BUSN20019: Professional Project- Researching Business Problems- Business Report Assignment

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Business Report Assignment:

Task:

Overview
Researching business problems is an important part of professional practice and being a successful business manager and leader. This is a capstone unit that draws upon your area of specialisation and your wider knowledge of business environments both globally and locally. This unit aims to develop your skills in undertaking an independent professional research project. You will engage in conducting an applied research project in your chosen business discipline to identify challenges and develop possible solutions and recommendations. This unit requires independent research and autonomy in review and analysis of secondary sources related to your profession, development of research questions, analysis of data and information, and identification of solutions and recommendations. An important aspect of this unit is to develop insights and provide recommendations that may improve your profession and the roles normally undertaken in business and industry by people in your identified profession.

Details
Career Level: Postgraduate
Unit Level: Not Applicable
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 3
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisite:
BUSN20016 Research in Business.

Offerings For Term 1 – 2018
Brisbane
Distance
Melbourne
Sydney

Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a
mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must
maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period
(satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Website
This unit has a website, within the Moodle system, which is available two weeks before the start of term. It is important that you visit your Moodle site throughout the term. Please Visit Moodle for more information.

1 Project plan and project proposal

Assessment Type
Practical and Written Assessment

Task Description
Unit assessment overview
During this unit, you will complete an individual professional research project that contains a number of cumulative components – this means that Assessment 2 will build on the components assembled in Assessment 1. You will be given significant feedback and feed-forward during and after Assessment 1, which you must use to develop Assessment 2.

In this unit, you will demonstrate a synthesis of the knowledge, learning, business research methodologies, and professional skills that you have acquired and practiced throughout your ENTIRE Masters course. In particular, this unit builds upon your previous work in the unit Research in Business.

However, this time you will actually do a research project. The Professional Project will be based SOLELY on secondary data and it is important that you familiarise yourself early in the unit with the meaning of ‘secondary data’. You will work independently (although within a structure) to plan, carry out and report on an investigation that addresses an issue or problem in business relevant to the profession, towards which you are studying now (this must be one of the following: marketing, accounting, management, or human resource management). Throughout the term, your independent study will be supported by: Moodle resources, interactions with a campus tutor/lecturer, who will provide guidance, and a series of web-based interactions with the unit co-ordinator (these will be scheduled as and when required throughout the term and communicated via Moodle and email).

Assessment 1: Project proposal (40%)

This assessment will be completed in two steps.Step 1, worth 15% of total unit marks: Single-page project plan.

This assignment requires you to submit, at the beginning of week 4, a single page project plan. This project plan will contain five components:
1. A statement detailing your ‘field of research’ – in this, you must clearly explain the relevance of your field of research for the profession, towards which you are studying.
2. A source of secondary data linked to your chosen field of research. You will be required to either include a website with a link to a publicly available secondary data set, or a short description of how you will use publicly available sources as secondary data.
3. A research question or questions that can be answered with the secondary data set you identified; this requires clarity on the questions and possibly a more detailed definition of variables or key themes to be explored.
4. The search terms you propose to use in Google Scholar to identify literature in the field of the research question.
5. Pick (at least) THREE peer-reviewed scholarly articles that arise from the result of your search and that you think will be suitable to become part of your project’s literature review. Write two sentences that combine ALL THREE (or more, if you have chosen more) of these sources (referenced correctly) and provide them in a reference list.

Step 2, worth 25% of total unit marks: Project proposal.
For this assignment, due at the end of week 6, you will be asked to use the feedback from step 1 to prepare a proposal detailing your proposed project. The proposal is to be written in professional report format and contains the following: a short, preliminary literature review that places your project within the context of your profession; a focused research aim, and at least one research question; and a research plan, including: an overview of your proposed methods of data collection and data analysis; Gantt chart schedule; and clear presentation of data sources.

The required length for this report is 1,750 words (+/- 10%), excluding preliminaries, reference list and appendices. You are required to include at least 10 suitable high-quality peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles.

Assessment Due Date
Assessment 1.1 (single-page project plan) is due in WEEK 4 (Friday 30 /03/18 at 11.45am AEST) and Assessment 1.2
(project proposal) is due in WEEK 6 (Friday, 20/04/18 at 11.45am AEST) Return Date to Students Results and feedback will be available in Moodle within 10 business days (2 weeks, excluding university vacation).

Assessment Criteria
As a Masters-level student, you are required to engage in research as per the Australia Quality Framework (AQF) guidelines. Two specific requirements need to be considered. Students need to demonstrate “a body of knowledge that includes the understanding of recent developments in a discipline and/or area of professional practice”, and demonstrate “knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to a field of work and/or learning”.

Each unit in your Masters program has a number of required weekly readings in terms of academic texts, journals and business publications that represent the appropriate body of knowledge and recent developments referred to by the AQF. In order to demonstrate the ability to engage in appropriate research, students should read and utilise these texts and journals and publications, and as a Masters student, demonstrate an ability to research beyond this minimum standard through additional texts, journals and studies that demonstrate an ability to engage in independent research. This is an advanced level course, and accrediting bodies are also looking for evidence of independent research, so the ability to conduct this project without continually relying on your tutors and lecturers is an important part of the learning process for this unit.

You should ensure that you understand the specific research that is required for each assessment piece and recognise that if you merely meet this minimum requirement, you will receive the minimum grade for demonstrated research.

Your attention is drawn to the University’s stated position on plagiarism. THE WORK OF OTHERS, WHICH IS INCLUDED IN THE ASSIGNMENT MUST BE ATTRIBUTED TO ITS SOURCE. A full list of references must be submitted as part of the assessment.

Your assignment will be marked on the following criteria; a detailed marking rubric is available in Moodle:
Clarity and suitability of statement of ‘field of research’
Suitability of data sources
Search terms
Ability to integrate sources into academic writing
Professional presentation and accuracy of work
Quality and appropriateness of references, and accuracy of referencing
Feasibility of project within time-frame
Aim and objectives/research questions
Preliminary critical literature review
Organisation of the project
Written communication

2 Project Report
Assessment Type
Practical Assessment

Task Description
This is an individual, written assessment, to be completed in report format. You are required to write around 3,000 words (+/- 10%), excluding title page, preliminaries, tables, figures, reference list and appendices. The report requires in-text referencing and a full reference list in APA style, with evidence that you have critically read and integrated a minimum of 20 suitable scholarly references.

The purpose of this assessment is to present the final report of the Professional Project you proposed in Assignment 1. This report should build upon both components of your Assessment 1 and it should be developed with the help of the tutor/co-ordinator feedback.

In order to successfully complete Assessment 2, you are required to carry out the investigation you have proposed in Assessment 1 and produce a professional research report that shows that you have followed through from finding a research question to answering that question and developing recommendations that arise from your findings. The report will follow the typical structure of a research report and will need to include the following:

Project title
Introduction (which must include some justification of your topic and your project’s aim and research question(s))
Critical literature review
A detailed presentation of how you carried out your project (commensurate with a ‘Methods’ chapter)
Findings from your secondary data analysis
Discussion of findings in light of your previously reviewed literature
Conclusion, including recommendations and limitations

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