D#5, HW#6 - Primary or Secondary Research

After reading my research paper, I want my readers to take worker's mental well-being into consideration in the context of company profit and output. I want my reader to think about the importance of employee well-being, and understand that workers with good mental health contribute to maximized revenues and overall greater job satisfaction. The knowledge that low regard for employee mental well-being contributes to reduced revenue would likely motivate my audience. Most people respond to the needs of their pocketbooks. My audience will need concrete information for me to achieve this goal. Different types of support material will be more useful in a addressing different points. For instance, statistics for the frequency of mental disorder in the workplace, personal narratives from my own experience will be useful in describing why mental disorder in the workplace is unwanted, and case studies will be useful in comparing/contrasting causes and effects. Expert testimony is almost always helpful (if used wisely). In this I could contact my old company HR representative, and also my old psychological counselor.

If I am to effectively collect and use these sources, it will have to be planned against a calendar. I am giving myself approximately 3 weeks to complete the full project. All research will need to be gathered at least a week before the final project deadline. This leaves me two weeks to complete my research. The interviewed sources will need to be given at least a week to respond to email surveys. The rest of the sources will be collected from library research. I will need to collect instances of all the above examples of support data. I already have my own personal experiences to draw on.