Research Proposal: Impact of Ethical Violations on Governance at M&S

This research proposal focuses on the issue of ethical violations within corporate governance, using Marks & Spencer as a case study. It begins with an introduction defining corporate governance and ethical violations, followed by the aims and objectives of the research, which include understanding the concept of ethical violations, investigating their relationship with corporate governance, evaluating their impact, and recommending improvements. The literature review explores the concept of ethical violations and the importance of ethical principles in business. The research methodology section outlines the use of both primary and secondary data collection methods. The proposal also covers ethical considerations, ensuring data authenticity and consent. A Gantt chart is included for project planning, and the conclusion summarizes the aims and objectives, along with the research methodology. The document concludes with a list of relevant references.

RESEARCH PROPOSAL

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Literature review
 Research methodology
 Ethical consideration
 Gant chart
 Conclusion
 Reference

INTRODUCTION
 Corporate governance refers to as the different
techniques and rules and regulation by which the
company tries to manage and control its business
working and operations. It is very necessary for the
company to have good corporate governance helps in
taking effective strategic decisions which are helpful
for the growth of the company (Yermack, 2017).
Ethical violation refers to as a practice under which the
employee or the business uses the practices which are
not morally correct.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Aim
 “To identify the issue of ethics violation under corporate governance. A study on Marks and
Spencer.”
Objectives
 To understand the concept of ethical violation in business.
 To investigate the relation between ethical violation and corporate governance
 To evaluate the impact of ethical violation on corporate governance.
 To recommend some improvement of ethics in business.

LITERATURE REVIEW
 Concept of ethical violation
 In the words of Tricker and Tricker, (2015) the business ethics refers to as a concept where
the company applies the principle of ethics and moral that is what is right and what is wrong
business practice. It is very essential for the business to use the ethical principle while doing
its business. This is because of the reason that if business does not pay attention to ethical
behaviour then it will lose its market goodwill.
 But according to Dimopoulos and Wagner, (2016) ethical violation refers to as business not
following the principles of ethics. This is not a good condition for the business as no other
company y will like to do business with this as they are violating the ethical principle. This
violation can be in different forms like use of fraudulent business practices, mishandling of
funds, charging consumers high and many other different practices.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
 Methods of data collection
 Data collection refers to as a system wherein the researcher will collect the data relating to the
research topic and to find some conclusion for the research problem. The data can be collected
from two different sources that is primary sources and the secondary sources. For conducting
the present research, the researcher will use the combination of both the sources (Kumar,
2019). This is because of the reason that the primary sources help the researcher in getting the
direct information which has nit been used earlier and the secondary sources authenticates the
information with help of views of different authors.

ETHICAL CONSIDERATION
 Ethical consideration refers to as the things which the researcher needs to
maintain while doing the research. Here the research must ensure that it gets the
consent forms signed by the respondent before asking them any question. Also,
the scholar must ensure that the data selected is chosen from all the authentic
sources and not from any unauthentic source (Bilimoria, Chung and Hedges,
2019).

GANT CHART

CONTINUED

CONCLUSION
 The presentation highlights the aims and objectives relating to the issues in
corporate governance. The issue highlighted in the aim was ethical violation and
its impact in the corporate governance of the company. The proposal highlights
the literature review and the methods of research that will be used by the
researcher for completion of the research project.

REFERENCES
 Baykara, Z.G., Demir, S.G. and Yaman, S., 2015. The effect of ethics training on
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 Bilimoria, K.Y., Chung, J.W. and Hedges, L.V., 2019. External validity is also an
ethical consideration in cluster-randomised trials of policy changes. BMJ quality
& safety. 28(2). p.167.
 Chipulu, M., Ojiako, U. and Marshall, A., 2016. Consumer action in response to
ethical violations by service operations firms: The impact of
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