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CHAPTER TWO
RESEARCH DIARY ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITY 2.1

Using your research diary record, briefly or at length, the key decisions you
made while you were in the process of developing your research project.
Record the rationale for those decisions, i.e. the reasons why you made those
decisions

ANSWER:
Human resources are critical in any organization, especially in today's
fiercely competitive industry. Attracting talent from competitors is essential,
and how to make the company's employees stay for a long time and remain
loyal to the firm is an issue that businesses must always tackle immediately.
Businesses are currently confronted with substantial problems in terms of
sustaining and growing internal human resources, as well as boosting
employee happiness. Many studies have found that certain elements can
improve employee satisfaction. As a result, transformational leadership is a
common style used in today's firms and plays an essential part in human
resource management by bringing employee happiness, which leads to
increased dedication and loyalty to the business. According to the findings
of the preceding studies, transformational leadership has an intimate and
close relationship with employee loyalty, as demonstrated by the research
models presented above. As a result, the study was carried out to investigate
the impact of the variables that comprise the transformational leadership
style on employee loyalty at firms in Can Tho City.

ACTIVITY 2.2

Make a note in your research diary of any documents or artefacts, any lists,
models or figures, or anything else, you think you will want to place in the
appendices of your research project.

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ANSWER:
Anjam, M., & Ali, T. Y. (2016). Impact of leadership style on employee's loyalty.
Gulf-Pacific Journal of Business Administration, 1(2), 164-177.
Nasir, J., Ibrahim, R. M., & Sarwar, M. A. (2020). A conceptual study on
investigating the effect of innovation, transformational leadership and work stressor
on employee performance of SMEs in Pakistan. Journal of Management Info, 7(4),
259-281.
Pratama, G. (2016). Effect of Transformational Leadership Towards Employee's
Performance Through Satisfaction and Moderated by Culture. Jurnal Ekonomi
Universitas Esa Unggul, 7(2), 77826.
Danso, s. A., Quansah, p. E., Obeng, a. F., Madzikanda, b., & Komla, z. I. (2020).
Transformational leadership and employee loyalty in the ghanaian banking sector:
assessing the mediating role of affective commitment and the moderating role of
reward.
Preko, A., & Adjetey, J. (2013). A study on the concept of employee loyalty and
engagement on the performance of sales executives of commercial banks in Ghana.
International Journal of Business Research and Management (IJBRM), 4(2), 51-62.

ACTIVITY 2.3
In your research diary, draw a conceptual map (such as a spidergram) of your
idea for your research project. Using the map, record your research idea, your
research statement/question, the proposed population, proposed research
methodology, and proposed data gathering methods.
As you study the conceptual map and reflect on it, record in the research diary
any thoughts and ideas that come to you.

ANSWER: study the impact of the


EFA factors constituting the
Research transformational
Methodology Research
leadership style on the
SEM statement
loyalty of employees at
enterprises in Can Tho
collected by surveying
City.
employees in
enterprises in Can Tho
city A
conceptual
map
Primary data Data
Gathering Population Staff Can
method Tho
Secondary data

data on the development


of enterprises in Can Tho

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ACTIVITY 2.4

Open up a journal article related to your idea for your research project, or one
that deals with a subject in which you have a particular interest. Read through
the journal article and as you do record in your research diary ideas that come
to you for research projects. Try to list in your research diary ideas for five
different research projects that come to you as you read the journal article.

Conceptual framework

ANSWER:
+ H1: The ideal influencing factor of the leader positively affects
employee loyalty.
+ H2: The inspirational factor of the leader positively affects employee
loyalty.
+ H3 The intellectual stimulation factor of the leader positively affects
employee loyalty.
+ H4 The leader's personal concern has a positive effect on employee
loyalty.
+ H5: The ideal influencing factor of the leader positively affects
employee satisfaction.
+ H6: The inspirational factor of the leader positively affects employee
satisfaction.
+ H7: The intellectual stimulant factor of the leader has a positive
impact on employee satisfaction.
+ H8: Personal interest of the leader positively affects employee
satisfaction.
+ H9: The factor of employee job satisfaction positively affects
employee loyalty

ACTIVITY 2.5

In your research diary, make a note of the literature you will need to review for
your research project. This exercise in reflection will help you begin to think
about and to work on your literature review. In the research diary begin to
sketch out a search strategy for this literature, i.e. where will you look for the
literature, how will you search for the literature, where might you look for help
with the literature review (perhaps there is a subject librarian who might help

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you, perhaps you can get some help and direction from your research
supervisor and/or from your lecturer in research methods).

Theoretical framework

ANSWER:
- Search documents on google scholar
- A search strategy is:
1. Choosing search terms.
2.Searching with keywords.
3. Searching for exact phrases.
4. Using truncated and wildcard searches.
5. Searching with subject headings.
6. Using Boolean logic.
7. Citation searching.

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