Seminar on Contemporary Issues

Paper Code: 
MAM 128
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objective:

  1. Acquaints the students with the Contemporary issues in Management.
  2. Create awareness in students about current trends, issues and researches related to various.

 

Course Outcomes (COs): 

Course

Course outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code-

Paper Title

CO 36.Acquaintance with the Contemporary issues in Management.

CO 37.Prepare a report based on Systematic review of Literature.

CO 38.Learn to apply Descriptive as well as statistical tools for data analysis using SPSS.

 

Approach in teaching:

Lab class and regular interaction with supervisor

 

Learning activities for the students:

SPSS exercises, Presentations

Viva and Presentation

MAM 128

 

 

Seminar on Contemporary Issues

 

Course Contents: Students are required to finalize the topic of their seminar report in consultation with their supervisor. The report is based on systematic review of literature. Students are required to undergo a systematic review of literature and come up with a research agenda which may further be used as the basis of a research project. 30 hours lab sessions are provided for hands on training on SPSS and systematic review of literature to the students as follows for covering the following:

 

 

Apart from the 30 hrs. lab sessions, students are required to devote 4 hrs. per week under the supervision of their respective supervisors on regular basis for guidance on report.

 

15.00

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

15.00

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 coefficients

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

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