Q1: Research consortium and involvement of the financers (banks) in research: What are the problems of using two research institutions to do the research jointly? What are the problems of the involvement of the banks in the research design and sampling?
Q2: Sample size: Is this sample size of 15,000 (roughly 21% of the employees) necessary? Discuss its relative and absolute size. What do you suggest the sample size.
Q3: Data collection in a real social context. Since this is data collection in a real social context, issues such as time, budget and politics are important. How would you deal with them? Discuss some of the decisions the researchers have made.
Q4: Sampling method. The goal of the research is to find the relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction. Every bank was surveyed. The small banks were over-represented in the sample. Is the sampling method for answering the research questions a good one?
Q5: Bias in data collection. The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction. What are the biases in data collection? How can you reduce the bias in the data collection?
