A core skill in developing a dissertation or research project is learning to align your research questions with the methods that allow you to answer them convincingly. This requires moving beyond a list of preferred techniques and instead tracing the logic from your theoretical aim to the design features that best capture the phenomena you hope to study. What kind of evidence would let you test your mechanisms? Do you need control, realism, or a way to capture change over time? Are you working at the individual, team, or organizational level, and what does that mean for measurement and sampling? The goal is to view methods as tools that flow naturally from a well-specified idea, which strengthens both the rigor and persuasiveness of the final project.
Panelists:

• Dr. Don Kluemper, Texas Tech University
• Dr. Samantha Anderson, Arizona State University
• Dr. Zhen Zhang, Southern Methodist University