Task List:
“Systematic Review” Project
Step 1: Review and Refine the Research Question
Review your resources on the following topics:
– 1) systematic review methodology, then
– 2) article synthesis in systematic review, then
– 3) thematic synthesis
Step 2: Assess the Quality of the Evidence
– Quality Assessment board to post your own quality assessment of your REA evidence and then be a second reviewer of the quality of the articles selected and assessed by one other student (see attached of other student’s work – file named: “Project 2_other student”).
– The client (the ABC University) will want evidence of the reliability and validity of your findings. Transparency and rigor are the hallmarks of any systematic review.
Step 3: Code Your Data
Review the evidence compiled by your team as well as your notes on coding for:
– Qualitative research
– first cycle coding , and
– second cycle coding
Your notes on within-case and cross-case analysis and analytic memoing is important as well.
– review your doctoral resources on describing and analyzing studies for a systematic review
– Provide an integrated analysis of the individual REAs with respect to the current research question, aggregate: weigh and synthesize the evidence and a writeup of the findings.
Step 4: Conceptual framework (see page 31 in the document named as “MY REA”)
– create a conceptual framework that clearly integrates the concepts and relationships discovered during the organizational analysis and preparation of the consultant proposal from Project 1 and the findings from the individual REAs from Project 2. (see Doc 1: Project 1_MyOwn and Doc 2: Project 2_ MyOwn”)
Step 5: Develop Practice Recommendations
Based on your conceptual framework and the other work you’ve completed thus far,
generate a set of at least three practical recommendations that includes the following:
– identification of the risks in implementation
– practical considerations regarding gaining acceptance for the recommendations
It will be helpful to review your readings on closing the research-practice gap, particularly refers to “Evidence-Based Management: The Possibilities of Interpretation.” (Follow the guidelines of Evidence-Based Management in consulting work to develop recommendations)
Marking Scheme
– Apply knowledge gained from a systematic review of relevant evidence to the practitioner decision-making process.
– Address the epistemological concerns of relevant organizational stakeholders, with respect to evidence synthesis.
– Make and implement data-driven decisions.
– Foster an evidence-based mindset in an organization.
– Develop a conceptual model within a particular domain.
– Identify the theory (-ies) to be modeled.
– Name the components of the theory (-ies).
– Represent correctly the concepts as elements of a graphic model.
– Represent correctly the relationships as elements of a graphic model.
– Demonstrate the concepts and relationships of the graphic model in a narrative form.
– Develop solutions to the management practice problem consistent with the range of
– potential courses of action suggested by a theory.
– Identify possible solutions to the problem consistent with a chosen theory.
– Evaluate the solutions based on their application to the problem and the range of
– appropriate actions that could be taken consistent with the theory.
– Evaluate the solutions based on possible intended and unintended consequences.
– Recommend the solution or solutions that will be most effective and have the fewest potential drawbacks.
– Justify the solution or solutions you selected based on research and/or evidence.
