lean management

lean management   Order Description   The order is part of a larger dissertation. The order is to include: CHAPTER 3 – METHODOLOGY CHAPTER 4 – FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION CHAPTER 5 – CONCLUSION The dissertation is based on a Engineering company based in hamshire – GELtd – please use the dissertation proposal for further details. DO NO SEEK INFORMATION FOR GELtd from any source. Use realistically self generated information/data. There is attached an interview template. Please generate another interview template – use this as a loose outline. But this needs to be different and relevant to the attached dissertation proposal. This should be spaced closely together, and fit onto one page. I am not asking for any data, you are to write the order up as if you have data from 10 personnel from GELtd in a range of position. Lowest being an engineer up to the highest as senior marketing manager. All results ‘used’ are required to be believable and realistic in nature, a few quoted examples can be used through the results section but no longer than 3 lines, and no more than 8 can be used. The order is to only use peer reviewed journals newer than 2009. From western Europe, USA, Canada, Australia or new Zealand. Secondary referencing only to be used. Although the paper uses fake data, the paper is not to admit this or make it obvious at any point. The dissertation is to be based on the attached dissertation proposal document. CHAPTER 3 – METHODOLOGY Introduction (150 words min) – what specific research objective does the empirical research relate to? Why is the empirical research data being collected? There should be an indication of how the chapter is to be structured. Research strategy (500 words min)- What is the overall research strategy? (case study) why has the research strategy been chosen? How has the target population been sampled, why? Why has that sampling approach been chosen(stratified sampling)? ALL THIS SECTION SHOULD BE MAINLY OBTAINED FROM THE dissertation proposal document attached. If it is not possible then a realistic alternative should be used. Data collection (600 words) – how is the data proposed to be collected? (questionnaire) Why has is been chosen to be collected that way? State where the information came from (sample of 10 interviews from a mix of management levels at GELtd and some non managment) Framework for data analysis (500 words min)– once the the data is collected. What is going to be done with it? How are the findings going to be analysed? Limitations and potential problems (500 words min)– are there any potential limitations or problems with the practical research?(eg limitations in chosen strategy or problems getting access to research subjects?) have the issues of validity and reliability been addressed?(are the research choices made appropriate and can the work be trusted? Make sure it is valid and reliable! But make sure this is argued in a credible critical fashion) Ethical considerations?(200 words min) – see dissertation proposal document attached for advice. CHAP 4 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION Introduction (150 words min) – introduces chapter following Blooms (1956) taxonomy of learning. Remind the reader of the data that was set out to be collected. Identify how the findings will be written up (this should be based upon framework for data analysis outlined in previous chapter) place the practical research into good context, name appendix where questionnaire is placed. Please produce a word cloud, containing the same amount of words and similar in size and nature to the one on the attached dissertation example document pg 59. Description (800 words min) – simple process, entailing the basic reporting and chronicling of empirical results (who said what, etc) Analysis (2000 words min) – intelligent interpretation of the aforementioned descriptions Synthesis (2000 words min) – comparison and contrast of the empirical findings against the literature review see attached lean chap 1 and 2 CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION` Introduction (150 words min) – refresh the readers memory about your research objectives and give a quick run down on the contents of the concluding chapter. Research objectives: summary of findings and conclusions (900 words min) – summary of findings and conclusions, answer the following questions: as a result of the literature review and empirical research, what was discovered in relation to the individual research objectives? AND what conclusions have been arrived to? For each research onbjective inform the reader of the findings and offer a view what the research is telling. Recommendations (600 words min) + (300 min limitations) – two types of recommendations: recommendations linked to the conclusions and suggestions for future research; explain the recommendations. Finally offer advice on how to implement the recommendations. [LIMITATIONS 300 words) – qualify the research work with reference to perceived limitaions ie inability to generize findings, lack of time to do more in depth research, restrictions on access to research subjects] Contribution to knowledge (400 words min) – consider the contribution in 2 ways: as a result of the literature review findings and the empirical work. Emphasise the contribution by comparing and contrasting the work/findings against other researchers.