Motivation in Research

What makes people to understand & undertake the research? This is a question of fundamental importance.The possible motives for doing research may be either one or more of the following:--

1. Desire to get a research degree along with its consequential benefits.
2. Desire to face the challenge in solving the unsolved problems.
3. Desire to get a intellectual joy of doing some creative work.
4. Desire to be of service to society.
5. Desire to get respectability.

Objective of Research

1. To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insight into it.
2. To portray accurately the characteristics of a particular individual, situation or a group.
3. To determine the frquency with which something occurs or with which it is something associated with something else.
4. To test a hypothesis of a casual relationship between variables.

Research Methodology

Definitions of RM

A careful investigation or enquiry specially through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge.

Acording to Redman & Mory "Research is the systematized effort to gain new knowledge"