Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar Bachelors in Business Studies Course Plan Course Title: Statistics for Business Instructor: Shahid Ali Contact Email shahid.ali@imsciences.edu.pk Semester/Duration: 16 Weeks Course objectives : To introduce students to the concepts of statistics and to equip them with analytical tools to be used in business decision making. The course is intended to polish the numeric ability of the students to identify
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SOCIAL RESEARCH METHOD Q: Which research design suits your research topic and why? OUR RESEARCH QUESTION: Our research construct is glass ceiling prevailing and increasing in the organizations. Therefore, our research question is “how to break glass ceiling?” RESEARCH DESIGNS: There are five basic research designs according to which one can conduct his/her research. These research designs are: 1. Experimental design 2. Longitudinal design 3. Explanatory design 4. Cross sectional
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Overview of Research Methodology The research is the search of knowledge. Research is finding out answers to the questions in a systematic and scientific way or investigating existing facts to generate new knowledge or to validate existing knowledge. It can also define as a careful, systematic, patient study and investigation in a specific field of knowledge. For a better quality research one should stick on to a most suitable methodology. The methodology is the collection of methods to be used i
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(CIB pdf formfields Demoversion) BASIC ANALYSIS: A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR ERNEST CYRIL DE RUN DR LO MAY CHIUN HERIYADI KUSNARYADI BASIC ANALYSIS: A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS 1 (CIB pdf formfields Demoversion) PREAMBLE This book was originally written as notes for my students of EBQ2053 Research Methodology at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Nevertheless, as we looked through it and with the various courses and seminars that we have given
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CHAPTER 2: RESEARCH METHODS IN I/0 PSYCHOLOGY Learning Objectives Some students may have already had a course in, or an introduction to, research methodology before taking the I/O course. However, it is important that students become familiar with the contents of this chapter because: a) Quantitative methods are central to I/O psychology; b) Understanding research methods is a difficult subject for most students; c) Research methods are often quickly forgotten; d) Several
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consumer responses to marketing in social media. The rise of social media over the past decade has raised the questions of if, how, and under what circumstances they work for marketing purposes. This thesis is intended to add to that emerging body of research. Social media is not a new concept to the society, it has been effect from the 1950’s commencing with the phone era but has only recently been mainstreamed into the culture and business world. The late 1960s saw the
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Alternative Treatments- Research Plan Dr. Gail Robin Essentials of Health Care Marketing May 15, 2011 Describe the Problem thoroughly and carefully to consider the full scope Prior to the 1990’s, unproven medications were not fully accepted by society. However in 1991, the efforts of several people led to the establishment of an office of alternative medicine within the National institutes of health (NIH) (Am J Pharm Educ.2006). Unproven medications include dietary supplements, herbal medicines
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Provisional Topic Title : Analyze the impact of customer retention on company profitability (Case Study of Leasing Industry in Sri Lanka –ABC Company) 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction to the industry ABC is classified as one of the strongest players among the Non Banking Financial Institutions (NBFI’s) in Sri Lanka. The NBFI’s can once again be categorized into two main sectors and they are the Licensed Finance Companies (LFC’s) and the Specialized Leasing Companies (SLC’s) such as ABC. The NBFI
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started… 1. What do we call the process of stating the basic dilemma and then developing other questions by progressively breaking down the original question into more specific ones? Management-research question hierarchy Explanation: This is a questions hierarchy that enables research data to become more refined as specific as smaller questions are developed. 2. Minute Maid is creating its own proprietary methods for performing research. In this scenario, what hierarchy of business decision
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methodology/ approach - this research examines the stability of the segments. Shoppers have been segmented based on the importance they’ve given to store image. Data collected through mall intercept interviews has been used for it. Segmentation has been done by K-means clustering and fuzzy clustering methods. Membership grades give the samples’ relative position in the cluster. Findings – Various approaches to segment the market has been analysed and the advantages of fuzzy methods has been obtained. Finally
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