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Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership

Selecting and justifying a research problem

SL704 · Advanced Business Research Methods — Week 2 of 16

CourseSL704
Week2 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Selecting and justifying a research problem

  1. Rationale of the proposed research; appropriateness; reasons for selection of a specific research topic
  2. Skills, capacities and knowledge requirement identification
  3. Research question and hypothesis formulation; rationale elaboration
  4. Essential date setting; review and monitoring process

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Appraise business research problems.
  • 1.2 Develop and justify appropriate research aims and objectives within a defined scope and timeframe.

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Course plan
  • Week 1: Identifying business research problems
  • Week 2: Selecting and justifying a research problem
  • Week 3: Research aims and objectives within a defined scope and tim…
  • Week 4: Exploring, selecting and justifying research approaches
  • Week 5: Theoretical approaches to a research problem
  • Week 6: The literature review: purpose, sources and selection
  • Week 7: Critically reviewing and structuring the key literature
  • Week 8: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Research methodologies and their relationship with research…
  • Week 10: Designing a methodology for a defined population
  • Week 11: Justifying the methodology within agreed ethical guidelines
  • Week 12: Building the research proposal: research question, literatu…
  • Week 13: Techniques for qualitative data collection and analysis
  • Week 14: Techniques for quantitative data and finalising the researc…
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment
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