Introduction to ARMPD

ARMPD stands for “Applied Research Methods & Professional Development”,   this module is mostly teaching to us about our career planning and the key essentials such as academic writing and documentation and other professional issues.

Project Proposal

According to Trivology.com, (2011); a project proposal is a document which is planned to represent a proposal; the key reason for representing this is so that the reader is convinced by the proposal. It corresponds that the proposal is given so that the reader could decide whether or not to invest resources on the proposed project (Trivology.com, 2011). There are two types of projects one is a macro project and the other is a micro project. Micro projects are mostly about industrial issues and macro projects are mostly about common issues faced by everyone.

What is a Business?

A business is an organization that is concerned in providing goods or service to end customer. A business could also be a profit or nonprofit organization.

Business Process: - According to Searchcio.techtarget.com (2013), a business process is an activity or set of activities that will accomplish a specific organizational goal.

Right sizing: - According to the website Ambler.com (1990), rightsizing is proactive and it needs to be a conststant part of the process of managing an organization.

Downsizing: - refers to the permanent reduction of a company's workforce and is generally associated with corporate reorganization, or creating a "leaner, meaner" company.   

Time management

“Time wasted is existence and used is life” by Edward young (Wax & Dustin, 2007)

   Time management is one of the key problems that I usually face every time usually for most of the tasks I do. I do like to manage my time but there is this common thing almost in every human especially a lot in me that is “clumsiness”, this is one of the key things that prevent me from doing things in time.  But now I feel that this should come to halt as this could lead to far worse issues in the future if I cannot manage my time.

“Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.” By Baltasar Garcian (Adair.J and Allen.M, 2003),

According to (Wax & Dustin, 2007) Punctuality shows:

Ø  Mastery

Ø  Competence

Ø  Integrity

Ø  You value people

Ø  You value yourself

Figure 1. Time management Excercise

Figure 2. Prioritization matrix, Source ( (just4share.com, 2013)

Reference

Adair, J. and Allen, M. (2003) The concise time management and personal development, 1^st edition, London: Thorogood.

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Audioenglish.net (2007) What does method mean? definition, meaning and pronunciation (Free English Language Dictionary), [Online], Available: http://www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/method.htm [12 Jan 2013].

Definition of Research (2012), [Online], Available: http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/info_literacy/modules/module2/2_1.htm [18 Nov 2012].

just4share.com (2013) Priority Matrix (Time Management), [Online], Available: http://www.just4share.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image001.png [13 Jan 2013].

Oxforddictionaries.com (2013) Definition of method - method and characteristic (British & World English), [Online], Available: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/method [12 Jan 2013].

Searchcio.techtarget.com (2013) What is business process? - Definition from WhatIs.com, [Online], Available: http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/business-process [11 Jan 2013].

Trivology.com (2011) What is Project Proposal, [Online], Available: http://www.trivology.com/articles/464/what-is-project-proposal.html [11 Jan 2013].

Verified Carbon Standard.org (2013) What is a Methodology?, [Online], Available: http://v-c-s.org/methodologies/what-methodology [13 Jan 2013].

Wax, Dustin (2007) Punctuality Counts, [Online], Available: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/punctuality-counts.html [10 Nov 2012].