Guidelines Extended Essay MBS

Extended Essay: Proposal Presentation

You are supposed to make your presentation on the following [1-4] main
headings

1. Proposed Title of the Extended Essay: ……………………………….

1.1. Introduction:

You are supposed to make brief introduction on the research issue or the
problem chosen here. Please note that this is not an introduction about the
chosen company or the organization. The chosen issue/problem should be
introduced and illustrated with facts and figures. For instance, if you are
interested in writing your extended essay on “staff turnover”, data on staff
turnover of the industry in general and the staff turnover of the company over
a couple of years in particular, should be available to justify your issue or the
problem.

2. Objectives:

You should state the objective/s of your study here. Your objective/s should
have SMART qualities:

Suggestions for Writing SMART Objectives

2.1. SPECIFIC.
 Concrete
 Use action verbs
Example – to reduce inventory cost up to 5%
2.2. MEASURABLE:
 Numeric [quantitative]or descriptive [qualitative]
 Quantity, quality, cost
Example – To achieve zero error production level
to change attitude
2.3. ATTAINABLE/ACHIEVABLE
 Feasible
 Appropriately limited in scope
 Within the control and influence
Example: To organize a discussion forum to be held at FGS-Conference
2011, and invite both practitioners and graduate faculty to attend and
discuss how graduate school can better prepare students for careers in
management.

Pradeep Randiwela 19/07/2011

Guidelines Extended Essay MBS

2.4. RELEVANCE/REALISTIC
 Measures outputs or results (not activities)
 Includes products, accomplishments
Example: to develop documents that define, explain, and provide
examples of uses of emerging technologies in order to assist policy-
makers who are considering or have already started integrating them
in their organization.
2.5. TIME - BOUND
 Identifies target date(s)
 Includes interim steps and a plan to monitor progress (if possible)
Example: to achieve 5% inventory cost by the end of 2011.

3. Method/s of the study

You are supposed to identify appropriate method/s to conduct the
Research/study. This include
 research types [exploratory/progress monitoring/ conclusive/
descriptive/ causal] to be used
 types of data [primary/secondary/tertiary] and data collection tool to
be used(i.e. questionnaire, interviews, observations etc)
 sampling [if applicable] and selection method
 models/concepts/theory/analytical tools to be used

4. Preliminary References/Bibliography
Please state the references made in order to develop this proposal

Please visit FGS website for more details on research report guidelines.

Pradeep Randiwela 19/07/2011