SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
1st section of assignment:
• Introduction: How best should I summarise my first assignment arguments
• What is a professional?
• What is a person in my professional supposed to do in an organisation?
• What differentiates them from other workers?
• YOUR CRITICAL REVIEW ON PROFESSIONALS AND YOUR KIND SHOULD BE FLESHED OUT AROUND HERE, INCLUDING:
• How do they balance technical expertise with general managerial skills?
• How does a professional contribute to an organisation?
• What standards must a professional in my area maintain?
• What level of integrity, ethics must a professional in my area display? And is this something that is mandated by an industry body?
• Overall, what does the literature say about professionals generally and someone with a particular training background, such as a CPA, engineer, marketing specialist, etc.
2nd section of assignment:
• What is an important area of expertise that the professional might achieve?
• Why is it an important area?
• Why is it an important area to research?
• What is the background to the problem, including according to the literature?
• What theories provide a usual way to think about the problem and research the problem further according to the literature?
• YOUR CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE SPECIFIC SUBJECT AREA FOR THE RESEARCH SHOULD BE AROUND HERE.
• What gap in the literature has been researched or the secondary data has identified is important to fill, provide insight?
• What research questions could a study undertaken on the gap be studied to provide more insight?
• Can you derive propositions or hypotheses too? NB. Propositions are usually used for qualitative studies and hypotheses for quantitative studies.
• What would be a good methodology for studying the phenomenon/phenomena and why. YOU SHOULD HAVE A FEW SENTENCES ABOUT WHY A METHODOLOGY WILL WORK, ALTHOUGH DO NOTE THAT YOU WILL NEED TO EXPLAIN THIS IN MORE DETAIL IN ASSIGNMENT 2.
• How would you summarise what you have argued, explained so far so that someone reading this understands professions generally, your proposed profession, an interesting area to study and why?
These questions are not exhaustive but will certainly help.