Seminar on Contemporary Issues

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

Course Objectives:

This course has been designed to

• Acquaints the students with the Contemporary issues in Management.

• Create awareness in students about current trends, issues and researches related to various aspects of Management.

Course Outcomes(CO):

Learning Outcomes (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The student will be able to-

  1. Acquaintance with the Contemporary issues in Management.
  2.  Prepare a report based on Systematic review of Literature.
  3. 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

 

 

15.00
Unit I: 
Systematic Review of Literature-

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
Unit II: 
Bias

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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