Kitchen Stories

1. Kitchen Stories • Illustrates the ethics of how researchers • Get Participation • Get Credibility • Collect Data • Learn from Data

2. Getting Participation • By presenting the rationale of the study • How to present research to participants to help them make an ‘informed’ choice • Role of technical jargon • Revealing Hypothesis vs. methods • How participants’ perceptions of the credibility of the research motivate them to ‘participate’ in more realistic manner

3. Getting Participation • At different levels • In the abstract vs. in actuality • Implications for HR vs. employee consent • By rewarding participants • Participants understanding of the reward • Implications for what HR will or will not do with the data you will collect for your project • Role of non-participants • In persuading participants • Implications for control groups in training interventions in HR research

4. Collecting Data • Researchers’ Level of intrusiveness • Mistrustful of Self-report • Status of researcher vs. participant • Participant is “object” of research (initial scene) • Observer sitting on the ‘chair’ vs. participant • Implications for vulnerable populations

5. Collecting Data • Advantages & disadvantages of being an active observer • Changes in the object being observed

6. Who else can collect data • Participants’ attempts at observing • Own behavior (validity of self-report) • The researcher (equalize status) • Implications for researchers ‘doing’ the study • Non-participants’ role • In sabotaging data • Perceived respect for participants • Implications for training interventions

7. Learning From Data • How active observation helps the process of learning from participants • When the observer becomes the participant • Despite obstacles, some researchers can get ‘real’ knowledge from their participants