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1 Research Methodology Appraisal Student’s Name Professor Course Institution Date

2 Research Methodology Appraisal Research methodology is a vital aspect of academic and scientific investigations. It is the foundation for systematic study and answering research questions through comprehensive analysis (Sileyew, 2019). Additionally, a research methodology avails principles sets and a framework that guides researchers to design, conduct, and analyze their research studies (Goundar, 2015). Furthermore, a well-defined research methodology ensures the completed research findings are reliable, valid, and rigorous. Understanding the numerous procedures to conduct a well-defined research methodology is important to increase research reliability and validity. This assessment, therefore, tests the suitability of the research methodology used to analyze the research question "Why executive leadership is essential in Eastern Europe.” Through the assessment, the researcher will determine the effectiveness of the applied research methodology to ensure its alignment with the project for enhanced reliability and validity. Project Type and Scope This qualitative research study will utilize thematic analysis and content analysis as the major analysis and interpretation methods. Additionally, the researcher will utilize secondary data obtained from scholarly articles. These articles will be assessed to determine reliability and validity before being used in the study. Using the qualitative method, the study aims to assess why executive leadership is essential in Eastern Europe. By using these method, the researcher will gain relevant information regarding patterns, techniques and skills affecting executive leadership in the region. Through the research method, the researcher will also gain in-depth understanding on various aspects such as technology impacting executive leadership. With such knowledge, the researcher will be positioned to explain how executive leadership connects to organizational performance and functionality.

3 Critical Analysis of the Project to Determine Scope and Potential Research Outcomes The project aims to determine why executive leadership is essential in Eastern Europe. Through the research question, the project aims to explore the nature and scope of executive leadership in Easter Europe to increase understanding of why this leadership is important in the area. By examining Eastern Europe's historical, political, social, technological, and economic contexts, this research seeks to avail great insights into certain challenges, opportunities, and techniques of executive leaders in the region. Through such insights, organizational leaders can capitalize on them to ensure improved performance to ensure organizations continue as going concerns. Furthermore, the project will contribute to existing knowledge on leadership theories, techniques, and how such aspects may be applicable to ensure improved regional organizational performance. The project scope will incorporate organizational leadership, global perspective, political and cultural contexts, and economic challenges and opportunities. Through the political and cultural context, the project will examine political, historical, and cultural factors that impact leadership in Eastern Europe. Such factors may include communism, EU integration, and democratic transitions. Based on economic challenges and opportunities, the project will seek to understand recent regional transformations and how such economic developments impact leadership in the area. Furthermore, organization leadership as a context will ensure the project highlights how regional organizations rely on executive leadership in organizational management. Lastly, the global perspective examines how executive leadership in Easter Europe compares with global requirements and how such leadership affects the relationships with international organizations and countries.

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4 Based on the research objectives, potential research outcomes may include enhanced executive leadership understanding in Eastern Europe. Increased knowledge will originate from insights obtained by analyzing challenges and opportunities executive leaders experience in Easter Europe. The research will also yield practical insights for executives and organizations. Through leadership techniques, technology, and cultural and political information regarding Easter Europe, executives and organizations will be better positioned to make informed decisions regarding certain factors. Furthermore, the research finding will propose recommendations to promote executive leadership in the region, such as nurturing young talents. Also, the research outcomes on best leadership techniques and prevailing technology and culture study will contribute to existing academic knowledge. Such practices may be published in scholarly articles and publications to offer students executive leadership knowledge in Easter Europe. Appraisal for Research Approaches, Philosophies, and Strategies This research utilized the qualitative research approach as opposed to the quantitative method. According to Tenny et al. (2022), qualitative research aims to interpret and understand the experiences, meanings, and perspectives of individuals or groups in a specific context. The qualitative research method also emphasizes describing and exploring complex phenomena rather than quantifying the phenomena statistically (Busetto et al., 2020). McGrath et al. (2019) also argue that qualitative research is most useful when the objective is to gain an in-depth understanding of certain issues, such as culture and experiences. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to understand why executive leadership is important in Eastern Europe. The qualitative research method was most viable because it helps understand executive leadership as a phenomenon in a specific context (Eastern Europe). Furthermore, qualitative research typically involves exploring and describing phenomena rather than quantifying them. Qualitative research

5 was thus suitable compared to quantitative analysis because it explains executive leadership concepts in Eastern Europe without necessarily quantifying any relationships, mostly conducted under quantitative research. For enhanced data analysis and interpretation, the researcher will use content analysis and thematic analysis. These methods avail unique advantages that align with the research objectives and the nature of collected data (Elder, 2023; Nowell et al., 2017 ). The researcher will evaluate textual data from scholarly papers in qualitative ways using content analysis, which is a systematic and objective methodology. This technique makes it possible to identify and classify particular information, such as crucial ideas, themes, or arguments about executive leadership in Eastern Europe (Elder, 2023). In addition, thematic analysis will give a qualitative method for studying secondary material. According to Nowell et al. (2017), thematic analysis is concentrated on locating and deciphering trends or themes in the data. Also, thematic analysis makes it possible to explore the underlying meanings, viewpoints, and settings of the academic publications in a more complex manner (Chawla & Wood, 2021). Therefore using the thematic and content analysis methods, the researcher will gain deeper understanding of the elements and factors relating to executive leadership in Eastern Europe. Summary Research methodology is an essential aspect of research. This aspect explains how the results used to conclude have been collected by the researcher and analyzed to avail patterns and findings. This research on why executive leadership is essential in Easter Europe used qualitative research to collect and analyze related data. The study also used interviews and document analysis to collect data. Therefore, qualitative research was effective compared to quantitative analysis because it helps explain experiences, perspectives, and meanings without quantifying

6 them. The research was also majorly dependent on understanding non-numeric data which suitably fits qualitative research. Furthermore, after the researcher completed interviews and document analysis, the study displayed data in tables, charts, and graphs to ensure readers easily understood the contents. Based on the arguments, a qualitative study using thematic and document analysis was effective compared to the quantitative research method since it provides theoretical patterns and in-depth analysis that statistical tools in quantitative research may miss.

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7 References Ajayi, V. O. (2017). Primary sources of data and secondary sources of data. Benue State University , 1 (1), 1-6 Busetto, L., Wick, W., & Gumbinger, C. (2020). How to Use and Assess Qualitative Research Methods. Neurological Research and Practice , 2 (1), 1–10. BMC. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42466-020-00059-z . Elder, A. (2023). Library Guides: Research Methodologies Guide: Content Analysis . Instr.iastate.libguides.com. https://instr.iastate.libguides.com/researchmethods/contentanalysis . Goundar, S. (2015). Chapter 3 - Research Methodology and Research Method . Researchgate.net; Multiple University. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333015026_Chapter_3_- _Research_Methodology_and_Research_Method . McGrath, C., Palmgren, P. J., & Liljedahl, M. (2019). Twelve tips for conducting qualitative research interviews. Medical teacher , 41 (9), 1002-1006. Rahman, S. (2017). The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches and Methods in Language “Testing and Assessment” Research: a Literature Review. Journal of Education and Learning , 6 (1), 102–112. https://doi.org/10.5539/jel.v6n1p102 . Nowell, L. S., Norris, J. M., White, D. E., & Moules, N. J. (2017). Thematic analysis: Striving to meet the trustworthiness criteria. International journal of qualitative methods , 16 (1). https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917733847 .

8 Sileyew, K. J. (2019). Research Design and Methodology. Text Mining - Analysis, Programming and Application [Working Title] , 1–12. intechopen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.85731 . Tenny, S., Brannan, J., & Brannan, G. (2022, September 18). Qualitative study . National Library of Medicine; StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470395/ . Chawla, T., & Wood, J. (2021). Thematic Analysis - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics . Sciencedirect.com. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/thematic- analysis.

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