Field (ch3 Saks)

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Ethics in HR research

• Field (ch3 Saks)
• Experimental (ch4 Saks)
• Qualitative (ch5 Saks)
• Chapter on reserve (Aguinas Henle)

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Field Research

• Information about research objectives
• Can increase participants motivation to be
  accurate
• Preserve anonymity
• Balance between specificity of feedback and
  confidentiality of responses
• Concerns with email internet surveys

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Field Research

• Make feedback available to participants
• Summary of findings recommendations

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Experimental

• Participants freedom to choose
• Informed consent about nature of research and
  risks involved
• Lack of choice in assignment to experimental vs.
  control condition
• Researcher can take precautions against sampling
  bias

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Experimental

• Right to beneficial treatments
• Can use lottery
• Can implement interventions in stages
• Can spatially separate groups

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Experimental

• Use of Deception
• Misleading, misinforming, with-holding info only
  when alternatives are not feasible or appropriate
• Debrief participants after experiment
• Inform participants of the nature and cause of
  deception

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Experimental

• Pressure for desirable findings
• Conflict between goals of research vs. validating
  intervention

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Qualitative

• Informed consent
• Participant observation
• Being unobtrusive vs. reminding participants that
  they are being observed
• Observation can change nature of phenomenon
• Hidden observation
• Public vs. private domain
• Archival/Trace measures
• Permission from participant vs. custodian of data

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Qualitative

• Confidentiality
• When verifying accuracy of participants
  statements
• When documenting findings
• When information that can do good to the system
  is unearthed

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Qualitative

• Influence of investigator
• Nature quality of data produced shaped by
  researcher
• Challenge assumptions

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Ethics plays a role in

• Planning of Study
• Participant Recruitment Selection
• Study Execution
• Reporting of Results

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