RESEARCH WORKSHOP Faculty of Management Sciences Department Management Date: 11 May 2019 Time: 10h00 Venue: Auditorium North Presenter: Dr DJ Du Plessis

BACKGROUND AND PROBLEM STATEMENT Background of organization/ business or issue (When established, history etc) Link background to problem Reputable source of problem Should answer the following questions What am going to do? Why am going to do it? Why is it worth doing it?

QUESTIONS/ AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The background should lead to Research question/ Research Aim/ Research objectives Three (3) aims/ questions or objectives

SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS STUDY Who will benefit from the study? Such as Individual Teams Organisations Society Government Policy makers

DELIMITATION OF THIS STUDY The boundary set by the researcher. Specific organisation Population

LIMITATIONS OF THIS STUDY Limitations are influences that the researcher cannot control. They are short comings, conditions or influences that cannot be controlled by the researcher. Consider the following Your analysis the nature of self responding the instrument you utilized the sample time constraints

ORGANISATION OF THIS STUDIES What the reader can expect to read in: Chapter 2 Chapter 3

LITERATURE REVIEW Theoretical or conceptual framework Critically review literature to provide evidence/ answers to research questions objectives or aims. Literature can be obtained from: academic journals, Magazines, Books, Conference proceedings, Reports, Theses, dissertations.

RESEARCH DESIGN Research design is a plan of how you will go about Answering your research questions. To collect data and analyses data's Three designs are available: Quantitative – numerical data (numbers) Qualitative – Non- numerical data ( words, images, etc.) Mix Methods – combination of quantitative and qualitative elements

POPULATION AND SAMPLING Population is complete set of cases or group members. Sampling Subgroup or parts of a larger population. Sampling Technics Probability sampling Simple random, systematic sampling, stratified random, cluster, multi – stage. Non – probability sampling Quota , purposive, volunteer (snowball and self – selection) Haphazard (convenient)

VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY Reliability refers to the application and consistency to reduce bias. Validity refers to the appropriateness of the measure used. Types of validity Internal validity, external validity

DATA INSTRUMENTS, COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Qualitative Methods: Interviews, observations, focus group discussion, open- ended questionnaires, interviews Analysis: Thematic analysis, Template analysis, Explanation Building and testing, Grounded Theory method, Discourse analysis, Content analysis, Narrative Analysis Quantitative Method: Closed-ended questionnaires Analysis: SPSS(graphs, histograms, bar graphs)

DATA PRESENTATION Quantitative: display in graphs, histograms, bar charts, Qualitative: display in explanations

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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS CONTINUE Please note that we use British English for our Proposals Please ensure that you buy/ have access to APA Reference Guide available at the NUST Library. When you cited (in text) At the beginning of a sentence: Du Plessis, (2018) At the end of a sentence: (Du Plessis, 2018) You should submit ONE ring bind, Orange cover page, hard copy DATEE FOR SUBMISSION: 31 MAY 2019 AT 16H00 AT THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT (DR NAMBIRA)