Module 3
The six phases are selecting a topic, searching the literature, creating arguments, surveying the literature, evaluating the literature, and writing the literature review. These procedures give a strategy for locating, analyzing, and understanding all research relevant to a research question, topic area, or phenomenon of interest. The conclusion statement highlights the major themes identified in the literature review and justifies the significance of your work. Research has taught me that it can be challenging to produce a closing statement that highlights the primary themes uncovered in the literature analysis and justifies the need for your study based on the literature review.
Module 4
Discussion: Join your classmates in a Discussion regarding how will use the objectives given in this chapter on how you will write and develop your purpose statements, research questions, and or hypotheses.
Study alignment begins with identifying a problem and continues with the study’s declared aim, research questions, and hypotheses.
Well-written purpose statements describe the research’s objective, technique and methodology, variables, geographic location, and anticipated impact on academia, society, and the field of study.
My purpose statement is: “Diversifying leadership in emergency management will enhance our abilities to save lives and protect property of diversified communities.
to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against disasters and their impacts.”
The primary research question for this study: How will diversifying leadership in the emergency managers profession better serve minority communities pre and post disaster?
Additional research questions:
- How can diversified leadership in the emergency manager profession better assist minority populations in a disaster? Identify how country’s local, state, and federal emergency management departments can serve minority communities.
- In the emergency management profession, do fellow emergency managers believe their leadership team is diversified?
Frequently, hypotheses are formulated by restating the study topic in statement language. The writing and research process are simple and well-defined by harmonizing the four essential components, the problem statement, the goal statement, the research questions, and the hypotheses.
How can a culturally competent leadership emergency manager better serve African American communities during a disaster? The secondary questions were designed to address specific cultural competency contexts for considering the ability of local and state emergency managers within the State of Florida support African American communities during a disaster. These sub research questions were:
- How do leaders in emergency managers rate their level of cultural competency?
- Does African American believe the services they received during a disaster were sensitive to their cultural needs?
- What suggestions do African American communities have for emergency managers that will help them become more culturally competent?
- What elements of cultural competency need to be improved with respect to African American communities?
- Because the second segment of study participants were individuals in the African American community who had endured a disaster event, their interview questions were
- In your opinion, can you tell me if leadership emergency management
organizations are making efforts to communicate or support to disaster victims in your community in a culturally sensitive manner?
Frequently, hypotheses are formulated by restating the study topic in statement language. The writing and research process are simple and well-defined by harmonizing the four essential components, the problem statement, the goal statement, the research questions, and the hypotheses.
