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During this unit, you will complete an individual professional research project that contains a number of cumulative components – this means that Assessment 2 will build on the components assembled in Assessment 1. You will be given significant feedback and feed-forward during and after Assessment 1, which you must use to develop Assessment 2.
In this unit, you will demonstrate a synthesis of the knowledge, learning, business research methodologies, and professional skills that you have acquired and practiced throughout your ENTIRE Masters course. In particular, this unit builds upon your previous work in the unit Research in Business. However, this time you will actually do a research project . The Professional Project will be based SOLELY on secondary data and it is important that you familiarise yourself early in the unit with the meaning of ‘secondary data’. You will work independently (although within a structure) to plan, carry out and report on an investigation that addresses an issue or problem in business relevant to the profession, towards which you are studying now (this must be one of the following: marketing, accounting, management, or human resource management). Throughout the term, your independent study will be supported by: Moodle resources, interactions with a campus tutor/lecturer, who will provide guidance, and a series of web-based interactions with the unit co-ordinator (these will be scheduled as and when required throughout the term and communicated via Moodle and email).
Task 1: Project proposal
This assessment will be completed in two steps.
Step 1 , : Single-page project plan.
This assignment requires you to submit, at the end of week 4 , a single page project plan. This project plan will contain five components:
A statement detailing your ‘field of research’ – in this, you must clearly explain the relevance of your field of research for the profession, towards which you are studying.
A source of secondary data linked to your chosen field of research. You will be required to either include a website with a link to a publicly available secondary data set, or a short description of how you will use publicly available sources as secondary data.
A research question or questions that can be answered with the secondary data set you identified; this requires clarity on the questions and possibly a more detailed definition of variables or key themes to be explored.
The search terms you propose to use in Google Scholar to identify literature in the field of the research question.
Pick (at least) THREE peer-reviewed scholarly articles that arise from the result of your search and that you think will be suitable to become part of your project’s literature review. Write two sentences that combine ALL THREE (or more, if you have chosen more) of these sources (referenced correctly) and provide them in a reference list.
Step 2, Project proposal.
For this assignment, due at the end of week 6 , you will be asked to use the feedback from step 1 to prepare a proposal detailing your proposed project. The proposal is to be written in professional report format and contains the following:
a short, preliminary literature review that places your project within the context of your profession;
a focused research aim, and at least one research question; and
a research plan, including: an overview of your proposed methods of data collection and data analysis; Gantt chart schedule; and clear presentation of data sources.
