Research Proposal
Supplementary Assessment
“Project Management Graduates in the Australian
Market.”
Task Description
Project management discipline is continually
evolving. There is currently an overwhelming body of research that was
conducted to fill a knowledge gap by contributing to existing literature,
improving processes or exploring best practices in various aspects of project
management. This individual assignment tests your essential research
competencies needed to plan for the execution of a research project around the
given area of research. It primarily assesses your understanding of the
conception and planning stage of the inquiry process.
This Supplementary Assessment requires you to
develop a "Research Proposal" of up to 2200 words excluding
references and appendices. The due date for submission is Friday (20 July 2018)
17:00 pm AEST.
Task
The assignment requires you to work independently
and develop a proposal relating to an area of research around “Project
Management Graduates in the Australian Market”. You can use the supplied
Research Topic Generation Tool to construct your focused topic. For example,
you may construct a focused topic like: “Investigating the challenges facing
project management graduates in the context of the construction sector in
Melbourne”.
You will conduct a literature search to identify
relevant scholarly sources that have covered similar studies worldwide in the
last few years. You will provide a review of the most two relevant scholarly
articles. The review must start by commenting on the reliability of the
selected articles with evidence. The review then should include a summary of
the key arguments, findings and limitations of each article relevant to your
research topic. You must paraphrase any sentence you cite by using your own
words and. The review process should lead you to identify a potential gap or an
opportunity that may warrant further research. You can distil this gap or
opportunity from any explicit or implicit limitations, the recommendation of
further research and flaws in any of the two articles.
Next, you must derive at least two research
questions around the given topic. Your research questions are expected to be
unique and different to other students undertaking the same project. Then, you
are required to decide whether or not an in-depth interview method would be
appropriate to answer your research questions. You must provide reasons for
your decision, supported by evidence from the available resources in Moodle
site, and propose an alternative method if applicable. Then, you must explain
the data collection process in detail to answer your research questions.
You must provide a personal reflection statement to
explain the extent upon which the project management methodology that you
learnt in week 2 of Term 1 was helpful or unhelpful in undertaking this
project. You must provide a hyperlink for the shared google folder containing
your stored data in organised sub-folders. You must also provide the milestones
list of the execution stage of the research that you may execute during Term
2.
You must note as part of this assessment, you may
be required to attend a face to face interview to do a further written assessment
to confirm your authorship and full understanding of the submitted work.
Specifications:
Your research proposal should not exceed 2200
words. The proposal must substantially include the following components:
1.
The focused research topic around the given area of
research.
2.
A review of the two most relevant articles to the
given topic. Start with the full reference of each article. (600 words).
3.
Two research questions.
4. Justification of the need and significance of
research (500 words)
5. Selection and justification of the research method
(300 words).
6.
Data collection process (400 words)
7. A Reflective Statement on adopting PM methodology
in undertaking this project (300 words).
8. A hyperlink of the shared Google folder showing
your organised data.
9. A Milestones List of all deliverables of the
project as described in PPMP20016.
10. A list of used references including a direct
hyperlink of the source at the bottom of each reference.
Please note the following details:
- Referencing
should be in a consistent style - typically Harvard formats.
- You
must use CQU library as a primary search engine.
- Upload
your file in a Word format only.
- You
must not use any of your previous work in preparing this assignment.
- You
must upload all sources downloads, previous versions of your assignment and
a list of links for other resources used to develop your work in the
assigned google drive folder under a sub-folder entitled “Supplementary
Assessment”.
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