1 | Project Outline and Topic Presentation (20%) Due Date Week 5 Friday (11-Aug-2017) 05:00 PM AEST Return Date Week 7 Friday (01-Sep-2017) Conditions No Conditions Task Description Please provide an outline of a research project that you intend to use as the basis for your final assessment task 3, full project proposal. You should briefly write: Title of the project (up to 25 words) A brief statement of the problem that you would like to investigate. Research aim and objectives that can solve the problem you have identified. A brief methodology: Provide details about what type of methodology you will choose such as quantitative or qualitative or mixed methodology; what type of study it will be such as exploratory or descriptive or explanatory; what method(s) of datacollection you will use; how you will source the required data; and what methods and tools you will use to analyse the collected data. This is an individual research task. As a Masters student, you are required to engage in research and demonstrate your understanding of the relevant body of works that have discussed recent developments in a discipline and/or area of professional practice. You are also required to demonstrate knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to a real-life business research. We expect you to read and reflect on at least ten recent refereed journal articles on your topic supported by any other evidence or information that can help identify the problem of your research and the methods of data collection and analysis. In addition, as a part of topic presentation, all on-campus students are required to discuss their project topic and ideas during the tutorial sessions in front of other students. You are also expected to provide constructive feedback on each of the group members' project. Distance students will do the same activity in the online discussion forum of the unit Moodle site. Please see detailed guidelines about the project presentation and specific research requirements on the unit Moodle site. You can write 600 words maximum for this assignment. The cover pageand the list of references are not counted in the word limit.  2 | Research Exercise (30%) Due Date Open: Monday/Week 9/09:00 AM; Close: Sunday/Week 9/05:00 PM; Duration: 100 Minutes; Complete in one go. Return Date Results are available once the link is closed. Conditions No Conditions Task Description This is an online and individual research exercise. The online link will open on 9:00 am Monday in Week 9 and will close at 5:00 pm on Sunday in the same week. The link will open for only 100 minutes. You need to complete this task in one go. You cannot exit and re-enter the site. There will be 20 short questions based on several brief case studies. You will read these case studies, do some calculations (if required) and then provide the correct answer to each question. Each correct answer is worth 1.5 marks and 20 correct answers are worth 30 marks. Please see detailed guidelines and practice tests on the unit Moodle site.  3 | Project Proposal (50%) Due Date Week 12 Friday (06-Oct-2017) 05:00 PM AEST Return Date This is a summative assessment. Students will not receive any feedback for this piece of assessment. Conditions No Conditions Task Description Assessment task 3 requires the preparation of a full project proposal that should contain the following components: A detail statement of the problem that you would like to investigate. Research aim, objectives and research questions: What are the potential research objectives and questions that can address the problem? Justification and potential output of the research project: Why is your chosen project important both theoretically and practically? What are the potential outputs and outcomes of your research? Conceptual framework: An analysis of the literature relevant to the research topic that will give you the conceptual basis for conducting this research. Methodology: Based on the conceptual framework, research aim(s) and objectives, you need to provide a detail description of the data collection methods and tools, data sources and the methods/tools that you will use to analyse the data. Organisation of the study, project budget and schedule: Write the names of the chapters/sections of your research report, and briefly discuss what you will write in those chapters/sections followed by a brief description of budget for conducting this study and project schedule i.e., Gantt Chart. This is an individual research task. You are required to demonstrate your understanding of the relevant body of works to a real-life business research. We expect you to read and reflect on at least twenty recent refereed journal articles on your topic supported by any other evidence or information that can help refine the problem of your research, formulate conceptual framework and the methods of data collection and analysis. Please see detailed guidelines about specific research requirements on the unit Moodle site. You can write 3000 words maximum for this assignment. The cover page and the list of references are not counted in the word limit.