Some advice on linkage-type research objective in the agile literature review approach

 Some advice on linkage-type research objective in the agile literature review approach:

An example of a linkage-type research objective:

Example: to evaluate how managerial competence affects frontline employee turnover of ABC Ltd.

Comments on this objective in six points:

Point 1. to evaluate how managerial competence [zone 2 item] affects frontline employee turnover [zone 3a item] of ABC Ltd.

Point 2. Changed to [revised linkage-type research objective]: to evaluate the managerial competence of ABC Ltd, with special regard to its influence on the frontline employee turnover

That is: "to evaluate how managerial competence affects frontline employee turnover of ABC Ltd." changed to "to evaluate the managerial competence of ABC Ltd, with special regard to its influence on the frontline employee turnover"

Point 3. The revised linkage-type research objective has two sub-objectives

Research objective 1.1: to evaluate the managerial competence of ABC Ltd. [zone 2 item]

Research objective 1.2: to evaluate how managerial competence affects frontline employee turnover of ABC Ltd. [a linkage item {an arrow in the theoretical framework level 0 connecting two items} between zone 2 and zone 3a]

Point 4. Note that in Zone 3a, there is also a research objective on employee turnover as follows:

Research objective 2: to evaluate the frontline employee turnover status of ABC Ltd.

Point 5. Alternative, just express your interest in the revised linkage-type research objective in the theoretical framework level 0:

Zone 2: "to evaluate the managerial competence of ABC Ltd"  ----->

Zone 3a: "to evaluate the frontline staff turnover status of ABC Ltd".

If you adopt Point 2, the dissertation title becomes: 

An investigation to evaluate the managerial competence of ABC Ltd, with special regard to its influence on frontline employee turnover

If you adopt Point 5, the dissertation title could become: 

An investigation to evaluate the managerial competence and frontline staff turnover of ABC Ltd 

Point 6. I need to remind students that you need to do relevant literature review on these three research objectives explicitly in this case. 

Research objective 1.1: to evaluate the managerial competence of ABC Ltd.

Research objective 1.2: to evaluate how managerial competence affects frontline employee turnover of ABC Ltd.

Research objective 2: to evaluate the frontline staff turnover status of ABC Ltd.

The advice given endorses the agile literature review approach principle of "fostering a more complicated [including comprehensive, systemic and richer] view on management concerns and theoretical frameworks" in dissertation project.