Examples
of statements on management concerns and associated management topics
Management concern statements
Characteristics
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Concerns/ issues-focused
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Expressed in the language of the client
system's world
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Felt by one or more stakeholder groups in an
organizational setting
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Management topic statements
Characteristics
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Solutions/evaluation-focused
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Expressed in the language of the academic
world
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Felt by the researcher to be relevant for
working out some recommendations with good actionable value
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Examples on management concern statements
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Examples on management topic statements
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Example 1: Product range of the company too narrow and mature [felt by
the senior management of the company]
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To evaluate and strengthen
the innovation capability of the
company.
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Example 2: Company's staff in low morale due
to the poor organizational atmosphere
associated with the upcoming business process outsourcing [felt by the senior
management and the employees of the company]
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To evaluate how the organizational atmosphere of the
company affects its employee morale
and the resultant employees' job performance.
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Example 3: Salesmen unwilling to share customers'
information with their colleagues in their company [felt by the owner of the
business]
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To evaluate and strengthen
the teamwork of the company so as to improve customer satisfaction.
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Example 4: Some managers considered too harsh to
their subordinates [felt by some of the company's middle managers]
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To evaluate and improve the management styles and leadership styles found in the
company.
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Example 5: The middle managers and their subordinates of the company are considered unwilling to learn and adopt innovative ideas [felt by
the top management of the company]
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To evaluate how the existing corporate culture of the company
affects its innovation capability.
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Examples of management topic statements and
associated research objective statements
Management
topic statements
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Associated
specific research objective statements
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Example
1: To evaluate how the organizational
atmosphere of the company affects its employee morale and the resultant employees' job performance.
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To evaluate how
the organizational atmosphere of
ABC Ltd. affects employee morale in
the human resource management department and the marketing department by the
participant observation research method.
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Example
2: To evaluate and strengthen the teamwork of the company so
as to improve customer satisfaction.
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To explore how teamwork of salesmen in
ABC Ltd. could contribute to customer
satisfaction improvement by the focus
group research method.
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Example
3: To evaluate how the existing corporate culture of the company affects its innovation capability.
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To evaluate the impact of the corporate culture on the innovation capability of ABC Ltd.,
using Edgar Schein's Organizational
Culture Model.
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