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The Qualitative Report

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Leadership In An Australian Context: Highlighting A Qualitative Investigation With Construct Validity Support, Nezar Faris May 2017

Leadership In An Australian Context: Highlighting A Qualitative Investigation With Construct Validity Support, Nezar Faris

The Qualitative Report

This paper highlights how criteria for validity that are usually utilized within quantitative research can be used to provide further validation to fully qualitative research. In this case, the qualitative research utilizes the grounded theory method. This research used the grounded theory to investigate leadership processes in the substantive setting of the Islamic organizations in Australia. The qualitative analysis of qualitative data generated a number of categories that were conceptually unique. Theoretical sampling directed the researcher toward data sources that provided further conceptual uniqueness. The similarity between some of these newly-generated categories and lower-order categories gave cause to claim convergent …


Exploring Dimensions Of Teachers’ Ocb From Stakeholder’S Perspective: A Study In India, Musarrat Shaheen, Ritu Gupta Dr., Y.L.N Kumar Dr. Jun 2016

Exploring Dimensions Of Teachers’ Ocb From Stakeholder’S Perspective: A Study In India, Musarrat Shaheen, Ritu Gupta Dr., Y.L.N Kumar Dr.

The Qualitative Report

Parents are real beneficiaries of school services. Their involvement in school based activities has changed the role breadth of teachers. Schools can handle this parental involvement through the extra-role behaviors of teachers. These beyond the job behaviors or organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) of teachers are crucial for the schools. Despite the prescribed roles and duties, the schools cannot predict and infer through formally stated in-role job description, the entire range of extra-role behavior exhibited by teachers during and after school. In this study, teacher’s role breadth is examined under the broad spectrum of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) which resulted into …