Seminar on Contemporary Issues

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

Course 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 Management.

 

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

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

PAPER CODE

Paper Title

MHR 128

Seminar on Contemporary Issues

CO43: Examine the Contemporary issues in  Management

CO44: Develop a report based on Systematic review of Literature

CO45: 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: 
Unit 1

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: 
Unit 2

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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