COM4806-Organisational Communication Research (COM4806)
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Organisational Communication Research
COM4806
ASSIGNMENT 1
STUDENT NAME: TIISETSO FAITH MOAGI
STUDENT NUMBER: 59750650
UNIQUENUMBER: 177794
MODULE CODE: COM4806
YEAR: 2022
1
, DECLARATION OF OWN WORK
I, TIISETSO FAITH MOAGI
Confirm that:
✓ This MODULE contains my own, original ideas and work
✓ those ideas, or work, that are not my own, have been cited using the prescribed referencing
system, with which I have familiarised myself, as described in Tutorial Letter CMNHON/E/301
✓ I have not submitted the ideas or work contained in this MODULE for any other tertiary
education credit
✓ I have read Unisa’s Policy of Research Ethics Policy on Research Ethics.pdf
✓I have familiarised myself with WRITING FOR ACADEMIC INTEGRITY at
https://sites.google.com/a/unisacommscience.co.za/writing-for-academicintegrity/home?pli=1
✓ I have read and understood the PLAGIARISM POWERPOINT FOR POSTGRADUATE
STUDIES (available under ADDITIONAL SOURCES on myUnisa)
✓ I have familiarised myself with the library guides offered by Unisa’s Library at
https://libguides.unisa.ac.za/research-support/plagiarism
✓ I have read and understood Unisa’s Policy for Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism AND I
am aware that plagiarism is punishable in terms of the Copyright Act 98 of 1978. I have also read
the regulations of the University of South Africa in this respect, which are available online at
https://www.unisa.ac.za/static/corporate_web/Content/Apply%20for%20admission/Do
cuments/Policy_copyright_infringement_plagiarism_16November2005.pdf
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STUDENT NUMBER
__TIISETSO MOAGI__ _23 MAY 2022___
SIGNATURE DATE
_EMMANUEL MOAGI__ _23 MAY 2022___
WITNESS DATE
Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................... 4
2 QUESTION 1: DIFFERENT PARADIGMATIC POSITIONS..........................................................................5
3 QUESTION2:PARADIGMATIC ASSUMPTIONS....................................................................................7
2.1 The Afrocentric decolonial/indigenous/postcolonial paradigmatic position.......................................7
2.2 The difference between epistemology of positivism and epistemology of interpretivism............8
2.3 Critique the epistemological orientations of both positivism and interpretivism from a
decolonial/indigenous/postcolonial position........................................................................................... 8
2.4 Realism and relativism as ontological positions and compare positivism, interpretivism and
critical realism ontologically..................................................................................................................... 9
2.5 The 'relationality' as an ethical framework (axiology) that informs the epistemology and
ontology of decolonial/indigenous/postcolonial paradigmatic positions...............................................10
2.6 The relationship between epistemology and methodology in research.....................................11
4 QUESTION 3: IT'S PERSONAL.............................................................................................................. 12
5 CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................... 13
SOURCES CONSULTED................................................................................................................................ 14
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