Preliminary Research Proposal 2022

Preliminary Research Proposal (20%)
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- The form should be completed using Calibri font, size 12, 1.5
spacing.
- Students must provide answer for every question.
- Word counts for individual questions must not be exceeded.
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Section A. Applicant Details
Student Name
Student Number
Submission Date
Module Code
Program Code and
Name
Research Methods
Lecturer
Section B. Project Title (15 words)
Assessing the impact of communication in maintaining quality and timely
delivery of project activities.
Section C. Aims & Rationale
1. Briefly introduce your research topic, highlighting the key issues
around which your project is based and the potential value of your
project. (500 words)
In any project communication has a major role to play. It can be the
reason for the success or can also be the same for failure of a project.
In any of the successful project till date, it can be found out that

communication was one of the major supporting pillars.
Communication is important in the context of medium complexity,
maintenance of the project as well as innovations to be done in the
project. In a project both internal as well as external communication is
important as only focussing on any one of these will not be of help
(Butt, Naaranoja and Savolainen 2016). External communication refers
to the communication that is required to be done with the external
stakeholders while internal communication refers to the interaction of
the employees within the premises where the project is being carried
out. Studies suggest that a manager who achieves success in a project
is seen to be spending more than 80 percent of his time in
communication (Yap, Abdul-Rahman and Chen 2017). This is the
evidence that communication is important in project for maintenance
of the quality output of project as well as to check that the results of
the project are delivered on time. It can be said that each and every
project is initiated on the basis of strong correspondence design. This
can be considered as a fundamental methodology that points out what
exactly effective communication will look like on undertaking a give
task in a project. The main role is that of a project manager and the
whole communication in the project depends on the communication
skills of the project manager (Barry 2015). The structure of an
organization is also an important factor to come up with effective
communication system in a project. The Project Management Institute
mentions that one of the most important factors in successful project
delivery is the supportive organizational structure for communication.
The governance is another major support to a project and this can be
highly linked to the communication in a project. Good governance can
be done only if the communication skills of the ones leading the project
are good. The medium of communication and tone are some of the
important attributes in this context. In order to become a good project
manager and to foster communication one needs to have a proper

understanding of the values as well as the attitudes of the members
and consider their opinions. Two-way communication is what is desired
in any project proceeding as only downward communication would not
help. Upward communication that is the communication from the
employees or team member’s end is equally important in any project.
The views and opinions of the ones those who are working on site are
important as their practical knowledge can help in taking effective
decisions in a project (de Araújo and Pedron 2015). Meetings and
conferences should be an important part of the project proceedings as
this will the only way to foster communication. The good
communication environment reduces cost as well as wastage of time in
a project. Communication thus is also a vital element of project
activities.
2. Describe clearly the aims and objectives of your research project
(200 words)
The aim of this study is to find out in what ways communication in a
project helps in timely completion and quality maintenance of the
project deliverables. The importance of communication in the success
of a project will be discussed along with the role that managerial
communication has in this context. The external as well as the internal
communications happening in a project will be considered as both of
these are essential. The modern tools that are being used by project
managers to enhance communication within a project will also find a
place in this discussion as technology has brought in a lot of
transformations in the various processes involved in communication.
Overall, the content will be laid down to assess how communication
serves as the backbone of different tasks in the context of project