Seminar on Contemporary Issues

Paper Code: 
MAM128
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Objective: 

Paper has been designed such that it acquaints the students with the Contemporary issues in Management. One of the main objective is to create awareness regarding current trends, issues and researches related to various aspects of International Business

12.00
Unit I: 
Systematic Review of Literature

Resource Discovery and Gathering of Information, how to review literature systematically
SPSS Statistics Environment-Data Editor, Importing data, SPSS Viewer, SPSS output exporting, Syntax Editor, Saving Files, Retrieving files
Exploring Data with Graphs- Histogram, Box Plots, Bar Charts, Scatter plots, Line Charts

12.00
Unit II: 
Bias

Assumptions, Outliers, Additivity & Linearity, Normality, Homoscedasticity, Spotting bias and Reducing Bias,
Descriptive Analysis – Mean, Standard Deviation, Kurtosis, Skewness
Parametric Tests- one sample t test, Independent sample t test, Chi square, One Way Anova
Non Parametric Tests- Wilcoxon rank sum test, Mann-Whitney Test, Kriskal Wallis Test, Freidman’s ANOVA
Correlation- Bivariate Correlation, Partial Correlation, Comparing Correlations, Effect size of correlation, reporting correlation coffecients

Essential Readings: 

• Andy Field, Discovering Statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics, Sage Publishers
• David Gough, Sandy Oliver and James Thomas, An Introduction to Systematic Reviews, Sage Publications
• Anthony J Onwuegbuzie & Rebecca Frels, Seven Steps to a Comprehensive Literature Review- A Multimodal and Cultural Approach, Sage Publications

Academic Year: 
2018-2019
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