Assignment:
Create a 3-5 double spaced pages in which you answer the following questions:
1. Revise the following elements of your proposal:
a. Problem statement
b. Management questions and research objectives
c. Exploratory questions and secondary data sources
d. Investigative/research questions
e. The importance/benefits of your study
2. For any items that you have updated, explain why you have decided to make changes.
3. What type of research study will help you to address these questions? Why do you think this is best fit for your design?
4. What is the specific methodology you will use? Why did you select this method? What does it enable and what limitations exist?
5. What is your population and sample? How will you determine your sample? Again, please address why you have identified this sample and what limitations might exist. How would you protect against these limitations?
Assessment
Your assignment will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
• You have defined a management dilemma that is clear and worth exploring. Your problem statement should include the observed symptom and practical business implications.
• You have built out a line of inquiry (exploratory questions, management questions, and investigative questions) that are clearly aligned and differentiated.
• Your research question(s) is clear, measurable, and aligned to your management dilemma.
• Your methodology for conducting a research study is justified in relationship to your research questions.
• You have identified potential limitations of your study and have explained how you will address these limitations.
• Your sampling methodology is clear, feasible, and appropriately representative of your population.
Research Discussion -> base on this to write the research proposal
Define your context (what organization or type of organization is it? what is your role?).
I get the research idea from my last summer internship, one of our team members decided to leave because of low salary. For the rest of team, even though no one has the courage like him, I always hear about the complaints about the salaries. So in this case, the research organization is based on the company with low/ inappropriate salary standard.
From human resource management perspective, the management dilemma can be whether to improve the salary to keep low labor turnover rate.
Explain what problem you are hoping to address.
The management questions: How to keep low labor turnover with a suitable level of salary? (Define suitable level of salary: Affordable total salary amount without conflict with company's interest and benefit. how to keep people without losing money/make sure the company is in the growth state?)
Relation Between Salary, Satisfaction, Productivity
• Keep employee->employee's satisfaction
• The company want to earn money -> improve employees' productivity to build revenue for company.
• Salary -> While many workers claim that job satisfaction and a sense of purpose drive their productivity, salary also plays a distinctive role in how well the employees perform. An employee's overall satisfaction with his job is the result of a combination of factors -- and financial compensation is always one of them.
From analytic perspective, the company could build a model to figure out the suitable level of salary to correlate with employee's satisfaction and productivity.
List your research questions.
Exploratory Questions
• How to make satisfaction measureable and analyzable?
• How to make productivity measureable and analyzable?
Research Question
• What are the factors affecting satisfaction?
• What are the factors affecting productivity?
Scale each Satisfaction and Productivity with list of variable to convert become measureable
Type of research study
• Survey
Identify your variables.
Two big factors are satisfaction and productivity
Variable to scale employee's satisfaction and productivity ->use survey method and collect data by use internal information about each employee performance from human resource department. I will record each employee's salary, workload, sales performance, stress level, working time in each month, over hours, time being in the company, etc.
Describe your research design. What type of research is it? How will you conduct it?
Only using sales performance to decide if the employees are hard working maybe kind of narrow. So I will consider to add more performance scales into my salary predict model. For example, how many customer's complaints do the employee deal with in each month? How many the complaint really solved?
I could also use survey method by collect feedback about each manager or leader from their fellow workmates.
According to add a bunch of variables to find the relationship between employees performance and their salary to get a suitable salary predict model for the company.
Research Proposal Writing Idea
I. Introduction
A. Relationship between salary, employees' satisfaction and productivity for the company or employees
B. Organization Background Management Dilemma
II. Problem Statement
A. Why salary is important.