THE RESEARCH

PROPOSAL

BY
JUSTICE G. DJOKOTO
 THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL
• THE OUTLINE
• WHAT TO DO
 OUTLINE
• COVER PAGE
• BACKGROUND
• PROBLEM STATEMENT
• OBJECTIVES
• METHODOLOGY
• JUSTIFICATION/RELEVANCE
• ORGANIZATION OF STUDY
 COVER PAGE
• The Institution
• The Title
• Author
• Object
• Date
 The Title
• Also known as the topic
• This should include:
– Concepts
– Linkages of the concepts
– Objects
 Steps to Choose a Topic
• Identify a problem
• Read further on the problem
• Clearly define the problem
• Write out the problem statement
• Outline your objectives
• From here you can now decide on the topic
 Assessing the Topic
• Criteria
– Availability of literature
• Look out for about 20 literature
• Largely journal articles and research works of
students
• Other research reports
• Books
• Newsletter
 Assessing the Topic
• Criteria
– Availability of data
• Access to the data
• Cost of the data
• Timeliness of access
– Personal interest of the student
• Your personal interest will be a motivation
• Project work can be frustrating hence the need for
personal interest
• Project will be funded by you
 Assessing the Topic
• Criteria
– In discipline you are pursuing
– Also, may be related to your discipline
– Or you want to apply theory from some area
to your discipline
 Proposalon

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY
THE BANKING INDUSTRY

BY

EMMANUEL HUMARESOURCE
THIS STUDY IS IN PARTILA FULFILMENT POF THE AWARD OF
BACHELOR OF SCINCE DEGREE IN ADMINISTRATION (HUMAN
RESOURCE OPTION)

JULY 2007
 BACKGROUND
• This explains the concepts:
– University education
– Employee productivity
– Linkage
• Object of the research/setting
– Banking industry
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
• This is the origin of the research
• This needs to be clearly defined
• The structure involves two things
– Preamble
– Questions
• You need to paint a picture
• Then the questions will be natural
consequence
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
• The preamble provides grounds to raise the
questions
• Example
– Competition in banking industry
– The role of employees in organisation
– Concerns about employee productivity
– Ways to increase productivity e.g. education, traning
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
• Questions
• These are the issues that agitate your mind for
which you want to find solutions to
• State the issue in question form
– Major question
• The main issue in question form
– Specific questions
• Other issues within the main issue that are components of
the main issue
• State these in question form
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
• Example
– Main/major question
• What is the relationship between between
university education and employee productivity in
the banking industry in Ghana?
– Specific questions
• What is the trend of productivity in the banking
industry
• What is the trend of university graduates
employment in the banking industry
 OBJECTIVES
• This what you have set to achieve
• The problem well stated helps to build
your objectives
• These should be positive statement of the
questions
• Major objective
• Specific objectives
 OBJECTIVES
• Example
– Major objective
• To analyse the relationship between university
education and employee productivity
– Specific objective
• Determine the trend of employee productivity in the
banking industry
• Determine the trend of graduate employment in the
baking industry
 OBJECTIVES
• An alternative
– Determine the trend of employee productivity
in the banking industry
– Determine the trend of graduate employment
in the baking industry
– Assess the linkage between university
education and employee productivity in the
banking industry
 METHODOLOGY
• This describes the steps to be traced in
achieving the objectives
• This has been covered already hopefully.
 RELEVANCE
• This section outlines the importance of the
study
• Guide
– Importance of the concepts
– Importance of the linkage
– Importance of study to:
• private sector
• Public sector
• Researchers
• Policy makers
 RELEVANCE
• If you need funding for the study by a
donor this is where you need to provide
reasons why you should be funded.
• For student research it is also important to
provide cogent reasons
ORGANISATION OF THE STUDY
• How the chapters will be organised
• You need not tabulate them
• Don’t provide the details of the
subsections.
• in the proposal you can capture chapter
one
• But in paper don’t include chapter one
 Example
• “The study will be presented in five
chapters. Chapter two will present review
of relevant literature. The methodology to
achieve the objectives is outlined in
chapter three. Chapter four presents the
results and the accompanying
discussions. The conclusions and
recommendations are distilled in chapter
five.”
 ACTION PLAN
• This details:
– Activities
– Dates to be completed
• Forms bass of budget if need.
 After the Proposal
• Cut-off the methodology section
• What is left constitutes chapter one-
INTRODUCTION
• The methodology section becomes
chapter three-METHODOLOGY