Business and Management

For a project management topic of your choice produce a research proposal which addresses the key elements required to ensure the research is considered credible. Please note that this proposal will form the basis for your Business and Management Research Report. You should, therefore, think carefully about the research topic you select for your proposal as this will have a further impact on your studies. You should focus your work upon addressing: Introduction (5% of the total mark)This should be kept very brief and outline what is to be addressed, what the purpose of the proposed research is, and where the research is located (context).Research Questions & Objectives (15% of the total mark)A clearly specified research question providing a focus for the research. The research question should be narrow and deep. One research question is preferred, but a maximum of two may be suitable if the questions are closely related. Objectives should be specified using the SMART or similar criteria.Literature Review (30% of the total mark)This should be a mini literature review which seeks to identify the current state of knowledge of the literature in the area within which your research question is located. You should identify key themes, strengths and limitations of existing literature and communicate understanding of where your research fits within this wider context.Methodology (35% of the total mark)This section needs to identify the key area areas that a methodology should address. This includes: research philosophy (ontology and epistemology), the research approach, the research design, the research strategy, time horizons and the data collection and analysis methods to be adopted. The work also needs to consider issues relating to reliability and validity (or their qualitative equivalents) and ethics.Reflections (5% of the total mark)You should provide a brief reflection concerning how you have developed during the construction of your research proposal.Presentation (10% of the total mark)The work should be professionally presented. Citation support and references should be Harvard style. The structure of the work should be logical and clear.

discuss the implications of social media and Web 2.0, particularly their disruptive character. An overview of the ways in which the internet has disrupted and transformed business models (e.g., the emergence of the platform economy); journalism (with the emergence of citizen journalism); cultural production (e.g., ‘participatory culture’ and ‘convergence culture’); civil society and social movements (with the debate around online activism, digital protest and ‘social media revolutions’); etc., would offer a useful background for the question, to what extent social media have disrupted and transformed family communication and family structures. You must add some citations for (Arne Hintz) from some of the following references.

Diversification strategies raise a wide range of strategic management issues. For this assignment, select a Saudi Arabiain company whose strategy includes or included diversification and explore its motives, competitive advantage, and strategic planning based on the topics from Chapter 12.1.    Identify and provide company strategic details and consider what circumstances existed that motivated this company to diversify.2.    What mode of diversification did the company adopt? How does this relate to their resources and capabilities?3.    What are the benefits of diversification in this industry and how significant are they in the shape and growth of the industry?4.    Discuss the implications of the strategy chosen for the:

You are head of the union representing staff at a hospital. You are asked to write a letter to the CEO with reccomendations to terminate the Human Resource Director.  You must be convincing as possible with your arguments

Evaluate and Select Strategic Alternatives

Adapted from Managing Human Resources, by Randall Schuler. 1994, West Publishing.

TOPIC: For a business or organization of your choice, do research on how its marketing techniques have evolved over the past 30 years.

After reading the case “Bayer, Ethics, and the Anthrax Scare: Leveraging National Crisis for a Public Relations Bonanza” by Gringarten & Fernández-Calienes, pages 69-79, write a case study using the Case Analysis Outline attached below.