Research and Ethics Form for Questionnaire Study

This assignment involves completing a research and ethics form for a questionnaire study. The form requires providing details about the proposed work, including informed consent procedures, potential ethical concerns, and measures to address them. It also covers data storage and security, access to personal information, and debriefing participants at the end of their participation. The completed form must be submitted to the supervisor and attached to the research proposal when submitting it to Turnitin. This ensures compliance with the institution's Research and Ethics Policy.

Research Form

Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________ Student ID:
____________
Centre Name: _____________________
Tutor: ________________ Date:
___________________
Unit: ____________________
Proposed Title: “To identify the role of globalisation on business
success of a multinational organisation”. A study on Marks and
Spencer.
______________________________________________

Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project
Title: “To identify the role of globalisation on business success of a
multinational organisation”. A study on Marks and Spencer.
Research Question:
 What is the concept of globalisation?
 What are the importance of globalisation in driving business
success of M&S?
 What are the different ways through which M&S can easily
enhance their success at global level?
Research objectives:
 To understand basic knowledge about the concept of
globalisation.
 To identify importance of globalisation in driving business success of M&S.
 To Explore different ways through which M&S can easily enhance their success at
global level.
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this research project
One of the most important reason behind selecting this research is to determine the path
through which M&S can gain success during globalisation. Mark and Spenser is multinational
fashion retailer and its headquarter is located in United Kingdom. The major purpose behind
selecting this organisation is that M&S is one of the largest fashion and luxury brand of UK.
The organisation also provide various job opportunities to interested candidates all over the
world. So by using this topic researcher will be able to manage and improve analytical and
various other skills in the efficient manner.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Literature review is the research paper or document which guides to
investigator in identifying various conflicts,problems and their solution
occurred at the time of conducting various other research. Under this
section the objectives behind conducting the research will be discussed in

a sequential and systematic manner.
Concept of globalisation
According to the Beck, (2018) globalisation introduces as an useful and effective process
of interaction among companies, government and people in all over the world. It is an essential
process used by an organisation to globalise their business activities and functions in
international level. Globalisation is important because it directly helps in increasing the sale
and probability of the organisation by analysing the market and demand of the potential
customers.
Importance of globalisation in driving business success
According to Agnew, (2017), globalisation has helped consumers, business
and western economy in growing and enhancing its business.
Globalisation directly helps in making best use of various opportunities
present at the global level. This is because while entering into global
market organisations generally uses latest technology for attracting and
improving their business in the best possible manner.
As per the point of view of Benería,Berik and Floro, (2015) Organisations can
make the best use of globalisation by using the available resources in the
effective manner. For achieving the success company's can know the
strategies of its competitors. As by doing this effective and innovative
plans can be made to achieve the competitive advantage. Plans for
satisfying the needs and preferences of the customers at the global level
will also help the organisation in achieving long term success.
Different ways through which organisation can easily enhance
their success at global level.
As per the views of Bourguignon, (2017) There are various ways which
can be used by the organisations for enhancing their business for getting
successful at the international level. Some among the ways are
globalisation helps in building a strong and constant brand image in the
mind of the customers and innovative marketing strategies can be used to
attract more and more customers and to achieve desirable position in the
international market.
According to the Boyden, (2015) A perfect brand image can be made by
constantly making new changes in the product and services of the
organisation. As by doing this the customers will be satisfied and the sale
be increased. Innovation plays a vital role for the enrichment of the

organisation at global level. As it enables the organisation to identify their
potentiality and capability for adopting various business opportunities in
order to faces the challenges or threat in the effective manner
References
Agnew, J., 2017. Globalization and sovereignty: Beyond the territorial trap. Rowman &
Littlefield.
Beck, U., 2018. What is globalization?. John Wiley & Sons.
Benería, L., Berik, G. and Floro, M., 2015. Gender, development and globalization:
Economics as if all people mattered. Routledge.
Bourguignon, F., 2017. The globalization of inequality. Princeton University Press.
Boyden, J., 2015. Childhood and the policy makers: A comparative perspective on the
globalization of childhood. In Constructing and reconstructing childhood (pp. 167-
201). Routledge.
Section Four: Activities and timescales
Activities to be carried out during the research
project :
Introduction
Creation of aims and objectives
Literature Review
Research Methodology
Submission of research proposal form
Data collection
Data analysis
Conclusion and recommendation
Submission of final project
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6 Days
12 Days
16 Days
1 Days
25 Days
21 Days
2 Days
1 Days

Milestone one: ____Research Proposal ____________
Target date (set by tutor): ____39 days ________________
Milestone two: ___Research Project ____________________
Target date (set by tutor): __49 days ____________________
Gantt Chart: It is a graphical presentation which is used by the
researcher for analysing and interpreting each and every activities of the
research in the systematic manner. In this data various activities are
included in a coordinated manner.

Section Four: Research approach and methodologies
Research onion framework
It introduces as an effective framework which is used by researcher in
order to collect accurate and appropriate information about the topic. This
framework have different inner and outer layers which are shown as
under:

Research Philosophy: A research Philosophy is basically of two types which are
Interpretivism and positivism. For this project interpretivism philosophy will be applied for
evaluating the information in the effective and efficient manner. It will also help in proving
better solutions to the research problem so that better conclusions can be drawn. On the other
side, positivism philosophy is not appropriate for this project because some time it create
difficulties for the investigator (Hirst,Thompson and Bromley, 2015).
Research Approach: There are basically two types of research approach such as inductive and
deductive. According to this topic, inductive research approach will be used by researcher as it
will help an investigator to accumulate accurate data according to the study. On the other side,
deductive approach is not appropriate for this project because it take maximum time and not
give quality data about the topic (Crane and Matten, 2016).
Research strategy: There are different types of research strategy including, case study,
observation, survey etc. All these are consider main strategy for a researcher to gather accurate
information about the project. According to this research, case study is consider important
strategy which is applied by investigator to accumulate in-depth information about the topic.
Research Choice: Qualitative and quantitative are consider as a type of research which is
applied by researcher to gather appropriate information about the study. According to current
project, qualitative research is used because it give quality and appropriate data as compared

to quantitative research.
Time horizon: It is also consider another step of research onion framework which is most
useful because with the help of Gantt chart, they can easily identify starting and ending time
for proposal and project submission.
Techniques and procedures and research instruments: Questionnaire is consider important
and essential techniques, procedures and instrument of primary research which is applied by
researcher to collect reliable as well as valid data about the study.
Data Sources: The data can be collected from two sources which are primary and secondary
sources. Primary data is known as the first hand data because in this the data can directly be
collected from the respondents with the help of questionnaire (Enloe, 2016). Where as on the
other hand for collecting secondary information data can be gathered from websites, magazines
and journals.
Research Sampling: Probability and non-probability are consider as a two types of research
sampling which is used for selecting sample size (Milanovic, 2016). According to this project,
probability sampling will be used because it not need more time, cost and resources of an
organisation as compared to non-probability sampling. Thus, with the help of probability
sampling 60 respondents have been selected.
Research Ethics: Informed consent, confidentiality and anonymity are consider main
principles of research ethics which should be used by researcher to do each activities of
research in systematic manner (Hawkesworth, 2018).
Research limitation: One of the main limitation for this research project is time. As
globalisation is a biggest concept and for doing research about this topic, accurate time period
is require by an investigator.
References
Crane, A. and Matten, D., 2016. Business ethics: Managing corporate citizenship and
sustainability in the age of globalization. Oxford University Press.
Enloe, C., 2016. Globalization and militarism: Feminists make the link. Rowman & Littlefield.
Hawkesworth, M. E., 2018. Globalization and feminist activism. Rowman & Littlefield.
Hirst, P., Thompson, G. and Bromley, S., 2015. Globalization in question. John Wiley & Sons.
Milanovic, B., 2016. Global inequality: A new approach for the age of globalization. Harvard
University Press.
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 role of globalisation on business success of a
multinational organisation”. A study on Marks and Spencer.
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)?
Participants can be recruited by using sampling method which is further
divided into two parts such as probability and non probability sampling
method. In this respondents will be selected by using probability method.
This is because it is considered as one of the most appropriate method for
randomly choosing the participants for the research. So there will be 60
respondents for this research.
Describe the processes you will use to inform participants about what you
are doing:
social media, websites and mobile application and various other platforms
will be used to inform the participants about the work.
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?
A written format will be used to get consent from the participants. This
means in this questionnaire will be used.
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
During the research:
Researcher
Where will the data be stored?
Computer systems are used to store data.
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?
How long will the data and records be kept for and in what format?
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.