Briefly explain your research philosophy

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Please read the attached assignment and guidelines carefully.

AIM: This assignment assesses the learning outcomes of the learning outcomes of the research methods module. To this end, you are asked to devise a research project, conduct pilot research, and to analyse your results on one of the following topics

- Issues related to the development of the society such as tourism development in Oman, Women Entrepreneurs etc.

- Topic related to any problems faced by industries due to oil price fall and its impact on Oman oil distributors.

- A Study on the technology development and its impact on Banking Sector at Oman.

- Any appropriate topic agreed

Please note that the total word count excludes appendices. Appendices contain supporting information and for this assignment little supporting information should be needed beyond that identified in the tasks or guidelines. The recommended (approximate) number of words each part of the assignment gives guidance on the required extent of analysis (i.e. approximates to the marks allocated to a task).

The assignment should be appropriately presented in numbered sections and sources of information must be Harvard Referenced.

The assignment is to be completed individually.

COMPLETI THE FOLLOWING SEVEN TASKS:

1. Give your research a tide and develop one research objective. (100 words)

2. Undertake. a short literature review. Summarise any theory and evidence relevant to your research objective. (500 words)

3. Briefly explain your research philosophy, approach and strategy. In particular, comment on what makes your research positivist, phenomenological or a hybrid of both. (300 words). In approach whether you have used an inductive or deductive approach. In strategy, whether you have used ethnography, grounded theory or survey strategy in inductive approach. State the reason for your choice of philosophy, approach and strategy.

4. Complete the Faculty ethical approval process for your proposed research using the fast track ethical approval form. The research must be approved by one of the module tutors before undertaking any primary research. Attach the approved form (and mandatory additional documents) to the assignment as an appendix. Briefly reflect on the ethical implications of your research. (100 words).

5. Briefly explain the research methodology with the following details: a Research Design b. sampling details c. Data Collection methods

d. Tools used for analysis and e. Structure of questionnaire.

6. Answer either part (a) or part (b). (100 words plus question/interview schedule))

a. Design and implement an effective question name more than five questions) to research the objective that you specified in Task 1. Your questionnaire should contain one or two-(and no more) open-ended questions capable of generating quantitative data. Then explain and evaluate the purpose and design of at least two-trivial questions. (Your maximum pilot sample size maximum pilot sample size should be 10 respondents.

b. Design and implement, an effective schedule for a semi-structured interview (with five potenrial question) to research the objective that you specified in Task 1. Your schedule should contain one or two (and no more) closed question capable of generating quantitative data. Then explain and evaluate the purpose of at least two non-trivial questions. Comment briefly on what you expect to discover from

a semi-structured interview that you could not discover from a questionnaire. (Your maximum pilot sample size should be respondents. Attach a blank copy of your semi - structured interview schedule as as an Appendix.

c. Analyse the qualitative data from your pilot research. Briefly summarise and analyse the key themes and issues arising from your responses.

d. Analyse the qualitative data from your pilot research. Briefly summarise and analyse the key themes and issues arising 'from your responses.

d. Analyse the quantitative data from your pilot research. Give a summary and brief analysis of the results for each question with table and chart.

7. Evaluate your research in terms of the lessons learnt from the pilot study, appropriateness of the research instrument in relation to the research strategy outlined in Task 3, the reliability and validity of your results, etc. (200 words).
Tasks 1, 2 and 3 will test student's ability to design a research project.

Task 1 Distinguish between the broad aim of your research and specific research questions/objectives. One objective/question is sufficient to show that you understand this distinction and to inform the rest of the assignment

Task 2 Gather and process a more relevant critical review of literature (i.e., that you know how to use different sources, relate your project to debates and disagreements and identify knowledge gaps that provide a rationale for your research objective). For this task, you are required to do enough additional readings to identify four or five relevant non-trivial references for use in the literature review (try to include a mix of newspaper articles, web sites, and. academic journals).

Task 3 Explain your research strategy and methodology in terms of appropriate selection from the range of concepts introduced in the course: e.g., positivist/phenomenological research; deductive/inductive approaches theory-testing/theory-building; quantitative/qualitative data; research sample frame / sample size and so forth.

You will need to think carefully about both your research/objective and your research philosophy/strategy/approach, as these will influence your choice of research technique in Task 5.

Task 4 You need to ensure that you and understand and have learned how to comply with Staffordshire University's procedures for ensuring that proposed research complies with prevailing for ethical standards.

Task 5 In Research Methodology the researcher has to state clearly what research design, sampling technique used, sampling unit, Methods of Data Collection, tool used for analysis, sample size and structure of questionnaire they have adopted in their research study.

Task 6 Present and then analyze both quantitative and qualitative results. The balance between quantities analysis will depend on whether your research instrument was questionnaire or an interview schedule: for the former, the main emphasis will be quantitative; for the latter, qualitative. However, all answers must contain at least some analyses of both types with emphasis of its data implications. The data analysis and interpretation has to be supported with proper diagram representation like pie chart or bar chart. Design a research instrument to

Implement our chosen research methodology and so answer your question/meet your objective. Five questions are sufficient to demonstrate that you understand how to design a survey questionnaire or a schedule for a semi-structured interview. However, it is not feasible for you to implement the full-scale project. Accordingly, you are required to implement only the pilot research with a small pilot sample size of 10 (for a questionnaire) or 10 (for an interview). The purpose of a pilot is to ensure that your research instrument is capable of generating valid data, and that the collection and analysis systems are appropriate, before embarking on the full research.

Task 7 Demonstrates the ability to reflect critically upon the strengths and weaknesses of your research strategy, methodology and research instrument in terms of theory and in light of lessons learned during the pilot data collection and analysis phases of the research.

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12/27/2016 3:58:53 AM

Please hire the best tutor for this assignment who is good and has knowledge how to do research method assignment. First attachment is the project title... And second attachment is how the assignment should be done with the project title- evaluation of the process of job analysis. There is no exact topic.. evaluation of the process of job analysis.. what is that job? Can u plz send a topic... actually this is a title not topic.. any banking sector job or any other kind of job?

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