Chapter 2 Dealing with practical issue.ppt

How to manage some practical issues in doing research

1. Business Research: A practical
guide for undergraduate and
postgraduate student
Chapter 2:
Dealing with Practical Issues
Jill Husey and Roger Husey

2. Outline
•Course requirements
•Choosing & dealing with a supervisor
•Negotiating access
•Managing the research

3. Dealing with your supervisors
•Be open and keep your supervisor informed

4. Supervision
•Meet regularly, form a schedule and achievable
target
•Create a log book of your research as well as your
meeting
•Come to the meeting with, at least, a piece of
written work
•Be prepare, construct an agenda for each
meeting and send it to your supervisor

5. Supervision
•Be proactive, do not wait for instruction from
your supervisor
•During discussion: engage!, do not just listen!

6. 3 Step Method
Step 1 Show you listen and understand
Step 2 Say what you think and feel
Step 3 Say what you want to happen
Supervision

7. NEGOTIATING ACCESS
•Need to get data from industry/organization
•Contact in industry/organization
•Reference letters
•Anonymity, confidentiality, publication
permission, personal safety -> ethics

8. Ethics
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9. MANAGING THE RESEARCH
•Setting a timetable
Identifying research topics 15%
Identifying research problem 10%
Determine how to conduct research 10%
Collecting research data 20%
Analyzing and interpreting research data 20%
Writing thesis 25%

10. •Time is major enemy
•Not all research take place in orderly and
sequential stages -> overlap
•Start to write up as soon as possible
•Learn experience (long completion time)

11. •Organizing materials
•Networking