Plan for the Professional Portfolio

Introduction and Rationale/Topic

Introduce what the assignment’s focus will be. Give some background here on your first thoughts. Provide the context and the rationale of your literature review and possible debates around this research area.

Research aims and research questions

Explain the aims and objectives of the study and outline your research questions.

Methodology

Explain your search strategy (How did you go about this? Books? Journals? Databases etc?) Perhaps use a table here and show, which databases (Emerald/Sage etc) you used and which journals come from where. Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria of literature for the review (ensure the validity and reliability of the research studies you included in your review)

References

Use the Harvard referencing guide as explained in the attachment.