Analyzing the Influence of Global Pandemic on Workplace Transformation: A Study on Primark

This research study aims to analyze the impact of the global pandemic on accelerating workplace transformation in Primark. It will identify the importance of workplace transformation and examine strategies adopted by Primark to deal with issues faced due to the pandemic. The study will use a deductive approach and survey method to collect primary data from 40 employees of Primark. The data will be stored in mobile and USB storages and will be kept confidential. The study will comply with the Data Protection Act (1998) and ethical issues related to informed consent, confidentiality, and data storage will be addressed.

Research Project

Table of Contents
Research Proposal Form.........................................................................................................1
Research Ethics approval form...............................................................................................7
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

ANNEXURE “A”:
Research Proposal Form
Student Name
Student ID
Centre Name
Tutor
Unit No
Proposed Title "To analyze the influence of global pandemic on accelerating workplace
transformation. A study on Primark.
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project (in the form of a question, objective or hypothesis)
"To analyze the influence of global pandemic on accelerating workplace transformation. A study
on Primark".
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?):
 To study the concept of workplace transformation.
 To identify the impacts of a global pandemic on accelerating workplace transformation in
Primark.
 To determine the importance of workplace transformation within Primark.
 To examine strategies adopted by Primark to deal with issues faced due to the global
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pandemic on accelerating workplace transformation.
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 key reason to opt particulate investigation is for making in depth for analyzing and
evaluating, the concept of workplace transformation and their affects by global pandemic.
Moreover, respective research further assists to manage professional and personal development
of person. In relation to personal development, this aids to improve data analysis, communication
skills and so on (Nagel, 2020). In professional context, the key concept of workplace
transformation and its affects of global pandemic. In addition to this, it would be useful for
investigator for adopting appropriate strategies for further ventures.
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Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or hypothesis:
To study the concept of workplace transformation.
workplace transformation is basically used for the remote offices as it is related to the
productivity of business and public sector as well. The changes happened in the workplaces
transformation due to the pandemic also make a straight impact on the workforces which is
helpful for make a direct impact on the growth of the employees (Soto-Acosta, 2020).
To identify the impacts of a global pandemic on accelerating workplace transformation in
Primark.
To determine the importance of workplace transformation within Primark.
Many of the organisation are helpful for generate different platform and helpful for generalised
the statement and work to up-skilled the employee's performance (What Workplace
Transformation Means Now, 2020). Many of the organisation need to rethink about workflow
and design of existing to help attract the new just entering into the acquired workplaces.
To examine strategies adopted by Primark to deal with issues faced due to the global pandemic
on accelerating workplace transformation
There are different strategies that are used by organisations for the purpose of spreading
themselves across different working locations. Such as it includes management revolution in this
freedom is accompanied with profession that is confronting of the traditional direction activity.
The main idea is focussed on taking priority over the other aspect that are challenged. The main
reason is based on having fixed working patterns (de Lucas Ancillo and et. al, 2021). There are
different leadership practices, management systems and communication process that are used for
building up the industrial age of working.
REFERENCES
Nagel, L., 2020. The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital transformation of
work. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
Soto-Acosta, P., 2020. COVID-19 pandemic: Shifting digital transformation to a high-speed
gear. Information Systems Management, 37(4), pp.260-266.
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de Lucas Ancillo, A., del Val Núñez, M.T. and Gavrila, S.G., 2021. Workplace change within
the COVID-19 context: a grounded theory approach. Economic Research-Ekonomska
Istraživanja, 34(1), pp.2297-2316.
Gabryelczyk, R., 2020. Has COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation? Initial lessons learned
for public administrations. Information Systems Management, 37(4), pp.303-309.
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):
How long this will
take:
Milestone one: _________________
Target date (set by tutor): _________________
Milestone two: _________________
Target date (set by tutor): __________________
Gantt Chart
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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 methodologies is an important source to make a procedure for an investigation and
assist the researcher to collect the data and make information in different ways. It involve
different layers which are helpful for the research study:
Research Philosophies: There are mainly two philosophies that is related to interpretivism and
positivism. These two topic are appropriate but for this approach, positivism to make effective
and valuable (Psomas, 2021). The main reason for doing less time and helps in gaining more
valid and reliable data for the research.
Research Approach: There are two main approaches related to deductive and inductive
approach. For completing this research, investigator will be use the deductive approach which is
more effective. The reason for choosing this study is to provide a better explanation and testing
of numeric data and provide effective information.
Research Strategies: The main research strategies are helpful for conducting action,
experiment, case study, survey and many more different type of methods. The researcher opted
Survey method to complete the present study and make useful approaches for the growth as well.
It will be helpful for gaining different methods and gain more reliable and valid information to
conduct investigation in an efficient ways.
Time Horizon: Time is one of the significant source of conducting the research, it will be
helpful for managing the data and timely provide a completion of the project. The main
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approaches are longitudinal and cross-section (Dickerson and et. al, 2020). For the completion of
the study, researcher opt cross-sectional approach which helps in completion of the project
within allocated time.
Data collection: The data will be collected through primary and secondary sources in order to
make more reliable and effective approach. For collecting primary data, researcher opted
questionnaire for getting reliable and valid data from the respondents. On the other hand, for the
secondary source of data, online articles, journals, papers and more published sources are used to
collect the primary sources.
Sampling: This is helpful for conducting primary sources, with the help of two main models,
probability and non-probability method (Zhao and et. al, 2020). There is the use of respondents
are 40 in size and they are the employee's of Primark. As they have adequate knowledge about
the policies and procedure of the company
References
Psomas, E., 2021. Future research methodologies of lean manufacturing: a systematic literature
review. International Journal of Lean Six Sigma.
Dickerson, D., Baldwin, J.A., Belcourt, A., Belone, L., Gittelsohn, J., Kaholokula, K.A., Lowe,
J., Patten, C.A. and Wallerstein, N., 2020. Encompassing cultural contexts within scientific
research methodologies in the development of health promotion interventions. Prevention
Science, 21(1), pp.33-42.
Zhao, Y., Mao, Y., Zhang, W., Tang, Y. and Wang, P., 2020. Reviews on the effects of
contaminations and research methodologies for PEMFC. International Journal of Hydrogen
Energy, 45(43), pp.23174-23200.
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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
ANNEXURE “B”:
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 analyze the influence of global pandemic on accelerating workplace
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transformation. A study on Primark".
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:
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Ages 12-16: Young people aged: 17-18 Adults:
How will participants be recruited (identified an approached)?
In this study, probability sampling will be used for the selection of
recruiting 40 employees of the Unilever.
Describe the processes you will use to inform participants about what you are doing:
E-mail and telephone presentation will be chosen for this study.
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?
For this, all the data taken from the individuals will be provided effectively
and it is written form.
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
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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?
Only the company and researcher have the access to the data.
During the research:
Where will the data be stored?
In the mobile and USB storages
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.
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 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.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
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