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Assignment: Indian Expatriates Challenges in the USA
"Challenges Faced by Indian IT Expatriates in the USA": A Comparative Analysis of Work-Life Balance, Cultural Adjustment, and Career Development.
Foundational Questions for a Dissertation
1. What do you want to know?
2. Why should the academy care about this subject?
3. What is your research question?
4. What data can aid in our understanding of this question?
5. How can you obtain this data?
6. Describe the population and sampling for this study.
7. Describe instrumentation that will be used in this study.
8. Describe methodological procedures.
9. What is the theoretical rationale for choosing this method?
10. How is the data analysis performed?
11. How will you show the data is valid and reliable?
12. What are the assumptions, limitations, and delimitations of the study design?
13. What are the potential ethical dilemmas you may face in this research?
14. What are the key terms an outside reader would need to understand in reading your dissertation idea?
15. What is the value of this research to business practice?
If you have answered the "Foundational Questions" (below) you will be in good shape for this question. Also know the answers to the following:
1. Provide details on how your question is specific enough to be the basis for a study that can be conducted directly and efficiently?
2. In what ways does your research question have sufficient depth and breadth for dissertation research and the eventual dissemination of academic knowledge?
3. How will the methodology employed retrieve the needed data to answer the stated research question?
4. How is your research question direct related to your study? How might it be conflated? What multiple studies are included in your research?
5. What is the title of your dissertation? Is the core research question reflected?