BMGT6021 Critical Enquiry Research Project

1. Demonstrate cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis, synthesis, creative problem solving and decision making within conditions of ambiguity, uncertainty and inherent tension.
   
   
2. Engage with multiple perspectives, in the spirit of PRME, to articulate and defend a personal position on a pervasive contemporary organisational and business issue.
   
   
3. Exercise initiative and personal responsibility for own adaptive and collaborative learning and personal professional development.
   
   
4. Design and implement an investigation which: takes account of multiple and possibly conflicting stakeholder objectives; applies suitable research approaches in an ethical manner; and communicate, using suitable technologies, with the intention of making recommendations and generating change.
   
   
5. Critically engage with data and one's own and others’ research. This will involve evaluation of knowledge claims, taking account of analytical rigour, assumptions, quality of argument, and sources of bias.

Part A: 2000 word literature review and associated research design

Building on your research proposal your task is to develop a literature review and research design. The research design will summarise the research that you plan to undertake. Your review and design should include:

1. Justification for your research based on a review of relevant and credible literature. You should demonstrate understanding of current debates in the literature, including relevant theoretical perspectives.
2. A clear statement of a research questionand associated research objectives
3. A research designthat is informed by an understanding of research approaches and methods, that establishes an appropriate timetable of activities, and addresses research ethics. It should be clearly linked to the research question, research objectives, and the literature review.

Note: the research design will be worth 30% of the marks available for this assignment task.

Part B: 3500 word research report

You are required to write up a report of the research project that you have undertaken. Your research report should include:

1. An Summarise in no more than 1000 words, the purpose of the research, key literature and your research design.
2. Presentation, justification and discussion of findings.The findings should be critically analysed especially with respect to reviewed literature. Linkages between your research question, research objectives and resultant findings should be demonstrated.
3. Conclusions and recommendations.Provide justified conclusions and recommendations for change. Suggestions for future research are articulated. These should emerge naturally from / clearly link with the presentation and analysis of the findings
4. Critical reflection on the research process.Critical reflection on the research process including proposed research design, implementation of the research design and data analysis. Recognition of limitations and specific and justified explanation of how they might have been overcome.