QSO500 Milestone One---- paper

QSO 500 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: In this final project, you will create a research report based on the application of action research processes for developing problem solving strategies. In designing the report, you will follow the best practices for ethical research. You will utilize the research process to inform decisions in your professional life and as a framework for approaching research projects in other courses in your program. The final product will be a comprehensive research report using the five-step research process (identify the problem; understand the theoretical framework of the problem; design the research study; collect, explain, and analyze the data; report the results; and make conclusions and recommendations).

For Milestone One, submit a draft of your business problem and literature review. Using the problem you identified in your Module One journal and the feedback you received, describe the research problem including the context in which it exists. Using the problem statement, describe the stakeholders and research objective. Based on the research objective, develop a research question that clearly and concisely articulates in one sentence the purpose of the study. Consider the key real or potential ethical issues or challenges of the study.

After describing your business problem and research question, prepare a comprehensive literature review that carefully and thoughtfully examines the research problem from a scholarly perspective using a minimum of seven quality sources. A minimum of three of the sources must be selected from scholarly, peer- reviewed journals. Other quality sources can be professional publications or magazines, internal corporate publications such as annual reports or white papers, or established news sources.

Prompt: Refer to the given case study Maruti Suzuki India: Defending Market Leadership in the A-Segment and select a data-driven business problem that can be addressed using action research to be the basis for your research report. Prepare a comprehensive literature review that carefully and thoughtfully examines the research problem from a scholarly perspective using a minimum of seven quality sources. A minimum of three of the sources must be selected from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Other quality sources can be from professional publications or magazines, internal corporate publications such as annual reports or white papers, or established news sources.

Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed:

Business Problem: Refer to the given case study and select a data-driven business problem that can be addressed using action research to be the basis for your research report.

A.Describe the research problem, including the context in which it exists. In other words, what caused or precipitated this problem? What has already been done to address it?

B.Describe the key stakeholders (or potential stakeholders) of your business problem. In other words, who are the people who have the most to gain or lose from a decision?

C.Explain the research objective. How would it benefit the stakeholder to know the results?

D.Develop a research question based on the research objective that clearly and concisely articulates in one sentence the purpose of the study.

E.Discuss the key real or potential ethical issues or challenges of the study. Consider the following: How will data be collected and protected? How will human subjects be used, treated, and protected?

 

Literature Review:

A.Explain the theories that best ground your organizational problem. Support your explanation with specific examples. These theories might be management, behavioral, social, and/or business related.

B.Discuss the bias and limitations present in the relevant literature and the potential impact these may have on your research.

C.Summarize at least one other research study that has faced this challenge that could potentially be replicated and applied to your research study.

D.From the literature, analyze at least one other organization that has faced similar problems, explaining what they have done to address the problem.

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your milestone must be submitted as a 5- to 6-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least seven sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (75%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Business Problem:	Describes the research problem,	Describes the research	Does not describe the research	9
Research Problem	including the context in which it	problem, but description is	problem
	exists	cursory or does not include the
		context in which the problem
		exists
Business Problem:	Describes all key stakeholders of	Describes the stakeholders of	Does not describe the	9
Stakeholders	the business problem	the business problem, but	stakeholders of the business
		description is cursory or	problem
		neglects to address all key
		stakeholders
Business Problem:	Explains the research objective,	Explains the research objective,	Does not explain the research	9
Research Objective	including how this research	but explanation is cursory or	objective
	would benefit the stakeholder	does not show how this
		research would benefit the
		stakeholder
Business Problem:	Develops a research question	Develops a research question	Does not develop a research	9
Research Question	based on the research objective	based on the research	question based on the research
	that clearly and concisely	objective, but it does not	objective
	articulates in one sentence the	clearly or concisely articulate in
	purpose of the study	one sentence the purpose of
		the study

 

Business Problem:	Discusses all key real or	Discusses real or potential	Does not discuss real or potential	12
Ethical Issues	potential ethical issues or	ethical issues or challenges of	ethical issues or challenges of the
	challenges of the study	the study, but discussion is	study
		cursory, contains issues of
		clarity, or neglects to address
		key ethical issues
Literature Review:	Explains the theories that best	Explains the theories that best	Does not explain the theories that	12
Theories	ground the organizational	ground the organizational	best ground the organizational
	problem with support from	problem, but explanation is	problem
	specific examples	cursory or not supported with
		specific examples
Literature Review:	Discusses the bias and	Discusses the bias and	Does not discuss the bias and	12
Bias and Limitations	limitations present in the	limitations present in the	limitations present in the relevant
	relevant literature, including the	relevant literature, but	literature
	potential impact on research	discussion contains issues of
		clarity or does not address the
		potential impact on research
Literature Review:	Summarizes another research	Summarizes another research	Does not summarize another	12
Other Research Study	study that has faced this	study that has faced this	research study that has faced this
	challenge that could potentially	challenge that could potentially	challenge that could potentially
	be replicated and applied to	be replicated and applied to	be replicated
	your research study	your research study, but
		summary is cursory or contains
		inaccuracies
Literature Review:	Analyzes another organization	Analyzes another organization	Does not analyze another	12
Other Organization	that has faced similar problems,	that has faced similar	organization that has faced
	including an explanation of	problems, but analysis is	similar problems
	what was done to address the	cursory or does not explain
	problem	what was done to address the
		problem
Articulation of	Submission has no major errors	Submission has major errors	Submission has critical errors	4
Response	related to citations, grammar,	related to citations, grammar,	related to citations, grammar,
	spelling, syntax, or organization	spelling, syntax, or organization	spelling, syntax, or organization
		that negatively impact	that prevent understanding of
		readability and articulation of	ideas
		main ideas
			Total	100%