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Structure of MBA Thesis Research Proposal Your Full Proposal should be between 10-20 pages only.

Structure and Content 1. Research Title This should closely mirror the content of your research problem. It is recognized that it may alter as your research progresses. 2. Introduction Give a background to your research problem or issue, painting a clear picture of the situation and context within which it occurs. Support your arguments with facts and figures. 3. Problem Statement State the problem or issue you wish to investigate. It should explain why you feel the research that you are planning is worth the effort. It may be expressed in the form of a problem that needs solving, a question that needs answering, or something that you find exciting and which has aroused your curiosity. Support your case for researching the problem by citing one or two references. Include a Purpose Statement for your study, clearly indicating the target population for your study. Your purpose of the study is the main aim of your research study. 4. Research Objectives The Problem Statement should lead smoothly into a statement of your specific research objectives. These should leave the reader in no doubt as to precisely what it is your research seeks to achieve. Research objectives should not exceed five for an MBA research study. 5. Research Questions Provide the Research Questions for your study. These should clearly match your research objectives. 6. Research Hypotheses or Propositions You may develop hypotheses (or testable propositions) for testing in your study. Hypotheses are relatively easy to test if your research study is more or less quantitative in nature and if you wish to generalize your results statistically. However, there are special hypothesis testing techniques that are suitable for qualitative research. For qualitative (descriptive and exploratory) research, students are advised to limit themselves to research questions. 7. Scope or Delineation or Delimitation of the Study Provide the scope of your study, indicating the aspects of the issue or problem that you will focus on, as well as the aspects that you will not focus on. Give justification for your scope. 8. Significance or Rationale of the Study What is the significance of your study? There are two aspects of significance. Firstly, what is the theoretical significance of the study? Theoretical significance constitutes the new knowledge the study will generate. Secondly, what is the practical significance of the study? Practical MBA  Thesis  Research  Proposal  2014  

 

 

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significance constitutes the practical benefits the research study will generate and on which group(s) these benefits will be conferred and in what way. 9. Literature Review Using the Research Question(s) or Hypotheses’ key concepts, constructs or themes based on these, write a Literature Review to construct a foundation for the research study. What are the key theories, models, or management thinking on these issues, and how can they help explain your research issue? What are the best practices in the world and how do they relate to your research issue? What relevant research studies have been carried out in the past, and what are the strengths and weaknesses of those studies? In what ways can you build on the weaknesses to justify your current study? 10. Conceptual Framework and Research Design/Methodology Define all the variables you are planning to measure in your study, indicating the type and how they relate to one another. Draw a clearly labeled schematic diagram of the Conceptual Framework. Extract the relationships or questions you theorize to exist, explaining the nature of the relationships and giving justification using Literature. Explain where you intend to carry out the research and your overall strategy. Will it make use of a case study, sample survey or experiment or perhaps a combination of strategies? Here it is essential to explain why you have chosen your approach. If you intend to base your research around a single organization then you should state and justify this. However, if your research is more generic you should explain, for example, which sector(s) of the economy or group of employees you have chosen to research and why you chose these sectors or people (i.e. present your sampling design and sampling procedure). You should also give some indication as to where the primary data you intend to use will come from and the methods you will use to collect it. Provide details of your sampling methods and procedures, and the sample size. Indicate your main data analysis methods and why you chose them. 11. Timescale Provide a Timescale for your Research Project. You can present it in a simple Table indicating the tasks or activities you will carry out including the start and completion dates of each activity. Alternatively, the Timescale can be presented in the form of a Gant Chart prepared in a Project Planning software package such as Microsoft Project. 12. Resources What resources will you need to implement the entire Research Project? Resources include time, manpower, skills, finance, physical resources such as equipment. If necessary, present the budget for your Research Project and indicate how it will be funded. 13. References List the references used in your write-up using the Turabian System. 14. Appendices Attach important Appendices used in your proposal. Appendices can include sampling frames, blank copies of questionnaires, copies of interview & observation checklists, copies of data collection permission and appointment letters, etc.

MBA  Thesis  Research  Proposal  2014  

 

Structure of MBA Thesis Research Proposal

Hypotheses are relatively easy to test if your research study is more or less quantitative in nature and if you wish ... What are the best practices in the world and how do they relate to your research issue? ... main data analysis methods and why you chose them. 11. ... Planning software package such as Microsoft Project. 12.

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