Assignment Task:
Task:
The effect of workload on work-life balance across gender, compensation and working hours in Malaysia.
Structure Guidelines (Non-exhaustive structure)
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Research Background / Overview (Industry/Organization/Context)
What do readers need to know before they can actually understand what you intend to propose in your research? Are there any jargons that you crucially need to clarify for the readers to understand the terminologies/concept throughout your study (Best to introduce it early so that you don’t leave readers hanging)?
Provide statistics if possible if you want to demonstrate a decline in market share or a trend, or if it helps you support your argument.
1.2 Research Problem
What is the research problem? What is severely lacking in the literature? Any inconsistencies identified in the literature? Any criticisms?
1.3 Significance of Research – (Theoretical research gap and practical implication)
Based on your readings of literature and after identifying the problem, how will your study or research aim to address the lack of research in the topic that you’re currently pursuing? (Theoretical research gap)
How will your study be beneficial to managers or industry players? By conducting your study, how does your study aim to benefit industry players? (Practical Implications)
1.4 Research Questions
Specifically, what are you intending to find out/achieve in your study? In other words, after elaborating on all of the issues and limitations about, what is the intent of this study? Remember to ensure that whatever you proposed in your RQ has been well discussed/enumerated in earlier sections (i.e. research problem / significance of research). Link and ensure that there is flow.
1.5 Research Objectives
Paraphrase your research questions in an active sentence.
1.6 Scope of Study
What is the scope of your study? Boundaries of your research.
2.0 Literature Review
2.1 Theory XXX (Both Quant and Qual)
What is the theory about? (please using conservation of resources theory)
In which context has the theory been applied to? What about the context of your study? Has it been applied to? Demonstrate to show relevance of the theory in addressing your research context. In other words, contextualize.
Do you need to add additional variables to existing theory to understand your research phenomenon? Have these additional variables together with existing theory in your research context? Is this your research gap? If it is, then justify on why you have selected these factors to understand your research context.
2.2 Theory XXX (Both Quant and Qual, if you have a second accompanying theory)
Is the first theory insufficient to address the research problem and hence the reason why you need a second theory? How is the second theory relevant to understand your research context? What’s the strength of the second theory that can help fill the research gap?
2.3 Proposed Research Framework / Model (If you are doing a Quant paper)
Include your model here.
2.4 Hypotheses Development (If you are doing a Quant paper)
Remember that you need to demonstrate what past studies have found for each hypothesis. Find papers that explain from path A to path B. And repeat this process for every hypothesis. Remember to CONTEXTUALISE your hypotheses to your research context.
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