2. Definition of Case Study
A case study is a research methodology that has commonly used in
social sciences.
A case study is a research strategy and an empirical inquiry that
investigates a phenomenon within its real-life context.
Case studies are based on an in-depth investigation of a single
individual, group or event to explore the causes of underlying
principles.
A case study is a descriptive and exploratory analysis of a person, group
or event.
A case study research can be single or multiple case studies, includes
quantitative evidence, relies on multiple sources of evidence and
benefits from the prior development of theoretical propositions.
Case studies are analysis of persons, groups, events, decisions, periods,
policies, institutions or other systems that are studied holistically by
one or more methods.
3. WHY CASE STUDY?
ANALYTICAL THINKING
PRESENCE OF MIND
PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITIES
DECISION MAKING
CO-ORDINATION
HANDLING DISAGREEMENT
PRESENTATION
4. HOW TO DEAL WITH?
READ/STUDY THE CASE CAREFULLY
SET OBJECTIVES
GENERATE ALTERNATIVES
CREATE MATRIX TO PLACE THE ALTERNATIVES
IDENTIFY CHALLENGES
REJECT ALTERNATIVES
SELECT ALTERNATIVES
FINALISE THE ACTION PLAN
BE READY WITH PLAN B, IF PLAN A FAILS.
5.
6. CASE STUDY-1
DevAnand is running an NGO to help street children.
He receives government grant of Rs.2 lakh rupees for a
project to teach the “out of school” children, who work
at tea-stalls, do boot-polishing etc. A year passes, but
Dev managed to utilize only 50,000 rupees from the
grant. Despite his best efforts, he couldn’t convince
many poor children or their families to join his NGO’s
program.
As per the grant rules, Dev has to return all the
unspent money back to government by the end of
March 31st. But his colleague Pran suggests following:
7. If we honestly return Rs.1.5 lakh back, then government
officials will think we are amateur, ineffective NGOs and
they’ll substantially reduce our grant for next year or even
worse- they’ll not give us any project next time!
We should take help of CA Prem Chopra to manipulate our
account books and show majority of the grant was utilized
for education.
Many other NGOs do the same thing- there is no problem –
nobody will raise any objection, as long as we give 20% of
the grant to SDM in charge of this project.
Although it sounds unethical but we won’t use this money
for personal needs, we’ll use it on street children only.
Hence our act is fully ethical and moral.
9. Answer key points:
“Because others are also doing it” – is never the valid justification to commit an
unethical or criminal act.
Two wrongs don’t make a right: a) Manipulating account books to keep the
grant money. b) Bribing SDM to keep the grant money.
The shelf life of lie and deception is very low- especially when manipulating the
account books – ask Ramalinga Raju, ex-chief of Satyam.
DevAnand was unable to use 75% of the grant money, it implies a)Dev didn’t
try hard enough OR b)Government had exaggerated the amount of money
required to educate the out of school children OR c)both
In any case, If Dev keeps the unspent grant, government will continue
pumping more money- other NGOs and the SDM will keep amassing wealth.
Therefore, DevAnand should return the unspent grant back to the government.
