Research Skills for Human Resource Management - MAN00074M

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Module summary

This module enables students to explore and understand how to design, conduct and evaluate business research, from both an academic and practical perspective.

Module will run

Occurrence	Teaching period
A	Spring Term 2022-23 to Summer Term 2022-23

Module aims

This module enables students to explore and understand how to design, conduct and evaluate business research, from both an academic and practical perspective.

Activities within the module will serve to enhance both written and verbal skills required for conducting high quality, meaningful business research.

Module learning outcomes

Subject content

To be selected from the following:-

Lecture topics:

• Introduction to research process and organisational project initiative: criteria
• Research Design and ethics
• Literature searching and reviewing
• Formulating research questions and clarifying your research topic
• Qualitative vs quantitative methods/mixed methods
• Quantitative data collection and analysis (Incl. SPSS)
• Qualitative data collection and analysis (incl. Nvivo)

Seminar topics:

• Time management
• A business perspective of research
• Dissertation writing skills
• Crit principles: laying the foundation
• Research scope and design – group exercise
• Metrics in HRM
• A case study perspective
• Metrics for the whole business

Academic and graduate skills

By the end of this module students should be able to:-

Understand the key skills required to design, conduct and evaluate business related research

Understand, and assess, the implications for organisations of the business problems they experience and offer tailored solutions where appropriate through development of diagnosis and problem solving skills.

Recognise and consider the importance of ethics both from an academic and organisational perspective

Indicative assessment

Task	% of module mark
Essay/coursework	100

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task	% of module mark
Essay/coursework	100

Module feedback

Students receive individual written feedback on each item of coursework within five weeks of submission. A comprehensive module assessment report is released to students after the summer term exam board.

Indicative reading

• Saunders et al (2015) Research Methods for Business Students
• Bryman and Bell (2015) Business Research Methods