Research Proposal and Ethics Form

This assignment requires students to complete a research proposal and ethics form. The form covers various aspects of research ethics, including participant recruitment, informed consent, data storage, and potential ethical concerns. Students must provide detailed information about their proposed research work, including how they will inform participants about the process, obtain consent, and ensure confidentiality. The assignment also emphasizes the importance of discussing ethical issues with a unit tutor and confirming that the provided information is accurate.

Research Form

Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________ Student ID:
____________
Centre Name: _____________________
Tutor: ________________ Date:
___________________
Unit: ____________________
Proposed Title: ______________________________________________
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project (in the form of a
question, objective or hypothesis)
Title: “The benefits and the risks of offshoring and outsourcing”.
Aim
“To identify the benefits and risk of offshoring and outsourcing on business operations of
multinational organisation. A study on ALDI”.
Research objectives (e.g what is the question you want to answer?
What do you want to learn how to do? What do you want to find
out?):
Research objectives
 To determine the concept of offshoring and outsourcing.
 To analyse the advantages and disadvantages of offshoring and outsourcing.
 To identify the ways through which risk of offshoring and outsourcing can be
overcome by an organisation.
Research questions
 What is the concept of offshoring and outsourcing ?
 What are the advantages and disadvantages of offshoring and outsourcing ?
 What are the ways through which risk of offshoring and outsourcing can be overcome
by an organisation ?

Section Two: Reasons for choosing this research project
Reasons for choosing the project (e.g links to other subjects you
are studying, personal interest, future plans, knowledge/skills you
want to improve, why the topic is important):
The reason behind selecting this research topic is to understand as well as update the
knowledge regarding benefits of outsourcing and offshoring on business resources. It helps in
provide the knowledge and enhance skills of person. Through conducting this investigation,
understanding of learner will be enhanced and it will able to be conduct any kind of research
in future. The other reason of a learner behind conducting this investigation is self- interest.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question,
objective or hypothesis:
Concept of offshoring and outsourcing
As per the view of Tate and Bals (2017) Outsourcing define as an organisation which
contracting work out of third party, while offshoring refers to get work done in different
nation, usually to leverage cost benefits. It is possible to outsource work but not offshore.
Offshore outsourcing is the best practice of hiring vendor to do work, usually lower costs and
take benefits of the vendor's specialist, economies of scale and scalable labour pool.
Advantages and disadvantages of offshoring and outsourcing
Advantages of offshoring – An organisation that select to go into offshoring which
will definitely reap both short term and long term advantages. Offshoring allow business
owners in order to focus on business success and growth. This will take off tasks such as
accounting and marketing from their hands without troubling about possibility of reduction in
quality of work.
Disadvantages of offshoring – Offshoring has major disadvantages, with the most
prominent being exposing the business to risk of data breach and cyber attack. For selecting
correct type of outsourcing agency is very essential since falling to do so it can cause business
to fall trap in hidden costs and even a drop in customer engagement.
Advantages of outsourcing – This will assist in cut down cost and value. The main
benefit of outsourcing includes accessing skilled expertise, flexible staffing, increasing

efficiency and reduction in overhead. It will help company in gaining high competitive
advantages.
Disadvantage of outsourcing – The biggest disadvantage of outsourcing is the risk of
losing sensitive data and loss of confidentiality. It is essential for checking and analysing in
place to avoid data loss. In this, hidden cost and legal issues are occurs of outsourcing terms
and conditions are not clearly defined.
Ways through which risk of offshoring and outsourcing can be overcome by an organisation
There are various ways through which risk of offshoring and outsourcing can be
overcome by ALDI in better manner. They need to change management, focus on maintaining
culture, provide training and development sessions and improvement in current strategies.
Section Four: Activities and timescales
Activities to be carried out during the research
project (e.g research, development and analysis of
ideas, writing, data collection, numerical analysis,
tutor meetings, production of final outcome,
evaluation, writing the report):
Research is in- depth investigation of topic for providing
some specific recommendations and conclusions, so there
are different activities associated with it. Some activities
are discussed as under-
Introduction
Setting aims and objectives
Literature review
Research methodology
Submission of research proposal
Collection of data
Analysis of data
Conclusion and recommendations
How long this will
take:
2 days
4 days
11 days
17 days
1 day
22 days
18 days
3 days
1 day

Submission of final report
Milestone one: ___research methodology______________
Target date (set by tutor): ___5/7/2019_________________
Milestone two: ___collection of data____________________
Target date (set by tutor): ____31/7/2019__________________
Gantt Chart

Section Five: Research approach and methodologies
What type of research approach and methodologies are you likely
to use and why? What your areas of research will cover:
Research approach
In this section, there are various types of investigation which includes inductive and
deductive approach. It is essential for analysing and examining associated issues regarding
particular research theme. In deductive approach, existing theories are used in order present
hypotheses regarding particular situations that are provide accurate evidence (Schniederjans,
Schniederjans and Schniederjans, 2015). On the other hand, inductive approach consist with
non numerical data and information that can be used so that its outputs of numerical
evaluation can be proved. In this project, inductive approach can be used because this will
provide authentic data and information for completing this research report.
Research philosophy
It is the belief and value about the way in which data and information should be

gathered, used and analysed. In this section, Positivism and interpretivism are determined as
an essential philosophy that are adopted by researcher and it assist in getting results or
outcomes. Along with this, interpretivism philosophy will be used for acquiring relevant
conclusion by an investigator.
Data collection
It define as the process of measuring, gathering, collecting and analysing correct
insights for an investigation by using standard validated techniques and methods. An
investigator can evaluate and measure their hypotheses on the basis of collected data. There
are two type of data collection method such as primary and secondary. Primary data is used
for collecting non numerical data and information in descriptive manner (Mykhaylenko,
2015). On the other hand, secondary method is used for gathering numerical and statistical
facts and figures. In this research, both secondary and primary method of data collection can
be used for assembling accurate information for completing investigation.
Research methodologies refers to study of different tools and techniques which are significant
in context of understanding in better and effective manner. “Research Onion” framework is
used to understand different techniques.
Type of Research
Research method is strategy that is mainly used to execute plan. It is an effective tool
for conducting an investigation. Various types of research methods are Qualitative and
Quantitative. In order to conducting this research, there has been qualitative method used
because it aids in give the theoretical information related to particular area.
Data analysis
It is defined as process of cleansing, inspecting and also transforming data with aim of
finding necessary or accurate information, developing better conclusion and then support
decision making. To analyse the data, there has been thematic analysis used in this for getting
the better evolution of collected data and information.
Sampling
It is explained as process that used for the purpose of statistical analysis in which pre
identified number of observation are to be taken from the large population. There is random
data sampling technique has been used through investigator for selecting respondents. There

are 30 respondents are selected and these are staff members of an organisation.
Comments and agreement from tutor
Comments (optional):
I confirm that the project is not work which has been or will be
submitted for another qualification and is appropriate.
Agreed: ________________ (name)_______________ Date ______________
Comments and agreement form project proposal checker( IV
sampling)
Comments (Optional):
I confirm that the project is appropriate.
Agreed /Disagree: (Name of the IV)
Date

Research Ethics approval form
All students conducting research activity that involves human participants
or the use of data collected form human participants are required to gain
ethical approval before commencing their research. Please answer all
relevant questions and note that your form may be returned if incomplete.
For further support and guidance please see your respective Unit Tutor:
Before completing this form, we advise that you discuss your proposed
research fully with your unit tutor. Please complete this form in good time
before your research project is due to commence.
Section 1: Basic details:
Project title:
“To identify the benefits and risk of offshoring and outsourcing on business operations of
multinational organisation. A study on ALDI”.
Student name:
Student ID number:
Programme:
College Name:
Intended research start date:
Intended research end date:
Section 2 Project summary
Please select all research methods that you plan to use as a part of your
project:
 Interviews Yes No
 Questionnaires Yes No
 Observations Yes No
 Use of personal records Yes No
 Data Analysis Yes No
 Action Research Yes No
 Focus Groups Yes No
 Others (Please specify) :

Section 3: Participants
Please answer the following questions, giving full details where
necessary.
Will your research involve human participants?
Who are the participants? Tick all that apply:
Ages 12-16: Young people aged: 17-18 Adults
How will participants be recruited (identified an approached)?
Respondents will be recruit through interviews.
Describe the processes you will use to inform participants about what
you are doing:
Through using E- mail, inform participants about process.
How will you obtain consent from participants? Will this be written?
How will it be made clear to participants that they may withdraw
consent to participate at any time?
Consent of participants are collected through written format.
Studies involving questionnaires: will participants be given the option of
omitting questions that do not wish to answer?
Yes No
If no please explain why below and ensure that you cover any ethical
issues arising from this
Studies involving observation: Confirm whether participants will be
asked for their informed consent to be observed.
Yes No
Will you debrief participants at the end of their participation (i.e give

them a brief explanation of the study)?
Yes No
Will participants be given information about the findings of your study?
(This could be a brief summary of your findings in general)
Yes No
Section 4: Data Storage and Security
Confirm that all personal data will be stored and processed in
compliance with the Data Protection Act (1998)
Yes No
Who will have access to the data and personal information?
Researcher will access and analyse the personal information from selected respondents.
During the research:
investigator
Where will the data be stored?
Data will gathered in word format.
Will mobile devices such as USB storage and laptops be used
Yes No
If Yes, please provide further details:
After the research:
Where will the data be stored?
Data will be stored in hard disk.
How long will the data and records be kept for and in what format?

It will kept for at least 6 months.
Will data be kept for use by other researchers? Yes No
Section 5 : Ethical Issues
Are there any particular features of your proposed work, which may
raise ethical concerns? If so, please outline how you will deal with these:
It is important that you demonstrate your awareness of potential risks
that may arise because of your research. Please consider/address all
issues that may apply. Ethical concerns may include, but are not limited
to the following :
 Informed consent.
 Potentially vulnerable participants.
 Sensitive topics
 Risk to participants and /or researchers
 Confidentiality/anonymity
 Disclosures/ limits to confidentiality
 Data storage and security, both during and after the research
(including transfer, sharing, encryption, protection).
 Reporting
 Dissemination and use of your findings.
Section 6: Declaration
I have read, understood and will abide by the institution’s
Research and Ethics Policy: Yes No
I have discussed the ethical issues relating to my research with
my Unit Tutor:
Yes No
I confirm that to the best of my knowledge:
The above information is correct, and this is a full description of
the ethical issues that may arise in the course of my research
Name: Date:
Please submit your completed form to your supervisor and also
attach to the Research Proposal when submitting to Turnitin.