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A research proposal submitted to the Department of

Management Sciences, Bahria University Karachi

Campus, in fulfilment of the requirement for the MBA

degree Thesis

Student Name

Registration No._______

FALL 2014

Bahria University Karchi Campus

1. Problem Background and Aim of Study

1.1 Research Question(s)/Hypothesis(es)

2. Research Method

2.1 Natures of Research

2.2 Sampling Technique and Sample Size

2.3 Data Collection Method

2.4 Data Integration Method

3. Organization of the Thesis

The thesis will comprise six chapters, a list of references / bibliography and appendices.

Chapter 1 will constitute the problem background, aim of the research, research questions/hypothesis and objectives and introduction to the organization/sector over which the research is being conducted etc.

Chapter 2 will provide information on research methodology – nature and kind of research, sample size, sampling method, data collection methods employed during the study, kind of data collected, and the way the data is integrated.

Chapter 3 will provide critical review of the existing literature containing the critical academic debate about (the topic) with the views of the academicians’ and practitioners’ on the matter.

Chapter 4 will comprise the research data of both kinds – primary as well as secondary – collected and integrated. It will also show findings of the data and their interpretation and analysis.

Chapter 5 will comprise a critical debate on the study drawing on the literature review and contrasting it with the findings of this study.

Chapter 6 will constitute recommendations and conclusions to the study.

4. Time Horizon

Like a characteristic master’s degree thesis work, this research work will be time constrained and, accordingly, I will have to resort to short-term and cross-sectional study instead of adopting a longitudinal approach.

5. Time Scale

6. References

Student Signatures _______________________________________ Date_____________

Thesis Tutor Signatures ___________________________________Date_____________

Thesis Coordinator Signatures _____________________________ Date_____________