Military and Civilians Organizations High Turnover Ratios

Concept Paper BLUEPRINT

HOW TO WRITE YOUR FIRST DRAFT

Below you will find 35 questions that cover the required subject matter of the Concept Paper & Chapter One of the dissertation proposal.

1. Your first exercise is to answer each of these questions with one sentence. Write each answer as a simple declarative sentence. (Write answers to each of the 35 questions, before starting the second exercise.)
2. Your second exercise is to expand each of the 35 sentences into a short paragraph. For each of the 35 questions, the one-sentence answer you wrote should become the topic sentence of a full paragraph.
3. The third exercise is to expand each of the 35 paragraphs into as full a description or discussion as needed for the first draft of the dissertation proposal.
4. Finally, fill in the BOLD template with the 35 or more paragraphs that have emerged from the third exercise.
5. You now have a first draft of your concepts paper & Chapter One of the dissertation proposal.

Concept Paper

Introduction

Question 1. What is the topic of your dissertation? Turn Over Rates

Question 2. (Move to Question 3 because you will answer this question last.) What are the 10 key points to be covered in Chapter One?

Background

Question 3. Why is your topic an important social concern? Why the high turnover rates in between Military and Civilians employees.

Problem Statement.

Question 4. What is the broad general problem you are interested in? Explain the differences between Military and Civilian employee's turnover rates in Government Organizations.

Question 5. What is your narrow, specific research problem? Employee's turnover in Military and Civilians organizations.

Question 6. What will you use as your method and design? Description-Comparative

Question 7. What is the population/group you plan to study? Military and Civilian Employees

(The final iteration of your problem statement is to answer all four of these questions in no more than 250 words. I suggest three paragraphs.)

Purpose Statement.

Question 8. What is your research method going to be? Quantitative

Question 9. Why is that method going to be appropriate? Dealing with two groups for testing

Question 10. What is your research design going to be? Description-Comparative

Question 11. Why is that design going to be appropriate?

Question 12. What are your research variables of interest ( for quantitative studies)? Dependent variables Military and Civilians Employees

Question 13. What sample of what population is to be studied? Military and Civilians

Question 14. What is the geographic location of the study? Pentagon

(The final iteration of your Purpose Statement is to answer all seven of these questions. I suggest doing it in seven sentences.)

Significance of the Study.

Question 15. How will this study be important to society?

Question 16. What will your research add to leadership studies?

Nature of the Study.

Question 17. Why did you choose the research method you did, instead of another, and how will it accomplish your research goal? To measure the high rates between Military and Civilians Employees

Question 18. Why did you pick the research design you did and how will it accomplish your research goals?

Research Questions and Hypotheses (quantitative Study).

Question 19. What are your narrow, focused research questions that deal with cause or correlation (quantitative study)? No turnover but to find out the turnover rates between the Military and Civilians employees' organization

Question 20. What are your narrow, focused research questions that deal with comparisons or contrasts?

Question 21. What are your research hypotheses? Military and Civilians High Turnover Rates

Conceptual or Theoretical Framework.

Question 22. What theory broad theoretical area does your research fit into?

Question 23. What important research has already been done around the topic of your dissertation? How will your research fit into what has already been done?

Question 24. What are the controversies in the field of your research?

Question 25. Use a very long sentence to give a very short history of the founding, germinal and current literature in the field of your research.

Definitions.

Question 26. Write a list of the most important unfamiliar technical terms you will need to define?

Question 27. Write short operational definitions of the technical terms listed above.

Assumptions.

Question 28. Simply list the major assumptions that are the foundation of your research and theory?

Question 29. What is the rationale for making any one of the above assumptions?

Scope, Limitations and Delimitations.

Question 30. What will be the scope of your study?

Question 31. Describe at least one of the limitations of you expect to accept.

Question 32. Describe at least one of the delimitations you will impose on your study.

Question 33. To what extent do you think you will be able to generalize from your findings to a larger population?

Instrumentation.

Question 34.
• How you will collect, organize, analyze, and interpret data?

Question 35: How you will Protect Human Participants (informed consent, data security)