Improving Management Through Introducing New Technology To CKC Setting – Case Study

Rationale of the topic

Describe about the Case Study for Improving the Management through Introducing New Technology to CKC Setting?

In this project, the main idea would be to improve the management with new technology on Community Knowledge Centers (CKC). CKC provides a platform that is authentic and provides an online resource that will inspire and connect citizens, media and policy makers to the need of a community (Aguinis 2013). It also makes good opportunities by promoting awareness and understanding the charitable activities to a target audience. The main purpose of the research would be to get accurate information and data with the help of management through decision-making, future planning and forecasting.

While conducting the research, the field of better management would be to modernize the traditional method of management that will improve the business performance and the quality to meet deadline (Hudson 2013). The research also helps to investigate effectiveness of technology by contributing management in pre-school field. Thus, the main issue is that lack of proper data and information is affecting the management team at CKC nursery.

The aim of the research is to improve the management by introducing new technology through CKC setting.

What are the ways to increase the operation of CKC nursery with the use of new technology on decision-making?

How to reduce the time consumption by swapping traditional methods that will ease access information?

What are the ways to build an effective communication between parents and pre-school management using new technology?

The researcher has used different types of methodology in the research that includes face-to-face interviews, questionnaires and focuses groups. As CKC is a small setting group, it would be beneficial for involving parents, staffs, board of trust in generating more information and ideas. It would also benefit the research by choosing research philosophies, approaches, strategies and designs (6 and Bellamy 2012). However, the researcher has taken primary and secondary data to meet the objectives under data collection method. In order, the researcher has assumed primary and secondary data to analyze a validity of the research in identifying proper objectives. In this research, the researcher has taken survey strategy to highlight the purpose of the research through interviews, graphs and case studies. This will also assume a better understating of the research with the help of suitable outcomes.

Subject Area	Priority	Activity	Measurements	Suggested completion date	Comments and dates
Face to face interviews	1	Making targeted questions that will be short and easy to understand	Making at least 10 interviews	20 March 2016
Surveys & Questionnaire	2	Formulating questionnaires and sharing it to the targeted people.	Completed 20 surveys	15 March 2016

The researcher has made some considerations that will be effective in minimizing the possible harms that occur throughout the research. Here, the information is treated with proper justice by bringing fairness to the conveyed topic. Moreover, the personal data and other information would be kept confidential (Al 2013). 

Research Aim

Here, the idea would be to evaluate the research activities by taking into consideration in improving the management through introducing new technology to CKC setting. Here, the researcher works as a finance officer in this private charitable nursery. This would also plan for development in terms of financial, human and physical resources (Wells 2013). In order, the tools for methodology are also explained.

This is an economic perspective that includes the attributes such as public finance, business finance and personal finance. Here, the business funds include cash and deposits with equivalence to securities and checks (Abu Hasan et al. 2013). In order, the corporate capital includes the sum of money invested on organization’s total assets and foreign capital. Moreover, introducing new technology to CKC nursery might be costly at first but its long-term investment will improve its management utility. Thus, CKC has a budget of £ 7500 to spend and introduce new technology for setting new ideas (Alexandrou 2013).

Items	Expenses
CCTV cameras	£ 1200
Childcare management software	£1400
Training and development	£1000
Monitoring screen	£ 2000
Tablets	£1500
Touch screen receptor	£400
Total	£7500

Table 1: Financial data of CKC nursery

This is the set of individuals, which will make up a workforce of an organization in terms of business economy and human capital (Alirezaei 2013). CKC nursery will play an important role in developing it better by making a success factor provided by its employees. Human resources also build a better understanding by having employment relations on workforce and sustaining it through good work practices. However, operations and administration helps in strategic planning component (Bashevis and Weidenseld 2013). This would also recognize a need for considering HR needs in strategies and goals. In order, the factors effecting human resource planning includes business location, environmental uncertainties, business location, expansion, etc.

Physical resources would encompass a variety of specific terms and objects depending on the nature of business. It includes distribution networks, IT equipments, machinery and other systems. Under CKC setting, the physical assets would be specific to develop the nursery with proper facilities (Bates 2012). Effective management of a physical resource may be an important consideration to business because the physical infrastructure effects the environmental requirements, power usage and other monitoring systems of CKC nursery. However, the business needs will ensure the equipment such as IT facilities, tablets, etc that will fit correctly to increase sales (Dicko and El Ibrami 2013).

Introducing technological change into the organization will present a different challenge by using a traditional method to management under the administration facilities. It is observed that the managers are responsible for making a technical innovation through better equipped by education. It also experiences to guide innovation and development to manage its implementation under the child nurseries. Thus, those who manage the technological change often serve as a platform for technical developers and implementers (Torrance 2014). Here, the organization develops the technology with the help of technically skilled but has knowledge about the areas of application of using the traditional method.

Research questions

The researcher has chosen several surveys and questionnaires that will be easy to provide a proper answer. The researcher helps to make relevant questionnaires that will represent the target population with suitable outcomes. However, the researcher has taken 20 surveys and 10 interviews in the CKC nursery through a charitable foundation. It would be ideal if the implementation confronts through questionnaire forms with technological effect (Alvesson and Sandberg 2013). In order, questionnaires are developed with instant reviews among the staffs, trustees and parents. Thus, the research forms a static idea with the help of primary and secondary data.

This consists of valid information that would be available while conducting the research. However, the researcher has provided an insight by reviewing the secondary research and analyzing it by collecting primary data. It is also accomplished by various methods that include telephonic interviews, experimental methods, observations, and market research. The distinction of primary and secondary research would be crucial if market research professionals entertain this (Armitage 2012). Under primary research, it includes quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data contains surveys, experiments, simulation and mechanical observations. Surveys include personal interviews, mails, telephonic calls, email, web, etc. On the other hand, the qualitative data includes focused groups, case studies, human observations and individual depth interviews (Biddle and Emmett 2013). Here, greater control would enable the marketer to focus on the specific subjects. It also enables the researcher in deciding the requirements that are imposed on timeframe and goals of CKC setting.

It involves the collation of existing research other than primary research. Here, the data is collected from research subjects and experiments. Secondary data includes information collected from the governmental organizations, organizational data and records, and information from governmental departments (Chandra and Sharma 2013). Secondary data analysis can effectively save time and provides a justification that is evitable to capture changes associated on developments related to past. However, CKC’s data collection is based on the different tools, which executes with secondary data in finding suitable software used in nursery management. Secondary data is obtained from different sources like information collected through censuses, tax records, progress reports and internal searches (Corti 2012).

Figure 1: Primary and secondary data sources

(Source: Fiorito, Scheall and Suprinyak 2015)

Survey method is a data gathering method utilized for interpreting, collecting and analyzing different views of a people or a group within the target population. Surveys are used in the field of the research like sociology, marketing research, Psychology and politics. It also gathers information by using statistical techniques under quantitative research (Fram 2014). Moreover, in a survey research, a questionnaire comprises of questions that is asked by the participants in referral to the ideas and behaviors, traits, preferences, facts and attitudes. It would be effective if a questionnaire administers with a variety of modes like face-to-face, paper and pencil works, telephonic usage and computerized material. However, computerized questionnaire is a mode of online survey (Gobo 2011). Here, the participants are to answer a question that is posted through internet.

Research methodology

In this area, the researcher has analyzed several questionnaires by interpreting the results of a small charitable nursery where there is 50 children, 100 parents, 14 staffs and 5 trustees. The researcher has analyzed several questionnaires in quantitative and qualitative form to distinguish the results of the researcher has received.

Quantitative questionnaires for Children, Parents, Trustees and Staffs

Qualitative questionnaires

Questionnaires for children

Question 1

What is the age group of children?

Options	Total number of respondents
3-18 months	20
18 months- 3 years	20
3-5	20

Question 2

How far have you been satisfied that operation of CKC nursery would be helpful for decision-making?

Options	Total number of respondents
Strongly satisfied	20
Satisfied	20
Neutral	20
Dissatisfied	20
Strongly dissatisfied	20

Questionnaires for parents

Question 3

What is the gender of Parents?

Options	Total number of respondents
Male	20
Female	20

Question 4

How far have you been satisfied that improving the management would be helpful for introducing new technology in the CKC setting?

Options	Total number of respondents
Strongly satisfied	20
Satisfied	20
Neutral	20
Dissatisfied	20
Strongly dissatisfied	20

Questionnaire for Staffs

Question 5

How far do you agree that increasing the performance of the management would be effective in decision-making for staffs?

Options	Total number of respondents
Strongly agree	20
Agree	20
Neutral	20
Disagree	20
Strongly disagree	20

Question 6

What are the areas for getting accurate information that will help the management in CKC setting for the staffs?

Options	Total number of respondents
Decision-making process	20
Forecasting	20
Future planning	20
Introducing new technology	20

Questionnaires for trustees

Question 7

What is the annual income of trustees?

Options	Total number of respondents
Below 1million	20
1- 10 million	20
10-20 million	20
20 million	20

Question 8

How far do you believe that trustees have a good opinion for improving technology in CKC setting?

Options	Total number of respondents
Strongly believe	20
Believe	20
Neutral	20
Disbelieve	20
Strongly disbelieve	20

Qualitative questionnaires

Question 1

What are the benefits from introducing new technology to a small nursery that is using traditional method in its management?

Question 2

How would you build an effective communication between parents and the pre-school management?

This part analyses the data relating to the research. It would be expected that the researcher would use different types of methods to specify the research proposal. Besides, the researcher is able to propose and agree on the modifications made through data collection procedure (Goodson, Loveless and Stephens 2012). Under the event, the purpose of the research remains effective if the program would entertain a large scale of research activity. Under these, the researcher has included two segments that are as follows:

Knowledge and understanding

Here, the nature of the research will execute a plan for the research program. Moreover, there are relevant ethical issues that have access to the data (Frost 2012). It would be reliable if the organizational progress meets necessary criteria in making an interpretation of the research results under unavoidable circumstances.

Performance criteria

This would assess the research information by making a reliability and validity in analyzing a suitable outcome. In order, taking appropriate steps would overcome the obstacles in collecting the data (Graal 2012).

Action plan

Section 3

In this topic, the researcher has taken a platform that improves the management by introducing new technologies for community centers (Lange and Meaney 2013). This would provide a detailed view of the ideas in upgrading a system that will fit best to provide good areas by improvement management facilities to the policy makers, staffs, donors and others. Here, the main purpose of the research is to improve the management by introducing new technology on knowledge-based areas. This would also create awareness among the people by increasing performance among the individuals through professional development (Hudson 2013). In order, the workshop provides an arena for enhancing communication by including fund development strategies to the active citizens through investment and capital.

The background of the study develops an operation plan that will help to influence the target audience of community-based areas by introducing new technology (Mattone 2013). Under the technological plans, there may be effective budget, good database, buffering groups and other technological fund. Improving technology with the virtue of management will increase the performance of individuals through decision-making procedure. In order, this will adapt the basic programs associated by developing training programs, recruitment, selection and other criteria (Nielsen and Hunter 2013). Moreover, the information acquired through technology will help to adapt changes like good computer securities, good recognition among the customers, good productivity, etc.

The researcher identifies a rationale of the topic by assuming key issues in CKC setting in the nursery. As opined by Green, (2011), training the nursery kids will help the community programs to drive an orientation through participation and a knowledge based society. In order, reducing illiteracy would be helpful for maintaining a lifelong learning. In order, the management will help the staffs and the children by tracking electronically and involve the parents for their child’s development. The topic overcomes if there would be no prior information and accurate data, a state of establishment is required for making a decision that will be accurate. Moreover, accurate data would be difficult to produce and compile a database for measurement. In order, without proper assistance for planning, there would be rise of complications among the respondents in CKC nursery (Hammersley 2014).

Importance of professional development

Professional development is an area that makes progression on the career of individuals. It is also competitive and employable on all sectors. Professional development entertains a valid point where development takes place systematically. In everyday life, to maximize potential of lifetime employability, there may be high levels of professional competence that improves knowledge and skills relatively. As explained by Paladino (2013), developing a personal portfolio would make a relevance to the current job and continue the career ambitiously. Thus, taking an initiative will focus on the professional development through aligning key objectives that are as follows:

Ethical considerations

An ability to recognize the opportunities

Making trends and directions in society and technology

Becoming confident on the future employability

Having a career that will fulfill needs and desires

Influencing the market place and able to help others

In many nursery, professional development is an opportunity that will experience an informal learning experience (Swaffield 2014). It would be vital if maintaining the current competencies would seek a greater degree on promotion and development. It also attains a balance by creating a wider professional recognition through increasing demands for accountability, new technologies, a need for diversification and rising tides of legislation and regulations. Whatever the aim would be, it will draw up a good career plan (Teräs 2014). Thus, maintaining the records on professional development would be successful. However, to continue education and professional development, the learning barriers include:

Learning about the latest trends in education and discipline

Receiving an instruction is independent on procedures and practices in a classroom.

Staying on the top of the industry will be specific through the learning curve

Feeling professional would make an intervention on educational programs (Torrance 2014).

Professional development in business would assist the respondents to make an identity for continuing long-term progression and development. As argued by Wells (2013), the membership of an industry will make an effective role for business liabilities. This distinguishes the status of business and increases chances of promotion with the help of training opportunities and events. Moreover, professional development in business provides working skills through a workshop. This includes consultation process, coaching, mentoring, reflective supervision, technical assistance, reflective supervision and community practices for development (Zeff and Characklis 2013).

Professional development for parents would form a community that enhances in providing training for parents of school-age children or the parenting education. In order, the schools generally do not provide professional development for parents and would focus on the orientation of student’s education (Swaffield 2014). Professional development is one of the effective ways where learning event grows phenomenally in analyzing student’s learning problems, develop solutions and addressing student’s need. To track an event, professional development would occur during regular school days, during summer and other school breaks, and educators own time. Moreover, educators benefit the learning area through third parties, local sites, national conferences, workshops and seminars. As explained by Nielsen and Hunter (2013), online professional development would be useful in observing the video observations on leadership and effective teaching. Online professional development also provides real-time discussion among the participant and interactive discussions among experts and participants. To make professional development effective, the educators enable the criteria of skills and knowledge to vary the students’ learning areas. Professional development also requires a thoughtful planning to provide a feedback to ensure educators in learning process. Thus, it would be effective if the teacher improves the administrator with proper instructions and facilitate learning and development Graal (2012). Moreover, a leadership analyses achieving data for identifying learning problems for providing learning grades that would overcome the research for further distinction.

Financial resources

This section will develop a methodological outline by incorporating ideas, concepts and theories associated to the research. In order, the researcher will gather effective information that would be efficient in conducting the research successfully (Hantrais 2014). In this research, the researcher has taken positivism philosophy, deductive research approach, descriptive design and survey strategy to incorporate the research ideas.

To make the research effective, survey strategy is taken to produce effective outcomes in organizing data by gathering relevant information (Popping 2012). In order, to gain an in-depth knowledge, the researcher faces several strategies to get positive results in this topic. However, the survey strategy holds to gather positive results concerning the issues while conducting the research. In order, the research strategy would follow ethical principles in analyzing the potential issues faced in the research with informed consent (Preser 2014).

Data collection method is a process of measuring and gathering variables through an established manner (Rostron 2013). It establishes answers to the relevant questions asked during the research. In order, the goal for this method is to answer the questions regarding the research analytics. This includes primary and secondary methods.

Statistical data is a source for primary data that is collected from various observations and through direct communication procedure. It also enhances by aligning key advantages through direct personal observations, indirect oral interviews, mailed questionnaire method, scheduled methods and observations from the local agents (Ryen and Gobo 2011). The direct personal interview provides accurate information that influences the data responsively whereas the indirect oral interviews is time saving as it creates confidence on accurate data. Moreover, the mailed questionnaires are short and clear (Salaberry and Comajoan 2013). Primary data collection comprises of qualitative and quantitative data collection methods.

Quantitative methods emphasize the orientation of research with the help of numerical, mathematical and statistical analysis. This would be evaluated by making an orientation through descriptive and experimental methods. It is analyzed by making questionnaire forms with tables, figures and calculations (Salkind 2012). On the other hand, qualitative data collection is represented by direct interaction of the groups. This method also provides an explanation by including stenography, audio recording, video recording, and written notes. Moreover, this method is illustrated by forming interviews, annual reports, conversations and content analysis.

Secondary data is another type of quantitative data that is collected for different purposes in examining annual school testing reports, government health statistics and data supplied by a marketing organization. Secondary data analysis interprets information from paper- based sources and electronic sources (Sullivan 2014). It includes directories from books, journals, abstracts, research reports, conferences, annual reports, newspaper and magazines, online databases, videos and broadcasts.

Human resources

Sampling methods provides a selection procedure that would be reliable for executing the research. This includes probability and non-probability sampling methods. In this research, the researcher has taken probability-sampling method to execute the study in an effective manner. It also attains a degree of judgment by minimizing possible areas in this research (Supino and Borer 2012). Here, the researcher has taken 20 respondents ( 4staffs,  10 parents, and 6 trustees) in the CKC nursery through a charitable foundation and taken 10 members (2 Staffs, 4 parents, 4 trustees) to view the interviewing section through qualitative part with desirable statements and views.

The researcher has faced some barriers while conducting the research with prior information in making a progression. This would be ideal if there is an involvement of time limitation and finance limitation. However, to gain the viewpoint of researcher, the shortcomings of research makes a valid point to sustain reliable data, time constraints and sample size (Zanutto 2013).

The researcher has shown an ethical way to conduct the research and pay proper attention to the ethical issues. Here, the respondents would enjoy active participation in order to make the data confidential. However, there are certain rules and regulations that would be appropriate during the course study (Salkind 2012). The researcher has also followed data protection act that will keep the information secret in an effective manner.

Based on the current research study, the CKC setting of the nursery can be improved with better facilities. In order, the scope of the research will be effective to design facilities. With the help of secondary data, CKC setting will enhance the business performance by aligning traditional methods that will ease information through forecasting, decision-making and proper planning (Rostron, 2013).

The researcher has taken quantitative and qualitative questionnaires of section 2 to develop an understanding in this research. It would be empirical if proper analysis and justification is enhanced through the literary outcomes.

Quantitative questions

Questionnaires for children

Question 1

What is the age group of children?

Options	Number of respondents	Frequency (in %)	Total number of respondents
3-18 months	5	25	20
18 months- 3 years	12	60	20
3-5	3	15	20

Analysis

In this section, the age group of the children in the charitable nursery is configured by a percentage that would be greater. The 3-18 age group year includes 25% whereas age group of 18 months- 3 years includes 60 % whereas the age group of 3-5 includes 15%. The age group of children will be helpful in analyzing the number by the other members of the CKC nursery that includes staffs and the trustees.

Physical resources

Question 2

How far have you been satisfied that operation of CKC nursery would be helpful for decision-making?

Options	Number of respondents	Frequency (in %)	Total number of respondents
Strongly satisfied	3	18	20
Satisfied	1	6	20
Neutral	2	12	20
Dissatisfied	5	29	20
Strongly dissatisfied	6	35	20

Analysis

The researcher has improved operation of CKC nursery by adding decision-making process with the help of new technology. The parents are strongly satisfied that evolve with 18% whereas the satisfied members include 6%. Moreover, the neutral respondents evolve with a 12%. Moreover, dissatisfied parents include 29% while those who are strongly satisfied evolve with 35% respectively. This will help to initialize further development through bringing new techniques from the traditional method.

Questionnaires for parents

Question 3

What is the gender of Parents?

Options	Number of respondents	Frequency (in %)	Total number of respondents
Male	12	80	20
Female	3	20	20

Analysis

The gender of the parents under the charitable nursery includes a good percentage through CKC setting. It evolves good as the male respondents include 80% whereas the female members include a percentage of 20%. The gender will analyze the number of male and female parents of the children in CKC setting.

Question 4

How far have you been satisfied that improving the management would be helpful for introducing new technology in the CKC setting?

Options	Number of respondents	Frequency (in %)	Total number of respondents
Strongly satisfied	3	15	20
Satisfied	2	10	20
Neutral	4	20	20
Dissatisfied	5	25	20
Strongly dissatisfied	6	30	20

The idea the researcher has improved through the management would be helpful in introducing a new technology under the CKC setting. The parents are strongly satisfied that evolve with 15% whereas the satisfied members include 10%. Moreover, the neutral respondents evolve with a 20%. Moreover, dissatisfied parents include 25% while those who are strongly satisfied evolve with 30% respectively. Thus, improving the management would be helpful by introducing new techniques that avails market opportunity among the parents.

Question 5

How far do you agree that increasing the performance of the management would be effective in decision-making for staffs?

Options	Number of respondents	Frequency (in %)	Total number of respondents
Strongly agree	3	23	20
Agree	2	15	20
Neutral	1	8	20
Disagree	4	31	20
Strongly disagree	3	23	20

Analysis of Question 5

In this section, the increasing performance of the management would be effective in decision-process in CKC setting under charitable trust. The staffs that strongly agree evolve with 23% whereas those agree evolve with 15% respectively. In order, the neutral areas include a percentage of 8% and those who disagree evolve with 31%. In order, those respondents that strongly disagrees evolve with 23% respectively. Thus, increasing the performance of the management helps the staffs and make good availability in decision-making process by looking at the  staffs of CKC setting.

Question 6

What are the areas for getting accurate information that will help the management in CKC setting for the staffs?

Options	Number of respondents	Frequency (in %)	Total number of respondents
Decision-making process	4	20	20
Forecasting	7	35	20
Future planning	4	20	20
Introducing new technology	5	25	20

Analysis

To get accurate information, there would be a good way to restrain the policies of the management in CKC setting. The decision process among the staffs includes 20% whereas forecasting includes 35%. In order, future planning includes a percentage of 20% and introducing new technology evolves with 25%. Here, decision-making and planning are the two concepts that would be reliable in introducing new plans for development.

Implementing new technology by getting benefits using traditional method in management

Questionnaires for trustees

Question 7

What is the annual income of trustees?

Options	Number of respondents	Frequency (in %)	Total number of respondents
Below 1million	5	25	20
1- 10 million	7	35	20
10-20 million	5	25	20
20 million	3	15	20

Analysis

In this section, the annual income of the trustees in the charitable nursery that is below 1 million is 25% whereas those, which belong to 1-10 million belongs to 35% respectively. In order, there are 10-20 million includes 25% and those fall in the group of 20 million evolve as 15% respectively. Thus, the more the income would be, the higher would be the growth of the charitable foundation of the nursery.

Question 8

How far do you believe that trustees have a good opinion for improving technology in CKC setting?

Options	Number of respondents	Frequency (in %)	Total number of respondents
Strongly believe	4	20	20
Believe	3	15	20
Neutral	3	15	20
Disbelieve	5	25	20
Strongly disbelieve	5	25	20

The section includes the trustees that have a strong opinion in improving the CKC setting on charitable nursery. Here, the trustees that strongly believe evolve as 20%, whereas those believe include as 40%. In order, the neutral venues include a percentage of 20 whereas those who disbelieve include as 20% and the sections that strongly disbelieve evolve as 20% respectively. Thus, improving new technology would be effective in development and bringing plans that would be suitable for introducing technological changes.

Qualitative questions

Question 1

What are the benefits from introducing new technology to a small nursery that is using traditional method in its management?

Technology plays an important role to the nurseries in CKC setting. Since technology has developed effectively in transforming the business, this will manage and develop ideas by seeking internal knowledge. The first staff has created an environmental free area where children can practice new business roles. In order, the third parent has developed a paradigm that would assist children to use traditional method under the management. It functions effectively, if channel partners create an event to modernize business process under the CKC setting. The sixth trustee has developed a technique where using games in the playground of the nursery will be an effective area for management. The eighth parent has found a program that will make new game plans for development whereas the tenth trustee has revised the same policy.

Question 2

How would you build an effective communication between parents and the pre-school management?

There are positive benefits where children can produce effective communication between parents and the pre-school management. The second parent has stated that parents benefit from the children’s education by getting new ideas from school. It also helps to support their children and by learning more about the school’s academic program. Besides, the fourth trustee and the ninth staff have developed a two-way communication between families and schools that is necessary for child’s success. Opportunities include parent conferences, emails, phone calls, etc. Moreover, the fifth parent has developed a personal contact between children and parents by telephonic calls, home visits and others.  The seventh trustee has laid a technique where there will be possible areas of building communication among parents and school through using video calls.

Tools in methodology

Since CKC setting will plan for future development in the nursery in UK by forming a small charitable trust, it would forecast changes through future planning and increase in business performance. Moreover, building an effective channel of communication between parents and management will establish a good link for their child’s progress. In order, inspiring the online resources under CKC setting will develop the child’s future by promoting awareness and the activities that lead towards development. The researcher has conducted an empirical research to increase the decision process of individuals in meeting a technological alliance through financial, human and physical resources. As opined by Zanutto (2013), there may be technologies frames, which include a long-term investment procedure towards management utility and setting new ideas on learning and development. Moreover, the human resources would build a workforce that will create work practice through strategic planning and initialize human resource planning needs.
   

Subject Area	Priority	Activity	Measurements	Suggested completion date	Comments and dates
Face to face interviews	1	Making targeted questions that will be short and easy to understand	Making at least 10 interviews	20 March 2016
Surveys & Questionnaire	2	Formulating questionnaires and sharing it to the targeted people.	Completed 20 surveys	15 March 2016

Personal and organizational resources to the research project needs

The personal and organizational resources will be described through financial, human and physical resources.

Financial resources

This is an economic perspective that includes the attributes such as public finance, business finance and personal finance. In order, the corporate capital includes the sum of money invested on organization’s total assets and foreign capital. Moreover, introducing new technology to CKC nursery might be costly at first but its long-term investment will improve its management utility.

Items	Expenses
CCTV cameras	£ 1200
Childcare management software	£1400
Training and development	£1000
Monitoring screen	£ 2000
Tablets	£1500
Touch screen receptor	£400
Total	£7500

CKC nursery will play an important role in developing it better by making a success factor provided by its employees. Human resources also build a better understanding by having employment relations on workforce and sustaining it through good work practices.

Physical resources

Under CKC setting, the physical assets would be specific to develop the nursery with proper facilities. Effective management of a physical resource may be an important consideration to business because the physical infrastructure effects the environmental requirements, power usage and other monitoring systems of CKC nursery

The researcher has chosen several surveys and questionnaires that will be easy to provide a proper answer. The researcher helps to make relevant questionnaires that will represent the target population with suitable outcomes. However, the researcher has taken 20 interviews and 10 surveys in the CKC nursery through a charitable foundation. Primary data consists of valid information that would be available while conducting the research. However, the researcher has provided an insight by reviewing the secondary research and analyzing it by collecting primary data whereas secondary data includes information collected from the governmental organizations, organizational data and records, and information from governmental departments.

Recorded and collated relevant data

Under the event, the purpose of the research remains effective if the program would entertain a large scale of research activity. Under these, the researcher has included two segments that are Knowledge and understanding and Performance criteria.

Appropriate evaluation techniques for evaluating the findings

The evaluation techniques are as follows:

Research philosophy

Research strategy

Data collection methods- Primary and Secondary data

Interviews

Questionnaire/ surveys

Experimental methods

Sampling methods

Action Plan

Interpreting and analyzing the results in terms of the original research specification

Quantitative questionnaires

Questionnaires for children

Question 1

What is the age group of children?

Analysis

In this section, the age group of the children in the charitable nursery is configured by a percentage that would be greater. The 3-18 age group year includes 25% whereas age group of 18 months- 3 years includes 60 % whereas the age group of 3-5 includes 15%. The age group of children will be helpful in analyzing the number by the other members of the CKC nursery that includes staffs and the trustees.

Question 2

How far have you been satisfied that operation of CKC nursery would be helpful for decision-making?

Analysis

The researcher has improved operation of CKC nursery by adding decision-making process with the help of new technology. The parents are strongly satisfied that evolve with 18% whereas the satisfied members include 6%. Moreover, the neutral respondents evolve with a 12%. Moreover, dissatisfied parents include 29% while those who are strongly satisfied evolve with 35% respectively. This will help to initialize further development through bringing new techniques from the traditional method.

Questionnaires for parents

Question 3

What is the gender of Parents?

Analysis

The gender of the parents under the charitable nursery includes a good percentage through CKC setting. It evolves good as the male respondents include 80% whereas the female members include a percentage of 20%. The gender will analyze the number of male and female parents of the children in CKC setting.

Question 4

How far have you been satisfied that improving the management would be helpful for introducing new technology in the CKC setting?

Analysis

The idea the researcher has improved through the management would be helpful in introducing a new technology under the CKC setting. The parents are strongly satisfied that evolve with 15% whereas the satisfied members include 10%. Moreover, the neutral respondents evolve with a 20%. Moreover, dissatisfied parents include 25% while those who are strongly satisfied evolve with 30% respectively. Thus, improving the management would be helpful by introducing new techniques that avails market opportunity among the parents.

Questionnaire for Staffs

Question 5

How far do you agree that increasing the performance of the management would be effective in decision-making for staffs?

Analysis

In this section, the increasing performance of the management would be effective in decision-process in CKC setting under charitable trust. The staffs that strongly agree evolve with 23% whereas those agree evolve with 15% respectively. In order, the neutral areas include a percentage of 8% and those who disagree evolve with 31%. In order, those respondents that strongly disagrees evolve with 23% respectively. Thus, increasing the performance of the management helps the staffs and make good availability in decision-making process by looking at the staffs of CKC setting.

Question 6

What are the areas for getting accurate information that will help the management in CKC setting for the staffs?

Analysis

To get accurate information, there would be a good way to restrain the policies of the management in CKC setting. The decision process among the staffs includes 20% whereas forecasting includes 35%. In order, future planning includes a percentage of 20% and introducing new technology evolves with 25%. Here, decision-making and planning are the two concepts that would be reliable in introducing new plans for development.

Questionnaires for trustees

Question 7

What is the annual income of trustees?

Analysis

In this section, the annual income of the trustees in the charitable nursery that is below 1 million is 25% whereas those, which belong to 1-10 million belongs to 35% respectively. In order, there are 10-20 million includes 25% and those fall in the group of 20 million evolve as 15% respectively. Thus, the more the income would be, the higher would be the growth of the charitable foundation of the nursery.

Question 8

How far do you believe that trustees have a good opinion for improving technology in CKC setting?

Analysis

The section includes the trustees that have a strong opinion in improving the CKC setting on charitable nursery. Here, the trustees that strongly believe evolve as 20%, whereas those believe include as 40%. In order, the neutral venues include a percentage of 20 whereas those who disbelieve include as 20% and the sections that strongly disbelieve evolve as 20% respectively. Thus, improving new technology would be effective in development and bringing plans that would be suitable for introducing technological changes.

Qualitative questions

Question 1

What are the benefits from introducing new technology to a small nursery that is using traditional method in its management?

Technology plays an important role to the nurseries in CKC setting. Since technology has developed effectively in transforming the business, this will manage and develop ideas by seeking internal knowledge. The first staff has created an environmental free area where children can practice new business roles. In order, the third parent has developed a paradigm that would assist children to use traditional method under the management. It functions effectively, if channel partners create an event to modernize business process under the CKC setting. The sixth trustee has developed a technique where using games in the playground of the nursery will be an effective area for management. The eighth parent has found a program that will make new game plans for development whereas the tenth trustee has revised the same policy.

Question 2

How would you build an effective communication between parents and the pre-school management?

There are positive benefits where children can produce effective communication between parents and the pre-school management. The second parent has stated that parents benefit from the children’s education by getting new ideas from school. It also helps to support their children and by learning more about the school’s academic program. Besides, the fourth trustee and the ninth staff have developed a two-way communication between families and schools that is necessary for child’s success. Opportunities include parent conferences, emails, phone calls, etc. Moreover, the fifth parent has developed a personal contact between children and parents by telephonic calls, home visits and others.  The seventh trustee has laid a technique where there will be possible areas of building communication among parents and school through using video calls.

Conclusions

The research concludes an authentic explanation by providing a platform to the charitable trust under CKC setting in UK. In order, the background of the study is explained with a rationale of the topic. The orientation of the topic also explains importance of professional development by aligning key activities to fulfill the desires of people. In order, research methodology drives the research forward through execution of primary and secondary data

Involving the parents for better progression in business

Making accurate records and tracking the data on a regular basis

Managing the paperwork of the nursery through an effective manner

The outcome of the research will produce a valid point by making experimentations and questionnaires through case studies. It would also measure the variables by asking questions relatively and solving one by one. Moreover, the workforce strategy of CKC setting in nursery will play an important role in developing it better by making a success factor.

Conclusion

Account of the factors that contribute to the process of research project selection

Ways to increase the performance management with the use of new technology on decision-making.

Reducing time consumption by swapping traditional methods will ease access information.

Ways to build an effective communication between parents and pre-school management using new technology.

Critical review of existing information for the selected topic

The selected topic establishes a link that will be persistent by improve the management by introducing new technology through CKC setting through professional development. The topic also helps to make effectiveness of technology by contributing management in pre-school field. In order, providing accurate information and data with help the management through decision-making, future planning and forecasting.

Research project proposal that includes an appropriate plan and procedures for the carrying out the research

Recommendations

The researcher has made suitable recommendations to improve the nursery through:

Involving the parents for better progression in business

Making accurate records and tracking the data on a regular basis

Managing the paperwork of the nursery through an effective manner

Conclusion

The research concludes an authentic explanation by providing a platform to the charitable trust under CKC setting in UK. In order, the background of the study is explained with a rationale of the topic. The orientation of the topic also explains importance of professional development by aligning key activities in fulfilling the desires of the people. In order, research methodology drives the research forward through execution of primary and secondary data. The fourth chapter describes the analysis created from the section 2 with relevant questionnaires through graphs, tables, figures, etc. Moreover, an action plan is created to develop the subject area with the help of face-to-face interviews, surveys, case studies, and other experimental methods.

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