Activity: Defining Your Management Research Topic

This Shared Activity, including the initial and follow-on posts, accounts for 5% of your overall grade in this first module. Your initial post should be completed by Day 7 of this unit.

Use this Shared Activity to give and receive feedback on research topics that you and your colleagues may pursue for your Management Research Project. This Shared Activity will help you prepare for Unit 2, in which you will submit your chosen research topic for approval by your Faculty Member.

To prepare for this Shared Activity:

You are required to make an initial post to the Shared Activity by Day 7.

Identify management journals, databases and other sources of reports and data that could help you identify research topics.

In addition to the websites provided in the Learning Resources, try to identify governmental or professional association sources of reports and data that may be relevant to research topics that you and your colleagues may pursue.

The goal of your Shared Activities is to:

Critically analyse, and ultimately define, your own management research topic.

Clearly delineate how studying the problem may help advance practice in the field.

Analyse the value of research for management decision-making and qualify the role of the practitioner-researcher in business organisations.
To complete this Shared Activity:

By Day 7:
Write a 500-word post:

Share three to four (3-4) management research topics, while referring to specific management concepts that interest you.

Discuss with colleagues the value of researching these topics and concepts in a specific scenario, which could relate to your current management role.

Remember to share management journals, databases and other sources that are relevant to the topics that interest you.

Include references to all sources, including the Learning Resources in Harvard Referencing Style.

Article 1 - Understanding and supporting the career implications of international assignments by David G. Collings, Noeleen Doherty, Madeleine Luethy, Derek Osborn

Article 2 - The effect of ethnic diversity on expatriate managers in their host country by Susan Freeman, Sarah Lindsay

Article 2 - Cross-cultural training and expatriate adjustment: A study of western expatriates in Nigeria by John O. Okpara and Jean D. Kabongo

Attachment:- Role and Nature of Management Research.rar