Your supervisor will ask you to produce a proposal (including 250-300 words abstract) so that you and s/he can agree a feasible plan for implementing your dissertation. The proposal should be approximately 1,500 words long (not counting abstract, references and bibliography).
This proposal will talk about the saudization in KSA .
1.why the saudization is important in the KSA.
2.How the private sector in KSA will effect the Saudization percentage.
3.how can we attract the qualified Saudis candidates and to attract the Saudi by offering them job security , better holiday. especially women in leadership in organization such as Banking and recruiting and retention , education, business development and how does effect that in KSA as well and to have some theories and influences and exploring cases of women's who succeed and failed though the leadership organization. Notes My company is involved in Constructions and Operation Maintenance and how does this job can be lead by women's and how does it impact to the organization.
The proposal should have the following sections and sub-sections:
Section/Sub-section Headings |
Indicative content |
Title |
If necessary use a title and subtitle |
Abstract |
Summary of the research topic describing the major issue(s), your proposed methodology and possible findings and justification for the study. |
Table of Contents |
List of all major parts and divisions (including the abstract, even though it precedes the table of contents). |
1. Introduction (Terms of Reference) |
What the research project is to achieve? |
· Research Rationale (Statement of Problem), |
What is the underlying rationale and aim of your research? What in your experience prompted it? Why are you doing it? |
· Objectives (Purpose of Research) |
What is the study trying to achieve (i.e. is your purpose to explore, describe, understand, explain, predict, change, or something else)? |
· Research question (or propositions or hypotheses) |
What is your research question(s)? or proposition(s)? |
2 Critical Literature Review (Indication of the literature that informs your research) |
This will be indicative. You will need to identify the key landmark studies in your topic area and will describe how these relate to the issues you intend to look at in your research. You are not expected to have thoroughly read and absorbed all the books and papers you discuss but you will obviously need to know what the papers are about. You will need to provide a preliminary, critical evaluation or assessment of why they are likely to be relevant to your topic. |
· Theoretical/conceptual frameworks (Role of theory) |
From the literature identify working concepts/models and theoretical frameworks that you will use to guide your research - What is the role of theory in relation to your research? In what ways are you using the theories of others? Are you testing theories or building them? |
3. Methodology and methods |
Outline how you plan to go about doing your research. |
· Research Design (description of proposed research - type of study) |
Justify the methodological and philosophical approach you intend to employ. What implications does your approach have for your research design and methods? |
· Research Context (e.g. industry sector, organisation) |
What is the context of your proposed research? Key features, characteristics! Why is it a suitable context? Who will be studied? How many? How will they be selected (i.e. sampling)? |
· Procedure (i.e. what happened from the participants’ perspective, ethical considerations) |
Consider ethics and access to your study sample. Try to anticipate any problem you might have in implementing your method. |
· Methods for data collection |
Describe (and justify) the methods and techniques you plan to use to collect your data. - What sort of data will you collect? How will you collect this data? Why is this method suitable for your question? |
· Methods for data analysis |
Describe (and justify) the methods and techniques you plan to use to analyse collected data. - What type of data analysis will you use |
4. Discussion · Significance of proposed research (Research Contribution) · Research limitation |
A necessarily preliminary statement of what you may find or demonstrate by having undertaken the research. Why it will be important and what the practical or theoretical implications might be. What are the envisaged limitations to your research? |
Provisional work schedule |
A timetable for completing the research indicating the tasks necessary to complete each segment. Don’t forget to include slippage time. |
References |
A list of all works cited in your proposal |
Bibliography |
This is a list of works not cited in your proposal, but which will be followed up in the main research. |
All research proposals must be presented using the Guidelines as follows:-
Emphasis should be made by printing relevant text in italics and underlining should be avoided in preference to bolding.
First paragraphs (after a heading) should be flush to the margin with subsequent paragraphs first-line indented five spaces.
Dates should be written as: 29 May 2001; a decade may be written as: 1990s; pairs of dates may be hyphenated as: 1980-1990.
Single quotation marks should be used when quoting an author; double quotation marks should be used in other circumstances.
Text (excluding titles) should be written using12 points font.
References:
Footnotes are to be avoided and should take the form of endnotes, avoiding unnecessary elaboration. Use brief parenthetical citations in the manuscript text, with all cited sources listed alphabetically in the reference section of the Paper.
Parenthetical citations in the body of the text should include the name of the author of the cited material and the date of the reference, e.g. (Lowi, 1965); include page number of references to a direct quote, e.g. (Downs, 1954: 54).
For multiple listings, citations should be in date order and alphabetical order within the same year; use semi-colons between citations.
For multiple works which have the same author(s) and publication date, use ‘a’, ‘b’ after the date of the cited item, e.g. (Coffman, 1984a). Page numbers for chapters in books are essential.