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1.7 Finding a Management Problem - Coggle Diagram
1.7
Finding a Management Problem
While looking for a mgmt problem It is important to:
Keep it simple (the principle of parsimony).
Do not try to do too much (reserve your ambition to getting it right – quality vs. quantity).
Be patient and realistic (do things properly at each stage – yet proportionately to the importance of the task).
Break down your problem into a solvable, sequence of manageable tasks (i.e., schedule).
Plan, and execute each stage (task) of the investigation with sufficient resources to do a good job (time/project management).
ten steps that will help researchers make a good start to a project:
You need a supervisor
You should expect to talk things over with your peers
Accept that criticisms may be useful
Start with a clear understanding of resources issues
Don’t firm up your project plan too soon
But you do need to settle on a research topic
You should pre-plan your working system
start searching literature
looking at the ethics approval form
familiarise yourself with data managemen
Make a list of the resources you will need and start collecting them
Make sure you stick to the requirement of your course
Stay in touch with your favourite textbooks
Plan your timetable
Stages of a management project
Identify problem
Investigate
Define
Develop solutions
Implement
Evaluate
Write up
Collis and Hussey (2014, p.9) offer the following six step process
Choose a topic & search the literature
Review the literature and define the Research Question
Design the Research and write the proposal
Collect data
Analyze & interpret the data
Write the dissertation
Once you have a project proposal, you can apply for ethics approval.
The model identifies four key phases: planning, literature searching, solution development and the writing up phase.
Solution development phase
Here you develop, potentially implement, and evaluate your solution. Whether you implement or not,
If you haven’t been able to implement, there is still opportunity to evaluate
You can draw on literature to show that the solution is credible and how it will address the management problem.
Offering a partial solution is better than no solution and acknowledging the weaknesses or limitations of your solution will strengthen your report
Literature searching phase
You should try to do most of your literature searching during steps two to five,
Writing (write up) phase
The best approach is to ‘write as you go’.