Reflective Report on Research Methods and Processes

Project 2 - EMBA: The
Reflective Report
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CONTENTS
REFLECTIVE WRITING...............................................................................................................3
Research Methods and Processes................................................................................................3
Literature and Sources.................................................................................................................4
My learning..................................................................................................................................4
My Critical Thinking and my ideas.............................................................................................5
Barriers Met.................................................................................................................................5
Objectives....................................................................................................................................6
My Professional Development....................................................................................................6
Findings and Outcomes...............................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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REFLECTIVE WRITING
Reflective report can be recovered as a piece of writing and an analytical practice that
summarizes critical reflection of an individual on particular subject. In this, real or imaginary
event, passing thought, interaction scene on memory is described by the writer and reflection
adds meaning in it. It encourages a person to think regarding his or her personal reaction to the
particular event or situation (Alrashidi and Ullmann, 2019). It is a reflective report which covers
reflection on my own experience that I get during undertaking the module. It aims to support my
ability to be self-critical regarding my research. This reflective report is developed to support my
self-critical consideration of research as well as associated skills. It includes reflection on my
learning during MBA program and the process of performing research. it includes reflection on
research processes, research methodologies along with the main learning points that could be
applied to other situations.
Research Methods and Processes
The third chapter in the research study is research methodology which includes various
methods which are used in the research to carry out it in systematic manner. Research onion is a
framework which is mostly used in this part which consists of six layers including research
philosophy, approach, strategies, design, data collection method, time horizon. It also covers
limitation of research, sampling and ethical considerations while performing the research. During
undertaking the module, I also learnt about research philosophies and acknowledge that there are
two main philosophies which researcher used in the research. These includes interpretivism and
positivism philosophy. I decided to use quantitative research method for performing the
investigation, so I utilised positivism research philosophy along with deductive research
approach. Apart from this, I also learnt about different strategies of research including case
study, experimental research, survey, interview etc. and based on their advantages and
disadvantages and the type of study, I decided to conduct survey study and use questionnaire for
collecting primary data. In addition to this, I utilise both primary as well as secondary method of
collecting data which helped me in gathering a lot of data on the topic and makes it easy for me
to draw valid conclusion based on that data (Pasternak and Rigoni, 2015).
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