Business Research: Reflection Report on Effectiveness of Outsourcing

This business research reflection report provides a comprehensive overview of the learning experience related to outsourcing business functions. The report explores the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing, highlighting its impact on business productivity, financial performance, and the automobile industry. It delves into various factors influencing outsourcing, such as political, cultural, and economic elements, as well as the significance of research objectives, research design, and data collection methods. The reflection covers the importance of research philosophies, including rhetoric, inductive, and deductive approaches, along with different research design methods like exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, and predictive research. Furthermore, the report discusses data collection methods, data analysis techniques, and the limitations of research, emphasizing the importance of time management and effective resource allocation. The student reflects on how the learning has improved their skills in business research, particularly in understanding the complexities and implications of outsourcing in a systematic manner.

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Reflection Report
Effectiveness and usefulness of the learning experience
I created my knowledge about the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing business
functions. The business outsources function can enable the organization to deal with any
agent to spread the product and services to specified customers in less time and cost. In the
current scenario, most of the organization has used outsourcing of abusiness function to
increase the productivity of business in less time. At the same time, I also learned that the
outsource business function can direct impact on financial performance of an organization. I
learned that the outsourcing business functions help to simply gain the profitability as well as
productivity of the organization in long-run (Brinkmann, 2014).
Usefulness of learning process
In addition to this, I also increased my understanding about the disadvantages of the
outsource business function.There are some components that affect the business outsource
function named political factor, cultural factor, changes in the prices, quality risk, lack of
quality services, language barriers. Others factors are legal data, labor problems, and
employee layoff. In addition to this, it can also be said that the understanding aboutsuch
factors can support to successfully deal with upcoming uncertainty in businessoutsourcing
function. I also gained my knowledge about different factors that show that how the business
outsources function can positively influence the performance of an automobile industry (Ee,
et al., 2013). These are save the cost of industry; concentrate on the core business, improve
the quality of product and services, satisfy a large number of customers, and increase the
efficiency of business operation.
Learning process
At the same time, it can be said that I also understood the significance of research that could
be significant to make a positive atmosphere in the research.I learned that outsources business

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function was supportive to obtain the positive outcome for Australian automobile industry. I
gained my knowledge about the pros and cons of thedimension of outsourcing business
function (Hair, 2015). Additionally, I also understood that different government culture and
policiesaffect the outsourcing business functions in long-term. I learned that the business
functions outsourcing can categorize the acts of business that will be supportive to save time
and cost in a systematic manner. It can also supportive to reduce the labor cost and
transportation cost of business appropriately.I learned about the research objective that is
required to accomplish the task of research in an appropriate manner (Han, et al., 2013).
Learning
Furthermore, I also gained my knowledge about the key objectives regarding outsourcing of
business function. I increased my understanding about the evaluation of business procedure
which is mainly outsourced. I also gained my awareness about the importance of outsourcing
in context of the Australian automobile industry. In addition to this, it can be said that I
increased my knowledge about the research question as well as research hypothesis. It will be
significant to complete the research issues appropriately. At the same time, I also improved
my knowledge about the research design that helps to select appropriate research techniques
to meet the task of research.It includes some significant factors such as research philosophy,
research approach, research design, research methods, qualitative and quantitative data
collection method, data analysis method, and research limitation. In addition to this, I also
learned that there are some significant kinds of research philosophy like axiology, Ontology,
rhetoric research, and epistemology philosophy (Panneerselvam, 2014).
Learning process
At the same time, I deeply created my consciousness about the rhetoric research philosophy. I
also understood that this philosophy will suitable in case research is subjective in nature. It
supports to explore the research issue in depth that will be beneficial to successfully identify

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the alternative solution for the research. In addition to this, it can also be said that the
inductive approach is supportive to create the theoretical knowledge about the research issue
in an appropriate manner. The inductive approach offers the depth theoretical framework
about the research issue that helps to solve the issue of research. Moreover, I also created my
knowledge about thedeductive approach that used to prove the hypothesis to collect the
favorable outcome. I also understood about different kinds of research design methods named
exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, and predictive research design (Silverman, 2016).
Along with this, it can also be said I deeply created my knowledge about the exploratory
research design because the research dilemma is based on the subjective. I also gained my
consciousness about theprocess of thequantitative method at the same time also increased my
knowledge about the qualitative method process. It will be supportive to obtain the data in an
appropriate way.
Implementation of learning
Furthermore, I improved my understanding towards the data collection method such as
primary and secondary data collection method. The secondary data collection method can be
appropriate to collect the data for obtaining the accurate outcome in less time and cost. There
are different kinds of factors such as ajournal,books, academic journal, and balance sheet of
thecompany, company websites, and online sources. I also created my awareness regarding
the data analysis method that supports to evaluate the collected information effectively
(Sople, 2016).
I increased my knowledge about the limitation of research that helps to accomplish the task
of an organization in an appropriate manner.There are different types of elements that will be
considered in the research because they can negative impact on the completion of research.
These are such as resources, cost, environmental factors and time. Therefore, it will support
toimprove my skills of research in a systematic way. I also gained my knowledge about the

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time schedule that will help to improve the time management skills in an appropriate manner
(Taylor, et al., 2015).

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