Answer to Question #155859 in Management for Prabhdeep

Question

"A descriptive Research Design is more formal and rigid than exploratory Research Design "?comment on this statement (please answer in 200 to 250 words)

Answer 1

A descriptive Research Design is more formal and rigid than exploratory Research Design" because,

A descriptive Research Design is a type of conclusive research design. Conclusive research designs are those research designed to assist the researcher in deciding, evaluating and choosing the better action course in a given situation.

Descriptive research design needs a clear specification of what, who, where, when, how and why the research is to be done formal design is needed to ensure that description entails all phases of research.Conclusive research design is formal and rigid because It does not try to set up casual relationship between events.

On the other hand, exploratory research design entails gathering information in an informal and unstructured manner unlike descriptive research design. The major emphasis of exploratory research is on deciding a cause and effect relationship.This type of research is not limited to one specific pattern but may utilize either qualitative or quantitative approaches.

The main deference between descriptive and exploratory research is that unlike, exploratory research, descriptive research formulates a hypothesis in advance. Descriptive research deals with everything that can be measure or counted. Therefore, descriptive research uses tools like mean, average, median and frequency. On the other hand, Explanatory research allows the researcher to use the tools which are more qualitative in nature.