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Qualitative Research MARK 5338. Dr. Michael Richarme. Questions to ask yourself. Is this course about real research? How should I approach this instructor? Am I up to the challenge? Should I drop now or see what happens?. We are on a journey…. …to find insight. Insight. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Qualitative ResearchMARK 5338
Dr. Michael Richarme
Questions to ask yourself
• Is this course about real research?
• How should I approach this instructor?
• Am I up to the challenge?
• Should I drop now or see what happens?
We are on a journey…
• …to find insight
Insight
• “Insight is a fundamental finding that causes you to change the way you think about your business”– Jim Figura, Vice President, Consumer Research,
Colgate Palmolive
Today’s Agenda
• Introductions• Syllabus Review– Readings, tests, assignments, etc.
• Overview of Qualitative Research• “The Power of the Situation” video
My expectations
• You will be here and be prepared to contribute
• We will all learn together through discussion• This class will take a lot of work and there are
no easy shortcuts• Each class period, we’ll go about 75 minutes,
take a 15 minute break, and then finish the class
Introductions
• So let’s begin…
• Your name, where you are from, and something interesting about you that we probably didn’t already know
• What you would like to get out of the class
Overview of Qualitative Research
• What do you think it is?
Qualitative Research
• This is your one chance in the MSMR/MBA program to understand the “why” question
• There is no right answer, but there are ways to triangulate around it
• Keep an open mind• Socratic discussion, please
The Qualitative Focus
• The main focus is to try and understand motivations that lead to observed behaviors
• The main question we ask is “why”
• In quant work, the main focus is to measure• The main questions are how much, how
many, how often, when, where, etc.
What Falls into Qualitative Research?
• Ethnography – watching people and their actions– Passive, unobserved– Active, observed
• Interviews – interacting and talking with people– Depth interviews– Group interviews
• Try to separate the topic areas from the tools
We’re trying to understand…
• …how consumers think and how they make decisions
• We can generate testable hypotheses
• These translate into specific marketing actions and programs that we can put in place
Issues of Concern
• Ethnography– Behavior, not motivation– Privacy
• Interviews– Respondent desire to please the interviewer– Motivation may not be known or knowable– Interviewer contamination
The main issue
• Interviewer bias, a.k.a. subjectivity
• We see the world through our own lens
• Sometimes that makes it hard for us to interpret or understand the actions of others
Cultural difference biases
• This bias is particularly evident when we are in unfamiliar cultures or sub-cultures
Tools
• We’ll develop some tools during this course• We’ll use the tools in both practice and in a
real client project• We’ll have some expert guest speakers from
the real world to share their experiences with us
• We’ll read what the academics think about the area
The Power of the Situation
• http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/
• Program 19, 27 minutes in length
• The situation (simulated jail) can cause unusual behaviors