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Microsoft Word - BUS606 Assessment 2 S2 2020 Assessment Information Subject Code: BUS606 Subject Name: Literature Review for Master of Business Research Project Assessment Title: Assessment 2 – Literature review Weighting: 35 % Total Marks: Length: 35 2500 (not including reference list) Due Date: Submission due Week 9 – Sunday at 11.59 pm COURSE: Master of Business (Research) Unit: Business Research Proposal and Literature Review Unit Code: BUS606 Type of Assessment: Assessment 2 – Literature review Unit Learning Outcomes addressed: (a) Demonstrate an advanced ability to initiate and prepare an original research proposal. (b) Demonstrate an advanced ability to prepare a literature review based on the support of an original research proposal. (c) Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the ethical issues associated with an original research proposal and their implications for the research and the acceptability of the research by an ethics review committee. (d) Critically evaluate the coherence, relevance and methodological merits of a given body of literature. (e) Demonstrate a critical understanding of the theoretical, practical and professional contexts and significance of the research. (f) Prepare a literature review that identifies and discriminates between concepts, issues, key findings and relevant theories most pertinent to the research proposal which the review supports. Criteria for Assessment: Knowledge and understanding Content and exploration of theories and ideas Analysis, synthesis and critical engagement Technical skills and referencing Assessment Task: Students are required to submit a literature review for their chosen project Your literature review should be shaped by your argument and should seek to establish your theoretical orientation, along with your methodological choices. Your literature review needs to conclude with what you have demonstrated as a ‘need for research’ in the area. This is the primary statement for the justification of the research project. The literature review needs to be organized with sub-headers in a meaningful manner based on your research topic. The language used in a literature review is often evaluative and demonstrates your perspectives of the literature in relation to your research question. Your 'voice' or your perspective, position or standpoint, should be identifiable in the literature review. It is important that, firstly, your theoretical position is clearly and strongly stated and that your critical evaluations are an integral part of this document. Secondly, it important that your language indicates your own or other writers’ attitudes to the research question. The literature review always ends with a research question that will be the focus of the Master of Business Research thesis. You should follow the outline below: Title of literature review: In not more than 12 words state the title of your proposed research project and literature review Research Cluster: Identify the Research Cluster aligned to your research project Cluster 1: Leadership and Management of Large Corporations Cluster 2: Leadership and Management of Not-for Profit Organisations Cluster 3: Leadership and Management of Start-ups, SMEs and Family Business Cluster 4: Leadership and Management of Technological and Digital Transformation Cluster 5: Leadership and Management of Sustainable Business Operations Cluster 6: Leadership and Management of Government and Multilateral Organisations Cluster 7: Leadership and Management of Tourism and Hospitality Organisations Introduction Provide an overview of the literature review. Indicate the objectives of the literature review. Literature review Use relevant headings and sub-headings to organize your literature review. Conclusion Your conclusion should provide a summary of the literature and show the gaps in the literature to be addressed by the research project, the proposed methods to be used and the expected contribution to the field of research from undertaking the research project. Submission Date: Week 9 (online submission). Total Mark & Weighting: 35 marks | 35% Students are advised that any submissions past the due date without an approved extension or approved extenuating circumstances incur a 5% penalty per calendar day, calculated from the total mark e.g. a task marked out of 15 will incur a 1.75 mark penalty per calendar day. Marking rubrics Criteria HD (High Distinction) 85%-100% DN (Distinction) 75%-84% CR (Credit) 74%-65% P (Pass) 50%-64% F (Fail) 0%-49% Knowledge and understanding 5 marks Command of the topic, unusual creat ivity, perception and insight, all suggesting that work should be published in an academic forum. Demonstrates command of the topic by showing creativity, perception and insight — a serious contribut ion to the academic debate. Demonstrates a well- informed understanding of the topic by showing creativity and insight — a serious contribution to the academic debate. Understanding of contemporary academic debate, with some creative input and insight, with a tendency toward description. Limited/poor understanding demonstrated. Any creative input is somewhat off the point. Content and exploration of theories and ideas 10 marks Outstanding selection that makes a substantial contribution to academic debate. Outstanding select ion from a wide relevant and innovative range of perspectives and sources. Selection from a wide and relevant range of perspectives and sources that draws upon contemporary academic debate. Relevant selection from a range of perspectives and sources. Sources are mostly integrated into the overall argument. Narrow selection, minimal use of sources, to support the argument. Analysis, synthesis and critical engagement 15 marks Outstanding use of source material. Excellent argument that is of the highest academic quality. Sources very well integrated into the overall argument. Clear well structured argument that is well crafted and Sources well- integrated into the overall argument. Clear, cogent and well- structured Mostly clear, cogent and well- structured argument. Demonstrates crit icality and Sources are not properly integrated into the argument. Absence of clear and cogent argument. Incomplete analysis Critical distance and outstanding analysis of the question, to a high degree of excellence. cogent. Crit ical distance and outstanding analysis of the question. argument. Critical distance and sound analysis of the question. general ly good analysis. with a tendency to accept the source material at face value. Technical skills and referencing 5marks Referencing impeccable using appropriate conventions. No errors in grammar or spelling. Referencing clear and accurate using appropriate conventions. Virtually no errors in grammar or spelling. Referencing clear and accurate using appropriate conventions. Good grammar and spelling. Referencing sufficiently clear and using an appropriate convention. Adequate grammar and spelling. References limited/inappropriate. Many errors in grammar and spelling, making it difficult or impossible to read. HOW WILL COVID-19 CHANGE DEMAND FOR OFFICE SPACE? HOW WILL COVID-19 CHANGE DEMAND FOR OFFICE SPACE in Parramatta cbd? Research cluster Leadership and Management of Sustainable Business Operations Research objective Why do we need offices, even if people can work remotely? How much space companies want? And what kind of space? Do we need build extra space in future? What will happen to large offices in central urban locations once we reach a post-COVID recovery phase? Managerial decision-making issues relating due to COVID-19? Motivation for research New ideas about the purpose of the office. Changing attitudes on the role of the office. Questions before organisations to reconstruct how work is done. Priority based working culture. Justification of the importance and significance of the research project A global issue need addressing. Post pandemic strategies are needed to be addressed. A switch to work less days in the office would help most of the costly central locations Another difficulty is combating social alienation and the resultant solitude in the workplace. The future of work will be one of co-designing the workplace with people. Literature review There’s not much research done in the past relating to this issue. https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-its-time-to-go-back-to-the-office-will-it-still-be-there-11589601618 https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-its-time-to-go-back-to-the-office-will-it-still-be-there-11589601618 sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666412720300015 https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/the-return-office-culture-won-t-be-the-same-post-pandemic-20200416-p54kcx https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/the-return-office-culture-won-t-be-the-same-post-pandemic-20200416-p54kcx Data Collection and evidence Quantitative data would be collected using Webforms WhatsApp and USSD integration Phone based interviews Challenges and proposed solutions to these challenges when conducting the research Research issues, ethical issues to collect data Phone interview- It may be hard to verify or more difficult to ask questions that involve observations in the field, or that are sensitive or private, over the phone. Solution- Limit problems that need field comments and omit non-critical questions-the shorter the better. Consider offering rewards to respondents who give their time to take part in the collection of data. Reliability of data could be hard, as not much evidence would be there to compare. Expected contribution to the field of knowledge from undertaking the research It is still too early to make any hard and fast assumptions, but our surprising experiment will force a radical rethink about how individuals function beyond the next level. Most of the big companies are dealing with same question so I believe it would be worth addressed for. References Putzier, K., 2020. How Will Covid-19 Change Demand For Office Space?. [online] WSPglobal. Available at:
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