Research Methods

1. CHAPTER 3
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH ETHICS
Select the choice which best completes the statement, or answers the
question, by clicking on the corresponding letter.
1. Ethics can be defined as:
a. A process ofreasoning in terms of the right thing to do.
b. Rules governing society.
c. The basis of the criminal code.
d. A list of rights and wrongs.
2. Essential in ethics and ethical standards is:
a. A good grasp of research methods.
b. The capacity to producegood research.
c. A good understanding of business.
d. The capacityto distinguish betweenright and wrong.
3. Integrity and transparency are fundamental:
a. Issues in business.
b. Requirements in research.
c. Ethical principles in research.
d. Methodologies in research.
4. Power is:
a. Essential in business.
b. Essential for the business researcher.
c. A good force for any researcher.
d. A fundamental ethicalissue in research.
5. The ethically reflective practitioner:
a. Engages in research on ethics.
b. Thinks critically about the standard of their researchand their
code of conduct and behaviour as a researcher.
c. Is particularly bound by rules and standards.

2. d. Wastes a lot of time just thinking.
6. Reflexivity is:
a. The fast responsethe researcher makes to every development in the
research project.
b. The relationship that develops between the researcher and the research
project.
c. The researcher’sactive, thoughtful engagementwith every aspect
and development of their research.
d. A reflection on the relationship between the researcher and the research
project.
7. A guarantee of confidentiality is:
a. A guarantee that some information will remain confidential and
will not be disclosed.
b. Always required by properethical standards in research.
c. Essential for every participant in a research project.
d. Only given under duress.
8. The principle of informed consent is:
a. Of little use in business research.
b. Essential to the relationship between the researcher and the research
project.
c. A key ethicalconcern.
d. A key data gathering method.
9. The principle of informed consent holds:
a. That all resources used in the research project must be properly
referenced and acknowledged.
b. The researcher must inform the research supervisor of every
development in the research project.
c. The researcher must inform the research supervisor of every ethical
development in the research project.
d. Participants agree to participate in a researchprojectwhen they
have been fully informed of any and all potential consequences.

3. 10.Research ethics committees are:
a. Committees of researchers.
b. Convened by organisations to monitor and police the ethical
standards of researchprojects carriedout under their auspices,
under their name.
c. Committees of researchers concerned with ethics.
d. Concerned only with research conducted in the medical sciences.
11.Intrusion is:
a. What the researcher must engage in, in order to carry out the research.
b. In the very nature of research.
c. Any unwarranted, unnecessaryor unwelcome engagementwith a
person or a place.
d. Unavoidable, in a research project.
12.A gatekeeper is:
a. Any person or structure that controls access to people, places,
structures and/or organisations.
b. A person in charge of a gate.
c. A security officer or guard.
d. A person who controls entrances and exits.
13.Every research project should make a contribution:
a. To the researcher’s development.
b. Financially
c. To knowledge.
d. In terms of methodology.
14.In carrying out the research, the researcher should engage properly and
thoroughly with:
a. The media.
b. The literature on the topic.
c. Their peers.
d. Art and science.

4. 15.There are potential risks and harms in:
a. Every stage of the researchprocess.
b. Some research projects.
c. Research projects that engage with human populations.
d. Some research projects that engage with human populations.