The leadership styles used are transactional and transformational.
Chapter 1 Introduction (2000 minimum word count)
This section introduces the topic. It presents the background to the problem area to provide readers with familiarity with the topic so they can understand your proposal. A strong background and support of the problem are very important as it gives significance to your work. Describe the problem or questions your work will address and briefly address the overall solution you propose. You will go into the problem and solution in more detail later, so do not belong and be drawn out in the introduction. This ensures readers are very clear on the importance, background, objective, and scope of your proposed work.
1.1 Problem Statement
Clearly state the problem that your proposed work will answer. This statement should be focused and concise. A problem statement should focus on the issues you plan to solve and provide a realistic scope for the project. This section can provide more details that were not included in the introduction. If you can clearly define the specific problems you aim to solve and the parameters that govern them, you have succeeded in this section.
1.2 Research Questions
1.3 Research Aims and Objectives
1.4 Significance of the Research
1.5 Research Limits
1.6 Dissertation Structure
Provide an overview of the coming chapters of the thesis with a short description of each chapter stating the aim and objective of its content.
1.7 Summary (Optional)
Each chapter might end with a summary that provides a brief detail about the content of the chapter.
Chapter 2 Literature Review (6000 minimum word count)
The literature review should provide a story made on the resources you used in your thesis. Research works presented in the literature review should be related to your work and linked together appropriately. For each paper/research work/resource, you used you have to give a short summary of the work and then provide your opinion on how it is related to your work, this should include any criticism you have or ideas that you adopted in your work. The Harvard style is used for referencing resources. Example:
Peggy Johnson defines collection development as “the thoughtful process of developing a library collection in response to institutional priorities and community or user needs and interests” (Johnson, 2009, p. 1). According to Johnson (2009, p. 1), collection development forms part of the broader concept of collection management, which involves “an expanded suite of decisions about weeding, canceling serials, storage, and preservation”. In an academic library environment, the selection of titles should primarily support the teaching, learning, and research needs of the university staff, students, and researchers (University of Western Australia Library, 2015). However, the practice of bundling journal titles into one large all-encompassing package has meant that collection development decisions are now often made on a publisher level, rather than on a title-by-title basis (Ball, cited in Carlson & Pope, 2009, p. 385). In this sense aggregator, packages are similar in nature to monographic blanket orders, where a library agrees to purchase everything that a particular publisher has published (Thompson, Wilder & Button, 2000, p. 214).
After the previous studies’ reviews, the Current Research Contribution section should be presented.
In this chapter, students should draft their research model and list their hypotheses (if applicable).
2.12 Research Framework
At the end of your literature review, you need to develop a framework (Research
Model) that provides the reader with a visual demonstration of the key factors/variables being tested in your research and how these factors/variables are linked. If you are planning to do significance testing you should highlight your hypotheses at this point, if you have not done so already within the literature review.
Chapter 3 Research Methodology (2000 minimum word count)
3.1 Research Philosophy
Explain research philosophy and how research philosophy fits with the research you are conducting.
3.2 Research Method and Methodology
Provide an overview of the difference between method and methodology.
3.3 Research Approach
Discuss the various research approaches and which approach is best to answer your research questions. You will need to discuss issues like deductive vs Inductive, qualitative vs quantitative, and mixed methods. In the case of quantitative data, the output of the statistical analyses must be included in the appendix. In the case of qualitative data, the coding of the research instrument must be provided in the appendix.
3.4 Research Design
Discuss the method and design of your research. If testing hypotheses highlight the dependent and independent variables based on the research framework developed at the end of the literature review.
3.5 Research Instrument
Discuss the instrument/s (survey, interview questions) you used to collect data and how it was designed.
3.6 Reliability and Validity
3.7 Study Population, Sample, and Data Collection
3.8 Ethical Considerations
3.9 Summary (Optional)
Each chapter might end with a summary that provides brief details about the contents of the chapter.
Chapter 4 Results and Discussion (6000 minimum word count)
4.1 New Heading
Table 4.1: The table title
Heading Titles Title1 Title2 Title3
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Figure 4.1: The figure title
4.2 Summary (Optional)
Each chapter might end with a summary that provides brief details about the contents of the chapter.
Chapter 5 Conclusions and Recommendations (2000 minimum word count)
5.1 Conclusions
5.2 Recommendations
5.3 Limitations
5.4 Future Research Orientation
Details…………………
5.7 Summary (Optional)
Each chapter might end with a summary that provides brief details about the contents of the chapter.