Research Ethics Approval and Research Proposal Forms

The article provides two forms, Research Ethics Approval Form and Research Proposal Form, for students conducting research activity that involves human participants or the use of data collected from human participants. The Research Ethics Approval Form requires basic details and project summary, while the Research Proposal Form requires research objectives, reasons for choosing the project, literature sources searched, activities and timescales, and research approach and methodologies. Both forms need to be filled and ethical approval needs to be gained before commencing the research.

APPENDIX A
Research Ethics Approval Form
All students conducting research activity that involves human participants or the use of
data collected from 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:
Student name:
Student ID number:
Programme:
Center Name:
Intended research start date:
Intended research end date:

Section 2: Project Summary
Please select all research methods that you plan to use as part of your project:
• Interviews:
• Questionnaires:
• Observations:
• Use of Personal Records:
• Data Analysis:
• Action Research:
• Focus Groups:
• Other (please specify): ..............................................................................................

APPENDIX B
Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________
Proposed Title: ______________________________________________
Section One:
Title or working title of the research project Topic- to assess the impact of work
from home on employees productivity during covid-19 pandemic in the context of consultation
sector: A study on Hyperlink Info System UK.
Research objectives
Objectives
 To analyse the concept of work for home during covid19 pandemic
 To evaluate different collaborative tools adopted by Hyperlink Info System UK for effective
management of work
 To discuss the importance of virtual teams and leadership in enhancing the productivity of
the company
 To recommend strategies for effectively managing virtual teams
Section Two:
Reasons for choosing the project
Rationale of study
The major reason behind doing this research is to know about the how remote workers
working effectively to motivate employees during pandemic. This research provide detailed
information about how IT managers have managed distance work and job satisfaction of
employees during pandemic.

Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective
or hypothesis:
Crisis has changes the way people work, Companies have applied work from home policy as
their priority during that time. Many companies have allowed to reshape their current working
culture and business structure of working hours, flexibility while working. Virtual teams and
leaders work in partnership in the hyperlink info system UK so that they can focus heavily on the
development of people. Virtual leaders and team members foster relationship during working
from home facilities. In order to accomplish task they create collaboration method which helps
them to experience support of each other.
Section Four: Activities and timescales
Data collection
In order to find out research objectives and aims, primary and
secondary data will be used. For primary data research,
questionnaire method will be conducted on 20 managers of the
hyperlink Info System UK under survey. With the help of
previous details related to work from home facilities will be
assessed in order to develop thesis. For secondary research,
journals and scholarly articles will be used.
How long this will
take:

Section Five: Research approach and methodologies
Research approach
In order to evaluate different collaborative tools used by firm for effective work
management inductive approach will be used. The reason behind choosing this approach is it can
provide analysis of qualitative method more effectively.
Research philosophy
There are majorly two type of research philoshophy which can be used in research study
named as positivism and interpretivism (Mohajan, 2018). In order to determine the impact of the
global pandemic on accelerating workplace transformation interpretivism method will be used
for evaluating qualitative data.
Comments and agreement from tutor: The learner has understood the
requirements and have made an appropriate selection.
Agreed: __________
Tutor Signature: ___________
Date ______________