2019
DOI: 10.36251/josi.159
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Are we making a difference? Rural university students’ perceptions of diversity and inclusion

Abstract: Recent demographic trends indicate that the evolving workforce will increasingly comprise a variety of cultures, belief systems, and ethnic populations. As future professionals in a global environment, postgraduate business students must understand the increasing importance of differences they will encounter. The purpose of this study is to understand business students' perceptions of diversity and inclusion during their academic experience in a rural university in west-central Michigan, USA. The research desi… Show more

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“…The questionnaire survey was completed online via QuestionPro. The main advantages of adopting an online survey are to make sure that the responses were gathered in a standardized way and large amounts of information can be collected in a cost-effective way within a relatively short time period (Hair et al , 2021; Ho and Browers, 2019).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The questionnaire survey was completed online via QuestionPro. The main advantages of adopting an online survey are to make sure that the responses were gathered in a standardized way and large amounts of information can be collected in a cost-effective way within a relatively short time period (Hair et al , 2021; Ho and Browers, 2019).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Descriptive research was selected for this study because it is relatively quick, uncomplicated and inexpensive to conduct (Hair et al , 2020). Most importantly, it is widely adopted by social science researchers within the university setting (Ho and Browers, 2019). Additionally, this study adopted a quantitative method of surveying via QuestionPro.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hence, these undergraduate students should be treated as target respondents for this research project. We adopted Yamane's (1967) method to identify the appropriate sample size for our survey since Yamane's proposal is widely recognized by numerous academic and industry researchers for more than five decades (see Sarmah et al, 2013;Singh and Masuku, 2014;Babin and Zikmund, 2016;Silver et al, 2016;Ho and Browers, 2019;Hair et al, 2020). In brief, Yamane (1967) pointed out that even though a larger sample group could produce more accurate study results, the excessive responses can also be expensive.…”
Section: Population Sample and Target Respondentsmentioning
confidence: 99%