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The goal of a research proposal is to present and justify a research idea you have and to present the practical ways in which you think this research should be conducted. The forms and procedures for such research are defined by the field of study, so guidelines for research proposals are generally more exacting and less formal than a project proposal. Research proposals contain extensive literature reviews and must provide persuasive evidence that there is a need for the research study being proposed. In addition to providing rationale for the proposed research, a proposal describes detailed methodology for conducting the research consistent with requirements of the professional or academic field and a statement on anticipated outcomes and/or benefits derived from the study.

Krathwohl, David R. How to Prepare a Dissertation Proposal: Suggestions for Students in Education and the Social and Behavioral Sciences . Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005.

How to Approach Writing in a Research Proposal

• Develop your skills in thinking about and designing a comprehensive research study.
• Help learn how to conduct a comprehensive review of the literature to ensure a research problem has not already been answered [or you may determine the problem has been answered ineffectively] and, in so doing, become familiar with scholarship related to your topic.
• Improve your general research and writing skills.
• Practice identifying what logical steps must be taken to accomplish one's research goals.
• Nurture a sense of inquisitiveness within yourself and to help see yourself as an active participant in the process of doing scholarly research.

A proposal should contain all the key elements involved in designing a complete research study, with sufficient information that allows readers to assess the validity and usefulness of your proposed study. The only elements missing from a research proposal are the results of the study and your analysis of those results. Finally, an effective proposal is judged on the quality of your writing. It is, therefore, important that your writing is coherent, clear, and compelling.

Regardless of the research problem you are investigating and the methodology you choose, all research proposals must address the following questions:

• What do you plan to accomplish? Be clear and succient in defining the research problem and what it is you are proposing to research.
• Why do you want to do it? In addition to detailing your research design, you also must conduct a thorough review of the literature and provide convincing evidence that it is a topic worthy of study. Be sure to answer the "So what? question.
• How are you going to do it? Be sure that what you propose is do-able.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Failure to be concise; being "all over the map" without a clear sense of purpose.
• Failure to cite landmark works in your literature review.
• Failure to delimit the contextual boundaries of your research [e.g., time, place, people, etc.].
• Failure to develop a coherent and persuasive argument for the proposed research.
• Failure to stay focused on the research question; going off on unrelated tangents.
• Sloppy or imprecise writing. Poor grammar.
• Too much detail on minor issues, but not enough detail on major issues.

Procter, Margaret. The Academic Proposal .  The Lab Report. University College Writing Centre. University of Toronto; Sanford, Keith. Information for Students: Writing a Research Proposal . Baylor University; Wong, Paul T. P. How to Write a Research Proposal . International Network on Personal Meaning. Trinity Western University; Writing Academic Proposals: Conferences, Articles, and Books . The Writing Lab and The OWL. Purdue University; Writing a Research Proposal. University Library. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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A Thesis proposal on the role of Government leadership and stakeholders in solving the Challenges of Good Governance in Ethiopia

Leadership is an essential feature of all government and governance: weak leadership contributes to government failures, and strong leadership is indispensable if a government is to succeed (Masciulli, 2009). A good leader must be able to render selfless service and desist from selfishness, he must make provision for training and empowering his people and encourage self-employment, he must be serious about issues that concern the youths as they are the future leaders and should not look down on the adults. There abound different styles of leadership with attendant different effects. Effective leadership is helpful in ensuring organizational performance and in solving the challenges of good governance. As a result, many leadership theories have been proposed in the last fifty years which are claimed to have influenced the effectiveness of organizations where they have been employed through employee performance (Obasan and Banjo 2014).

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The leadership practices were conducted in many government institutions leadership practices was formed. From these institutions, 122 participants were selected through proportionate, simple random and purposive sampling techniques. Questionnaire and interview were employed to collect data from different part of society and leaders respectively. Both descriptive and inferential statistics, including mean, standard deviation and independent sample t-test were used to analyze the quantitative data. The data gathered through interviews were analyzed qualitatively using narration. The study found that the five transformational leadership models were being practiced low or below average in the different part of institutions. But, when the models were independently considered, the variable enabling others to act and model the way were rated relatively high whereas the remaining three leadership practices, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process and encouraging the heart were rated low by the respondents. The result shows that majority of the trainers in the difference part of office were not satisfied with the leaders' engagement in the five leadership practice of Kouzes and Posner's transformational leadership models. Leaders' failure to effectively lead change and innovation, lack of professional support for leaders and their incapability to use various approaches in securing and utilizing resources were the major problems hindered effective implementation of change in the institutions. It is recommended that the Oromia difference part of office commission should plan and invest resources in the development of leadership in the difference office of the region. The plan should focus on the utilization of best leadership practices that directly influence institutional effectiveness, relevant to the management of training institutions. Leadership has become a key component of organization, management and administration of throughout the world. In the some decades, changes In Technology, economy, social, political and cultural aspects of the world have imposed changes their economic systems of both developed and developing countries. To cope with this, economic leaders are bewildered by the rigor of demands and increasing responsibilities that their governments specifically and the public, in general, have imposed upon .Ethiopia began to review its economic system comprehensively with the belief that human beings are the best resources for achieving comprehensive economic and social development. During the past few years, education and training system in Ethiopia have undergone both major quantitative and qualitative change. A succession of new policies was designed and implemented, with the Education and Training Policy being the first major framework for systems reform and transformation. It is believed that one of the main problems in achieving organizational goals and satisfying the need of the society in a developing country is the capacity and effectiveness of leadership. The key for successful implementation of educational reform in Ethiopia depends on how different actor such as scholars, policy makers, and other stakeholders perceive the meanings and opportunities of their roles during the reform process to maximize its potential benefit. At the same time, however, leaders of education institutions have always been viewed as critical to success of the reform and can exhibit tremendous influence on it (Cizek, 1999).

Fikre Fikadu Fufa , Professor, Dr. Bhaskar Pillalamarri

Leadership is an essential feature of all government and governance: weak leadership contributes to government failures, and strong leadership is indispensable if a government is to succeed. The main directions of Stakeholders and public participation, strengthening democratic system and national consensus to be pursued during GTP II are building, strengthening and consolidating the system of democracy and good governance throughout the nation. Good governance is one of the pillars for rapid economic, social and political development. The FDRE in its countrywide strategic plans (PASDEP, currently GTP) highly emphasized the need to enhance community participation in policy formulation, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It comprised a range of interventions such as human development, democratization, enhancing peoples’ participation, integrated capacity building, transparency and accountability. The sustainability of the good governance civic engagements in creating citizens participation by using dialogue and interface meetings enhance citizen’s participation in planning, monitoring and evaluation of basic public service and that in turn promote the service provision. However, insufficient state-citizen relationship, weak application of good governance, and social inclusion hinder the smooth flow of the service provision in Addis Ketema sub-city. Sustainable participatory planning between Government leadership, stakeholders, communities and basic public service providers are still lacking in many of the sector offices. The performance of the service providers in providing quality service and good governance is not in a position to meet the need of service users. Therefore, the major purpose of the study was assessing the role of Government leadership and stakeholders in solving the Challenges of Good Governance and how it will be institutionalize in the government reform agenda in the future. It also identified the major areas of problems in implementing the good governance program related to service delivery, Government leadership, and the stakeholders’ engagements. The analysis was conducted by using a descriptive survey method by clustering the respondents in to citizens, government leadership, service providers, and stakeholder. The sample is selected using judgmental sampling technique. To do this, the citizen’s are first stratified in to age categories, and then questionnaires were distributed to 300 citizens by using simple random sampling technique. Both primary and secondary data was used in the study. Moreover, structured and semi-structured interviews and FGD were conducted to gather relevant information from key informant interview from service providers, government leadership, and Stakeholders. The major findings of the thesis identified that existence of rent-seeking thinking, lack of commitment from the leadership of the municipalities, lack of commitment of the employees, lack of qualified manpower in the municipalities, lack of standardized performance standards as major challenges of good governance among others. The greatest concern given, currently, for the expansion of good governance at the country level is also found the most important prospect. It can then be concluded that the condition of good governance in the study area was not satisfactory. Thus, it is recommended that the leaders and stakeholders of the municipalities should promote accountability, transparency, rule of laws, and enhance the participation of local communities in municipal developments. The opportunities, at the municipal level, to promote good governance have to be identified and properly harnessed. The municipalities should try to find qualified and competent human resource administrators for municipal services provision.

Yirga Goraw

Worksew Argaw

Fikre Fikadu Fufa

Abstract The purpose of this paper was to assess the challenges of good Governance in Ethiopia. Governance, in the world of globalization and competition, matters in accelerating development and in reducing poverty particularly in most developing countries of the world. In line with this, good governance allows for sound and efficient management of resources for equitable and sustainable development. In Ethiopia, many people are poor; municipalities are very responsive areas because of the nature of services they provide. They are also highly susceptible areas for bad governance. The general objective of this seminar is to assess the challenges of good governance in Ethiopia. Concerning the methodology, quantitative and qualitative approaches of different researches were employed. Both primary and secondary sources of data were taken from different written documents and researches. The major findings of the paper identified that existence of rent seeking thinking (corruption), lack of commitment of the leadership, lack of commitment of the employees (work place deviation), lack of qualified man power in the leadership position, lack of standardized performance standards as major challenges of good governance among others. Currently, the greatest concern has been given by the Ethiopian Government to ensure the expansion of good governance at the country level; by undertaken the deep renewal and the fifth years performance evaluation programs, from top to down. It can then be concluded that the condition of good governance in the study area was not satisfactory. Thus, it is recommended that the Government leadership from top to down should promote accountability, transparency, rule of laws, democracy, and enhance the participation of local communities in municipal developments by taking corrective actions. The opportunities, at the municipal level, to promote good governance have to be identified and properly harnessed. The municipalities should try to find qualified and competent human resource administrators for municipal services provision. Improving the participation of the community to be minimizing the challenges of good governance in Ethiopia is very important. Because, ensuring good governance cannot be attained only through the efforts made by the government.

Mulatu Lerra

This study aimed to identify the determinants of leadership in improve sound governance in education sector institutions of the South Nation Nationalities People Region (SNNPR). The study was used a quantitative method (QUAN). It used inferential approach for their appropriateness for defining the research problem. The survey questionnaire collected from 660 participants purposefully and randomly selected from the nine zones, nine Woredas, and nine town administrations sampled education institutions of the SNNPR. Multistage sampling techniques (purposive, random sampling techniques) were instrumental. The logit model and multicollinearity effect were employed were instrumental. It has been found that sampled education sector institutions were experiencing various leadership determinants that hindered the promotion of sound governance, on the logit model. It can be concluded that, despite some policy initiatives and directives introduced by the regional government, the study identi...

Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos

Ethiopia, a country now synonymous with food aid and safety nets, is endowed with over 70 million hectares of arable land out of which only 12% is utilised. It is also the water tower of Eastern Africa, its rivers scooping two million tons of soil out of the country every year. Yet Ethiopia has been on food aid for the last four decades. Hence, the research questions augur on: does leadership enter societies as an external ideology, constructing and deploying its concepts in sterile abstraction from local beliefs and values? Does it come into play in total opposition to, or in cooperation with historic national values and sentiments? Does leadership of human security alter power balances nationally breeding tyrannical societies and states? In the struggle over establishment of rules of economic & political engagement, do states equate this with production of broad-based concepts, norms & goals, which should temper their 'aim' of political rule? Thus, developing the agricultural sector means developing the economy. Domestic private investors have to be encouraged to go into the fertile lands of rural Ethiopia. The rural sector is one major area of domestic farming private sector development that has to be considered and supported by appropriate policies and procedures. The issue of rural sector development in rural Ethiopia is inextricably linked with the issue of rural land policies. The policies and legislative measures regarding rural land and the administrative mechanisms, policies and procedures and their ability to interpret and implement them would determine the fate of agriculture and the private sector in general. This is leadership. Leadership is above all about responsibility; requiring acceptance of the importance of one's self; coupled with an appreciation of the greater importance of others over oneself. Leaders are expected to develop the capacity, through their statements and actions, to shape debate and dialogue. Political leadership of human development and human security requires intimate knowledge of public policy analysis, formulation and management and development of strategic plans and implementing them An inspiring ‘job description’ of leaders must be not only the power over discourse but also their ability to shape morality, to determine what is socially acceptable, culturally sound and politically uplifting.

moges logaw

This research is mainly stressed on a comparative study on quality of leadership practice in Ethiopian Higher education institutes (HEIs) specifically on leadership practice in private and public Universities within five selected HEIs. Its implication in other public sectors was also examined based on the findings within the higher education. Basically the research looked into the styles, behaviors and practice of leadership within the private and public HEIs. In the research different leadership theoretical were examined and used in studying the practice. In Ethiopia, there are forty four public and four private universities. Out of these figures by the use of stratified sampling techniques three universities from public and two from private were selected from faculties of business & economics and informatics. Data analysis was made by using both chi-square and t-test for quantitative data and use of interpretational and reflective analysis for qualitative data. The findings showed...

abubakar goga

This paper is an analysis on “Leadership and Good Governance in Africa: Is there Any Link? Africa’s failures of good governance and regional development have been largely as a result of leadership failures. These manifest in frequent leadership change, lack of political will, lack of realistic ideology, policy reversal and weak institutions. The paper focuses on selected African countries with more emphasis on Nigeria. Data were generated from secondary sources and analysed using content analysis. The paper reveals that the leadership election processes in the continent takes the imposition pattern and that African leaders have frequently come to their position with different motives instead of the quest to facilitate the delivery of services through good governance. Therefore, leadership failures in the areas of poor policies, policy sumersault, indiscipline, corruption and the likes have weakened the system of governance or rather good governance, which affect overall development....

Ahmad Aminu

This paper is a critical analysis of leadership and governance crises in Africa. It argues that Africa's failures have come about largely as a result of frequent leadership change, lack of ideology, policy reversal and weak institutional patterns. The paper also examines the leadership selection process in Africa and that the leadership selection process in Africa takes the imposition pattern and that African leaders have frequently come to their position with limited experience. Hence, the decline in moral and discipline caused by bad policies, eroded professional standards and ethics and weakened the system of governance. The paper lay emphasis on leadership and governance in some selected African countries. The paper observes that for Africa to overcome the crises of leadership and governance in the continent, those on whom the burden of leadership will fall in the future must fully comprehend their responsibilities, duties and obligation. They must also be exposed and be prepared to face the challenges of leadership in developing society. Since the long term salvation of developing countries depends on the quality of its future leaders. The paper concludes that only leadership that has maximum empathy for the people can be relevant to the qualitative movement of Africa.

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Topic 1: an evaluation of organizational change management- why do people tend to oppose change.

Research Aim: The research will aim to assess the structure of organizational change management and to find the reasons why people resist or oppose the changes in an organization. There are many reasons through which change in organization’s management becomes important but some employees’ does not accept that changes. There are many reasons why people resist changes on organization. In certain circumstances, resistance to change might be beneficial. Resistance to change is, in fact, a crucial feedback mechanism that must not be neglected.

Topic 2: Investigating the effectiveness of customer relationship management in airlines

Research Aim: The research will aim to study the efficiency of CRM in airlines. Customer relationship management has evolved into a critical technique used by every corporation to better its operations and obtain a competitive advantage over competitors. Customer relationship management has evolved into a key priority for airline firms and an integral part of airline businesses’ corporate strategy to distinguish themselves from rivals in the eyes of the consumer. The goal of facility organisations, such as airlines, is to provide services that attract and maintain satisfied, loyal customers who promote the airline.

Topic 3: How does leadership affect employees’ productivity? A case of IT firms

Research Aim: This research will focus on leadership positions in IT organisations with the goal of increasing staff productivity and performance. Leadership is essential for increasing employee retention, career drive, and efficiency. Most companies’ progress is accelerated by effective leadership. As a result, it is critical to organisational success. Employee performance, on the other hand, is a critical pillar of every firm, and companies must examine the variables that contribute to great performance. Leadership is based on confidence, which is based on skill, sincerity, ethics, transparency, reactivity, empathy, and kindness.

Topic 4: The effect of organisation advancement tools on business performance

Research Aim: The research will aim to find the effect of organization advancement on business performance. Organizational tools are objects that assist you in organising your workspace, resources, and tasks in order to make your workday more effective. Physical instruments, planners, and software platforms are examples of what they can be. Organization advancement tools are a great source to improve your business performance as they help you in managing your daily tasks and workforce.

Topic 5: The importance of leadership and social skills in new entrepreneurs: An investigative study

Research Aim: The research will aim to investigate the importance of leadership and social skills in new entrepreneurs. Developing talent, introducing innovative goods and services, delivering efficiency, and gaining market share all benefit from improved leadership qualities. If you wish to stay small, you might be able to get away with not growing your leaders. Otherwise, it will restrict your progress. Social skills enable entrepreneurs to interact with customers more effectively, resulting in more agreements and more profitability.

Covid-19 Management Research Topics

Crisis management during covd-19.

Research Aim: This study will identify crisis management aspects during COVD-19, including its challenges and solutions.

Business management during COVID-19

Research Aim: This study will review business executives’ challenges in various scale industries and how they are recovering from the loss. How far did they succeed?

Hospital and medicine management during COVID-19

Research Aim: This study will highlight the role of hospital management during COVID-19, the challenges they came across, and the ways to overcome those challenges.

Educational management during COVID-19

Research Aim: This study will address the issues faced by students and educational institutes. How are they trying to overcome the challenges of imparting education during the coronavirus pandemics?

Maternal health care management during COVID-19

Research Aim: The lockdown situation has been an issue of concern for the patients, including pregnant women. This study will address the role of Maternal health care management during COVID-19.

Management Dissertation Topics for 2023

Topic 1: analyzing the traditions and trends in public administration and management in post-wwii europe.

Research Aim: The purpose of the research will be to analyze the characteristics of cultural and national communities that have influenced public administration and management in the 1970s and 1980s in Europe. The study will be carried out using a systematic literature review.

Topic 2: The Impact of Gender-inclusive Gatekeeping and Predecessors Influence on the Success of Female CEOs

Research Aim: The purpose of the research will explore how local organisational agents and contexts can help women leaders overcome barriers and achieve success at higher levels in corporate firms. The study will focus on CEO succession events and predecessor CEOS factors and their influence on women post-succession. The research design will be developed qualitatively.

Topic 3: Analysing the Impact of Daily Psychological Power on Organisational Leaders

Research Aim: The research will use quantitative techniques to analyze power-holders relational and interdependent work contexts. The study will examine the effect of daily psychological power using the factors of abusive behaviour and perceived incivility.

Topic 4: Examining the Impact of Cultural Diversity on Interaction Process and Performance

Research Aim: Using quantitative techniques, the research will analyse the interaction process and performance factors in two groups of employees in the services industry – homogenous and culturally diverse. The effectiveness in operation and arrangements will be examined.

Topic 5: Analyzing the Impact of ‘Voice’ and ‘Silence’ on Destructive Leadership

Research Aim: The research will examine the limited and biased view of silence in management literature. The study will also analyse the impact of silence in an organisation in terms of a functional value using quantitative research techniques. Furthermore, how silence in organisations can be used as a strategic response will be discussed.

Topic 6: Examining the Relationship between Productivity, Management Practices, and Employee Ability in the UK Setting

Research Aim: Using quantitative techniques, the study will analyse a relationship between productivity, management practices, and employee ability using data from management practices surveys and employees’ longitudinal earnings records.

Topic 7: Analysing the Factors that Impact International Differences in Gender Pay Gap

Research Aim: The research will use quantitative techniques to analyse microdata from various countries between 1980 and 2010. The study will use the factors of wage structures, net supply, wage compression, collective bargaining coverage, and unionised wage setting to identify the lower gender pay gap internationally.

Topic 8: The Impact of Psychosocial Hazards on Workplace Risk Management

Research Aim: The study will investigate workplace risk management practices in industry sectors with a high risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and mental health disorders (MHDs) and the extent to which they may rise from psychosocial hazards. The research will be conducted using qualitative research techniques.

Strategic Management and Organisational Behavior Dissertation Topics

Strategic management and organisational behaviour can be described as the actions a firm takes to achieve its business objectives primarily derived from competitive markets’ dynamic behaviour. Following are some interesting dissertation topics under this field of study;

Topic 1: The Impact of Organisational Goals on Organisation Behavior

Research Aim: The primary focus of this research will be to combine factors from the theory of action, phases and self-determination theory to develop a motivational model that will explain the relationship between organisational goals setting process that lead to organisational behaviour. The research will be conducted using mixed methods of research techniques.

Topic 2: Integrating the Principles of Strategic Human Capital and Strategic Human Resource Management to Improve Organisational Performance

Topic 3: comparing the impact of family and non-family firm goals on strategy, family and organisational behavior.

Research Aim: This research will analyse the differences between family and non-family business goals and their impact on how businesses develop strategies. Also, the research will assess how these developed strategies would affect family and organisational behaviour. This research will use quantitative research techniques.

Topic 4: Analyzing the Effect of Strategy, Innovation, Networks and Complexity on Organisational Adaptability – The Mediating Effect of Leadership

Research Aim: The current study will use empirical analysis to examine the effects of strategy, innovation, networks, and complexity of organisational adaptability using leadership as a mediation factor.

Topic 5: Examining the Effect of Appointment of a Racial Minority Female CEO on White Male Top Manager Intrapsychic and Behavioral Responses

Research Aim: This research will examine white male managers’ behavioural responses to a female racial minority CEO’s appointment. The behaviour that the research will analyse is the amount of help that the white male top manager provides to their fellow executives. The research will be conducted using quantitative techniques.

Topic 6: Analysis of the Effectiveness of an Affect-Based Model to Portray Recipients Responses to Organisational Change Events

Research Aim: The study will use the Affect-Based Model developed by Oreg et al. (2016) to analyse if it is useful in documenting and portraying the recipient responses to organisational change events. The research will use factors of valence and activation to assess the effectiveness of the model. The study will be conducted using quantitative techniques.

Topic 7: Evaluating the Relationship between the personality of a CEO and Employee Motivation

Research Aim: This research will investigate the relationship between a CEO’s personality and employee motivation. The core of this study will be to assess whether a CEO’s character possesses the power to influence employee motivation or not. Case studies from various companies will be used in this study.

Topic 8: Assessing the Role of Managers in Bringing and Implementing Technological Change in an Organisation

Research Aim: This research will focus on how managers implement technological change in their organisations. Change management is challenging as not all employees are open to accepting change. This research will focus on various ways through which managers successfully implement technological change in their companies.

Topic 9: An Analysis of Organisational Change Management: Why Employees Resist Change?

Research Aim: This research will focus on why employees resist change in organisations, i.e., why employees dislike change. Different causes and factors will be discussed in this study, and the research will conclude why employees do not wholeheartedly accept the change.

Knowledge Management Dissertation Topics

The importance of knowledge management for organisations can’t be understated because this aspect of management enhances the workforce’s capabilities and overall productivity. It leads to a competitive advantage and provides the basis for differentiating an organisation from its competitors. Some interesting dissertation topics under this field are;

Topic 1: Examining the Impact of Enterprise Social Networking Systems (ESNS) on Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning

Research Aim: The research will investigate the effect of ESNS on knowledge management processes and organisational learning. The research will use knowledge creation and sharing to play the mediating role in analysing the proposed relationship. The proposed study will use empirical research methods.

Topic 2: A Review of Knowledge Management Research

Research Aim: The research paper will use a systematic literature review technique for the proposed study. The research will review the last twenty years of knowledge management literature to assess the presence of bias in explaining knowledge integration over research by exploring knowledge differentiation processes.

Topic 3: The Impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on Innovation and Knowledge Management Capacity

Research Aim: The purpose of this research will be to investigate the plausible relationship between knowledge management systems, open innovation, knowledge management capacity, and innovation capacity in firms. The research will be conducted using empirical techniques to draw reliable conclusions.

Topic 4: The Impact of Strategic Knowledge Management on MNC and their Subsidiaries Performance

Research Aim: The research will develop a model to test the possibility of a relationship between strategic knowledge management (SKM) processes and organisation performance compared between multinational companies and their subsidiaries. The research will also analyse the impact of relational context on knowledge creation and transfer.

Topic 5: Analyzing the Relationship between Knowledge Management Practices and Knowledge Worker Performance - The Mediating Role of Organisational Commitment

Research Aim: The study will analyse the role of knowledge management practices to address the issues of insufficient organisational commitment and knowledge workers’ performance in the UK’s public sectors. The proposed study will use quantitative research techniques to fulfil its aim and objectives.

Topic 6: The Relationship between Knowledge Management Processes and Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Private Business Schools in the UK

Research Aim: The proposed research will explore the impact of knowledge management processes on sustainable completive advantages by using knowledge-based view (KBV) and resource-based view (RBV) as mediators in the relationship. The research will be conducted using quantitative techniques of data collection (i.e. questionnaire) and analysis (i.e. structural equation modelling).

Topic 7: The Impact of Strategic Knowledge Management on Manufacturing Firm’s Performance

Research Aim: The purpose of the study will be to empirically investigate the relationship between the availability and use of IT solutions for strategic knowledge management and a manufacturing firm’s performance, which will be measured in unit production. The research will use the resource-based view and the knowledge-based theory to develop a conceptual framework to analyze this relationship’s effect.

Topic 8: Evaluating how Knowledge Management Impacts Company Performance: A Case Study of Sainsbury

Research Aim: This research will discuss the basic concepts of knowledge management. The study will also discuss the impact knowledge management has on a company’s performance, i.e. how it helps companies achieve their goals. The main focus of this research work will be on Sainsbury’s knowledge management framework.

Topic 9: Knowledge Management as a Core Competency? Evaluating the Application and Benefits of Knowledge Management

Research Aim: This research will uncover how companies utilise knowledge management as their core competency and how it benefits their business operations. This study’s main focus will be on applying the various concepts of knowledge management and their implication for businesses.

Topic 10: Exploring the Managerial Concerns and Issues in Knowledge Management and Their Impact on Organisations

Research Aim: This research will explore the managerial concerns and issues related to knowledge management. The study will also focus on assessing the impact of these issues on businesses and how they can influence day-to-day operations. This will be an evidence-based study where evidence from different companies and various situations will be evaluated.

Leadership and Management Information System Dissertation Topics

Leadership drives the organisational agenda and is regarded as one of the most influential factors in streamlining organisations’ processes. Good leadership results in better performance of any organisation because it gives direction to the business activities under the market conditions and requirements.

Similarly, management information systems are pivotal to any organisation’s success and successfully implementing them can benefit the organisation in many ways. Following are some dissertation topics under the subject of leadership and management information systems;

Topic 1: The Role of Information Systems (IS) in Enterprise Architecture and its Impact on Business Performance

Research Aim: This study will examine the relationship between IS Enterprise Architecture and business performance using technical alignment and IS capabilities mediators. This research will be conducted using quantitative techniques to fulfil its aim.

Topic 2: Exploring The Relationship between Ethical Leadership and Employee Knowledge Sharing

Research Aim: This research will use social learning theories and self-determination to investigate the relationship between ethical learning and employee knowledge sharing. The study will be conducted using empirical research techniques.

Topic 3: Analysing the Impact of Relationship Leadership and Social Alignment on Information Security Systems Effectiveness in Private Organisations

Research Aim: This research will use social capital theory as its theoretical foundation to explore the impact of relational leadership on social alignment between business and IT executives. The relational model will study the factors of integrated knowledge, information security system effectiveness, and organisational performance. This research will use empirical techniques.

Topic 4: Examining the Relationship between Operating Room (OR) Leadership and Operating Staff Performance

Research Aim: This research will analyse the relationship between Operating Room leadership and operating staff performance. This will be done using emotional intelligence and collaboration variables to assess staff performance, using recovery numbers. The relationship will also be examined through the mediating role of leadership principles. The data will be collected and assessed using quantitative research techniques.

Topic 5: The Role of Transformational Leadership as a Mediating Variable in the DeLone and McLean Information Success Model.

Research Aim: The research will use the DeLone and McLean Information Success Model to analyse if productivity software implemented in an organisation can improve its performance. However, the research will also evaluate the model and propose modifications to include transformational leadership as a mediating factor in the information success model. The research will be quantitative in nature.

Topic 6: Assessing the Role of Leadership in an Organisation to Help Adopt Advanced Technological Systems

Research Aim: This research will assess the role of leadership in an organisation to help companies realise the importance of innovative, technologically advanced systems. Many companies today are still naive to the ever more important role of technology. Thus this research will aim to help companies adopt innovative technological systems through leadership. The research will be evidence-based in nature.

Topic 7: Evaluating How Changing Business Leadership Impacts Technological Organisational Performance

Research Aim: Changing leadership in organisations can prove a disaster if not handled properly. The transition process is extremely challenging, and companies should have the capability to handle this phase. This research will explore how their decision to change leadership impacts technological and organisational performance and how to optimise the process. This research will be quantitative in nature.

Topic 8: Can Information Systems in Organisations Be Considered a Competitive Advantage?

Research Aim: Information systems, if implemented successfully, benefit organisations immensely. The impact that an information system has and its results help companies stay ahead of their competitors. This research will assess how companies can turn their information systems into a competitive advantage, and most importantly, whether they or not information systems should be considered a competitive advantage.

Topic 9: Understanding the Leadership Challenges of Implementing and Managing an Advanced Information System in an Organisation

Research Aim: This research will help explain the challenges that managers and the entire leadership of an organisation face when implementing an advanced information system. Bringing a change in a company is challenging, and throw in a technology to implement, the process becomes even more challenging. This study will explore in detail all related challenges through quantitative research.

Topic 10: Do all Business Processes in an Organisation need Information System Management?

Research Aim: It is often argued that not all business processes require information systems. However, when talking about today’s world and the technological advancements taking place, it is recommended that business processes in organisations adopt the technology. This research will be a comparative analysis of whether companies are successful and profitable with information systems or without them.

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Organisational Culture and International Business Dissertation Topics

Organisational culture shapes the work ethics and helps in defining the professional image of organisations. Organisational culture plays a huge role in international business.

Organisations that adopt the country’s culture they are operating in are known to run their operations more successfully. The following topics are related to organisational culture and international business and help students choose an appropriate topic according to their interests.

Topic 1: The Impact of Organisational Culture of Collaborative Networks Influence on IT Governance Performance in Large Enterprises

Research Aim: This research will explore the influence of collaborative networks’ organisational culture on IT governance performance. The study will use a case study to analyse multinationals as they have a wide working network. The purpose of the research will be to determine whether or not organisational culture helps businesses effectively use IT in business operations. The research will be conducted using mixed methods research.

Topic 2: Analysing the Relationship between Supervisor’s Job insecurity and Subordinates’ Work Engagement

Research Aim: The purpose of this research is two-fold. The research will analyse the relationship between the supervisor’s job insecurity and subordinates’ work engagement using a mediator and a moderator. The research will first examine the mediating role of subordinate’s pro-social voice between supervisor job insecurity and subordinates’ work engagement. Next, the research will examine the moderating role of organisational culture between the supervisor’s job insecurity and sub-ordinates pro-social voice. The research will be conducted through quantitative techniques.

Topic 3: Analysing the Impact of Individual Perception of Organisational Culture on the Learning Transfer Environment

Research Aim: The research will be conducted empirically to assess the relationship between culture (as perceived by employees) and the work environment based learning factors (i.e. learning transfer environment [LTE]) in the organisation). LTE is measured using feedback and coaching factors that received resistance or openness to chance, personal outcomes, and supervisor and peer support.

Topic 4: The Role of Organisational Culture on the Development of Psychological Distress in the Workplace

Research Aim: The purpose of the study will be to analyse how organisational culture may cause the symptoms of psychological distress in the workforce. The study will use corporate culture and work organisation conditions as base factors to relate them to employees’ psychological distress. The research will be conducted using quantitative research techniques.

Topic 5: Analysing the Role of Leadership and Organisational Culture

Research Aim: The research will examine the relationship between organisational culture, leadership and employee outcomes. The paper will focus on the mediator of leadership processes and their impact on the relationship between culture and employee outcomes. The study will be conducted using quantitative research techniques.

Topic 6: The Role and Relationships among Strategic Orientations, Cultural Intelligence, International Diversification and Performance of Organisations

Research Aim: The research will aim to understand the drivers of the international expansion of globalised firms. The research will explore the relationship between strategic orientations and cultural intelligence as drivers and international diversification and firm performance. Strategic orientations used in the study include international market orientation (IMO) and entrepreneurial orientation (IEO). The study will be conducted using quantitative research techniques.

Topic 7: Dynamics of Corruption Culture Distance to Core Values

Research Aim: The research will examine how corporate bribery is impacted by cultural distance between multinational enterprises (MNEs) in their home and host countries. The research will also analyse the organisational distance to core value between MNE’s entry into the host country and its headquarters. The research will use empirical data collection and analysis techniques.

Topic 8: Examining Organisational Export Performance by International Business Competencies

Research Aim: The study aims to explore the relationship between international business competencies and export performance. The research will also analyse export performance by singular analysis or combined analysis of the competencies. The research will be conducted using empirical data.

Topic 9: Does Organisational Culture Influence the Leadership Type that a Company Should Adopt?

Research Aim: This research will argue whether companies should hire leaders concerning their culture or not. Organisational culture and leadership are interconnected. Thus companies that do not operate according to their culture struggle to grow exponentially. This research will aim to focus on the possible relationship between leadership and organisational culture. The research will be evidence-based.

Topic 10: Organisational Culture and International Business Competition: Are they Interrelated?

Research Aim: Organisational culture plays a huge role in making a company competitive internationally. When a business’s culture is motivating to all employees and identifies the right culture for its employees, there is every likelihood of rapid growth for both the company and the employees. The research will explore how the two concepts are interrelated.

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As a management student looking to get good grades, it is essential to develop new ideas and experiment with existing management theories – i.e., to add value and interest to your research topic.

The management field is vast and interrelated to many other academic disciplines like operations management , business , business administration , MBA , human resource management and more. That is why creating a management dissertation topic that is particular, sound, and actually solves a practical problem that may be rampant in the field is imperative.

We can’t stress how important it is to develop a logical research topic based on your entire research. There are several significant downfalls to getting your topic wrong; your supervisor may not be interested in working on it, the topic has no academic creditability, the research may not make logical sense, there is a possibility that the study is not viable.

This impacts your time and efforts in writing your dissertation , as you may end up in the cycle of rejection at the initial stage of the dissertation. That is why we recommend reviewing existing research to develop a topic, taking advice from your supervisor, and even asking for help in this particular stage of your dissertation.

Keeping our advice in mind while developing a research topic will allow you to pick one of the best management dissertation topics that fulfil your requirement of writing a research paper and adds to the body of knowledge.

Therefore, it is recommended that when finalizing your dissertation topic, you read recently published literature to identify gaps in the research that you may help fill.

Remember- dissertation topics need to be unique, solve an identified problem, be logical, and be practically implemented. Please look at some of our sample management dissertation topics to get an idea for your own dissertation.

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• Acknowledgements
• Declaration
• Abstract: A summary of the research completed
• Table of Contents
• Introduction : This chapter includes the project rationale, research background, key research aims and objectives, and the research problems. An outline of the structure of a dissertation can also be added to this chapter.
• Literature Review : This chapter presents relevant theories and frameworks by analysing published and unpublished literature on the chosen research topic to address research questions . The purpose is to highlight and discuss the selected research area’s relative weaknesses and strengths while identifying research gaps. Break down the topic and key terms that can positively impact your dissertation and your tutor.
• Methodology : The data collection and analysis methods and techniques employed by the researcher are presented in the Methodology chapter, which usually includes research design , research philosophy, research limitations, code of conduct, ethical consideration, data collection methods, and data analysis strategy .
• Findings and Analysis : Findings of the research are analysed in detail under the Findings and Analysis chapter. All key findings/results are outlined in this chapter without interpreting the data or drawing any conclusions. It can be useful to include graphs, charts, and tables in this chapter to identify meaningful trends and relationships.
• Discussion and Conclusion : The researcher presents his interpretation of results in this chapter and states whether the research hypothesis has been verified or not. An essential aspect of this section is establishing the link between the results and evidence from the literature. Recommendations with regards to implications of the findings and directions for the future may also be provided. Finally, a summary of the overall research, along with final judgments, opinions, and comments, must be included in the form of suggestions for improvement.
• References : Make sure to complete this by your University’s requirements
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• Appendices : Any additional information, diagrams, and graphs used to complete the dissertation but not part of the dissertation should be included in the Appendices chapter. Essentially, the purpose is to expand the information/data.

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A dissertation or thesis is a document presented for one to be awarded a degree or professional qualification. It involves research on a given topic.

Educational leadership, on the other hand, involves identifying and nurturing talents in a school set up to meet the objectives of education.

Now let’s merge the two and see the meaning.

A dissertation topic in educational leadership is, therefore, a thesis on how pupils, teachers, and parents will work towards achieving a common goal.

Leadership dissertation topics are common nowadays attributed to the growing number of institutions, and schools were also incorporated. Education dissertation topics are hence being researched daily due to the emerging challenges in running schools.

Dissertation topics in higher education leadership are vast because of the various tertiary institutions available; vocational training institutions, colleges, and universities. Enough of the explanations, and now let’s delve into the course meal. So sit tight and belt up, this is going to be one fantastic flight you’ve ever had.

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• The Effects of Religion on Educational Leadership
• Analyzing Long Term and Short Term Educational Leadership Goals
• How to pass teacher’s excellence to students easily
• The role of Leadership Summits on Educational Leadership
• The Impact of leadership Training Institutions on Educational Leadership
• How To Improve Education Leadership in the Society Today
• How effective is the Youth than the Elderly in Educational Leadership?
• Evaluating Different structures of Organizational Leadership
• How Education Leadership Varies with Different Continental Settings
• The Effects of Teacher-Parent-Student Ratio in Educational Leadership
• How Public and Private Institutions Vary in Education Leadership
• Policies in Educational Leadership and Their Impact
• Analyzing Higher Education Leadership Characteristics
• Leadership in Higher Education Frames Analysis
• The Impact of Higher Education Programs Leadership Development
• The Higher education Leadership Indigenous Perspective
• Distance Education Programs and Transformational Leadership Characteristics in Higher Education
• How to Plan For an American Higher Education Leadership Crisis
• Preparing of Educational Leadership Personnel
• Evaluating Better Schools With a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership
• How is Educational Leadership in the 21st Century
• Understanding What a Masters in Educational Leadership Entails
• How Educational Leadership is Financed
• Evaluating Differences in Educational Leadership Between Profit and Non-Profit Organizations
• The Need for Effective Leadership in Education
• Analyzing Globalization in Educational Leadership
• Understanding the Different Education Leadership Styles
• When To Start Teaching Education Leadership and The Impact
• Impact of Online Courses on Educational Leadership Graduates
• How Innovative Strategies Impact Educational Leadership
• Evaluating Trends in Educational Leadership
• How Educational Leadership Contributes to Discrimination
• Analyzing Technical Terms in Educational Leadership
• What is the Impact of Subordinate Staff on Educational Leadership
• How Can we Merge Student Leadership with the Administration
• The Need to Simplify Educational Leadership
• Innovative Solutions to Educational Leadership Challenges
• Ensuring Sustainable Student-Parent-Teacher Relationship
• Demystifying Myths About Educational Leadership
• How To Initiate a Re-Birth in Educational Leadership

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1. Understanding The Role of Women in Educational Leadership

Ladies, first am being a gentleman here. It has been one of the most researched educational leadership topics.

2. How Cultural Organizations Influence School Institutions

A set way of life defines every Society in any part of the world. These cultural aspects also imply educational leadership.

3. The Influence of Educational Leadership on Transformation

This form of organizational leadership dissertation aims to establish the impact of educational leadership in Society. For instance, how has the Society grown or depreciated as a result of the educational leadership?

4. What Role Does Educational Leadership Serve in Society?

The values and morals set by an education institution determine how the Society will be in the future. A valuable educational leadership system will thus pass on responsible, and reliable people to Society.

5. The Role of Education Leadership on the Success of the Society

Success is critical in any undertaking. If not, why engage with it in the first place? This dissertation topic, therefore, seeks to unveil how education leadership can contribute to the success of the Society.

6. The Impact of Educational Leadership in Research and Literature

Educational leadership determines decisions such as the number of resources invested in research. Thus, it will major on how various forms of educational leadership either contribute to or against study and literature.

7. How Social Media Affects Educational Leadership

The digital era has immensely contributed to the organization of various forms of leadership. Social media can either be positively or negatively impacting educational leadership. Therefore, such a dissertation topic will bring this out.

8. How Poor Leadership and Poor Results in Schools Relate

Decisions made by the parents, teacher, or the students themselves will have an impact on their results.

9. The Role of Technology in Educational Leadership

Has it improved or depreciated the value of educational leadership?

10. The Impact of the Community on Educational Leadership

It focuses on how to incorporate the community into the educational leadership and the subsequent results.

11. How Racism Impacts Educational Leadership

This leadership dissertation topic focuses on institutions with mixed races. Does this affect the running of institutions?

12. The Impact of Interdisciplinary Teams in Running of Schools

Are they effective? And if so, to what extent?

13. The Comparison between Top and Lower Performing Schools

How are the two institutions managed? Are the educational leadership systems the same?

14. How to Intertwine Certain Teaching Methods with an Efficient Organization

Can specific strategic teaching methods be incorporated into educational leadership?

15. How Leadership Wrangles Affect Students

Teachers and parents fighting for different positions in the administration can affect student performance.

16. Analyzing Characteristics of Various Teachers Handling a Certain Subject

The traits of various instructors can either have a positive or negative impact on their mode of delivery.

17. How can Students be incorporated into the Educational Leadership

Ways in which students can adequately represent in the school leadership.

18. Government Regulations on Educational Leadership

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The research to be carried out is on the effectiveness of a quality leadership and management style that results in improved staff performance. The analysis of the leadership styles will assist in determination of the extent to which managers and leaders in the obstrician  Three facets of these domains were measured, Staff`s job satisfaction, employees competency, and staff reduction. The leader’s competence will also be evaluated and used as criteria for effectiveness and efficiency in the obstician gynecology department. There are considerable correlations between valued real leadership style and capability across circumstances. However, some research has it that alteration affects the style and circumstance on competence for result-oriented leadership character. The outcomes will be regarded as support of the projects analysis of operative leadership being largely universal.

Introduction

The objectives and aim is to study the character tendency on the clinical staff`s job commitment, job satisfaction and staff retention in respect to the leadership oriented style by the clinical manager of the obstrician gynecology department, and performance and quality of service of the clinical staff. The study is of the objective to collect data and solutions to the impending ineffectiveness of the obstrician gynecology department that will be suited in assisting and improving the quality of patient care. Leadership styles of clinical managers determine the rate of clinical staff in the obstrician gynecology department and influences staff nurse retention. The methodology is a cross sectional survey was carried out to illustrate the effects of different leadership styles of the clinical staff working in the obstrician gynecology department. The questionnaire is to be filled by wiling and consented participants among the clinical staff.

The cross-sectional survey conducted was through a target of 15 clinical staff in the obstrician gynecology department aged between 27 and 62. This consists of 2 medical assistants, and 5 Licensed Vocational Nurses. The number of Registered Nurses is 8 of whom 2 have acquired a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), 3 have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, while the remaining 3 nurses have associate degrees in nursing.

A period time amounting to 8 weeks will be required for the collection of data. An inquiry will be on the determination of the clinical staff member`s job satisfaction, opinion of their immediate supervisor, and their work ethic. An electronic recording of the data will be carried out to ensure that the IRB standards are met due to increased patient protection and allows for rapid data analysis and storage.

The research procedure will be that the patient`s satisfaction data will be reviewed, an introductory letter containing letter consisting of the IRB standards and a recommendation letter to complete the study will be sent to the obstrician gynecology department for review and approval. The answer coding will be such that an answer of never is represented by 0, sometimes will be listed as 1, an answer of usually will be listed as 2, an answer of always will be listed as 3. In the case of a non-response, the non-response will be listed as 9 to represent this case. The RANDBETWEEN function will be used to hide the identity of the obstrician gynecology clinical staff where their names will be given numbers from the range of 1 to 100.

The generation of correlation coefficient between the employee responses to each question of 0.4 or above is to be considered substantial and merit further analysis. A dichotomized staff response to each question in a secondary analysis will be carried out and student t-tests carried out to compare the mean responses between each group.

This data analysis is of importance in the determination of certain relationship among the clinical staff and the leadership style of the department managers. A positive correlation is achieved when the majority of the clinical staff responses are associated with a particular leadership style. Leaders or managers in the obstrician gynecology department should emphasize on active leadership and in precise task oriented behavior such as description of staff roles and observing of operations to increase quality of patient care. Furthermore, effective leadership styles is key in eliminating the clinical staff incompetency, staff`s job dissatisfaction, and would reduce the rate of staff turnover in the obstrician gynecology department.

The project`s hypothesis, the administrator position is a difficult task that requires leadership and management styles that can be learned. It is of importance that the analysis of the effect of leadership styles and management styles on the clinical staff in the obstrician gynecology department is carried out for the sole purpose of improving the quality of service to patients, increased motivation among staff members to enhance quality and efficiency and also in the reduction of rate of staff exiting the department. The problems of leadership and management styles on the clinical staff and their resultant behavior will prove important in finding the best solutions to the recurrent problems of the obstrician gynecology department and develop a research study eventually.

Problem Statement

• What is the effect of varying leadership and management styles on the clinical staff in the OG/GYN department?
• Varying leadership styles affect staff job satisfaction, commitment, and staff retention. Leadership style and management styles are positively related to job satisfaction. Managers in the healthcare organization must adopt suitable leadership in order to improve clinical staff job satisfaction. Varying leadership styles in an organization may lead to staff turnover (Cummings, et al., 2010).

Leadership in healthcare organization seeks to produce necessary changes by developing vision of future and strategies to react to that vision. The ability of a manager to lead affects the ability of staff to achieve stated visions and goals. This part will discuss the literature regarding staff nurse job satisfaction, nurse leader competencies, and staff nurse retention.

A. Job Satisfaction

Job satisfaction has an incontestable influence on clinical staff welfare and their behavior as well. The significant negative relationship between nurse job satisfaction and management styles is well documented in literature. Nurses form the largest occupational group that are employed by hospitals all over the world and this has made them target for cost savings in the healthcare system. Their leaders adopt management styles that are not tested in order to operate on limited budgets. The continuous organizational change in healthcare facilities has led to an overall lack of nursing leadership, which has contributed to increased job dissatisfaction and increased stress. According to Gardulf et al. (2008), nurses become dissatisfied with their work situation when there is no support given to them while developing their profession. The healthcare organizations are competing with each other. Every facility is anticipating improved care, enhanced efficiency, and productivity. What they do not factor in is the satisfaction of the workforce. The management in healthcare facility must create an attractive workplace for the clinical staff in order to reduce the risk of high turnover as well as the loss of vital competences.

Curtis and O’Connell (2011) believe that leadership styles in a healthcare facility affect the quality of patient care. The authors have identified two leadership styles in healthcare unit; transactional leadership and transformation leadership. Transactional leadership is the one, which leaders and employees interact with each other for the betterment of the organization. This type of leadership was not used in the OB/GYN unit and the consequences were that clinical staff were demoralized a fact that compromised the quality of patient care. The other common type of leadership in a healthcare facility is transformational leadership. According to Curtis and O’Connell, this type of leadership enables the organization to achieve greater performance by stimulating innovative ways of thinking. Transformational leaders have vision and can marshal commitment to the vision of the organization. This type of leadership is necessary in managing clinical staff because it will boost their morale thus increasing the quality of healthcare. This type of leadership style was not used at the facility and it led friction between the nursing staff and the administrator.

De Vries, Bakker-Pieper, and Oostenveld (2010) assert that there is a considerable ambiguity regarding the essential behaviors for charismatic and transformational leadership in a healthcare facility. A framework of communication styles affects nurse’s job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Emotional tension, verbal aggressiveness, and argumentativeness are communication styles that can influence leadership styles. Verbal aggressiveness can help nursing leaders to create a motivating work environment. Work environment will always affect employees’ development and their potential. Nursing leaders must adopt a supportive communication style that is linked higher job satisfaction among the clinical staff. The administrator in the healthcare unit adopted a dominant style, which was associated with less satisfaction among the nursing fraternity.

B. Leader competencies

A defined nature of leadership and its relation to employees are decisive factors of organizational performance that depend on organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and performance. Leadership behaviors and styles have profound effects on employees’ job performance and organizational outcomes. Howieson and Thiagarajah (2011) described some ways in which leaders needs to develop in order to gather for the changing organizational and patient needs. Most conflicts in nursing nowadays are directly linked to leadership styles and practices. Leadership characteristics and behaviors are usually associated with personality traits that are learned or natural. Howieson and Thiagarajah further posit that organizations must make an effort to develop opportunities for their members to explore and articulate the knowledge of leadership in complete opulence. The authors argue that clinical leadership has attracted more attention in the recent times because people have been monitoring how the change in leadership styles could bring to the healthcare facility.

In an attempt to describe how leadership is indispensable in the healthcare facilities, Howieson and Thiagarajah (2011) have highlighted that the demand of clinical leadership is increasing considerably. Leadership in healthcare facility cannot be amply understood until the personal traits of leaders are addressed. Efforts to promote and cultivate leaders in a nursing profession empower nurses with the skills needed to pick up healthcare and press forward their profession. Trait and behavioral theories of leadership have tied to make out forms of behaviors and personalities that are associated with effective leadership. In a move to describe the critical factors of personality, Howieson and Thiagarajah (2011) have described the essential levels of conceptualization for leadership. These levels can be viewed as a hierarchy and they include individual, dyadic, group, and organization.

At individual level, leadership approaches is made up of decision-making, motivation, and cognition to elucidate on the behavior of individual leaders. This level also entails the identification of personal priorities and objective as well. At the dyadic level, leadership puts more focus on the pressing relationships between leaders and individuals (normally the followers). At a group level, the main ideas are the nature of leadership role and the manner in which a leader contributes to the group efficiency. Understanding group effectiveness offers crucial insights in relation to leadership progressions and pertinent criterion for assessing leadership effectiveness. At the organizational level, leadership is described as a process whereby large open system becomes subsystems (Howieson and Thiagarajah, 2011, p. 11).

According to Sanford (2011), clinical leaders need human resource management skills since they manage employees. Furthermore, these leaders have to comprehend on the business side of healthcare in order to sustain business goals that may be at odds with quality schemes. Hospital finance leaders look as if they have very little concern while providing safe patient and good working environment of clinical staff. Nursing care is sturdily influenced by the skills of the nursing managers. Managers that exhibit good leadership skills will command respect from the clinical staff and this will enable them to make clinical improvements by spotting the best practices that can improve the quality of patient care. The commitment of healthcare management to the organizational goals will strongly influence the commitment of other employees within the unit. If nurses’ leaders in a healthcare unit will fully support their organizations’ goals and approaches, they will not be needed to build up their leadership skills merely by studying role models.

Nwabueze (2011) asserts that leadership is apprehensive on the management of employees and the accomplishment of organizational goals through the direction of human labor. An effective leader is the one who is capable of motivating and applying the intellectual resources available in a company to achieve set of goals that needs to constantly meet the needs of customers (in healthcare facility the patients). Effective leadership is founded based on consistency. The author describes five traits of leadership that has to be exhibited by leaders in healthcare unit. These traits are dominance, knowledge, self-confidence, intelligence, and creativity. Such leaders must be able to manage themselves as well as people working under them in order for the organization to benefit. The author has gone further to identify three basic skills needed for leadership. The skills are technical, interpersonal, and administrative. Key skills of leadership are processes of expressing and influencing activities of employees related to their tasks. A leader with interpersonal skill of involving other people and the willingness of them to accept directions from the leader may help to confer legitimacy in the organization.

Mohd Soieb, Othman, and D’Silva (2013) argue that idea of employee engagement in an organization is vastly gaining recognition. Involvement and engagement has characteristics that are similar to stickiness and commitment in organizational behavior. When employees are engaged in running the organization, they will be very committed and this will influence others. This will increase the productivity of their work and in return it will enhance the image of the organization; a fact that may escalate organizational profits. The author further argues that employee engagement is a multi-dimensional construct that allows employees to participate cognitively, emotionally, and physically. Employee engagement is seen as including negative result from the employees when leaders adopt classical or transactional leadership styles. When leaders embrace visionary and organic leadership styles, employees will be involved with the running of the organization and this will raise their commitment and in the end enhancing the quality of patient care.

C. Staff nurse retention

According to Cummings et al. (2010), administrators in healthcare units adopt a number of leadership styles with the intent of accomplishing organizational objectives. Such styles have been grouped into two different types. There are those styles that emphasizes on the work of nurses and those styles that puts more focus on the relations of individuals and the organization. Clinical staff believes that their organizational commitment will depend on the kind of leadership adopted in the organization. When the leadership styles isolates them from the key aspects of the organization, their organizational commitment will be diminished leading to quitting. It is therefore evident that interaction with clinical staff in management practices determines their stay and continued working in the facility.

Bae, Mark, and Fried (2010) believe that varying management styles frequently will create unstable leadership in the organization. Unstable management styles will reduce the competencies of the clinical staff. Nurses may become rebellious to certain kind of leadership. This will affect their participation in the organization leading to discernment. The authors argue that role discernment determines individuals’ organizational commitment and the intention of quitting job. When nurses experience role discrepancies and uncertainties in their working environment they will decide to move away in order to better their career development and better working environment. Incompatible leadership styles will create a role disagreement and vagueness and increased role conflict will endanger nurse turnover in a healthcare unit.

Joseph (2007) asserts that one of the most important functions of managers in an organization is to build up the internal and external environment of the organization in manner that can allow them to opt for proper needs of their staff. This will mostly depend on the leadership styles employed by managers in adopting employees’ participation in decision-making. The retention of nursing staff provides the experience needed to offer quality patient care in the ever-changing healthcare environment. Leaders are the key determinants on whether employees will remain in the organization. It is acknowledged that employees do not quite job or organization but rather leaders in the organization. Motivation in the healthcare unit is defined as a product of involvement and contact with the position in which individuals deal with. If employees’ in an organization feel that they are part of the organization, they will perform to their best. If they will not, their commitment will be subjected to question marks leading quitting.

In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher will test the following hypothesis: the administrator position is a difficult task that requires leadership and management styles that can be learned.

Research Design

A descriptive statistical analysis will be used to illustrate the effects of different leadership styles of healthcare staff working in the OB/GYN department. This study will only be conducted at a single period in time; therefore, it is a cross-sectional analysis to determine the influence of individual leadership styles on staff performance and patient care. Effective leadership will be measured using the quality of both staff commitment and patient care; data including job satisfaction, commitment, and nurse retention will be measured as independent variables based on their administrator’s leadership style.

Role and Biases of the Researcher

In a quantitative research, the researcher will be absorbed in the settings involving the study the researcher will therefore be the primary instrument for collecting data. To fulfill this role, the researcher will make available their pertinent aspect such as the knowledge to qualify their capability to conduct the research and expectations from the study. The researcher has the moral responsibility of protecting the rights of the participants and ensures that the research outcome will not have any undesirable and depressing impact on them.

Since the researcher is the primary instrument of the study, it is crucial that the researcher will not only state their roles in the study but also state their biases that might influence the analysis and thus, color the result. The researcher will provide their background information briefly discuss how it might prejudice the research study. As an experienced RN with a good depth of nursing knowledge in the area of Women’s Health, as a clinician and assistant manager, the researcher is conscious of all the challenges that are experienced by clinical staff. Based on this knowledge and experience, it will be natural for the researcher to form personal feelings in relation to the case of the participants.

Sampling Techniques

The researcher will make use of judgment-sampling technique (purposeful sampling) whereby the researcher will opt for the most productive participants to answer the questionnaires. Purposeful sampling technique is appropriate for this study because it involves the development of framework of the variables that are likely to influence the contribution of the participants. This technique is also based on the researcher’s realistic understanding of the subject matter, the accessible literature, and facts from the study itself. Purposeful sampling technique is significant because if the researcher understands the role of the participants, they may stratify them according to known public attitudes. This will enable the researcher to study the subject matter deeply.

Participants

The target population for this study will be defined as 15 clinical staff in OB/GYN department aged between 27 and 62. This comprises of 2 Medical Assistants (MA) and 5 Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN). The number of Registered Nurses (RN) is 8 of which 3 of them have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and 2 have Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). The remaining 3 participants have associate degrees.

Data Collection Methods

The physical data collection will be conducted over an eight week period. During this time, 15 staff members will be selected from the OB/GYN department and will be approached with informed consent documentation, as appropriate. The researcher will be personally responsible for approaching all 15 participants with a questionnaire that will inquire about the staff member’s work ethic, job satisfaction, and opinion of their immediate supervisor. The survey will be a brief, five question long documents in order to ensure participant retention in the study. The researcher will explain the questionnaire to each participant after they sign the informed consent document in a uniformed manner. The researcher will then leave the participant and follow up with them in an hour; if the questionnaire is filled to the participant’s satisfaction, it will be collected. After the questionnaires are returned, they will be examined in relation to the department administrator’s leadership style. The employees who participate will be assigned a random number and then later matched so the data collected remains anonymous.

After collecting the physical data, it will be captured by electronic means for the purpose of analysis using Microsoft Excel. This will ensure that IRB standards are met due to increased patient protection and it will allow for rapid data storage and analysis.

Instruments

Observation was already used to classify the OB/GYN department administrator’s leadership styles and questionnaires will be used to assess the quality of patient care and the commitment and interest of the staff. The questionnaire will consist of five questions ranked from 1-4 that will assess job commitment, job satisfaction, and the quality of patient care for the staff group. Questions on the survey should be answered using options that include “never”, “sometimes”, “usually”, and “always”.

Research Procedure

The researcher will send introductory and consent letters to the OB/GYN department prior to the study. The letters will include a short explanation about the nature of the research, the researcher’s electronic address for email, and instructions for answering the questionnaire. Patient satisfaction data, collected by the organization and made available to the researcher, will also be reviewed. The introductory letter will contain the standard statement of human subject rights in research and documented permission from the IRB and the university to complete this study in eight weeks. Included will be a pledge of secrecy and confidentiality between researcher and participant. The researcher will draw out demographic information of the participants by assigning them a random ID that cannot be used to trace back to their identity. The researcher will conduct fieldwork alone and be available at all times while in the field for any participant who may have questions or concerns. The researcher will collect the questionnaires an hour after they are distributed. If a participant requires more time, they will have until the end of their shift to complete the questionnaire; after this point the questions that have been answered will be counted towards data for the study and the others will be treated as missing data points. The researcher will enter all data into a computer without assistance and be solely responsible to the validity of the collection and storing of the data.

The questions asked to the patient participants will include: During your experience in this department, how likely are you to agree with your supervisor?, During your experience in this department, how often do you feel you are given the necessary tools/equipment to complete your work in any given shift?, During your experience in this department, how often did you feel that you wanted to find a job elsewhere?, During your experience in this department, how often did you feel you were helping improve patient quality of care?, and During your experience in this department, how satisfied have you been with the leadership style of your superior? In addition, surveyed participants will be asked whether they believe their work is valued by their supervisor, whether they feel they receive the necessary assistance from their supervisor, whether, their supervisor advocates for the clinical staff during challenging situations, and whether their ideas for improving departmental goals are valued.

The supervisor will be observed and classified into one of the ten styles of leadership: autocratic, bureaucratic, charismatic, democratic/participative, laissez-faire, people oriented/relations oriented, servant, task-oriented, transactional, and transformational. The leadership style that enables the employee to feel better about their work and lead to better patient care will be deemed the best kind of leadership for the OB/GYN clinic practice.

Data Analysis

All data will be inserted into an Excel worksheet with the participant’s identity listed in the rows and the number of the question asked listed in columns. Answers to each of the questions should be “never”, “sometimes”, “usually”, and “always”; for simplicity in coding the responses, an answer of never will be listed as 0, an answer of sometimes will be listed as 1, an answer of usually will be listed as 2, and an answer of always will be listed as 3. If the participant failed to respond to the question, an answer of 9 will be listed to represent the nonresponse. The leadership style of the department administrator will also be listed next to each participants name or identifier.

To blind the researcher against the identity of the OB/GYN staff who participated in the study and protect against bias, the names of the employees were removed and assigned a random number between 1 and 100 using the RANDBETWEEN function. At this point employee names and all identifiers will be removed from the Excel spreadsheet containing the patient data.

Descriptive Statistics

To determine the pattern of responses amongst the employees who answered the survey questions, the percentage of each response for each question will be calculated. If there is no underlying trend for each question, this information will be dismissed. If there is a significant response pattern, it would be useful to create a bar graph that graphically displays the employee response. Furthermore, the percentage of each response per person will be calculated in order to determine whether the nursing staff surveyed answered questions honestly or just selected the same answer to each question in order to rush through the survey; although all answers will be treated as a part of the ultimate analysis, it will be useful to determine whether the results will be biased. If the results are biased due to this kind of question response, this issue will be treated in the discussion section.

After this primary analysis of the data has been completed, a linear regression will be completed for each question asked that compares the leadership style with the staff responses. All non-responses will be excluded for this particular analysis. The main focus of this study will be to generate the correlation coefficient between the employee responses to each question. A correlation coefficient of 0.4 or greater will be considered significant and warrant further analysis.

A secondary analysis of the data will involve the dichotomization of staff responses to each question. An answer of never will be coded as 0, while responses for sometimes, usually, and always will be coded as 1. Surveys that were returned without an answer to the question will be randomized to either group to prevent against bias. After dichotomization, any event that never happened will be considered 0 and events that happen at least sometimes will be grouped together as well. Student t-tests will be used to compare the mean response between each group. The strength of this association will then be measured using odds ratios.

The main goal of this data analysis will be to determine if there is a certain relationship between the staff response patterns and the leadership style of the department administrator. These tests will all be run a second time to compare the leadership style of the department administrator and the responses for each individual employee.

Interpretation of Results

There will be a positive correlation between staff member response and leadership if a majority of the staff responses are associated with a specific leadership style. The student t-test will be examined by looking at the t value and ascertaining whether the test result is statistically significant p-value. If there is an association determined, the strength of this association will be measured by conducting a test of odds ratio. The p-value will also be examined in this situation. There will be a discussion in this paper that analyzes the power of the study after it was conducted and this will be used to determine whether enough patients were recruited to correctly find a significant effect of leadership in this study. The purpose of this discussion will be to consider whether it would be useful to repeat this study asking the same question using either a different experimental design, a greater amount of participants, or a different cohort.

Addition information regarding patient health status and quality of care may be retrieved from the records. If so, a multivariate regression of this analysis will be conducted to determine the association between leadership style, employee response to the questionnaire, and patient health and quality of care.

The judgment technique used in determining a performing individual would better be replaced by an alternative approach that is of minimal bias to the researcher. It is a complicated process in drawing up a questionnaire that will depict a clear model that is free of favoritism. This being the most challenging part in writing required in depth research in the questions that would effectively satisfy the inquiry.

The most intriguing section of the research was when collecting data through the questionnaire as you get to interact with different personalities and individuals of different abilities and ideologies, and the complexity of the data analysis was of interest as relationships would be drawn and characteristics of staff behavior determined.

It will be of importance to apply the functionality of this proposal in the derivation of an intensive and extensive research project on the leadership and management styles and its correlation to the clinical staff at the OB/GYN department for effectiveness and efficiency in service provision.

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