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Assignment

Describe and justify your research design for your research question(s) associated with your research study. You may include sub-questions, however, this is not mandatory. It is important that you clearly outline the rationale of your research design, and in addition, provide a clear description of your theoretical or conceptual framework. For example, you may choose a descriptive, exploratory, experimental or quasi-experimental design. Another, but more complex design may be appropriate for your research project, such as a time-series design. You must ensure your design is not flawed; you should discuss it with your tutor and use the industry expert's feedback. Furthermore, you should consider whether or not your study intends to investigate causes, such as scheduled delays associated with highly complex projects or relationships between variables. A qualitative methodology might be more appropriate for exploring how people carry out teamwork tasks in projects or a business scenario.

Discuss your methodology and its appropriateness to answer the research question. For example, you might consider how the question could be answered using a quasi-experimental, time- series and qualitative methodology. In your answer you need to indicate for the chosen methodology:

• Type of data to be collected and / or analysed (e.g., self-report questionnaires, structured interviews, existing data set)
• Description of sample required to answer the question (number of people, relevant demographic characteristics)
• Data collection instrument- questionnaire design, summary of literature for content analysis, or other specific tool
• Proposed data analysis and hypothesis testing, if required (for quantitative research design)
• Advantages
• Discussion of quality criteria, such as validity, reliability, transferability (for qualitative research design) and so on
• Limitations
• Ethical considerations in using the methodology

It is recommended that you start on the assignment early and develop it throughout the trimester, thinking about how you could apply each of the topics that are considered in the unit to the question.

Assignment structure

• Overview/abstract 200 words
• Rationale of research design 300 words
• Research Design 450 words
• Conceptual framework 300 words
• Data collection 300 words
• Data analysis 100 words
• Quality criteria for research 200 words
• Ethics considerations 150 words

TOTAL 2000 words

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