Research design, measurement techniques and data collection strategies
Mr Ken Reed
One 3-hour session per week * First semester * Clayton
Synopsis This subject is designed to prepare students undertaking research degrees in management, industrial relations, and organisational studies. Its aim is to develop basic skills and judgements necessary to formulate research problems and design research projects which produce data relevant to issues in management, industrial relations and organisational studies. Practical consideration will be given to formulation of research problems and hypothesis specification; conceptualisation and operationalisation; data collection techniques including interviewing, group techniques, survey research and case studies. Teaching will combine seminar-based reviews of methodological issues; workshops on the application of current research technologies; and team based exercises. This subject is compulsory for students enrolled in the Master of Management preliminary program, subject to the discretion of the head of the Department of Management.
Assessment Written (four 750-word exercises and one 2500-word report): 100%