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[manning858]

Hello, everyone! I am an English/ graduate school student in Korea. I am currently doing a study focusing on personnel management styles in Korea and their role with conflict with foreign teachers. If any of the teachers visiting this site can sacrifice 5 minutes of their time to complete my survey, I will be very grateful! I want to hear about your work experiences.

Please visit this link to complete the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G5FKTXL

Thank you for your time! Contact me if you have any questions or comments.

[JustinC]

Where are you studying and what is it like?

[Squire]

When talking about my 'manager' should I be referring to the head of English or the principle? Practically all of my dealings are with the head of English, or occasionally the vice principle. It's quite a difficult survey to answer if my principle is the manager

[PRagic]

You're going to get fairly descriptive level stats from this, and it is not very in depth, but at least it is addressing an issue that everyone would agree is worthwhile.

You could run some ANCOVA, t-tests, and cross-tabs/chi-square analyses depending on how many responses you pick up (other tests if you don't get as many as 30 responses). Some of the questions could have been framed to provide continuous data, which is always better (you can break it down into categories later). I did notice, however, that you don't ask respondents to provide their home country, while you do ask them to compare management styles between Korea and their home country. That will leave a 'black hole' in your analysis and discussion.

One very important thing you'll need to do is provide background on your data to show that your results are representative of a sample. The more 'groups' you include, the hairier this gets. It might be better to focus on one group (e.g. university teachers OR public school teachers) and then target individual university or public school native speaker instructor populations. The survey you're currently running could therefore be used as a 'pre-survey' in that you get a feel for your population and feedback on the initial questions before mounting your larger data collection effort. This process you would then describe in your thesis.

Best of luck with the study. I imagine that your advisor has already helped you out with a lot of this stuff.

[schwa]

Glancing at your survey, as a public school teacher, I didnt know who to define as my "manager/supervisor." Main co-teacher? School VP or principal? District supervisor? Provincial overseers? All have some say in my workplace situation.

An immigration agent once asked me who I worked for. I tried to explain. He said with a laugh, "Too many bosses!"

[PRagic]

Excellent examples. This is why you usually need a trial run of a survey instument before you go after the data in a big way.

[Mix1]

I'll save you some work; it sucks.

[newb]

Is this survey gonna help me in any way? It will probably do us more harm than good for hurting the Korean culture and pride.

Good luck.

[Mix1]

[nautilus]

[PatrickGHBusan]