Topic 6 – Motivation

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.

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).

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.

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.

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?

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

Hi, can we use “google form” to create the survey?

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?