'Measuring sabotage using a questionnaire will never provide useful data.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use examples of research you have studied to support your answer.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2019). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [12] Marks: use generic levels of response in table C.
2. [12] Syllabus: attitudes to work a workplace sabotage (Giacalone and Rosenfeld, 1987)
3. [12] Most likely (any other appropriate responses should be credited): Not useful/agree: questionnaires will always be designed by management (or someone employed by them) to find out about workers, so workers suspicious rather than honest
4. [12] questionnaires may produce quantitative data rather than (perhaps more useful) qualitative data
5. [12] workers will be dishonest or provide socially desirable answers
6. [12] Useful/disagree: a questionnaire can be anonymous (unlike an interview) and so answers can be truthful.
7. [12] a questionnaire may provide indications of why sabotage is happening in an organisation
8. [12] a questionnaire with open-ended questions may reveal useful information - allow an individual person to express their views (a whistleblower)