Riphah International University

Faculty of Management Sciences

Riphah School of Leadership
Final Term Examination, MS (PM) Group-B, Spring-2020

Subject: Advanced Research Methods Teacher: Dr. Muhammad Sarmad

Weightage: 20% Time Allowed : 03 Hours

Instructions:

1. Attempt the questions precisely with original input, as per given applied scenario.
2. Submit after 03 hours of start time but not later than 24 hours.

Research Paper Abstract:

The scope of this study is to find out the impact of utilization of enterprise resource planning
(ERP) on project success to accomplish organizational objectives. This scope is conceived under
the moderating role of team’s cohesiveness and supervision support under the said relationship.
The data was collected from well-reputed companies of telecom sector located in Pakistan with
sample size of 219. The middle tier officials of various telecom organizations, who have to
perform in ERP systemized environment, were targeted to obtain the sample data. Purposive
sampling technique was used for creating a reasonable sample size and data was collected
through questionnaire. The latest statistical techniques were applied through SPSS to analyze the
respondent’s feedback to test the proposed hypothesis. Findings revealed that with the help of
ERP usage, performance of team is enhanced and helps to deliver successful projects. The team
cohesiveness affects project success but couldn’t moderate the relation of ERP usage and project
success. On the other hand high supervision support can stronger the effect of ERP usage on
project success. Implications were made for better ERP usage across by respective managers in
dynamic telecom sector of Pakistan.

Q1: Being a research scholar draw and elaborate the research model from above paragraph of
abstract, explain the advantages and disadvantages (if any) of crafted research model for
target sector in particular and project management literature in general.

Q2: Elaborate your original thoughts regarding importance of learning research methods in
project management discipline and guide the fellow scholars to craft a research model with
 the combination of different variables types; which should be workable beyond their
academic requirements. Support the guidance with any example of research model?

Q3: Being a research scholar explain the usefulness of data analysis presented at
http://www.covid.gov.pk to make decision regarding COVID-19 response and manage
certain projects at country, province and city level; provide recent data figures of today
and interpret in terms of your understanding about SPSS ?

Q4: Elaborate and discuss worth of APA style in developing research paper and draw all APA
style of research data analysis tables developed from your research paper, representing
acceptance/rejection of hypothesis etc with possible explanation of each table?

Good Luck
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