Today , I am planning to talk more about the introduction chapter and its related components.
Organisation profile .
when giving details about the organisation , please be careful not to make it a narration of the history of the organisation. Instead , provide information regarding the attributes of the organisation related to the current phenomenon under study . For example , if the research is about human resource management , provide more details about he existing human resource management model and related future plans, which is usually found in their annual report( So......... find a descent company for research, at least one with an annual report :) )
Make it brief , normally an introduction chapter have a word limit of 2000-3000 , for a 20000 word dissertation , so limit the organisation profile to 300-500 .
you can relate your research and organisation more in the research rationale.
The research rationale.
In this section you have the responsibility to explain the choice of current topic and its significance to the organisation.
For example ....
if you have chosen the .......Human resource information system.....then talk about its operational, managerial and strategic roles and the relevance for the organisation in implementing the system in one of the above three roles .
A small tip in referencing the organisation profile.....you can make a standard referencing by giving ( Annual report , 2011, ABCD corporation) ..... (Website ,ABCD corporation) ....like that not the on-line link to their site. This is a very common mistake though corrected by good professors.
Googly :
Google taught me few lessons about the referencing ....I took some images and accepted that it was from Google (referenced) still Google is not happy... :( ... so I removed it .
...and the most important tip never ever copy paste an image in your dissertation from the internet, it will give high plagiarism.... Please draw all the figures ....and don't forget to explain it .....which is very very important otherwise you will unnecessarily lose valuable marks . If you can find an explanation for it do not draw that ...in reality the figures are used to explain the theory not the other way around ....so if the explanation is missing the figures cannot stand alone.
Another point , give a good source for the figure (the evaluators are not highly intelligent enough to think that you can make such complex figures) ..and provide a very recent reference.
