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What is Hawthorne Effect

Chapter 80
Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
An unintended effect on the results of a research experiment caused by the subjects knowing that they are participants.
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Ethical Issues of Qualitative Research
Md. Salah Uddin Rajib (Wuhan University of Technology, P.R. China) and Nusrat Zahan Mou (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch080
Abstract
This chapter is aimed to discuss the ethical issues of qualitative research. Because of nature and forms of qualitative research, ethical issues, validity and reliability of qualitative research has been discussed in many research investigations. By nature ethical issues in qualitative research are vague and inherent. These ethical issues of qualitative research have been discussed by researchers and experts from different areas. This chapter discusses the focal points of ethical issues. The interactions and the interest of concerned parties of qualitative research form the ethical issues. Moreover, different views (Positivistic and relativistic) of ethical issues of qualitative research raise some complexity. This chapter discusses the various issue of qualitative research from various perspectives. Researchers' opinions on the ethical issues of qualitative research have been discussed, and after that the chapter has been arranged with the basic ethical issues of qualitative research as the area is vary vast.
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Evidence on the Efficacy of Integrated Care
is a term characterizing the action mechanism in human relations management (HRM) of industrial work groups as well as service organisations. Within IC the Hawthorne effect is related to values of social patient psychology” as feeling of security, participation and direct transference of skills.
Published in Chapter: Evidence on the Efficacy of Integrated Care; From: Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare
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