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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. 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

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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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)

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

14. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PROPOSAL
Length of PROPOSAL : MAXIMUM 12 PAGES
Font: Calibri
Font size: 12
Spacing: 1 and half spacing
Please ensure that your final PROPOSAL is edited by a professional Language Editor.

15. 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: MAY 2019 AT 16H00 AT THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT (DR NAMBIRA)