Smith 1 Latorrie Smith Dr. Clifford Stumme Inter

Smith 1
Latorrie Smith
Dr. Clifford Stumme
Interdisciplinary Studies 400-B02
1 June 2020
Topic and Research Question
Topic: Exploring the Emotional Intelligence Strategies used by
Business Leaders in the United
States to Enhance Effective Team Communication.Exploring
Business Leaders in the United
States and the Strategies they use to Enhance Team
Communication
HypothesisHypothesis: Emotional intelligence impacts the
effectiveness of communication
among project team members.: PMs’ strategies to enhance
communication skills among project
members.
Research Question: How does emotional intelligence promote
effective communication among

members of a project team? What are the strategies that PMs
utilize to enhance communication
skills among project members?
Disciplines Incorporated: Communication and Business.
Justification: Communication is essential in any aspect of life
and, therefore, in business.
Communication and business make an interdisciplinary in that
for a business to run effectively,
communication is vital. For the research topic, business leaders
in the United States, especially
project managers, will be analyzed to understand how their
communication strategies enhance
communication between them and project team members that
they lead as well as
Commented [SCJ(AS&AS1]: Avoid the word “and.” It
turns one topic into two.
Commented [SCJ(AS&AS2]: This is pretty broad and
vague. Get more specific.
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Commented [SCJ(AS&AS3]: A hypo should be a
prediction of a future result. What observable, measurable

result are you predicting in an experiment situation?
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Commented [SCJ(AS&AS4]: Don’t we already know the
answer to this question? I would think we could find this in
an article or a textbook? Keep in mind that you should be
proposing unique, new research. Now, there is a way to dive
into this topic deeper and find new research, but you’d have
to narrow and get unique to the point that no one else has
studied this before.
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Clifford Stumme @ 2020-06-03T05:24:39-07:00
Please go back to my models and the podcasts. This is pretty
vague, and I'm not sure how we'd study this. Team members in
what field? What does emotional intelligence mean? How would
we measure it or know it was there? What does "effectiveness"
mean? What kind of communication? Lots of questions. You
need to narrow and refine.

Good job mirroring hypo.
Still good disciplines.
You've got your work cut out to improve this, but feel free to
email me your next draft.
Smith 2
communication among the team members.. The study will
incorporate a qualitative single case
study research to answer the research question. The sample for
the study is senior-level PMPs in
Virginia. The members are from the PMP association in
Virginia. Various methods can be used,
such as quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods
approaches. When researchers use
numerical data, then the research is quantitative. In qualitative
research, the aim is to learn the
understanding of the participants on the research question. A
mixed-method applies both
qualitative and quantitative studies. Quantitative and mixed
methods cannot be used in the
research, and the most applicable one is a qualitative approach.

Given that there are no variables
to be compared, qualitative research is most suitable. Also, the
research question seeks to
understand the approaches used by the PMPs, which is
qualitative in nature.
Comment Summary
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1. Please go back to my models and the podcasts. This is pretty
vague, and I'm not sure how we'd study this. Team
members in what field? What does emotional intelligence mean?
How would we measure it or know it was
there? What does "effectiveness" mean? What kind of
communication? Lots of questions. You need to narrow
and refine.
2. Good job mirroring hypo.
3. Still good disciplines.
4. You've got your work cut out to improve this, but feel free to
email me your next draft.
Methodology and Rationale Instructions
Prompt: In 150-400 words describe a hypothetical methodology
for studying your research topic. In the same document, in 250-
400 words, create a rationale justifying studying your topic to
your audience.
Requirements:
1. Do not use first or second person in the rationale, but you

may use first person in the methodology.
2. In addition to a specific explanation of how you will test
your research question, your methodology should explain how
you will analyze the data and how you would recognize a
significant result.
3. In your rationale, the question you are answering is this: Why
is your research proposal a good way to study this problem, and
why should we fund this research? Pretend you are convincing a
board of academics in this field that your research proposal is
worth financial support.
4. Your grammar, spelling, and punctuation should be flawless.
Visit the Liberty University writing centers if you want extra
help:
https://www.liberty.edu/academics/casas/academicsuccess/index
.cfm?PID=38382
5. Use APA formatting; no abstract or title page is required but
do include a reference page if you use sources.
Additional Suggestions for Methodology:
1. Look up methodologies in the journal articles you have been
researching and use those as models and guides.
2. Everyone’s methodology will look a little bit different. Your
methodology may include an experiment with two groups
getting different treatments, one group that gets tested before
and after a treatment, or a large group of people filling out a
survey. Or you may be suggesting a research proposal that
involves reading literature and analyzing it.
3. Remember that simply reading textbooks or other journal
articles is just secondary research. A good methodology does
primary research and finds new information rather than just
compiling old information, so do not include a methodology that
proposes reading articles.
4. Whatever you do, make sure that your results cannot be
brought into question. For instance, if you wanted to test the
effects of a drug on humans and did not clarify what humans, I
might wonder if your results would be skewed because more or

fewer men or women could be in different experimental groups
than in the others. Be specific about your demographics or
aspects of your methodology.
5. Or if you were doing a study of postmodern literature but did
not say when the postmodern era began, you would get very
different results based on your cutoff date.
6. You can be creative with your methodology, but you must
also be skeptical. Would you have faith in your own methods to
return a reliable result?
7. It is usually a good idea to include at the end of your
methodology what a significant result would look like: if your
hypothesis is very correct or very incorrect, how will the
researcher be able to confirm that?
8. Here are a few questions you can ask yourself to get started:
A. What would I need to find to suggest that my hypothesis is
correct?
B. How can I eliminate variables that might confuse my results?
(i.e.If studying effects of sunlight on positivity in a work
environment, make sure you are not also adding free food or
opportunities to walk around.)
C. If you’re studying humans, which ones, and why does it
matter? How old are they? What ethnicity? What religion? What
income level? What education level? Not all of these will matter
for every study (education level would be more important than
religion in studying effects of education on earning potential),
but identify the ones that do.
D. If you’re doing textual analysis, what texts do you plan to
analyze? And what will you be looking for when you read them?
Additional Suggestions for Rationales:
1. Usually the introduction (or actual rationales) of a journal
article share some similarities with a rationale—they both
typically mention the problem being studied and why it’s
important to learn about it. Use the journal articles you’ve
researched so far as models and guides for developing your
rationale.

2. Your rationale will likely be 1-3 paragraphs.
3. You can begin your first paragraph with a mini thesis
statement that sounds something like “Research Topic X is
important to study because a significant finding will have such-
and-such an effect(s).” Use your own words, but those key
elements (research topic, value judgment, effect(s) that is
important to your audience, etc.) should appear in your
justification.
4. The rest of your rationale can expand on these effects as you
connect those to your audience and show the importance of what
you are proposing studying.
5. The last sentence of your rationale should summarize your
main idea and emphasize the importance again.
6. Remember to speak in terms of what your academic audience
(the people you want to convince) want. Don’t make it obvious
you’re talking to someone in particular (i.e. “Because my
audience loves children, I want to study children.”), but
consistently speak in terms of the benefits others will receive
from what you find. These do not need to be big benefits
either—research is often a series of small steps towards big
conclusions.
INDS 400
Methodology and Rationale Grading Rubric
Criteria
Levels of Achievement
Content 70%
Advanced 90-100%
Proficient 70-89%
Developing 1-69%
Not present
Methodology
32 to 35 points
Methodology is logically sound; a significant result will be
largely trustworthy and not be marred by other variables.
Student has a well thought through plan.

25 to 31 points
Methodology is strong but may need a little tweaking to be
reliable enough to use.
1 to 24 points
Methodology is heavily flawed and may need to be discarded;
student needs to begin again.
0 points
Not present
Rationale
32 to 35 points
Rationale is convincing, clear, and keeps audience in mind as
the student speaks in terms of someone else’s benefits.
25 to 31 points
Rationale is largely audience-focused and convincing but at
times may miss opportunities, lack support, or lose focus on the
audience.
1 to 24 points
Rationale largely forgets about the audience and is not
convincing.
0 points
Not present
Structure 30%
Advanced 90-100%
Proficient 70-89%
Developing 1-69%
Not present
Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling, and Formatting
27 to 30 points
Few mistakes are evident.
21 to 26 points
Mistakes detract somewhat from the information being
delivered.
1 to 20 points
Mistakes promote confusion or show a lack of professionalism.
0 points
Not present

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