Topic 6 – Motivation

HI Trephena,

Thank you for your reply, things started becoming more clear.
Few more questions:

Do you think that I have enough time to complete RAP for May submission.
I know that this depend on how much time I can spend on it. I am full time worker and I am not familiar with writing RAP.
I am willing to spend most of my free time on the thesis but I am still concern how long it would be take.

Secondly, with regard to the topic 6 do you have any suggestion where I can find secondary information needed for the RAP?

Thanks in advance for your support
Best Regards

Gabriella

Yes planning now for May 2018 should give you plenty of time. You do need to have a clear methodology and explain this in Part 2 and understand how to conduct valid operational research so read up on these (most basics statistics books usually will contain a chapter on this).

Secondary data will normally consist of staff handbooks, staff policies on promotion and training, and statistics produced by the company on absenteeism, staff turnover, staff productivity. If you can get the average number of employees for the last few years you will be able to calculate profit per employee by dividing operating profit for each year by the relevant number of employees.

You will have to have a letter from a senior manager in the company authorising your research as this has to be included in your appendices.

I think you will have to see what you can get. However you should avoid making sweeping statements that are unsupported by secondary data. For example this was some feedback to a failed student on this topic (I think what the marker was getting at was that the analysis had to be put into some sort of appropriate context and that to a certain extent the analysis lacked depth and reliability in this respect) :

“What would be better given this topic, would be for you to show evidence that you have identified and read company documents on elements such as official HR policies as you yourself have included comments to the effect that poorly formulated company policies can lead to demotivation. So here are some examples of the types of policies you should be reviewing: for recruitment, retention, training, salaries and benefits, welfare issues; board papers or other management reports which discuss motivation or retention and salary issues; interviews with HR or the most senior person responsible for HR issues/employment issues; and some evidence of your looking outside the organisation to similar sized and/or type of companies/organisations to obtain details of their recruitment and HR policies with which to compare and challenge your respondents views or the views of management in your chosen organisation. Please ensure you include details of those internal company documents that you read and use in your report by way of appropriate citation and inclusion in your list of references.”

Hi guys

I’ve a quick question. When referencing survey results can i reference directly to the excel worksheet (appendix) which has all the results. This is to correlate information as it is difficult to do combination graphs without getting them too complicated.

Hi helpers,

I just wanted to confirm while taking permission from organisation to let me allow to distribute questionnaires and get the employees feedback. Is it ok if they write on their letter head that:

We are allowing Muhammad Ahsan Jawaid, ACCA reg no. Xxx to distribute questionnaires to our company employees and get their feedback.

The information collected will solely be used for his project submission to Oxford Brookes University.

Signed from HR senior manager.

Will this do? Or do I need to ask for something more?

Thanks Trephena for your prompt response.

Can you please let me know that is it ok if the company that has given me authorization is a private limited company but a multinational. Can i write RAP on this topic taking such a company?

As long as you have a properly authorised letter and there is some publically available information i.e. something reasonable (its website and web pages of information) comes up on the internet search that proves the organisation exists it should be fine.

(There have been issues in the past where students or their mentors have not only made up data but also invented organisations. Falsification is a breach of the University Academic Regulations and such students have been found guilty of Misconduct. Not only is their work given a zero grade [a fail for everything] it still counts as one of their submissions and furthermore the resubmission is subject to a penalty resubmission fee of GBP 600)

Hi friends,

A quick question in primary research, are questionnaires and the feeback from employees of questionnaires enough or do we have to conduct interviews as well.

Thank you for the response.

But what if the selected company is ok with the fact that I am submitting questionnaires and getting feedback from employees but reluctant with letting me have an interview with HR manager because of:

1. They are very busy and can hardly take out time for interview.

2. The question relating to interview such as Companies policies on promotions, staffs productivity and absenteeism are confidential information which they are not willing to speak on.

Please guide me if I have enough feedback on questionnaires which are linked to theories and if I also include latest practices such as long working hours, work life balance etc.

Do I stand a chance of scoring a pass grade? Though I’ll try to get secondary data which I had to ask in the interview section.

A quick response will be very much helpful.

Please can anyone guide me that whether do I have to refer analysis (done with questionnaire survey) via Harvard referencing or manual referencing. My referencing title is e.g. “Writer Research survey, Question # 14, 2018”.

If done with Harvard referencing than what will be the type of source?

An urgent response as i am submitting tomorrow.

I am actually running out of few words. Can you please guide me that in the analysis section can i refer to any questionnaire reference as e.g. ( Appendix 1, Q4, 2018)

Please also tell me that should I write 2018 or not in the above reference.

While submitting report, I am not getting separate field for uploading research report in the OBU portal dashboard.

What should I do? Should i upload “Research Report” in Appendices section?

I am getting separate fields for all other files i.e. SLS, Presentation, List of Reference, etc. Just project report field is missing.

I have to submit report today so quick response will be helpful.

Thanks

Yes