Ahhh, can't decide!!!
If I will write an assignment for single - I can probably still change for multiple for the proposal, isn't it?
UPD:
It is too difficult to deal with 2 cases initially. Therefore - I will write methodology as if this is a single case.
Why it is helpful: I will analyse better what information I can get and how it will be useful. It would be a good learning experience. After that I will feel easier to expand it to multiple cases if necessary. Yay!
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Methodology: sad thoughts
The more I write about my methodology - the less logic I see in what I was going to do. In general I think that with I have access to 1 virtual team (D object), but there is no signs of a VT in my other research object(E). There is virtual work, but the teams do not exist at all. How was I going to interview them, I mean whom, I mean why?
Thinking further - if I will drop the idea at all and just interview D team - it seems that I can get some more or less clear data there. But is it good to have clear data? The real world is not clear and everything is complicated and congested and the logic is hidden. Therefore...
It is better to interview both.
But how would I find the correct strategy to dig out any useful information?
Maybe my uncertainty is my bias?
How do I deal with that? If I feel that the processes in one organization are overcomplicated and unmanageable - it might be not true, it might be just my personal view of it.
I need a clean way to extract data, hmmm - wanted to say - objective - but I'm not looking for objectivity. Though I'm looking for something verifyable and internally consistent. If I have a bias against one of my research objects - it is internally invalid, isn't it?
Lost and confused...
I wonder if I have to start with the question - is there a virtual team at all?
Thinking further - if I will drop the idea at all and just interview D team - it seems that I can get some more or less clear data there. But is it good to have clear data? The real world is not clear and everything is complicated and congested and the logic is hidden. Therefore...
It is better to interview both.
But how would I find the correct strategy to dig out any useful information?
Maybe my uncertainty is my bias?
How do I deal with that? If I feel that the processes in one organization are overcomplicated and unmanageable - it might be not true, it might be just my personal view of it.
I need a clean way to extract data, hmmm - wanted to say - objective - but I'm not looking for objectivity. Though I'm looking for something verifyable and internally consistent. If I have a bias against one of my research objects - it is internally invalid, isn't it?
Lost and confused...
I wonder if I have to start with the question - is there a virtual team at all?
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Methodology vs Gauteng Winter Trail Series
I do not want to write methodology assignment, but I want to run GWTS. If I won't finish methodology by Sunday - I won't run trail series. There is no perfection in this world!!!
So sorry for myself :(((
So sorry for myself :(((
Voice & Dance
Voice is like dance - if it is boring - nobody will watch it. It should be provocative, entertaining.
And just a bit of entertainment at the end:
"Research based on a Jungian personality schema
(Blaycock and Rees 1984; Nutt 1979, 1986; Slocum 1978;
Stumph and Dunbar 1991) suggests that the preferences
of the ‘‘analytical scientist’’ type seem to reflect
many of the exigencies of doing hard, quantitative research.
Empirical studies of these ‘‘types,’’ for example,
show that they value precision, accuracy, and reliability,
and they perform best when they can impose
models on a decision situation to specify the relevant
data needed and provide formats for logical analysis.
The two ‘‘feeling’’ types, the ‘‘particular humanist’’and the ‘‘conceptual humanist,’’ in contrast, provide a
closer approximation to the interpretive/soft systems
style of research. Particular humanists, for example,
prefer to conduct research via personal involvement
with other people; they prefer qualitative data and report
through personalized descriptive accounts."
As quoted by Mingers, J. (2001) Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology, Information Systems Research, 12(3), p. 240.
And just a bit of entertainment at the end:
"Research based on a Jungian personality schema
(Blaycock and Rees 1984; Nutt 1979, 1986; Slocum 1978;
Stumph and Dunbar 1991) suggests that the preferences
of the ‘‘analytical scientist’’ type seem to reflect
many of the exigencies of doing hard, quantitative research.
Empirical studies of these ‘‘types,’’ for example,
show that they value precision, accuracy, and reliability,
and they perform best when they can impose
models on a decision situation to specify the relevant
data needed and provide formats for logical analysis.
The two ‘‘feeling’’ types, the ‘‘particular humanist’’and the ‘‘conceptual humanist,’’ in contrast, provide a
closer approximation to the interpretive/soft systems
style of research. Particular humanists, for example,
prefer to conduct research via personal involvement
with other people; they prefer qualitative data and report
through personalized descriptive accounts."
As quoted by Mingers, J. (2001) Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology, Information Systems Research, 12(3), p. 240.
Trying to be interpretive...
"They ain't nothin' till I calls them."
Sounds like what I am. But I am nothing until I call myself :-)
But then I call myself - and I'm immediately not what I've called myself anymore - because I've influenced myself by identifying!
Sounds like what I am. But I am nothing until I call myself :-)
But then I call myself - and I'm immediately not what I've called myself anymore - because I've influenced myself by identifying!
Monday, June 7, 2010
Nothing again
As I have nothing to say, I will quote myself:
"Tomorrow you will be sorry that you did not start doing what you think is too late to start"
"Tomorrow you will be sorry that you did not start doing what you think is too late to start"
Sunday, June 6, 2010
About nothing
I'm not writing anything, because I want to sleep and in general my interest shifted hell knows where!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Structure
Yesterday I was reading about structure in the research and one of the ways to develop a structure - organic way - is to continuously free-write waiting for the topics to emerge and structure to be "born".
I was wondering if it is applicable to the life in general - continuously try to do what you find worth doing until your interests shape up, preferences are defined, thoughts become clear and life gets a structure, becomes a story. Your life, your voice, your path, your identity...
I was wondering if it is applicable to the life in general - continuously try to do what you find worth doing until your interests shape up, preferences are defined, thoughts become clear and life gets a structure, becomes a story. Your life, your voice, your path, your identity...
Journey
Initially I wrote this post in this blog, but looks like contextually it fits better in another one, though applies here as well. So - here it is:
http://athletejourney.blogspot.com/2010/05/journey.html
http://athletejourney.blogspot.com/2010/05/journey.html
Talk About It
I need to develop my own voice, express what I believe in. And it needs courage.
The voice starts inside - from internal communication with yourself, where desired and desirable qualities meet. You know what is desirable: your institution gave you guidelines, the other researchers did it in a similar way, you've read a lot about doing research - here is the path in front of you - follow and succeed. Just like with everything in life - follow the rest and you will arrive ... where everybody else does!
And desired can be very deep and hidden, scared by all the rules and regulations, - but this IS your own voice, this is your original contribution. You can't add anything new, if you are not prepared to find this voice deep inside and take it to the surface, show for the critical examination, expose what you have to say and be prepared to be judged.
So my goal for now - to learn to recognize what is desired and what is desirable and find a balance somewhere in-between. Looks like it is quite metaphorical post, not because I meant it so, but because I used wrong words somewhere (where?). Will try to improve
The voice starts inside - from internal communication with yourself, where desired and desirable qualities meet. You know what is desirable: your institution gave you guidelines, the other researchers did it in a similar way, you've read a lot about doing research - here is the path in front of you - follow and succeed. Just like with everything in life - follow the rest and you will arrive ... where everybody else does!
And desired can be very deep and hidden, scared by all the rules and regulations, - but this IS your own voice, this is your original contribution. You can't add anything new, if you are not prepared to find this voice deep inside and take it to the surface, show for the critical examination, expose what you have to say and be prepared to be judged.
So my goal for now - to learn to recognize what is desired and what is desirable and find a balance somewhere in-between. Looks like it is quite metaphorical post, not because I meant it so, but because I used wrong words somewhere (where?). Will try to improve
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