QUESTION 6

VALIDITY/VALIDATION: Validation is the process of checking something that it is true or not. Validation implies that the sentence which is validated is true and claim or assumption is real about the subject in question. Hence, validation is supposed to be done by someone who has at least a little facility, authority or something like that gives him/her the capability to do this and gives the other person/people a reason to trust and accept the validation results. Also validation is the state of being valid, state of being confirmed or approved by an authority or someone who is capable of this. Validation of something is the acceptance of it by people but it does not have to be all or most of the people. Something can be valid for a person or a group of people but not for another. If I try to do a scientific definition based on management I can say something like that it is the agreement between a measure and a factor which gives external consistency of data so that it measures whatever it is intended to measure.

SIGNIFICANCE: Significance can be defined generally as the quality of being significant or importance level of something or any case. Significance has a complex meaning in terms of my research but if I want to give a basic explanation, significance is an attribute that indicates importance or the important parts of anything in life. Basic meaning for our ordinary life, in my opinion, significance is the amount of the worth that we give to someone or something and that decides how much it is important for us. Something has the high significance for us takes always the high priority in terms of the others. For example, as Sinan Terek (IE ’80) says, if we say that we do not have enough time to read book, this does not mean our amount of time is insufficient, actually this means that reading book does not have enough significance in terms of the other facts in order to consume a little while. If we give enough significance to reading, we always found even a small amount of time to spend for it.

RELIABILITY: Reliability can be defined as generally the state or facility of something to be able to make required works under some conditions that may be coercive or handicap. Reliability also is the level or the amount of trust that we give someone or something. If someone is reliable, this means that we trust her/him somewhat based on the amount of reliability. Actually, reliability is certainly notional, therefore; something reliable for me can be unreliable for another person.

RELEVANCE/RELEVANT: Relevance of something is the measurement of relationship or connection with the subject that individual tries to find so relevance of something is completely depends on the person, so does depends on the subject is researched. Something can be not satisfying information for any user’s need, this means it is not relevant for this user or reader but this does not change its truth or the state of being relevant to another individual. For example, a definition of the concept “reliability” was relevant information for me for 45 minutes ago, but now it is exactly irrelevant because I am interested in the definition of the concept “relevant” now.

References: A handbook of management Kempner, Thomas
http://www.onlinemedia.co.in/glossary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability
http://en.wikipedia/wiki/Significance