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Subject Title Business Research
Subject Code RES 800
Lecturer / Tutor Dr Arash Najmaei/ Dr Andrew Le
Semester July 2020
Assessment Title Business Research Proposal
Learning Outcome/s • Analyse ethical issues and considerations and their
elevance in applied business research.
• Apply research theories and methodologies to assist in
developing a business research proposal.
• Succinctly communicate arguments that reflect a
synthesis of literature and business research concepts.
• Utilise critical thinking to analyse managerial problems
and formulate relevant research questions and research
design.
• Apply advanced understanding and skills in qualitative
and quantitative data collection, analysis and
interpretation.
Assessment type (group or
individual)
Individual
Weighting 50%
Word count 3000 words
Due date Week 14
Class submission Lecture ☐ XXXXXXXXXXTutorial ☐
Submission type Paper copy ☐ XXXXXXXXXXTurnitin ☐
Format / Layout of Assessment
(details of what to include)
(cross the appropriate check
oxes)
Report:
ICMS Cover Page
Table of Contents
Synopsis / Executive Summary
Introduction
Findings
Conclusion
Recommendations
Reference List
Appendices
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Essay:
ICMS Cover Page
Abstract
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Recommendations
Reference List
Appendices
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Oral Presentation:
Paper submission
PowerPoint submission
Peer review (group presentation)
Reference List
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Other:
(outline specific details here – use check boxes)
Assessment instructions
(clear, succinct, without repetition)
In this assignment, students need to:
• Submit a 3000-word Business Research Proposal
which includes their research objective, questions,
literature review, research methods (sample,
sampling, instrumentation, data collection and
analysis), and the proposed timeline.
• The Business Research Proposal needs to
demonstrate students' advanced understanding of
esearch theories and methodologies and their
synthesis of the literature in the field to develop
original contributions and suggest specific
ecommendations for improvement.
Please pay attention to notes below:
• All reports are to be submitted to Turnitin at week
14
• You will be expected to have consulted books, at
least 15 relevant recent academic journal articles,
conference proceedings, theses, dissertations,
market reports and so on to prepare the report
from quality sources listed in scholarly databases
• Use proper in-text citations and referencing
• Do not plagiarize
• For style you need to use follow carefully the style
guide document on the Moodle.
Readings for the assessment
(instructions where they can be
found e.g. MyAthens database,
Moodle etc.)
• Lecture notes (Moodle)
• Recommended textbooks in the unit outline
• Prescribed articles available on MyAthens database
Grading Criteria / Ru
ic The following criteria will be used to assess this assignment:
• Structure of the essay, clear headings and sub headings.
• Clarity, consistency and conceptual accuracy of
arguments in the literature review and problem
statement.
• Clear and easy to understand explanations for data
collection and analysis.
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• Accurate and well-argued justifications for the choice of
sampling methods and analytical approach in line with
esearch problem and questions.
• Logical flow for the literature review.
• Complete and accurate in-text citation and referencing.
Peer Review Evaluation
(group work – optional)
N/A
ICMS COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
here you put title of your research
student name & ID
supervisor name
TABLE OF CONTENT
Background of The Research
Problem Statement
Research Objective
Research Questions
Literature Review
Use specific headings and sub headings here based on your topic
Research Design
Research philosophy
Research choices, approach and strategy
Type of the research
Here you explain if your research is qualitative of quantitative
Data
Population,
Here you explain and describe population of your research,
Sample and sampling technique
Here you explain your sample and sampling technique
Data collection tool
Here you explain how you collected data. If you use survey questionnaire you need to design how you design questions in the survey questionnaire based on the literature. If you used interview protocol, then you need to explain how you design interview protocol questions.
Analytic approach
Here you explain your analytic approach. If your research is quantitative, you may use survey or experiment and apply co
elation, regression, t-test, ANOVA or other statistical tools like descriptive and inferential techniques. If your research is qualitative then you need to explain your method if it is case study or grounded theory, then you discuss type of case and coding process and codebook.
Ethical considerations
Briefly explain what measures you take to ensure ethical collection of data. This may include, but not limited to, consent of informants, pilot testing and expert checking questionaries and protocol, ensuring privacy, anonymity, and security of data, etc.
Strength and Weaknesses of The Research
Explain what, in your opinion, the key strengths uniqueness and limitations or weaknesses of your research are and what do you suggest other researchers do to improve similar research should they wish to repeat it in other contexts.
Validity and Reliability
How do you ensure external, internal validity, construct validity of your research? Use points discussed in the lecturers and consult how other researchers done it in published research articles.
Conclusion
References
Appendix
Criterion
Have I checked my research against……?
Yes
No
Not sure
How?
Why?
Explain /clarify
1. Inco
ect, ambiguous and vague objective
2. Inco
ect research questions
3. Including bias, opinions and unchecked info in literature review
4. Inco
ect hypothesis development
5. Incomplete literature review (not recent, omitting key references)
6. Lack of transparency in data collection and analysis
7. Inco
ect philosophical and reasoning approaches
8. Inco
ect research strategy
9. Inco
ect research time horizon
10. Inco
ect definition of population
11. Inco
ect sampling technique
12. Inadequate sample size
13. Inadequate data (for quantitative enough completed surveys, for qualitative enough interviews backed by observations and other sources )
14. Inco
ect data collection method (survey, archival, interview)
15. Inco
ect data collection tool (design of survey, interview protocol)
16. Inco
ect choice of data analytic approach
17. Inco
ect calculations and inference building