Assignment Instructions

For this assignment, you are required to identify a research topic that is relevant to your core discipline of study that you are specialising in $($for example if you are a Bachelor of Commerce Human Resource Management student, your topic must be relevant and directly linked to Human Resource Management$).$ Once you have identified a topic you will need to get confirmation and approval from your lecturer that the topic falls within your specialisation field and that you may continue with this topic. If you submit this assignment without it being directly aligned to your specialisation field, your assignment will not be marked, resulting in a mark of $0\%.$

You will not be able to start the assignment until you understand what we mean by "research" in Introduction to Research, as you have probably understood the concept differently in previous modules and assignments.

You will explain your topic, create a short, catchy title for the proposed research and describe the background and context in which the research would take place. You will need to formulate and present the research problem in such a way that the reader understands why this research is worth doing and why it is a manageable, specific problem that has not been researched before. This will require additional study and extensive reading. Once you have a well$-$developed research problem, you will describe the relevance of the research and formulate research question$/$s$,$ explaining what outcomes you expect if you were to conduct the research. A relevant theory will need to be identified, explained and applied to your research problem and you will need to conceptualise the key terms.

A significant part of this assignment concerns the review of previous research, published in reputable journals, related to your topic. In the review, you need to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of relevant literature as well as your ability to synthesise complex information into a coherent whole. This synthesis will require critical thinking and academic writing skills. By doing a literature review, you clarify how and where the proposed study fits into the debate in the literature.

The reference rubric will be applied. The submission must be submitted through SafeAssign.

NB$-$ The maximum word count for this assignment is $2400$ to $2600$ words. Your lecturer$/$tutor will not mark beyond the maximum word count. For example, if you exceed the $2600-$word limit

$6.$ The Independent Institute of Education $($Pty$)$ Ltd $2024$

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by submitting $2800$ words, you will lose all marks allocated to any sections that fall into the $200$ words.

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Marks to be awarded are based on the following components:

$\backslash$table$[[$Components for which marks will be awarded,Marks$],[$Research Topic,$5],[$Research Title,$5],[$Background$,10],[$Research problem,$10],[$Relevance$/$ Motivation for the study,$5],[$Research questions,$5],[$Research objectives or hypotheses,$5],[$Theoretical foundation,$10],[$Review of previous research,$25],[$Conceptualisation of key terms,$10],[$Formatting$,$ coherence and logical flow,$5]]$Question $4($Marks: $15)$

In order to build successful relationships, trust and commitment are required. Advise Switch on how

they can improve both trust and commitment between themselves and their customers