I Am Currently Working On My BUSN4100 Business Research Methods Essay.

Motivation is the core requirement for the organization, for the organizations holding huge number of employees it is required that the same should work towards to help the employees in attaining sustainability and should ensure that they should grow (Ganta, 2014). Employees working at the workplace have the aim to grow so that they could manage their day to day life in a proper way. They want to sustain their future and manage the same so that they could live a healthy as well as happy life. There are certain set of responsibilities towards the employees which are shared by the organizations and are required that the organization should work towards to provide the support to employees working over there (Gray, 2016). Working towards to motivate employees so as to work effectively will help in creating healthy as well as happy working environment.

The research proposal is developed to provide a blueprint for the research with the help of which researcher could get the idea to formulate the actual research (Sauders & Lewis, 2012). The report will include proper description of all set of aspects which are required to be known by the organization so that it could indulge in the activities which could motivate the employees working at the workplace. Proposal will only include the outline for the research as in depth content in relation with the research topic will be discussed in the future research which will be conducted by the researcher in near future as well as after approval of the research proposal prepared by the mentor (Kennedy-Clark, 2013).

With aims and objectives it is hard to develop any research also it cannot be guaranteed that the purpose of the research would get resolved as without objectives it is not possible that a research conducted will guarantee to provide any relevant information. It important for the researcher to formulate the research in such a manner so that its objectives could get fulfilled and appropriate content could be provided to the target users (Hamilton, 2007). Hence, some of the research objectives and questions are:

• Why motivation is required at the workplace? How does it help the organization to move on the path of success as well as sustainability?
• What are the motivational theories which could be adopted by the organization so as to ensure that its employees could remain motivated?
• What are the factors which could help the employees working in the organization to remain motivated?
• How motivation is linked with the performance of the organization?

Before initiating any research or working on the big plans it is required that the focus of the researcher should be developed towards to develop a small plan (Gatrell, et. al., 2015). Working on the small plan helps in availing the guidelines to formulate the actual research. In the same manner to gain relevant idea and to manage the loops and gaps the research proposal is being developed by the researcher. It is being taken into consideration that the researcher will develop a small plan for the research project so that he could work effectively on the core research. A direction will be provided to the researcher with the help of this research proposal to formulate the reliable as well as valid research report (Dennis, et. al., 2012).

Content should be appropriate so that the users of the research could be benefited and it is necessary that the research should provide a support system to the target users with the effect of which they could develop the strategies and could manage the work in a proper way. Hence with the help of the evaluations and studies it could be justified that the research proposal which is being develop by the researcher will help in providing a direction to work on the main research and will help in enhancing the accuracy of the same. Accuracy is one of the most important aspects attached with any research as it helps in helping the target population in developing better and effective set of understanding with the research concept (Fletcher, 2016).

The research report prepared will help in delivering the information which is required for the corporate. Talking about motivation cannot be done in some simple reports, it requires that a research should be conducted by the researcher so as to analyze the in depth aspects of motivation. Research will determine the overview of the people what they think about the same and whether they want to remain motivated or not. With the help of the direction provided by the people discussion regarding the research questions will be help which will help in developing better as well s effective set of understanding with what motivation is and how much requirement does it have at the workplace.

Every research is based on certain set of concepts and frameworks, in the same manner this research is also based on certain set of conceptual frameworks as it will help in fulfilling the requirements of the research report (Borrett, et. al., 2016). The research is based on the concepts of motivation; it will help in availing appropriate data related with certain concepts attached with the businesses like why motivation is important for the organization, what are the motivational theories of motivation attached with any organization. Why it is necessary that employees working at the workplace should remain motivated and how the motivation is linked with the performance of the organization? These are certain set of concepts which will be discussed in this research report (Benson, et. al., 2013).

Motivation is one of the most important aspects for every organization it is a well known fact and each and every single entity knows about motivation (Friedman, 2009). But why it is important and how organizations could manage to ensure that it employees could remain motivated. These are some of the aspects which will be focused upon by the researcher in the research. The researcher will try to formulate the research content which will help in the decision making of the organizations in relation with motivation. Various set of theories as well as researches will be analyzed by the researcher as to effective data for the research could be developed by the researcher (Wright, 2016).

With the help of the past researches researcher will collect the theoretical data in relation with the principles of motivation (Christauskas, et. al., 2013). There are various principles which are attached with the research and are required to be taken into consideration because these principles will help the organizations in maintaining the internal decorum and will ensure to provide the support which is required by them to motivate the employees.

Concept of the development of the research in relation with motivation is to provide the data which is required by the organizations. It is being evaluated that there are many organizations which focuses upon work rather than the employees working in them (Jaffar & Kappagomtula, 2015). Due to this reason the performance of the organization constantly declines as people working over there develop the feeling of boredom and start leaving the organizations. In this situation it becomes necessary that a research should be conducted in relation with the factors which could help in enhancing the performance of the organization. The conceptual framework developed for the research in this research proposal helps in developing a set path for the things which will be included in the final research by the researcher (Langen, 2013). This will help in clearing all set of concepts related with the research and will help in ensuring that all the organizations could take relevant support from the research performed and could ensure to maintain the internal decorum of the business.

(Kim, 2013)

The above figure shows a proper framework for motivation and helps in developing the understanding that what are the key determinants of the research (Bermel, 2015). Data related with the key determinants is being provided in which it could be seen that there are two determinants which are financial incentive designs and procurement initiatives. These are the key motivation determinants which will help the researcher to avail appropriate and effective set of content for the research report. This conceptual framework related with motivation will help in understanding that what steps should be taken by the organisation to gather the information related with motivation. What are the factors which will help in determining the usage of motivation at the workplace. Various variables are being taken into consideration to develop better as well as proper set of understanding with the motivation and track record is being kept for the organizational motivation system with the help of which people working in it will be able to remain motivated and will ensure to sustain in the competitive environment of the organisation.

Procurement incentives are aspects which could be adopted by the organisation to ensure that the employees working over there could remain motivated and could ensure to manage the things in a proper way. Giving gifts, rewards, position or recognition will help the employees in remaining happy. It is required that they should get support as well as recognition for the work they are doing. Employees working should enjoy the environment so that they could work comfortably. Allowing them to feel free to use the office equipments will help the employees in making decisions of whether to remain attached with the organisation or not. Applying such type of strategies helps in assuring that employees working could get better as well as effective set of support from the organisation and could enjoy the work effectively.

Then it is required that the motivation drivers should be evaluated by the researcher, these drivers will help in finding the research gap and will ensure to provide a support system for the researcher. It is necessary that the gaps should be identified with the help of the motivation drivers as will help in developing the strategies with the help of which the gaps will be removed and proper support will be provided to the organizations (Brace, 2010). Drivers which help in identifying the strategies helps in ensuring that the employees working at the workplace could remain happy. It is required that organisation should focus upon the factors which could help it to sustain and could provide relevant set of support. Identification of the drivers will help in filling the research gaps and will help in managing developing the research content in a more effective was well as proper way. Identification of the research gaps is one of the most important aspects. A researcher cannot afford any kind of gap in the research because gaps have a direct impact on the authenticity as well as concreteness of the research. Gaps are required to be filled and it could be possible with the drivers of motivation which will be identified by the organisation.

Financial incentive design is the design which determines the incentives which should be provided to each and every single entity working in the organisation. Financial support plays a very vital role in the motivation of the people working in the organisation. It is a well known aspect that people working in the organisation works because they require fund to manage their day to day life. In case if they get some extra incentives which is other than their salary they get motivated and prefer to process the work with quality. Quality helps in enhancing the performance of the organisation and helps in managing the work in a proper way.

Then the researcher will determine the motivation indicators which will indicate the aspects which are related with the motivation. It is necessary that all the indicators should be evaluated which could help in motivating the employees working at the workplace. There are two indicators of the motivation which are goal commitment and organizational justice (Burton, 2012). It is required that the employees working at the workplace should be provided the goals and they should remain committed with the same and organizational justice is another aspect which should be focused upon by the organization to help the employees in remaining motivated.

Then the efforts should be made by the organization so as to ensure that the employees working over there should remain motivated. Employee motivation helps the organization in keeping its employees happy (Creswel, 2014). When the employees working in the organization remain happy then the happy environment is being created with the help of which they prefer to perform effectively at the workplace and ensure that they could provide better set of support to the workplace in which they are working. Efforts of the organisation are the key with the effect of which employees working in it could remain motivation. It is necessary that organisation should apply the strategies with the help of which employees working over there could remain motivated and could ensure to deliver the support which is required by the organisation from the side of the employees. 

The conceptual framework which is being taken into consideration in this research report will help in maintaining the performance of the employees. It will ensure that the employees working at the workplace should remain happy and perform effectively at the workplace. Motivated employees always work effectively and bring quality to the work (Chakrabarti, 2010). Hence, it could be said that motivation is one of the most important aspects attached with any organization.

For every researcher methodology works as a most important aspect to gather the content for a research (Cristini, 2011). It is required that appropriate methods should be applied by the researcher so as to formulate the content. Content of the research can only be formulated by the researcher by taking appropriate set of steps and by choosing the most effective techniques so as to evaluate the research content. This section of the research helps the researcher in providing the direction with the help of which researcher could manage the to develop the content which is effective and which could help in ensuring that the content which is developed by the researcher is being taken from the sources and the techniques which used to develop it are appropriate. Users available in the market should have the knowledge of the aspects from which the information is being gathered by the researcher. Hence, with the help of methodologies section the target users will be able to gain the knowledge regarding collection of data and tools and techniques used by the researcher to develop the content (Fink, 2016).

Using the data collection techniques which could help the researcher in collecting the most relevant data related with the research report (Frels & Onwuegbuzie, 2013). The data collection techniques help in determining the sources of data collection which could be used by the researcher so as to gather data for the research. In this research, researcher has used primary sources of data collection and the secondary sources of data collection. The primary sources of data collection used by the researcher is survey method in which questionnaire will be developed by the researcher to gather primary data in relation with the research (Ganta, 2014). The questionnaire will be filled by the respondents to provide their opinion in relation with the research topic.

Books available in the nearest library, journals of the recent years, articles from the newspapers and for mass information internet will be used by the researcher in which various researches will be analyzed available on Google Scholars website will be used as the secondary source of data collection (Gray, 2016). These are some of the secondary sources which will help in developing the content for the research and will help in ensuring that the research formulated by the researcher is true as well as authenticated and data indulged in the report is valid as well as reliable to be applied at the workplace to promote motivation at the workplace and to help the employees in getting the support from the organization to remain happy and to work effectively at the workplace (Sauders & Lewis, 2012).

Research design helps in providing the blueprint to the research with the help of which actual research could be performed by the researcher (Kennedy-Clark, 2013). With the help of the research design researcher could formulate the content of the research and could provide a support to the companies to grow in the market. Both the methods qualitative as well as quantitative method will be used by the researcher to formulate the data and develop the content for the research. Qualitative method of designing the content will include gathering theoretical data from various secondary sources and formulating the research content (Hamilton, 2007). Secondary sources of data collection will help the researcher in developing the theoretical content and will help in providing it in the literature review section of the research.

Another method of content formulation that will be used by the researcher is quantitative method (Gatrell, et. al., 2015). In this method the data which will be gathered from the primary sources i.e. responses which will be gathered from the respondents will be evaluated, analyzed and with the help of appropriate set of tools the data will be presented in the form of bars, diagrams, pie charts and Gantt charts etc. It is important for the researcher to develop the quantitative content because it helps in reducing the boredom of the target users and will help in attracting the interest of the target users of the users. Interest of the users will be created with the help of quantitative data and the report will be made more comprehensive as well as precise. People will be able to develop their understanding in more effective way with the help of the research report developed by the researcher (Fletcher, 2016).

Sampling technique is the technique which avails the information of the population that will be selected by the researcher so as to gather the information (Dennis, et. al., 2012). The researcher will use random sampling technique to select the target population. Random sampling technique is the technique in which population that will be selected for the responses are not defined; in this researcher visit the places where he can find the target population. Then he provides the information related with the research he is planning to conduct. Then asks whether they are interested to participate in the research or not. With the approval of the target population researcher avail the questionnaire and gather the information related with the research (Borrett, et. al., 2016).

A questionnaire will be developed by the researcher to gather the information from target population and then by taking the help of the experts and mentors gathered information will be converted into the research content. Sampling size in which the number of respondents that will be selected by the researcher will be provided in the core research as it is required that proper number should be determined so as to gather the information from the respondents available in the market. Data gathered from the respondents will be converted and presented in the form of graphical representation and will be availed in the findings and analysis section of the research (Benson, et. al., 2013).

It could be evaluated that the study is being organized in a systematic as well as proper way. All the aspects are being evaluated in a set process and in a proper framework (Friedman, 2009). A step by step process is being followed by the researcher so as to formulate the content for the same. Following such type of activities helps in ensuring that all the processes should be followed be formulated in the way with the help of which project aims and objectives could be clearly determined.

Chapter one of the research comprise of the research proposal in which blue print of the research is being formulated by the researcher. Proposal of research will help in providing a blueprint of the main research with the help of which researcher will be able to provide a structure to the research report. Proposal should be developed because it helps in identifying the gaps and loops which could affect the main research and ensures that the strategies could be developed by the researcher so as that loops and gaps could be filled by the researcher.

Chapter two of the research comprise of case study in which discussion related with all the cases will be held (Wright, 2016). Case studies will be studied by the researcher in which knowledge regarding the motivation will be gained and information related with motivation and various other variables of it will be gathered. Company case study will be taken to develop better as well as more effective understanding with the fact.

Chapter thee include methodologies which are being applied by the researcher to collect data and to formulate the research. Methodology will be developed in which research will provide the description of the tools and techniques which will be used to elaborate the research will be availed. This description will help the target users in developing the understanding that all the authenticated measures are being applied so as to develop the content of the research.

Chapter four will include data presentation in which findings discovered by the researcher will provided. Analysis will be presented in the form of graphical diagrams as well as pie charts. It is being identified that the researcher will develop the quantitative research and for quantitative research it is necessary that he should present the data in the form of graphs and pie charts. Doing so will help in making the research more attractive and providing more better understanding with the topic chosen by the researcher.

Chapter five will include conclusion and recommendation. Whole information gathered will be concluded and then recommendation for the future research will be provided. This will help the target users in developing better as well as effective set of understanding with the research report (Christauskas, et. al., 2013).

(Wright, 2016)

(Benson, et. al., 2013)

This is the section in which the budget will be determined; the budget will help in evaluating all the aspects of the research. This is the section of the research will help in determining the expenses which will incur in each and every activity of the research.

• It is being evaluated that various books will be required for the content of the research and expenses that will incur in the purchase of the books will be about $800. This will cover expense of both online as well as offline expense of the books (Jaffar & Kappagomtula, 2015).
• Primary research will be formulated by the researcher to gather the information. Hence, in questionnaire development to collection of information it will require approximately $3000.
• Tools will be used for data representation and for formulating the research content. Expenses which will incur in the purchase of tools will b about $1200. Hence, the total expense which will incur in the research is $5000 (Langen, 2013).

(Kim, 2013)

Bermel, N. 2015, "Corpora and quantitative data in Slavic languages", Russian Linguistics, 39(3), 275-282.

Brace, I. (2010). Questionnaire Design: How to plan, structure and write survey material for effective market research, 2nd Ed. London: Kogan Page.

Burton, K. (2012). A Study of Motivation: How To Get Your Employees Moving. SPEA Honors Thesis Spring 2012.

Creswel, J. W. (2014). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. California: SAGE Publications.

Chakrabarti, A. 2010, "A course for teaching design research methodology", AI EDAM, 24(3), 317-334.

Cristini, A. (2011). Employees’ motivation and high performance workplace practices. Retrieved 03 02, 2016, from http://www.sole-jole.org/12477.pdf

Fink, A (2016). How to conduct surveys: A step by step: Beverly Hills. CA: Sage

Frels, R., & Onwuegbuzie, A. (2013). Administering Quantitative Instruments With Qualitative Interviews: A Mixed Research Approach. Journal Of Counseling & Development, 91(2), 184-194.

Ganta, V. C. (2014). Motivation In The Workplace To Improve The Employee Performance. International Journal of Engineering Technology, Management and Applied Sciences, 144-155.

Gray, D. E. (2016). Doing Research in the Real World. Retrieved 03 01, 2016, from http://www.sagepub.in/upm-data/58626_Gray__Doing_Research_in_the_Real_World.pdf

Sauders, M., & Lewis, P. (2012). “Research methods for business students”. Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall.

Kennedy-Clark, S. (2013). Research by Design: Design-Based Research and the Higher Degree Research student. Journal of Learning Design, 6(2), 122-128.

Hamilton, D. (2007). Bridging Design & Research. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 1(1), 29-30.