Research Methodology
Mixed method approach will be utilized because it employs the strengths of both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The methods complement each other by overshadowing their weaknesses. Qualitative research is applied at the beginning of the study since it uncovers the underlying issues that cannot be addressed by statistical models. Finally, data is carefully analyzed, interpreted and summarized mathematically. This demands the exploitation of quantitative research designs.
Theoretical Foundation/Conceptual Frameworks
This is the theory of methods through which we can identify social reality. It is a systematic way of research and reasoning that facilitates generation of public administration knowledge. The process of finding out or theorizing can be done in two ways.
Deductive Theorizing
This is the natural science approach whereby researchers begin from what they know before proceeding to the unknown. Data collection is driven by theoretical interest meaning that the propositions made can be falsified or tested.
Inductive Theorizing
In this theoretical foundation, there are no pre-conceptions because theories emerge from data or observation. Facts speak for themselves in this approach hence data determines the type of theory. This type of conceptual framework is less biased hence being referred to as grounded theorizing.
Gaps
The emerging trouble is substantiated by gaps between social research and social service administration. A few gaps seem to have their basis in fundamental education by social workers and researchers. Consequently, they are the right disquiet of the discipline of social work. Social service managers identify that data and records are vital in the management of an organization operating in a huge part of the populace existing in extensively spread regions. The position of research and statistics in undertaking social-counting work is not queried. It is after the research method is used in other tribulations of the charity that gaps emerge between management and research. Other grounds that seem to be elemental distinctions consist of thinking, which may perhaps have ancestry in the fundamental schooling and familiarity of social service administrator and the research worker.
Assumptions, Limitations and Delimitations
Social research is founded on sense and pragmatic remarks. It pertains to the relations between thoughts and verification. Thoughts assist social researchers to create a sense of facts, and researchers employ verification to enlarge, amend and analyze thoughts. Social research therefore tries to generate or authenticate theories through information gathering and data scrutiny and its objective is discovering, accounting and elucidating.
Controlling and Managing Bias
Preconceived notion influence the validity and reliability of conclusions, and therefore impinge on administrative decisions. Prejudice in research alters accuracy while at the same time it skews facts in mixed method administrative research. To keep from prejudices, a researcher should avoid loaded words and leading questions in constructing questionnaires. Knowledge assumption bias such as not assuming that respondents have the information that they are seeking and asking respondents questions that lower their statuses should be avoided.
Logical Fallacy
The multifaceted issue myth relies upon milieu for its result. The reality that a query presupposes something does not itself formulate the subject to being mythical. Conversely, an assumption by itself does not have to be an erroneous belief. It is undertaken when a researcher poses a problem that presupposes something that has not been established or acknowledged by the entire population under study.
Implications for Future Research
Future scholars in public administration will utilize the findings of this study. The conclusions are vital in developing a theoretical framework for future scholars. This means that whatever has been established in this research cannot be reproduced without proper citation. Knowledge is always cumulative hence future scholars will build their research foundations from this theory.
Contributions to Discipline and to Social Change
The research findings can be employed in solving problems facing rural and urban Cameroon. The research will establish various models that can be utilized by decision makers in non-governmental organizations to solve immediate problems afflicting the society.