Research Topic: The Impact of Performance Appraisal on employee Motivation in the Banking sector in Uganda

Critical Literature Review (2,000 words)

The Critical Literature Review should review published, peer-reviewed scholarly literature relevant to the above research topic and question (That you should formulate). In the review, you should:

Critically analyze the major themes, perspectives, and types of research on the above topic.

Situate your research question within the literature you reviewed. In other words, determine how your research question relates to problems identified in the literature, to studies on similar questions or to gaps in understanding of the topic identified in similar studies.

Additionally, you should include a review of methods and methodological approaches used to study the topic, in which you should:

Examine the theoretical perspectives and paradigms in the research literature you reviewed.

Critically analyze the methodological approaches used in previous research on the above chosen topic.

Research Proposal (3,000 words)

Topic, Research Objectives, Context, and Rationale

Present the above topic, research question, objectives for conducting the research, the context for the research question and your rationale for choosing it, using references to the research literature for support.

Methodology and Methods

Select and analyze the chosen research paradigm and its impact on your research question.

Describe your chosen methodology and how it relates to your research question.

Critically analyze the strengths and weakness of choosing this particular methodology, including why you did not select an alternative methodology.

Discuss the types of data you intend to collect with your chosen methodology.

Present a data collection and analysis plan and detail the following:

How do your strategies for data collection and analysis align with your methodology and research question?

What other data collection and analysis strategies could you have considered to answer your research question? Why did you choose to exclude these strategies?

Critically analyze the ethical implications of your research methodology and methods and explain how you will address any ethical challenges.

Be sure to support all of your decisions about methodology and methods with references to relevant literature.

Practical Considerations and Plan for Completion

Describe the potential challenges you might encounter in collecting and interpreting your research data and what you might do to minimize these issues.

Explain how you would present your data and what presentation format would you use to convey the results to your audience.

Comment on how you would reduce the chances for misinterpretation of your data.

NOTE:
Use only Havard Referencing format.