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Learning outcome 1: Demonstrate an understanding of the research planning process, business research methods and understanding importance of professional ethics, and of how to recognize and address ethical issues when they arise in a business research project.

Learning outcome 2: Apply concepts of business research to business scenarios.

Learning outcome 3: Develop a research proposal, research project plan, literature review to be able to solve business problem and explain research outcomes.

Business Research Project groups are normally 3 persons BUT a 'solo group' is a group of 1 person. As the first three assessments are designated group assignments, the submission link will only be available to you if you are enrolled in a group.

Thus, if you do not join a normal three-person group, and you intend to work alone, you must still enrol in a group but it will be a 'solo group'

6. Demonstrate an understanding of the research planning process, business research methods and understanding importance of professional ethics, and of how to recognize and address ethical issues when they arise in a business research project.

7. Apply concepts of business research to business scenarios.

8. Evaluate the impact of existing business research in a business environment.

5. Develop a research proposal, research project plan, literature review to be able to solve business problem and explain research outcomes.

Report on Literature Review

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the research planning process, business research methods and understanding importance of professional ethics, and of how to recognize and address ethical issues when they arise in a business research project.
3. Evaluate the impact of existing business research in a business environment.
4. Evaluate and compare various business research methodologies then apply them to a specific business research project.
5. Develop a research proposal, research project plan, literature review to be able to solve business problem and explain research outcomes.
6. Evaluate professional practice issues in business research.
7. Justify chosen research methodology (quantitative/qualitative) and explain procedures for data collection, proposed data analysis, and limitations of your proposed study.

Research Project Development (including Topic, Problem Statement, Research Question), with Team Charter Appendix

Assessment - Topic Development

Clearly identify your chosen topic, having carried out some basic review of available secondary data to secure your interest (e.g. at least 3 academic articles, plus a business report, plus a relevant current news item). Indicate the Research Problem, as you see it so far, and at least ONE research question at this stage (additional questions may be defined as you progress with this unit).

Unless you are a SOLO GROUP (i.e. one person working alone) this assignment also requires the addition of an appendix in which you list the student numbers and names of your team members and complete a Team Charter, indicating what role(s) each will contribute throughout the project.

Assignment 1 Specifications

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. Your tutor's main role will be to FACILITATE you through the process, week by week. The learning will be progressive, so for best results you will need to be listening to the weekly lectures as well as in contact with your tutor during the interactive tutorials.

Assignment 1 - the Topic Development - is to ensure you have given sufficient thought to the topic you are choosing to base your research project on. For this assignment the topic you choose must be a business problem relevant to the state in which you are based in Australia and must be specified as related to a particular industry that is relevant to that state.

You must select one of the 12 listed interest areas. The one you select must hold your interest for the full 12 weeks. You do NOT need to request approval for your topic and DO NOT expect your tutor to allocate you a topic. You are required to develop your topic to ensure that it has relevance as a business-related problem and has a specific Research Question that you intend to try and resolve.

The title must contain the actual business activity/problem that it relates to; and/or the economic sector or industry or company that you are focusing on; the Australian state that you base it on. Naturally then, your research must focus on those specified dimensions. Your research must be as current as what the relevant academic literature supports (typically post-2018)

Select ONE from this list:
• Leadership effectiveness in Australia
• Successful entrepreneurship in Australia
• Business ethics in Australia
• Service management in Australia
• Human resource management policies and practices in Australia
• Successful online marketing of products in Australia
• Family business success in Australia
• A comparative study of Australian MBA degrees
• Learning from corona: an Australian case study (this will be based on a single company of your choice)
• Successful advances in RPA in Australia
• Job opportunities for business graduates in Australia
• A study of how Australians can create revenue streams using social media

You will ideally work within a group consisting of 3 students (i.e. the maximum size of an assignment group in this unit is 3 persons). Your respective contributions in this first assignment (as well as assignments 2 and 3) will be governed by your assignment group's Team Charter, which is an appendix you will submit at the same time as your Topic Development, unless you are working ‘solo'. The Team Charter appendix must indicate what roles will be undertaken by each member of the team. If you are working SOLO, the team charter appendix is NOT required.

Assignment Structure

1. Official Cover Sheet
2. Project Title in full (must contain the actual business activity/problem that it relates to; and/or the economic sector or industry or company that you are focusing on; the Australian state that you base it on)
3. Say why this topic interests you
4. Discuss your initial search for relevant literature and show that it has provided you with a good initial contextual understanding of the topic and its associated business-related problem(s)
5. Define the Research Problem that your team intends to address
6. Propose at least ONE specific Research Question that your team will be seeking to answer through your research project
7. Append a Team Charter (unless working Solo) and include the student numbers and names of your team members.

1. Explain the team's agreed goals and timeline for completion (Due dates, meetings, milestones, deliverables from individuals)

2. Who will be responsible for each activity?

3. What particular team-roles will each member contribute to the team?

4. What are your team's expectations regarding meeting attendance (being on time, leaving early, missing meetings, etc.)?

5. What process will team members follow if they have an emergency and cannot attend a team meeting or complete their individual work promised to the team (deliverable)?

6. What are your team's expectations regarding the quality of team members' preparation for team meetings?

7. What are your team's expectations regarding team members' ideas, interactions with the team, cooperation, attitudes, and team-member contributions in general?

8. How will your team ensure that members contribute as expected to the team and that the team performs as expected?

9. How will you collectively manage members whose performance is below expectations?

10. Add any other team agreements and commitments here

Attachment:- Assignment -Development.rar