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April 19, 2020 at 7:51 am #568723
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Hey, I am going to submit my RAP on this topic in May attempt. My question is that is it necessary to submit a permission letter of that company on which we are writing our thesis. I wrote my thesis on XYZ, so is it necessary to take a permission letter to conduct a questionnaire in any of its Branch or we can submit my RAP without any Permission letter as I already completed my questionnaire part as the company provided me permission oral?
April 26, 2020 at 9:19 am #569261trephena
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This is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. In fact first you need to get the letter of permission to allow you to use the company signed by a senior named person of the company on the official letter head or via the official company email address. Then you have to forward that to acca@brookes.ac.uk to seek permission to use the company name anonymously.
Unless you comply with this requirement you have not complied with the necessary ethics [see pages 29 and 31 of the Information Pack) and it could be failed for this.
May 20, 2020 at 11:49 am #571318yami
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Trephena,
Thanks you for your support.
On the appendix 10 of the information pack, it is stated that a spreadsheet in excel format which demonstrate us of appropriate formulae MUST be included during submission.
In terms of Topic 6 (Motivation), what can be the the content of the excel sheet considering nature of the topic?
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Yamikani.May 22, 2020 at 9:52 pm #571623trephena
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Yes that’s right you MUST submit a spreadsheet demonstrating used of varied formulae.
For Topic 6 you would normally use a spreadsheet to show your raw data and from that you can sum the number of respondents and then calculate the percentage who responded to each question. There may also be scope to calculate averages (using the AVERAGE function).
May 26, 2020 at 6:50 am #571851yami
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Many thanks for your response Trephena.
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Yamikani.June 30, 2020 at 6:23 pm #575547rena
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Good day,
I almost lost it….. Have no idea exactly what I am to do. However after doing some reading of the topic area I realized its not so hard. I am employed in a rank environment. Can I conduction my research on a particular category of employees instead of the entire organisation? I had received written permission to carry out the research on the organisation.
June 30, 2020 at 8:22 pm #575555rena
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Very informative………….
December 19, 2020 at 6:25 pm #600347mithat
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I have failed topic 6 in p40. I failed 8 out of nine parts. I think i will fail even in my 2nd and 3rd submissions. I have considered leaving it and join local university for a degree program.
I find the project costly and hard to pass and i may fail in all the 3 submissions and end up without getting the degree.December 21, 2020 at 10:29 pm #600508GillianM – OBU Registered Mentor
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Unfortunately Topic 6 tends to have a,low pass rate -mostly because students carry out poor surveys not designed around the classical theories of motivation. This then means the evaluation is inappropriate and therefore this results in fails for 1,2,3 and 6. If the results are not set out in clear graphs then this would also be a fail for 4 (Presentation of the Data) and if the report is based on inappropriate results then the slides are also unlikely to be suitable (so a fail for 9).
Therefore hopefully you now understand how important it is to design and conduct a good questionnaire as without this most of the report will fall to meet the Assessment Criteria.
February 15, 2021 at 7:36 am #610446diannel2012
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Hi, after much research I’ve come across some very interesting questionnaire relating directly to the motivational theories. Can i modify the relevant questions applicable to my organisations and properly reference it in my RAP?
February 15, 2021 at 8:18 am #610467diannel2012
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is it not important to give your overall analysis context?. i.e certain age group are more motivated than others in certain areas. example. Younger employees are interested in training opportunities vs older ones
February 20, 2021 at 8:34 am #611057GillianM – OBU Registered Mentor
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Dianne if you are referring to the motivation questionnaire that appears in Luthans if you choose to do this then you must exercise great caution.
From memory I believe it is based on only one motivation theory – whereas you need to explore about 3 theories. Secondly all work is put through Turnitin, the electronic checking program and it will match text that is similar [it is even ‘clever’ enough to spot efforts at rewording] also Luthans is used as a course textbook so markers will be quite familiar with it. Therefore you need to acknowledge that you have consulted such a questionnaire but have used it to GUIDE your own questionnaire. The operative word is ‘guide’ you need to ensure that it has only be used to inform your work appropriately and make this absolutely clear. Otherwise you could be failed for bad academic practice as work that demonstrates copying and plagiarism is first failed and then deferred and referred to the Academic Conduct Office
Your idea about context in your evaluation is appropriate and also as I may have mentioned in earlier posts, so is looking at modern aspects of the working culture and environment such as flexible working and long-hours culture
February 23, 2021 at 12:26 pm #611434chasadmunir
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Hey I just needed your help to confirm this one thing. If i choose to go for some big organisation like microsoft or apple do I still have to do a questionnaire as there is already a vast amount of research available which i can quote and use to further my own analysis ?
February 25, 2021 at 1:25 pm #611668diannel2012
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Hi, can we use “google form” to create the survey?
February 25, 2021 at 1:26 pm #611669diannel2012
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Thank you for your response.
February 28, 2021 at 7:32 am #612052trephena
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Chasadmunir -you MUST do primary data collection for this topic. You could do Topic 18 (marketing strategies) using just secondary data research for a company such as Microsoft or Apple but definitely NOT Topic 6.
If you consult the University mentee resources on their website there is a guidance sheet which informs you what type of data is required for each topic and you will see that primary data is essential for topic 6. How otherwise can you ascertain the motivation level of employees in the organisation without actually putting together a questionnaire to ask them about this?
February 28, 2021 at 7:35 am #612053trephena
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Google or survey monkey or similar may be used but you need to consider and write up in Part 2 exactly how you designed the questionnaire, how you reached the target audience and how many people actually responded as well as include a copy of the questions in your appendix
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