RESEARCH PROPOSAL FORM _ MBA PROGRAM
RESEARCH PROPOSAL FORM _ MBA PROGRAM
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Note: The Research Proposal will be the foundation of the project research work being
undertaken by the student. The Proposal will be written of approx. 3000 words; the distribution
of word count for each section is given below against each section title. The research plan
timelines and the references will not be included in the word count.
You will write your answers in this given sheet itself.
1. Project (research topic) Title
The Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Performance at Pharmaceutical Companies in Kuwait
2. Introduction (600 words)
(a) Provide a brief introduction to your research topic, giving out the business company/
industry overview, including the issues/ problems prevalent in the organization/ concerned
industry/ sector.
(b) Give out the aim of the research project, objectives and the research questions of your
project work.
3. Literature Review (1200 words)
(a) Show how your research work fits into the literature available on your subject matter.
Also, show how your research objectives/ questions intend to fill in the gaps and/ or
extend knowledge after going through the available literature.
(b) You must refer to at least 10-12 good sources of literature, out of which at least 6-8 or
more should be references from recognized academic publications found in peer
reviewed articles/ journals.
4. Research Process (800 words)
(a) Give out your research philosophy, research approaches and the methodology you will
follow to conduct the research.
(b) Give out the methods of collecting your primary data, discuss the population and
sampling methods you will use, by justifying the same.
(c) Discuss ethics, reliability and validity measures you are going to adopt in your research
work.
5. Resources Access for Primary and Secondary Data (400 words)
(a) What resources you will access for collection of your primary and secondary data?
(b) What arrangements are being made to access primary and secondary data from your
chosen organisation/ industry?
6. Research plan and timelines of thesis submission
(a) Please provide a plan of stages of your research development and thesis writing, with a
timeline of proposed goals for your program.
(b) Your time-lines should include your plan right from the preparatory stage, to writing the
various chapters of the dissertation, to the final write up and submission of the project.
(c) The time-lines can be put in a tabular form and a Gantt chart made for the same
thereafter.
7. References /Bibliography of planned reading (
a) Please provide references/ bibliography as per the Harvard Referencing System format.
(b) It must contain good quality references from journals/ articles and other good sources.
Tasks' Description Dates
Research Proposal Form (3,000 words) 27th June 2023
Chapter-1 (Introduction) (1,000 words) 27th June 2023
Chapter-2 (Review of Literature) (4,000 words) 2nd July 2023
Chapter-3 (Research Methodology) (1,500 words) 7th July 2023
Chapter-4 (Data Collection, Analysis & Findings) (3,500 words) 14th July 2023
Chapter-5 (Conclusion, Recommendations) (1,500 words)
