My organizational learning objective is to get my Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved so I can start my process of interviewing participants for my thesis. The reason for choosing this topic as an organizational learning objective, is because I honestly need some inspiration/kick in the pants to get this process complete so I may graduate. My plan of attack will consist of receiving final approval from the chair of my committee and although this may seem like a simple task, it has proved to be more challenging than I expected. By this time next week I will hopefully have agreement not only on the IRB approval but the consent form, which seems to be the most problematic process. Since I will be interviewing several participants, I have to think of every possible scenario so that the participants will remain protected, physically, spiritually and mentally.
The items needed to complete my objective are:
- Get chair approval of methodology, IRB, consent form and release consent form;
- Get thesis committee approval of thesis and IRB submission;
- Recieve IRB approval from Belmont University;
- Send out e-mail invitations;
- Set interview appointments;
- Start interviewing participants.
