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The Level Of Employee Engagement

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The principal purpose of this study is to identify the level of employee engagement in NIMC Imo State. What encourages them to have passion for the job they do and what makes them go extra mile to do their job to the very best of their capability. Specific objectives were then formulated which were to: identify what is employee engagement at NIMC, measure the levels of employee engagement, and what engages the employees and employers. As part of the research strategy, the researcher had to decide which methodology or combinations of methodology were going to be most practical and yield the best results.
3.2 METHODS
There are different types of research methodology such as Qualitative and Quantitative, Mixed Methods, and E-research. However …show more content…

(Fiedler, et al., 2002). However, it must be consistently applied across all of the participants in the study to meet the assumptions of most statistical analyses. (Kelle, 2008). Again, Quantitative analysis can also easily detect curvilinear relations where increasing the level of one variable does not always have the same effect. (Singh and Cole 1993).
The overall goal of qualitative research is to produce generalizable explanations of real-world phenomena (Mason 1996). Qualitative methods however are interpretive and reflexive and they generate subjective data based on the perspectives of the people being interviewed. Qualitative methods analyses “complex data in natural conversation settings focus on the experiences of the participants through narrative accounts and describe social processes and contexts through these narratives”. (Cresswell, 1998). Furthermore, Qualitative is a research strategy that “usually emphasizes words rather than quantification in the collection and analysis of data which involves inductivist, constructionist and interpretivist”. (Bryman and Bell, 2015).
3.3 QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUE- EMPLOYEE SURVEY
Quantitative techniques are instruments that the researcher uses to decide what needs to be known and designs a very precise data gathering instrument to gather data in order to create knowledge which is said to objective and situated within the framework of positivism such as Surveys and Questionnaires. (Quinlan, 2011).

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