Seminar on Contemporary Issues

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

Course Objective:

1.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 Management.

 

Course Outcomes (CO): At the end of this course, a student should be able to

Course

Course outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code-

Paper Title

CO 43.Examine the Contemporary issues in  Management

CO 44.Develop a report based on Systematic review of Literature

CO 45.Apply Descriptive as well as statistical tools for data analysis using SPSS

Approach in teaching:

Lab class and regular interaction with supervisor

Viva and Presentation

MAM 128

Seminar on Contempo rary

Issues

Learning activities for the students:

SPSS exercises, Presentations

 

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.

 

12.00

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

12.00

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 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: 
2021-2022
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