Researchers employing the positivistic paradigm assume that social reality lies within the domain of the research and has to be measured to understand it. On the other side of the continuum are phenomenological mindsets that focus on the meaning rather than on the measurement of social problems (Collis & Hussey 2003:53). According to Collis and Hussey (2003:78), the use of different research approaches, methods, and techniques in the same research study is known as triangulation. Triangulation can overcome the potential bias and sterility of a single-method approach. Given the nature of the problem, the positivistic approach seems most appropriate to gauge the potential mismatch of expected and provided safety measures to employees of various companies in China.
研究人员采用实证主义范式假设域范围内的研究和社会现实来衡量，去了解它。在另一边的统一体，是现象学的思维方式，关注的意义，而不是社会问题的测量（科利斯2003:53罗赫西）。根据科利斯罗赫西的（2003:78），使用不同的研究方法，方法和技术，在相同的研究被称为三角测量。三角测量可以克服潜在的偏见和不育的单一方法方法。鉴于问题的性质，实证的方法似乎是最合适的预期提供的安全措施，各公司在中国的员工，以评估潜在的不匹配。
