Assignment Task
Description
This assignment serves as a preparatory stage and intends to develop your research, problem solving, teamwork and reflexive skills relevant to your final Research Proposal assignment, which takes 70% of the overall assessment weighting. In addition, this assignment will form a solid foundation for your final MSc IB Major Research Project which is a 60-credit module (weighting 1/3 of your degree).
During the first five weeks’ seminar sessions you must prepare for and participate in a Learning Conversation (an approximately 30 minutes) based on concepts you have learned on Canvas preparation and in your face-to-face sessions. As a Learning Set you will be exploring key issues associated with the contemporary business and management research practices with the module tutors and with your peers. Reflection and collaborative feedback within the Learning Set during the weekly Learning Conversation will provide an opportunity to share understanding, formulate research problem, identify a relevant literature and develop potential research aim, objectives and question(s) for your final Research Proposal.
Topics to be discussed each week are as following
Week 1 – Nature of Business and Management Research & Research Process
Week 2 – Identifying Potential Research Topic, Aims and objectives
Week 3 – Identifying Potential Literature for your research
Week 4 – Consider Your Own Research Design & Research Philosophy
Week 5 – Developing your own research topic, question (s), aim and objectives . It is mandatory to highlight the Contemporary Business Issue to be addressed for a Specified Organisation.
After each week’s Learning Conversation each member of Learning Set should reflect on their Learning Set’s Learning Conversation and produce reflective piece of work no more than 250 words and no less than 150.
You must individually consider:
What was the week’s topic and what you learned from the Learning Conversation?
How experience from this conversation can help you to build your own research proposal?
