Question

Make a research Proposal in UAE

Topic HR Training and Development

Task 1 – Research Proposal

In preparation for your final research project to complete your HD/HND, you are required to prepare a research proposal relating to a specified area of business.

The proposal should:

a. Formulate and record possible research project outline specifications;

b. Identify the factors that contribute to the process of research project selection;

c. Produce a research project proposal; and

d. Provide an appropriate plan and procedures for the agreed research project.

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The research proposal should include the following:

a. An identification of the research question or hypothesis with justification for choice;

b. A justification of the chosen methodology in terms of the research question;

c. An action plan with target dates and methods for monitoring and planning; and

d. A code of ethics for the conduct of the study.

Answer 1

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a) After assessing a number of topics in HR the topic "training and development in UAE" was chosen. The rationality behind choosing this research project is continous changing environment and process of transformation in banking sector of UAE. This lead to growing concern of training employees with every new change and transformation to make them work effectively and also addressing the issues that challenges such training. It is imprtant that UAE bank which is of great importance in banking sector of UAE to have well trained employees.

b) Research Question : What is the existing status of training and development programes banks offfer to their employees? Are these programmes effective to traiin employees being dynamic with changing environment? Are these programmes still work in changed context or are outdated? How such programes effect performance of employees in banks.

c) Research Objectives:

To study what kinds of training programes UAE bank conduct for training of its lower level employees.

To identify the need of training of employees of UAE bank.

To examine the effectiveness of current training and development programes of UAE bank.

To assess the validity of current training and development programes in UAE bank.

To suggest improvements in current training and development programes of UAE bank if there are any.

d) Research methodology: Descriptive researchd esign is choosen, Employees of UAE bannk are sample unit. sample size of 50 employees have been choosen. Research waill be done throughprimary survey conducted using questionnaire and unstructured interviews with HR trainer of the banks and using secondary sources like publications and documents provided by the UAE bank, journals and reevant magazines. Lastly analysis of data will be done using statistical tools like correlation, regression, averages etc.

e) Research timeline: At first week an observation would be made in these banks to have a sound questionannire in hand. AVrious factors would be observed such as who are low level employees, what kind of work they do, who supervise them etc. AFter observation questionannire would be strutured in which various questions related to finding answers of research questions would be formulated. In third week these questionnaires will be distributed to the employees and meanwhile interviews will be conducted. After fourth and fith week when responses are achived, the data organization and analysis work will start and lastly based upon the analysis report would be prapared.

f) Code of ethics: To make sure that employees only fill the questionnaire, identity of any employee should not be revelaed to anyone except the resercher, biasness should be elimitaed if any while collecting data.

g) Limitations: a number of limitations may be faced while doing research such as generalization cannot be made as only one bank has been surveyed and only 50 employees. The survey may be baised because employees may not give correct data because of fear of employment.