Question

This is my Research project in Business Management " What constitutes effective leadership in a changing business environment?" Please propose an outline for the project

Answer 1

The topic of the research is what constitutes effective leadership in a changing business environment? The research project shall have the following chapters:

1. Introduction: In this chapter, you need to introduce the concepts of leadership. The chapter should start with definitions and concept of leadership; evolution of leadership; leadership theories and contemporary versions of leadership models. You may summarize the contents is a paragraph at the end of this chapter. In the introductory chapter, you may include few minor details of your research methodology (sampling plan; sample size; sampling technique etc.) but that is optional.

2. Review of Literature: This chapter will consist of relevant literature in the field of leadership studies. This chapter may be divided into sub parts like Concepts of leadership; Leadership theories; effective and ineffective leadership traits etc. In reviewing the relevant literature please try to incorporate literature uniformly over the years (do not include entire literature from the year 2015 to 2020). Focus on most recent literature but due weightage must be given to literature ranging from at least 2000 to 2010. The chapter should end with defining the research gap.

3. Research Methodology: This chapter will explain in depth the methodology that will be used in the collection of data. The chapter will start with defining of objectives. The objective must be relevant with title of the project and must satisfy the research gap. The objectives are followed by hypothesis; sampling plan; sample size; sampling techniques; sources of data; methods of analysis; tools of analysis etc.

4. Results and Discussions: This chapter should comprehensively deal with data obtained from the field work. The descriptive data must be suitably illustrated with the help of tables or graphs and inferential analysis must be relevant with objectives and hypothesis. The chapter will also deal with hypothesis testing and acceptance or rejection of hypothesis.

5. Conclusions and Suggestions: In this chapter should include a brief introduction of the topic (leadership); followed by methodology used in the study and brief results. You can support the results with your own opinion. The chapter should essentially contain suggestions that should be derived from the conclusions of the study. The policy implications (how the results will be useful to policy makers); academic implications (how the results will be useful to academicians); research implications (how the results will be useful to researchers) must be included after the suggestions. It should be followed by scope for future research.

After writing all the chapters, prepare an Abstract or Executive summary and include it before chapter-1.

The starting of the project should have cover page; declaration; list of chapters and sub chapters; list of tables and graphs; list of abbreviations and the abstract or executive summary. It is followed by the above five chapters.

After the end of five chapters include all the references used in the study and then attach questionnaire if you have used primary data or some relevant data in case of secondary data.