QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
ARTICLE EVALUATION
AND
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Carla Castro
Brookshore Industries
June 12, 2018
Contents • Introduction
• Servant Leadership Overview
• Evidence-Based Approach Overview
• Analysis criteria
– Comparative Analysis
• Melchar and Bosco (2010). Achieving High
Organization Performance through Servant
Leadership (p. 74)
• Chiniara and Bentein (2016). Linking Servant
Leadership to Individual Performance:
Differentiating the Mediating Role of Autonomy,
Competence and Relatedness Need Satisfaction.
• Recommendations
• References
Servant • Originated by Robert K. Greenleaf.
• Employee empowerment
Listening
Community Empathy
Growth Healing
Servant
Leadership
Principles
Stewardship Awareness
Foresight Persuasion
Conceptualizati
on
Evidence- • Evidence Based Management.
– Translate management principles
Based
– Critical thinking
– Scientific research
Approach
– All managers should base their decisions on evidence. (Rousseau, 2006).
Overview • Evidence-based practice is a model for making decisions that incorporate the
best available research evidence provided by the best available resource.
(Rousseau, 2006).
Expertise
Evidence
Preferenc
Research Based es
Practice
Resources
Analysis • Research Philosophy
• Research Design
Criteria • Research Approach
• Study Sample
• External Validity
• Internal Validity
• Findings and conclusions
• Epistemology (knowledge)
Research
– Quantitative
• Surveys, experiments, simulations
Approach – Qualitative
• Case study, content analysis
Data Instrument
Sampling
Collection Development
Research
• Melchar and Bosco (2010)
– 2 hypotheses.
• H1 to test characteristics of mid managers.
• H2 to test the variables (p.79)
Design
– Variables:
• Independent variables:
– gender, age, education and length of service.
and
• Dependent variables:
– Organizational stewardship, Emotional Healing, Wisdom, Altruistic
Calling and Persuasive Mapping (p.83).
– Correlational, Mixed Methods Study
Research
• Qualitative - a priori interviews with sr. mgrs. using Barbuto & Wheeler tool
• Quantitative - paper questionnaire distributed to employees by investigator
along with consent form and postage-paid envelope
• Quantitative - mid-level mgrs. also received mgr. survey for self-reporting (p.
Approach
79-81)