...MBA 5652, Research Methods Course Syllabus Course Description Business research methods will guide students in advancing their knowledge of different research principles and their applicability in social research. Students will investigate a business-related issue in their content area and design a publishable research proposal. Course Textbook Zikmund, W. G., Babin, B. J., Carr, J. C., & Griffin, M. (2013). Business research methods (9th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western. Course Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Design and plan a research study. Apply statistical methods to business research. Apply research techniques to commerce and business issues. Differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics. Devise the sampling theory into appropriate sampling distributions. Write and test a hypothesis. Contrast and compare descriptive, correlational, and qualitative non-experimental research. Contrast and compare experimental and quasi-experimental research. Write a publishable research proposal paper using APA guidelines. Apply ethical research standards. Credits Upon completion of this course, the students will earn three (3) hours of college credit. Course Structure 1. Unit Learning Outcomes: Each unit contains Learning Outcomes that specify the measurable skills and knowledge students should gain upon completion of the unit. 2. Unit Lesson: Each unit...
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...MBA-Essay Sample：SAMPLE REFLECTION PAPER(2012-06-22 17:52:41)转载▼标签： mba-essaysamplereflectionpaper财经 分类： DIY留学PS/Essay/简历/推荐信 MBA-Essay Sample：SAMPLE REFLECTION PAPER (submitted by a student in CRIM 1006E, Fall term 2003) Mark: 4/5 Please NOTE: This paper is presented as a model based on the way the author began the inquiry, (i.e. narrowing the reflection by posing a question and focusing on it). There are areas for improvement in the piece (e.g. carrying through with the author's initially posed question; focusing more critically on Bodi's argument and/or her responses to this author's comments), however, it is offered as a formidable example of how to initially tackle a critically reflective piece by focusing on only one point, argument, (or in this case, sentence). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I found the article written by Sonia Bodi was very informative and interesting. Although many of the ideas she presented I agreed with, there were also a few points that I'd like to argue against. First I would like to answer the question that was proposed in the title of this article: How do we bridge the gap between what we ( professors) teach and what they ( students) do? To fill in that gap, both sides need to work together. Students need to push themselves to expand their knowledge and help themselves become more inquisitive, critical, and reflective. Professors, on the other hand, should push and...
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...attachment. MGT 521 Week 1 Assessed DQ – MBA Matrix Assessed Discussion Question: MBA Matrix Which program outcome do you feel will add the most value for you? Which managerial competencies reflect current strengths for you? MGT 521 Week 2 Individual Assignment – Construct and Support an Argument 1. Individual Assignment: Construct and Support an Argument Complete the Jungian Personality self-assessment located on the rEsource page. You can access this self-assessment, by selecting the Assessment tab, then scrolling to the What About Me section and then to Personality Insights. Select What’s My Jungian 16-Type Personality? Write an APA formatted paper of no more than 1,050 words in which you construct and support an argument on your decision to pursue an MBA degree to further your career, start a new career, or achieve a personal goal. Your paper should include consideration of the Jungian Personality self-assessment on how others perceive you. Use and evaluate published information in support of your argument. Post your assignment as a Microsoft® Word document. MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment – Analysis of Team Charter Individual Assignment: Analysis of Team Charter After collaborating with your team, individually (not with your team) consider the personality types, listening skills, and trust levels of your team members and yourself. Then, in no more than 700 words, write a paper in which you explain how, considering those individual differences...
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...complete 1- Complete the Effective Research and Writing at University of Phoenix Module. Save a screen shot of the completion screen as a Microsoft Word document on your computer once you finish the module. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment 2- Navigate to the My Career Plan in Phoenix Career Services. Complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences. Note. Access to Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences is only available after you complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies. Write a paper of no more than 350 words discussing the results of your Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences and Competencies. Reflect on your results. How can knowing your ideal work culture help you in developing strategic and operational plans to achieve organizational goals? Which competencies are essential to conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis? How do your competencies relate to the essential competencies for conducting a SWOT analysis? Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 3- You have decided to pursue an MBA degree either to further your career, start a new career, or achieve a personal goal. In this program, you will study the functional areas of business. Use the MBA Overview and Effective Research and Writing at University of Phoenix Modules you reviewed to complete this assignment. Write a paper that analyzes the role of a manager...
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...A++PAPER;http://www.homeworkproviders.com/shop/mgt-521-week-2/ MGT 521 WEEK 2 week 2 complete 1- Complete the Effective Research and Writing at University of Phoenix Module. Save a screen shot of the completion screen as a Microsoft Word document on your computer once you finish the module. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment 2- Navigate to the My Career Plan in Phoenix Career Services. Complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences. Note. Access to Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences is only available after you complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies. Write a paper of no more than 350 words discussing the results of your Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences and Competencies. Reflect on your results. How can knowing your ideal work culture help you in developing strategic and operational plans to achieve organizational goals? Which competencies are essential to conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis? How do your competencies relate to the essential competencies for conducting a SWOT analysis? Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 3- You have decided to pursue an MBA degree either to further your career, start a new career, or achieve a personal goal. In this program, you will study the functional areas of business. Use the MBA Overview and Effective Research and Writing...
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...MBA Admissions Essay Powerful Tips for Improving Your Odds of Gaining Admission to the MBA Program of Your Choice Admissions essays are easily the most challenging part of the MBA application process, and it’s no wonder. Most people don’t like to write, and even those of us who do enjoy writing can come up blank when called upon to write about ourselves, especially when so much is at stake. The fact remains: If you want to go to business school, you have to be able to generate one or two thousand carefully chosen words that sum up your background and experience, your career goals, your reasons for seeking the MBA, and why you’ve chosen the program to which you’re applying. Step one: Relax. Writing admissions essays is stressful—it’s supposed to be stressful— but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Everyone who has ever applied to business school has written admissions essays, and so can you. All you have to do is submit essays that are a little bit better than most of the others, and if you follow the advice we’ll cover in the following pages, it will be a lot less painful. How to Write a Successful Most MBA essays are mediocre The good news is that most MBA admissions essays are mediocre at best. If you can at least come up with a marginally compelling narrative, and if you can spell and punctuate everything correctly—or know someone who can—you’ll automatically have an advantage over much of the competition. This guide is designed to help you get started (the hardest...
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...avoid plagiarism. Why have we accommodated the latest software for capturing plagiarism? The reason is quite simple. Student example papers can be of different types (example essay papers, example term papers, example research papers, example theses and example dissertations) and students can use example papers in almost all academic subjects. Most commonly example papers online turn out to be APA example papers, MLA example papers, and MBA example papers. Whenever there is a need of student example papers, a simple research can show you a load of free downloads, but you should know that it is all risky and you should not drive your academic career to a dead end. As a matter of principle student example papers such as example essays, example research papers, example term papers and example theses/dissertations can never inspire students to work harder. But custom written papers give students ideas and they can attempt to write the paper with little effort. Only specially written papers, but not free examples of papers, can give you guidelines on how to write your own papers. It is strongly believed that when students look through example papers, none of the new thoughts or ideas can be further generated on the topic. Thus such practice is claimed to be unsuccessful. Example papers (whether it is an essay paper example, research paper example, example of a...
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...LA SALLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MBA 901 Competing in a Global Market I: Analysis of the Business Environment Integrative Capstone SYLLABUS Fall 2012 Instructor: Bette J. Walters, JD, LLM (Taxation) Office Hours: By appointment Office Phone: 215.540.0234 Cell Phone: 215.704.2335 E-mail: walters@lasalle.edu or bettewalters@comcast.net Textbook and Materials: Steiner and Steiner, Business, Government and Society: A Managerial Perspective, McGraw Hill, 13th Ed. (2012), ISBN 978-0-07-811267-6. In addition, readings from other works will be assigned and posted on Blackboard. From time to time, optional reading materials will also be posted. Course Description and Objectives: This course is completed as a cohort group with MBA 902 Competing in a Global Market II: Analysis and Implementation of Strategy and is taken with the approval of the program Director. A key objective is to provide students with insights into the influences and interactions that society, law, government, and personal values have on the daily and long-term decisions of management. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will closely examine the legal and ethical environment of business using a wide variety of materials ranging from the textbook to news reports. In this respect, we will attempt to construct a framework wherein socially responsible business decisions can be made, integrating your current knowledge and experience with content in business strategy...
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...avoid plagiarism. Why have we accommodated the latest software for capturing plagiarism? The reason is quite simple. Student example papers can be of different types (example essay papers, example term papers, example research papers, example theses and example dissertations) and students can use example papers in almost all academic subjects. Most commonly example papers online turn out to be APA example papers, MLA example papers, and MBA example papers. Whenever there is a need of student example papers, a simple research can show you a load of free downloads, but you should know that it is all risky and you should not drive your academic career to a dead end. As a matter of principle student example papers such as example essays, example research papers, example term papers and example theses/dissertations can never inspire students to work harder. But custom written papers give students ideas and they can attempt to write the paper with little effort. Only specially written papers, but not free examples of papers, can give you guidelines on how to write your own papers. It is strongly believed that when students look through example papers, none of the new thoughts or ideas can be further generated on the topic. Thus such practice is claimed to be unsuccessful. Example papers (whether it is an essay paper example, research paper example, example of a...
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...General Introduction This THESIS LECTURE NOTE & GUIDE is meant to teach MBA students on the rudiments of research method as a major course in the MBA programme and at the same time serve as a guide and to assist them to successfully complete their Research Methods Examinations and thesis project without difficulty. HOW ARE TOPICS SELECTED OR DEVELOPED? You should not be surprised if a professor gives you a perturbed look or cringes when you tell him/her that you have no idea of what you would like to pursue as a thesis topic. Why might your professor react this way? Because there are potentially hundreds of topics or research questions that can be pursued and your professor is anticipating your next question, which is usually, "Do you have any suggestions?" In addition, the topic is one that is chosen by you, not your advisor, and thus, the responsibility of constructing possible topics is the student's. In essence, your thesis topic should not just be chosen and that's it! The topic must be explored, developed, and assessed. Is it an original one? Is the purpose to replicate previous research? Is the research feasible in terms of access to data, cost, time, and effort? Does anybody care about the topic you have in mind? If you have a topic in mind you might ask yourself these questions: --Does it suit your interests and possible career objectives? --Does it fit your background and experience? --Are you willing to commit the next 6 months (or longer)...
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...Q1. How do you choose a good research topic? Research can be defined as the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.1 The sources of research problems are elaborated below; 2 First is the specialization of the researcher. Specialization of the researcher is an impetus towards research. Second is the availability of current and past researches. Current and past researches are rich sources of research problems even for research replication by using the same instrument, apparatus or equipment. But for descriptive research, the instrument such as questionnaires or tests is administered to different groups of subject and areas in order to compare the similarities and difference of the findings. The third source is recommendations from theses, dissertations, and research journals. The researcher of the said thesis, dissertations and research journals recommend for future researches to be conducted as sources also of research problem. Fourth is original and creative ideas of the researcher based on the problems in the locality and country. To choose a Research Topic the following factors must be considered; * Types of publications in which you expect to find information related to your specific topic, * Subject areas in which you expect experts will be discussing your topic, * Key questions that you have regarding the topic, * Specific terms and phrases that are...
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...MBA 710- HF2B Managerial Finance ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FINANCE CURRENT EVENTS This assignment is due on the established "Due Date", no exceptions allowed and no late submissions accepted. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Objective: This assignment allows an explanation of the issues and challenges facing companies today in the context of Managerial Finance. Additionally, this assignment allows students to focus on a topic in order to explore the relevant topic and comprehend how the topic relates to the article. DESCRIPTION OF WEEKLY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT (60 POINTS IN TOTAL): Steps to complete the Weekly Annotated Bibliography Assignment: 1- Each week select one article that relates to the current topic for the week. 2- Write a concise and comprehensive review of the article relating it to the current topic for the Week. You must state in the paper how the article relates to the associated topic. Points will be deducted if there is not a clear reference to the associated topic. 3- Describe the relevance of the article to the topic of the Week (use the current week's syllabus and objectives as a guide). Points will be deducted if there is not a clear reference to the relevance of the associated topic. 4- Provide a comprehensive and thorough analysis of the article. Do not repeat what the article states, but describe the highlights and the applicability of the highlights to the applicable Topic. Points will be deducted if there is not a comprehensive...
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...Syllabus School of Business MGT/521 Version 5 Management Course Description This course applies the tools available to University of Phoenix graduate students and the competencies of successful managers to understand the functions of business. Students develop an increased awareness of their own perceptions and values in order to manage and communicate with others more effectively. Other topics include MBA program goals, argument construction, decision making, collaboration, and academic research. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Hoch, S. J., Kunreuther, H. C., & Gunther, R. E. (Eds.). (2001). Wharton on making decisions. New York, NY: Wiley. Nickels, W. G., McHugh, J. M., & McHugh, S. M. (2010). Understanding business (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Robbins, S. P. & Judge, T. A. (2011). Organizational behavior (14th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice...
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...University of Phoenix Course Syllabus | | | |Course Prefix and Number: |MGT/521 | | | | |Course Title: |MANAGEMENT | | | | |Course Group Number: |MILMB0939 | | | | |Course Schedule: |Workshop 1 – 23 Sept 2009 | | | | | |Workshop 2 – 30 Sept 2009 | | ...
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...Writing an essay can be easy if you follow certain steps. Many will try to write an essay based on their experience. You should know the topic and do proper research. Once you get an understanding of what and how you plan to write, you should follow four steps. These steps include begin with a point, support the thesis, organize and connect the evidence, and write clear, error free sentences (Bethel University, n.d.). Step one is to begin with a main point. One must first determine what they want to center their essay on. Once this is determined, this will take the paper where you want it to go. It will tell the reader exactly what you are writing about and help you keep the essay focused. Step two is to support the main point with details. The writer should research their topic completely and support their thesis. Step three is to organize the details. A writer should make sure their essay flows easily. This includes making sure the sentences make sense, as well as proper wording is used. Step four is to use sentences that are free of mistakes. A writer should always make sure they are using the correct nouns, verbs, tense, etc. They should also make sure that grammar and spelling is checked before submitting the essay. If these steps are followed, the writer should have no problem writing essays. Writing is the basis behind the MBA program at Bethel University. Once a student has mastered the necessary steps to writing essays, they should feel completely comfortable in...
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