Introduction

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Most young research scholars in the area of business, management, social and behavioral sciences struggle at different stages of the research for no fault of theirs. Research degree programs have proliferated in recent past but institutions/schools lack skilled supervisors and support for their scholars. 

Every step in a graduate research (both Ph. D. and Masters/Postgraduate) process is very challenging for most scholars for several reasons. Some of these challenges (it’s not an exhaustive list) are listed below:

1. University/supervisor expects you to submit a proposal or synopsis before or within a few months of admission to degree program and often their expectations are too much to meet for new scholars;
2. Scholars are not given any guidance on the development of an executable research proposal;
3. There is no clear guidance provided on why and how to do literature review.
4. You are asked to identify a research problem and you struggle to find a useful research problem because of the lack of guidance. Where should be looking for research gap and how to identify it.
5. How to develop an executable research design that may lead to publishable research outputs?
6. What will be best for you / easy for you: Qualitative or Quantitative or Mixed-method?
7. How do I design my qualitative data collection procedure?
8. What will be the right sample size? How do I calculate it ?
9. How do I establish the reliability and validity of my qualitative or quantitative measures?
10. Which analytical software (SPSS / SAS/ R / AMOS / LISREL /Smart PLS / NVIVO) will be best for my work?
11. How do I read and interpret the results obtained from the use of analytical software?

If any of the above resonates with your situation, feel free to contact RGPADA.  RGPDA works with world renowned experts to facilitate one-to-one guidance for needy scholars (graduate students as well as young faculty members who are interested in development of world class research skills and outputs) for either or all of the steps in your research process.