Assessment Task: Research Proposal

Goal: This purpose of this task is to explore a specialist area of professional management practice by developing a research proposal for investigating an identified management problem.

Product: Written Proposal Template: 500 words.

Format: This is an individual assessment.

Criteria Identification, background and justification of a management problem to be investigated supported by relevant secondary sources

Discussion of the research question and research objectives

Identification of parent discipline and key theoretical frameworks

Identification of academic journals and sources of secondary data

Discussion of proposed method, data analysis plan and timeline

Communication and referencing

1. Brief Context/Scope (background re your company/industry/sector and factors leading up to the management problem) (approximately 100 words)

2. The specific problem or issue to be investigated (what are you seeking to find out, what do you not know, what management decisions will be made and why is it important - why does it matter?) (approximately 100 words)

3. Your proposed Research Question (RQ)- stated in question format(e.g. How and why? Should and how? etc.) and associated research objectives (RO) i.e. the specific information needed to answer the RQ - stated in objective format (e.g. To explore, to investigate, to identify, to develop etc.) (approx. 50 to 100 words)

4. What specific subject area of business management are you investigating (ie what is your parent discipline e.g. marketing, HRM, international business etc.) and what is your key theoretical framework (domains, theoretical models, theories) (about 10 words)

5. List 3 specific academic journals you will search for background/literature

6. List 3 company/industry/government sources you will investigate for secondary data.

7. Outline your method/approach to gathering and analysing data to address your research objectives. Prepare a table matching research objectives to methods (secondary and/or primary data collection required to address each objective). State how you will analyse the data collected (approx. 150 words)

8. Prepare a time schedule for your activities for completing the project - use a Gannt chart to acknowledge that some activities will spread across certain weeks.

9. What additional feedback or guidance would you like to help you complete Task 2 and Task 3?

Attachment:- Template.rar