NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS

HIGHER NATIONALS
BTEC HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS (RQF)
Unit Code, Number and
H/618/5060 – Unit 19: Research Project (Pearson Set)
Title
Semester and Academic
Semester 2, Academic year 2022-2023
Year
Nguyen Van Thuy Anh, Duong Van Bay, Le Quang Canh, Nguyen Van Dai,
Ho Hoang Lan, Le Thi Huong Lan, Ta Minh Quang, Nguyen Hoai Son, Bach
Unit Assessor(s)
Ngoc Thang, Phung Minh Thu Thuy, Nguyen Thi Hong Van, Le Thi Thu Mai,
Tran Lan Huong, Hoang Vu Hiep, Tran Cam Tu
Proposal title RP A1.1: Individual Assignment (Assessment 1 of 1)
Issue Date March 1st, 2023
Submission Date 10.00 am, June 18th, 2023
IV Name Nguyen Thi Hong Van
IV Date March 8th, 2023

Student name

NEU Student ID Pearson ID

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 Instruction to The Students:
Assignment 1, which covers all the four Learning Outcomes, is an individual assignment. By the end of the
class, each individual will need to submit a written report and do a presentation (time and room will be
confirmed later).
● Plagiarism is totally unacceptable. Students must cite all sources and input the information by
paraphrasing, summarising or using direct quotes. A Fail Grade is given where Plagiarism is
identified in your work. There are no exceptions.

● Your evidence/findings must be cited using Harvard Referencing Style. Please refer to Reference
guiding posted on Moodle.

● The submission format is in the form of an individual academic report.

● This assignment should be written in a concise, formal business style using font size 12 and single
spacing.

● The word limit of 4,500-6,000 words would be appropriate. However, if you exceed the word
limit, your grade will not be penalised.

● Students MUST complete and submit a softcopy of your work on the due dates stated on
Assignment brief. ALL late work is not allowed to submit. This rule is not waived under any
circumstances. The softcopy must be submitted to Turn-it-in via Moodle.
Read ALL Instructions on this Page and review the Pass, Distinction, Merit and Referred Criteria attached to
meet the criteria and tasks correctly. Your work should be neatly typed and bonded. Presentation is
important and evidence of quality and business ethics.

Unit Learning Outcomes:

LO1 Examine appropriate research methodologies and methods to identify those appropriate to the
research process
LO2 Develop a research proposal, including a supporting literature review
LO3 Analyse data using appropriate techniques to communicate research findings
LO4 Reflect on the application of research methodologies and process.

Assessment Brief and Guidance:

Set theme - Business recovery.
In the long term, businesses need to be prepared to face the unexpected, many fail because they are unable to
recover from unexpected events such as political disruption, natural disasters, and pandemics. Business
continuity planning allows businesses to maintain or quickly resume functions in the event of a major
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disruption. Essentially, business continuity is like having a back-up plan that outlines procedures and
instructions for staff members in the event of a disaster.
The recent COVID-19 global pandemic dramatically impacted industry across all sectors, inevitably affecting
disproportionately those businesses that exist to support social interactions and placing strains on both supply
and demand. As the pandemic continues to affect industry: lock-down periods, and international and local
restrictions on movement have led to a huge drop in revenues and a situation of emergency due to financial
difficulties.
To meet the challenges posed by unexpected events and disasters, businesses around the world need to react
in agile and decisive ways. This involves businesses identifying capabilities and needs to strengthen, refactor,
reopen, rehire, re-budget, resupply, by creating long term plans that allow for scaling up. An “after-action
review” to collect data and insights on lessons learned, and then using these to prioritise actions to enhance
business value today, businesses will build strategic resilience for tomorrow. Businesses that take these steps
now will be well-placed to capitalise more effectively on the opportunities during business recovery, and to
continue winning in their marketplaces as greater certainty and stability return.
Students are to choose their own research topic for this unit. Strong research projects are those with clear, well
focused and defined objectives. A central skill in selecting a research objective is the ability to select a suitable
and focused research objective. One of the best ways to do this is to put it in the form of a question. Students
should be encouraged by tutors to discuss a variety of topics related to the theme to generate ideas for a good
research objective.
The range of topics discussed could cover the following:
● Testing business continuity or crisis management plans
● Integrated response and recovery initiatives
● Examples of disaster recovery planning models
● Developing a business recovery roadmap to rebuild opportunity after a natural disaster, a global
pandemic, or political disruption.
● Building a resilient organization through resilient leadership and resilient teams
● Developing recovery strategies
● The importance of shifting focus from recovery to resilience
The research objective should allow for students to broaden their understanding and widen their perspectives
by being able to explore, argue, prove, and disprove a particular objective. They should be feasible, novel,
ethical, relevant and ultimately of interest to the student.
In this Assignment, students should produce a final paper after presenting your research project orally to get
comments and feedbacks. A recommended outline for the final paper is as follows:
Research title: Provide your concise research topic. The title should be specific and straight to the main idea of
the research.
1. Introduction
- Why this topic of research is important? (support your answer with relevant data or reports);
- What is the gap in the extant literature that your research can fill in? (support your answer with relevant
reference);
- What research question(s) your research will help answer?
2. Literature review and analytical framework
- What are the key concepts related to your research?

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 - What have been done in the extant literature (previous research) related to your research topic?
- What are the gaps that the extant literature has not helped explain?
- What theori(es) or analytical framework(s) can be used to explain your research topic?
- What are the hypotheses (research questions) you can develop to test or explore in your research?
3. Methodology
- What method should be applied to test your hypotheses or to answer your research questions?
- How data should be collected? From whom? By what means?
- What are the questions (or questionnaire) you would use to collect your data?
4. Finding
- How your measures have been tested with reliabilities and validities (if applicable)?
- What have been found from the data collected? Or are your research question(s) supported?
5. Discussion
- Discuss if the data analysis results help answer your research questions?
- What would be the contributions of the research theoretically and practically?
- What are the limitations of your research that can be improved in the future for further research?
6. Conclusion
In the final week, everyone will have to do a final presentation to report on what you have done for your
research project and the key findings from the research. The presentation should be prepared in PowerPoint
and carried out in no more than 15 minutes. Students will receive comments after the presentation to revise
the final paper.

According to Glossary of Command Verb by Pearson

1. Compare which means identify the main factors to two or more items/situations or aspects of a subject
that is extended to explain the similarities, differences, advantages and disadvantages. This is used to show
depth of knowledge through selection of characteristic.
2. Evaluate which means work draws on varied information, themes or concepts to consider aspects, such
as:
- Strengths or weaknesses
- Advantages or disadvantages
- Alternative actions
- Relevance or significance.
Students’ inquiries should lead to a supported judgement showing relationship to its context. This will often be
in a conclusion. Evidence will often be written but could be through presentation or activity.
3. Produce which means to bring into existence.
4. Design which means plan and present ideas to show the layout/function/workings/object/
system/process.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

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LO1: Examine appropriate research methodologies and methods to LO1 and LO2
identify those appropriate to the research process D1 Justify chosen research
methodologies and processes
P1 Examine alternative research M1 Evaluate alternative research supported by a credible
methodologies. methodologies and data collection academically underpinned literature
methods and justify choices made review.
P2 Explore alternative methods and based on philosophical/theoretical
tools used for the collection of frameworks.
research data that consider costs,
ethics and access.

LO2: Develop a research proposal, including a supporting literature

review

P3 Produce a research proposal, M2 Evaluate the merits, limitations

including a defined aim and and pitfalls of approaches to data
objectives supported by a literature collection in compiling the research
review. proposal.

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