A suitable thesis topic should have three characteristics at the same time: (1) You must have made enough innovations and contributions in this topic to get a degree. (2) You have the background knowledge needed to read relevant literature. The insufficient part can be obtained from the course, and the part that needs to be supplemented by itself will not delay the progress of the research within an affordable range. (3) You have a certain interest in this topic, which is enough to support you to survive all kinds of setbacks and difficult challenges in the long years.
I suggest that readers decide the research topic as soon as possible, so that they can have more time to consult the literature in this field and find a suitable topic for their papers. This proposal is based on three main considerations: (1) each research topic contains a variety of thesis topics, which can meet different interests and specialties and suit everyone's characteristics and interests; Therefore, it doesn't make much difference which research topic to choose. For example, each research topic includes basic research and applied research, and each research topic includes qualitative research and quantitative research. Therefore, it is important that the topic of the thesis suits you, not whether the research topic suits you. (2) Each tutor has a special research topic. When you choose a good consultant, the remaining research topics are limited, so it is not necessarily worth worrying about the differences. (3) It takes a lot of time to review the literature from the choice of research topic to the decision of thesis topic, so that we can master the main knowledge and disputes of each research sub-topic and the relationship between each research sub-topic, grasp the research direction from a broader perspective, and cultivate GAI's professional critical ability. Even if the tutor has selected the topic of the thesis for you, you should review the literature of the research topic from a broader perspective in order to grasp the complete relationship between the topic of the thesis and other research sub-topics.
As far as the research topic of "basic salary" is concerned, there are many research sub-topics, such as whether the increase of basic salary will increase the unemployment rate of vulnerable groups, whether the increase of basic salary will increase the income of vulnerable workers, what measures employers will take after the increase of basic salary, and whether the increase of basic salary will change with the National Day. Therefore, any research topic, as long as you can't find any reason to object, might as well take it as a research topic, so as to start a literature review of this research topic as soon as possible and start looking for a suitable topic.
In order to let readers know how to grasp the relationship between each research sub-topic and thesis topic from the research topic, this chapter will take the salary issue as an example to introduce the background and significance of a research topic, the relationship between each research sub-topic, the main research trends and changes, the main disputes, the knowledge and typical papers mastered, and the diversity of each thesis topic.
In addition, the following chapters of this book will still take the research theme of "basic salary" as the main case to guide readers to understand the literature review, critical thinking, innovation essentials, steps and processes of research work. Therefore, being familiar with the contents of this chapter is helpful to the reading and absorption of later chapters.
As for the specific methods, tools and essentials needed for literature review of research topics, they will be introduced in Chapter 7.
Before choosing a thesis topic, it is best to understand the background of the research topic, the types of previous related research sub-topics, the main disputes and understandings, so as to understand the characteristics and elements of related research sub-topics, so as to liberate creativity and imagination in a down-to-earth manner. If you imagine it out of thin air, you may rack your brains to come up with a topic that has no academic research value.
Secondly, when you understand the background of each research sub-topic from a broader background, you can deeply grasp the main demands, method characteristics, focus of attention and the reasons and necessity of various disputes of various research sub-topics, so as not to be unable to read books in the forest. In addition, when you look at a single research sub-topic from a broader and more complete perspective, you have a better chance to jump out of the narrow vision of a single topic, cross-analyze and think from multiple angles, conceive methods and strategies that are out of the existing research framework, and make innovations and breakthroughs.
Take the issue of wages as an example. Many people are influenced by economics textbooks and preconceived that the government should not interfere in the labor market through law, especially should not limit the transaction price and quantity, thus opposing the increase of basic wages. This kind of people often think that people who support the basic salary have no basic knowledge of economics, and that several papers supporting the increase of the basic salary are not rigorous research by extremists-for them, the basic salary dispute in recent years is very boring.
However, if you look at the whole process and development of the problem from a broader perspective, as well as the new research and controversy in recent years, you will find that this problem is really important and interesting, and it is really worth further thinking and research.
New Zealand, Australia and Britain promulgated basic wage laws at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century to fight against the rampant sweatshops at that time. Judging from the history of this origin, it is absolutely necessary to set the basic salary in the real world, and for more than 100 years, this need still reappears from time to time-even in the so-called rich and advanced United States. For example, in the financial turmoil in 2008, the unemployment rate in the United States reached 10%, and the youth unemployment rate was as high as 20%. Many enterprises take advantage of people's crisis to kidnap college graduates who are looking for jobs and become unpaid interns, and promise to give priority to hiring regular employees when the economy improves. Many people have been unpaid interns for several years, but they are doing full-time work, but the promises of the company have repeatedly jumped. After the matter was leaked by the media, the US Department of Labor urgently declared that unpaid internship was illegal, and many law firms advertised on the Internet to fight the lawsuit of "unpaid internship". It can be seen that cannibalism does occur from time to time in the market, and the government and the judiciary must intervene instead of conniving at this serious injustice.