Points Possible 100 Research Plan Activity Context This assignment measures your progress in mastering the following course competencies: Evaluate management theories in both local and global contexts. Analyze research methodologies applicable for business research. Apply a culture of inquiry to scholarly research and writing. Write and present in academically appropriate ways. Activity Instruction Create an essay in which you describe your topic using the following headings. Plan on 1–2 paragraphs per heading. You were first introduced to these headings in the Unit 3 and Unit 6 studies. Your Topic Title. Create a title page with your topic title and other information required. Refer to the APA manual for title page requirements. APA Style Central provides guidance for citing sources and formatting your paper in proper APA style. See the APA Style and Format section of the Writing Center for instructions on accessing and using APA Style Central. Introduction. State what you will cover in your essay. Research Problem. State the research problem or topic your study will investigate, including its background. Purpose of the Research. State the purpose of the study. Typically, the purpose is to contribute to knowledge and solve the research problem. Significance of the Study. Describe the significance of your study’s investigation of the research problem. Include a statement of the study’s particular significance to the field of business. Research Questions. Write out your research question or questions. Do not worry at this point about perfection. Method Overview. Briefly describe how you might collect data and do the analysis that you might use to conduct the study. Do not worry at this point about perfectly describing the research method. But do indicate if you will do quantitative (survey and statistical analysis) or qualitative (interviews with interpretive analysis). Research Design. Describe your research design in words, illustrating how you will conduct your research, your participants, a realistic site, and so on. Approach. Qualitative or Quantitative. Please state the approach, and how it is consistent with your research problem or question. Rationale. Discuss how your design is suited to answering your research question. The Population. Describe the larger group (population) of people or data in which you are interested. Then describe the participants you will engage in your study. This may be a small segment of the population impacted by the problem you stated. You cannot gather data from everyone, so you need a sample group to involve in your research. Ethical Considerations. Discuss ethical issues around your proposed research, anticipating anything that might be construed as an ethical issue having to do with people, the organizations you are including in your research, the method you will use, and so on. Summary and Conclusion. Develop this essay in a Word document and attach it to your assignment in the assignment area. Be sure to have a title page and reference list. Use at least one source to support your thinking in each section. Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information. Resources Research Plan Scoring Guide. APA Style and Format. Writing Feedback Tool.

 

Proper Management Practices key to Organizational Internationalization

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Introduction

Management is critical to organizational success. Management refers to the science and art of attaining the goals and objectives of an organization via employees and other stakeholders (Hill et al., 2014). Managers play significant roles within the organizational setting like planning, leading, controlling, supervising and staffing. The type of management theory and leadership skills are imperative in the overall organizational growth and benefit. It is vital to mention that organizations which are well managed using proper management theories are able to maximize productivity, make decision making a simple process, motivate employee performance and participation, and adapt to global market trends or changes. The paper seeks to employ the use of scholarly materials and research to examine the extent to which proper management theories and practices can help organizations to expand and internationalize their business to other geographical regions.

Research Problem

The research would be focusing on management practices which are effective to organizational growth. Particularly, the research would focus on the aspects of management theories and practices which can assist an already existing organization to expand and internationalize operations to other geographical regions. According to Wiedersheim-Paul & Johannsson 2017, internationalization is the ability of an organization to expand operations beyond a particular geographical location like country or continent to others. The essence of such largescale expansion is to bypass local competition, increase the consumer base, increase control of market share, and technological advancement. However, it is important to note that most organizations are not able to internationalize or expand their business due to bad management practices.  

Good management practices are able to inspire the workforce through mentoring, motivation and effective reward and recognition systems (Tedeschi, 2013) which would increase the productivity of employees. Communication is enhanced in a top-down and down top approach. As such, using bureaucratic management theory alone would not enhance communication since it only emphasizes the top-down approach. Using an integrated management practice would thus be more effective. An organization is able to expand to other geographical locations if the internal management systems are effective and yield desired results.  It would be able to have an internationalization strategy, plan and execute pronto realizing the vision of internationalization. However, bad practices would not be able to lead a firm successfully.

Research Purpose

The purpose of the research is to blend leadership competencies, and styles to management theories and practices to improve the effectiveness of management and it proposes an integrated management system. The research establishes a position that if a particular management practice is adhered to strictly, it would not be effective since they have particular deficits. For instances, one practice would be vital in fostering planning and organizational culture, but very weak in communication amongst the workforce (Bratton & Gold, 2017). It is therefore critical to have a blend of methods which can yield maximum results as the data from practicing companies would elucidate.

The significance of the Study

The study is significant to the research problem and to business in particular. It seeks to examine, the extent to which proper management practices are vital for organizational growth thus internationalization capacity. Specifically, the research is significant since it will explain the variables in the field of business that affects productivity yet is core to the management. Organizational culture would be explained to be a product of management practices which is the way people relate within the organization and with the external actors and shareholders (Bratton & Gold, 2017). Employee motivation in a comprehensive reward and recognition system is critical in inspiring the workforce to deliver their very best inputs. The significance of the research is on the methodology of internationalization which is key for organizational growth. Internationalization helps organizations to have a competitive advantage over rivals and increase market share control.

Research Questions

1. To what extent does management systems affect organizational internationalization plans?
2. To what degree does a proper management structure affect employee motivation and subsequent productivity for organizations?
3. Does integrated management systems yield better results than traditional management systems?
4. Are there bad management systems?

Methods Overview

In the research process of data collection and analysis, the research would rely on both the qualitative and quantitative data, which would be obtained from both the primary and secondary data sources (Bryman & Bell, 2015). The primary data would be collected in the fieldwork through interviews, recordings, questionnaires, participation, and observations. The secondary data would be obtained from published books and materials containing relevant information to the research problems. Such information can be obtained from the university library, government data center, organizational websites, and digitally printed media sites and cable news networks.

Qualitative data would be obtained through interviews of mangers and senior employees on certain aspects of management practices within the organizations. Government representatives would also be interviewed for accurate data. Participation, in a sample population under investigation, would also give the desired result in qualitative data collection technique. Observations and focused groups would also act as agents of qualitative data collection points. However, on the quantitative data techniques, these are measurable, values and numbers. The research would use survey, polls, and questionnaires.

Research Design and Rationale

Experimental research design will be used to show the causal relationship between proper management practices and organizational ability to expand and internationalize to other regions (University of Southern California Libraries, 2016). The research would use a sampling of the population to be observed and where participation during data collected would be conducted. The design will be used to monitor the functionality of various organizations in terms of their management practices. Which practices are good, and which ones are not good from a controlled sample and a random sample of data collection. The participants in the research would be executives who are responsible for policy formulation, employees who are responsible for implementation and the consumers who judge the different products on the market and where their preference lies. Additionally, the government institutions of compliance and regulatory measures would be included in the research. The interviews would be conducted at workplaces and stores and officers.

 

Research Approach

The research would employ the use of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Sekaran & Bougie, 2016 posit that the quantitative approaches would give the statistical data and comparisons in values and figure of the research findings in terms of percentages. Surveying, polling, and questionnaires would be used to give the quantitative data and aspect of the research needed. Conversely, qualitative data would be used to give deeper explanations and to arrive at recommendations. The qualitative data would be gathered through interviews, participation, observations, and recording.

Sample Population

The population the research seeks to investigate are senior executive officials for top organizations, government officials, employees and consumers of the products of consumer goods and services. The consumer, in particular, would be selected through random sampling. They are people met in the stores when they go for a purchase or online when they make inquiries about certain products and services offered by an organization. Employees too would be selected through a random sampling except for the senior executives. The senior executives are critical since they will be issuing expert opinions and interviews which would be limited management scope. The government officials who would be selected for the research would be the licensing, regulatory and compliance departments.  

Ethical Considerations

There are ethical issues surrounding the research which entails the protection of the privacy and dignity of the research participants and the credibility and authenticity of the publication of research findings (Bryman & Bell, 2015). Ethical issues in a research are therefore important in fostering trust and accountability on the research on the manner in which data is collected, analyzed and presented. Additionally, it encourages the public to fund researches and participate in them. Permission would be sort to prospective participants and the material or information they issues shall only be used accurately to reflect their positions on issues. Additionally, their privacy, more so to those willing to be anonymous candidates to be respected. The information obtained from them cannot be used for other purposes without their consent and prior information. Permission to be sort from relevant authorities before the research work is undertaken.

Summary and Conclusion

The research which would be using experimental research design intends to examine the extent to which proper management systems affect the prospects of internationalization by an organization to new foreign markets. The research seeks to foster the essence of integrated management systems and good leadership to realize maximum productivity of employees and the organization in the long run. In order to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the research findings, ethical practices would be followed and the rights and privacy of participants respected.

 

References

Bratton, J., & Gold, J. (2017). Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave.

Bryman, A., & Bell, E. (2015). Business research methods. Oxford University Press, USA.

Hill, C. W., Jones, G. R., & Schilling, M. A. (2014). Strategic management: theory: an integrated approach. Cengage Learning.

Sekaran, U., & Bougie, R. (2016). Research methods for business: A skill building approach. John Wiley & Sons.

Tedeschi, J. T. (Ed.). (2013). Impression management theory and social psychological research. Academic Press.

University of Southern California Libraries (2016). 12 Major Types of Research Designs – Module 3 Handout 1. Retrieved from https://www.afidep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Module-3-Handout-1-12-Major-Types-of-Research-Designs.pdf

Wiedersheim-Paul, F., & Johannsson, J. (2017). The internationalization of the firm—four Swedish cases 1. In International Business (pp. 127-144). Routledge.