Taking a break...

I am making lots of progress. I will now take a break and continue this work later. I need to think about the right theory to use...

Work continues...

Working on my quantitative research proposal...I will combine compensation and IT.
I am a little tired, but I have to keep going.

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Assignment 9 submitted

I just submitted assignment 9 - Paper II on the Relationship between Compensation & Employee Performance in Healthcare Infection Control. Next week, I submit a quantitative proposal.

The paper:
http://www.slideshare.net/FahmeenaOdettaMoore/moorefbtm73039final-64986591
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306097937_Paper_II_on_the_Relationship_between_Compensation_Employee_Performance_in_Healthcare_Infection_Control_for_Research_Methods_course

Close to finishing assingment 9

After receiving my paper with comments from the professor, I decided to resubmit the paper (same research problem, purpose, questions etc.) and address his questions and issues. I think this is the way to go and I am learning a lot.

Work continues...

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I hope to submit in an hour or so.

Assignment 8 Submitted

I just submitted Assignment 8! I achieved a lot this week. I made it work (as usual).

The paper:
Relationship between Compensation & Employee Performance in Healthcare Infection Control
http://www.slideshare.net/FahmeenaOdettaMoore/moorefbtm73038final
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305947768_Relationship_between_Compensation_Employee_Performance_in_Healthcare_Infection_Control
https://www.academia.edu/27594458/Relationship_between_Compensation_and_Employee_Performance_in_Healthcare_Infection_Control

I am making good progress with assignment 8. I should complete it by the deadline (tomorrow). I am now looking up theories and control variables.

I found this interesting paper on executive compensation and company performance that includes two theories:
Executive compensation structure and company performance
http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=129620
 

Work continues...

I am now reviewing comments from the professor on the last paper and incorporating into the paper for week 8. Lots of comments/changes! This worked out. I am happy that I am waited for comments.

Work continues. And in a few short weeks, the course will be finished!

Assignment 7 completed

I completed and submitted assignment 7 - a quantitative study. My study is on employee compensation and performance in healthcare. The paper:

Exploring the Quantitative Methodology for Research
http://www.slideshare.net/FahmeenaOdettaMoore/moorefbtm73037-7302016final
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305723147_Quantitative_Study_on_Employee_Performance

I received my grade for the qualitative proposal with comments from the professor. I had some questions so I sent an email.

I am working on assignment 7 - looking for articles to support my problem statement, working on the purpose of the study etc. I just spent some time searching for articles & other resources in the NCU library. I found some good articles.

I am liking the topic more and more. I found one article on the bundling of strategies to prevent infection control / improve hand hygiene compliance. The authors referred to this as multimodal strategies. Of course, this reminded me of a paper I completed on multimodal biometrics for mobile privacy and security (paper: http://www.slideshare.net/FahmeenaOdettaMoore/moorefmis70004bfinal). I liked that topic a lot!

The long version of my data mining paper using baseball data:
http://www.slideshare.net/FahmeenaOdettaMoore/moorefmis70006bfinal.
(the professor sent it back for me to remove the appendix & meet the 2-3 page requirements).

I actually found research that used the same data:

Article: Compensation and performance in Major League Baseball: Evidence from salary dispersion and team performance
By Tao, Y., Chuang, H., & Lin, E. S.

Maybe I should do something similar with healthcare data. Interesting!

Moving on to Quantitative Study

This week, I move on to quantitative research. One option is to modify the previous research questions used for the qualitative study (& continue to look at the same research topic and problem). Another is to develop new research questions. I decided to develop new questions for a related problem. Should be interesting...

Work continues.