THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FATORS ON WORKFORCE PLANNING IN CONSTRUCTION
Research Question
- What factors causes the leakage in work force?
- Do workforce problems restrain our ability to meet business goals?
- Are there external changes (for example, legislation) that will affect the work we do and how we do it? Which employee groups will be affected?
Comments from the adviser as the following:
- The two chapter "analysis and conclusion "are weak need more interpretation and expansion.
- The literature review contains a lot from webpages we need to have more from journal paper that to be reflected in the reference.
- The Analysis and Conclusion are weak need more interpretation and explanation of the spss table.
- The literature review need to add more references from journal paper and webpages.
Dissertation Proposal Contents
Title
Introduction
Problem Statement
Literature Review and Key Terms
Research question or hypothesis/ Objectives Importance of dissertation
Scope and limitations
Research Methodology
Resources
References and bibliography
Dissertation Presentation Guidelines
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4. The order of preliminaries for the final submission of the dissertation must accord with the Order of Sections of the Dissertation on the following page.
Order of Sections
a. Front Cover and Spine
b. Title Page
c. Approval Page
d. Dedication (Optional)
e. Acknowledgements (Optional)
f. Table of Contents
g. List of Symbols, Notations and Abbreviations (where appropriate)
h. List of Tables/Figures/Graphs/Cases
i. Abstract
j. Body of the Text (including citations)k. Mathematical Text
I. Appendices to the Dissertation
m. Bibliography
(a) Front Cover and Spine Front cover
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- The name of the university; that is, AHLIA UNIVERSITY
- The Month and Year of final submission of the Dissertation appears at the bottom of the page.
Spine
Information printed on the spine must be in gold-coloured letters in 18- point font size and in the following order:
Name of the candidate (e.g. 1.A. Ebrahim)
Degree Acronym (MBA, M.Sc., etc.)
Volume number (if more than one volume)
- Year, e.g. 2005
The top and bottom margin for the spine should be 60 mm. If a Dissertation is more than one volume, the volume number should be designated using ordinary numerals (1, 2, 3...) rather than Roman numerals (I, II, III ...) in the centre of the spine. Students, whose names are too long to fit on the spine, may use initials, e.g. M.A. Ibrahim.
Title Page
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- The TITLE of the Dissertation report should appear at the top of the Title Page.
- The First and Last Name of the candidate should appear exactly as in the Approval Form
and declaration page.
- The Month and Year of final submission of the Dissertation appears at the bottom of the
page.
- The status of the Dissertation report in relation to the fulfilment of the requirements of the Master's or Bachelor's degree
This section could alternatively be entitled "Additional Reading". It contains references that aren't cited in the text; in fact, they must not be cited in the text.
The presentation of each item in the Bibliography should be in exactly the same format as that used in the Reference list (see the Addendum).