TY  - JOUR
T1  - When Qualitative Research Trumps Quantitative Research:
How to Improve the Workforce
AU - Boonsathorn, Wasita AU - Dryver, Arthur L. 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 12
SP  - 2290
EP  - 2292
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.2290.2292
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.2290.2292
KW  - qualitative research
KW  -work force
KW  -star employees
KW  -esplicit consideration
KW  -Data set
KW  -obtaining
AB  - In the workplace, many statistical tests behind quantitative research examine averages. What happens
when one of these averages is not satisfactory to management? How do management shift an average to
improve their workforce so that the typical employee more closely resembles the star employee? Often in
quantitative research outliers such as star employees are omitted and even when they are left in the data set
they are hidden amongst the typical employees. The lack of explicit consideration of outlying star employees
is coupled with the challenge of obtaining an adequate sample size of them. This study discusses the
importance of studying outliers such as star employees for improving the workforce and the importance of
qualitative research for doing so.
ER  -