These three paradigms outline some of the variety in qualitative research and highlight different opportunities for the study of life at work related to their various ontological and epistemological positions. Obviously, from the perspective of each paradigm the questions of what and why we research receive very different answers. In addition to this paradigmatic variety, however, there are also various styles or approaches to qualitative research that reflect researchers’ orientations to particular disciplinary traditions or to communities of research practice. Four that have found favor in the study of formal work organizations are action research, case studies, ethnography, and grounded theory. In each of these approaches to qualitative research, the research act takes a slightly different shape and is pursued to achieve slightly different outcomes. It should be noted that each of these practice approaches can and have been pursued from within each of the just described paradigms. Table 5.2 summarizes the features of each of these approaches and provides key references for those interested in exploring them in further detail