Informed Consent Form
You are being asked to participate in a research project being conducted by a principal investigator, Patrick Behar-Courtois, a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Dr. Nuno Guimaraes da Costa, Associate Dean of Faculty & Research, at ICN Business School. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of personality over the employee’s intent to stay in a job. Ultimately, we hope to publish the findings of this study in an academic journal.
Procedure
For this study, you will complete a survey. The survey will be conducted electronically through a survey platform hosted at patrickcourtois.com.
Time 1 (today)
You will be asked to report information related to your work and your community. The survey should take about 15 minutes to complete, though some people will complete it more quickly and others may take longer.
Benefits of research participation
Your survey will contribute to the management literature.
Rights and risks
Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and choosing to participate or not has no effect on your employment. You do not need to answer any questions that you do not wish to and you may stop completing the survey at any point. This survey is completely confidential. Each respondent will be provided a unique discrete password token to enable surveys to be taken. The names and password tokens will be stored in a database (the "Key") on a separate password protected computer. After research project is finalized, the Key will be destroyed and there will remain no record which connects the data to any individual. No individual data will be shared with your organization. Therefore, your responses will remain safe and confidential. Your responses will be saved in an Excel file in the principal investigator’s computer. It will not be accessible to anyone but the investigator. All data will be aggregated for the purpose of publication and reporting.
There is no physical or psychological risk resulting from answering the questions. To ensure confidentiality, please do not put your name on the survey. If you have any questions about this study and your rights, please contact Patrick Behar-Courtois at patrick.behar-courtois@myicn.fr or +86 139 1783 2084 (China), or Nuno Guimaraes da Costa at nuno.guimaraes-dacosta@icn-artem.com.