The purpose of my study is to examine from a managerial perspective the effectiveness of Performance Management System. The research philosophy adopted will be qualitative, interpretive in its epistemology and subjective in its ontology. Involving in-depth interviews. The research adopts case study method with no preconceived hypothesis. And an inductive analysis of the research problem would be applied.
Is my approach suitable?
Thanks.
Interviews and questionnaires based techniques would return a discrete data collection. You should examine and decide if it is really fit to your goal. If yes - establish a threshold value to be met in regard with effectiveness of Performance Management System. However, a far better way is to work with continuous data. Gather your data (respond versus independent factors), verify the distribution (normal, exponential, etc.) and try to extract a conclusion regarding the effectiveness in term p-value.
The effectiveness of Performance Management System (PMS) is generally defined as the extent to which the objectives of PMS have been achieved. Objectives may include administrative, developmental and informative purposes of PMS. Before examining, I would like to suggest you to explore and describe PMS being followed by the particular organization which you have selected for your study (the case if it is a single case). In order to achieve that research objective, it is possible to use the interview method, focus group discussion, and observation (these are normally considered as qualitative data collection methods), If 'to examine' means 'to evaluate', then there must be another objective such as "to develop an evaluative framework containing essential components/requirements of an effective PMS based on the existing research and experts' reflections".
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Do you mean that you wish to investigate the effectiveness of that system of techniques in any objective way? It sounds like you might get qualitative data on the effectiveness relative to the management of the particular entities from which you draw managers for interview. The only thing you must make sure is that you understand the limitations of your approach. If all of those managers praise the system and so on, but all of the enterprises where horribly ineffective from the outset, then it might look as though you have found evidence that it improves effectiveness whether or not it would harm most normal business enterprises. I don't know theory of the firm, management studies etc. at a research level, so my advice is not really authoritative on this matter. But that would be my 2 cents.
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