining and justifying its validity” (7). We defend our family relationship through telling of people who touch on sensitive issues affecting our relationships such as our parents’ marriage which was a forced marriage, the marriage worked!
Our family also receives great support from the way we define our internal relationships. Basically our internal relationships are expressed through the internal boundary management techniques (i.e. naming, discussing, narrating and rituals). Naming plays an important role the development of internal family identities as members struggle to indicate their family roles, status and connections (7). In our family naming helps to indentify people and their roles for instance we refer to our uncle as Uncle Wilson. Discussing is also important in defining internal family relationships. Discussing involves “reflecting on the degree of difference among family members that affects the amount of ambiguity in their family situation” (7). In our family setting the most common discussion is the discussion of Evelyn’s biological mother athletic talent and love for sports, which she apparently inherited. Narrating on the other hand involves stories on the emergence of families, family member tell and retell stories of how they came to their current status or existence (7). In our family, we frequently revisit the story of our parent’s marriage, their adoption of Evelyn and the complicated birth of Wendy. Finally, ritualizing allows families to accomplish their “emotional needs” as they enact their identity (7). In our family, ritual includes family celebration such as our parents’ anniversary and our birthdays.
In sum, our family exhibits both the traditional and conventional understanding of a family. Communication is important and it used to communicate information about our family to external parties and maintain relationships within. In handling external relationship external boundary management techniques while internal management technique are used frequently to define internal relationships.
Work Cited
“Families: Definition issues.”