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HI6008 Business Research Project Assignment - Report on Literature Review - Holmes Institute
Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) - This assessment item seeks to ensure that all students enrolled in the Capstone Unit - Business Research Project - are competent at sourcing relevant and current literature using academic search portals, such as Pro-Quest, and other places where high quality secondary data resides.
Furthermore, this assessment requires students to not only read and summarise what other authors have already established, but also to become skilful at weaving together complementary or contrasting arguments relevant to their approved topic, research problem, and research question(s). This assignment builds on and extends the topic that was selected for Assignment 1.
Purpose - This unit aims to give you an opportunity to combine many facets of your acquired MBA skills into the production of a high-quality research project.
Assignment 2 - the Literature Review - is designed to ensure that each team member masters the skills of searching, locating, reading, summarising, and using relevant academic literature as secondary data to support a compelling discussion of factors central to the identified and specified research problem and crafting an 'argument' that brings the reader closer to a prospective answer to the specified research question(s).
Your tutor will FACILITATE the process, week by week, in the tutorials, BUT remember that this is a 'learn-by-doing' unit, in which you will spend a significant amount of tutorial time discussing and practising research skills. The learning will be progressive, so for best results you will need to be listening to the weekly recorded lectures as well as participating in the interactive tutorials and using the discussion board to interact with other students in your cohort.
Assignment Structure should be the following:
1. Cover Page
2. An opening statement of the Research Problem (RP) and Research Question (RQ) - your explanation of these should at this stage be more detailed than what you wrote in your Topic Approval and identification of appropriate body of existing knowledge.
3. Discussion of major theories, models or streams of influence relevant to the RQ. This provides evidence that you are able to find literature relevant to a deeper understanding of your Research Question (RQ) as well as a model or theory that will support your quest to answer it.
4. Quality of Literature cited, drawing the reader's attention to any contrasting views expressed in prior research in this area and give your view of how differing opinions can be brought together to help answer the research question and ultimately resolve the research problem.
5. Discussion of current state of knowledge, with logical structure.
6. Evidence of understanding, flow, and academic argument.
7. Converge on how this literature review has brought you closer to an answer to your research question(s).
8. Ensure all in text citations are correctly referenced. [10-12 academic sources are required]
9. Add a comprehensive List of References, in Holmes adapted Harvard referencing style.
10. Append a statement indicating 'who wrote which sections of this report'
Some academic journals and news articles -
1. Factors that Influence Successful Organizational Change in Corporations: Examination of Change Management, Employees' Reaction to Change, and Change Outcomes by Augustus Dee Roberts
2. Woolworths announce a change in leadership by Stone, David. Food Magazine; South Melbourne (Apr 2011).
3. Culture of growth by Cha, Sandra; Chatman, Jennifer. Financial Times; London (UK) [London (UK)].
4. 'Dark days' over as Woolworths culture change drives rebound by Mitchell, Sue. The Australian Financial Review; Melbourne [Melbourne]. 29 Nov 2017: 13.