I plan to undertake inferential study by sampling with the following procedure. Since I want to test the performance effects of BPM, I selected an industry as the study unit. From this industry I purposefully selected the companies with a longer stay in the sector. From these selected companies, I chose to select employees which are senior or at managerial positions. Then from these employees I randomly selected the sample and want to continue the survey. Is these procedure appropriate?
Hi,
Did you think that you are able to reach management position people easily to answer your survey questions? How do you randomly select them?
There are two types of sampling method. Probability sampling and non probability sampling. Please read research method for business studies to choose a correct sampling bcoz you can reach managers position people easily.
One more suggestion, you may conduct interviews with them.
Dear Loshinee,
The problem is there are more that 11000 mangers or senior executives or office in the sector I want to study. That means you can not conduct an interview with these number of employees.
So you choose to do probability or non-probability sampling. Read research method for business studies.
Attach this article for your reference.
Hi Abebe. Just to add to Loshinee Vasudevan's contribution. You might rather want to go with the convenience or purposive sampling methods. You could carry out an in depth interview in addition to administering your instruments . For the indepth interview I suggest the snowball sampling method. The rule for conducting an interview is,you do so until you arrive at a saturation point where the response if participants no longer differs.
NOTE: I take for granted that you've determined your sample size.
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