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Assessment - Report on research paradigm
Critically assess how "truth" is established in business and management research. Students must identify relevant research philosophies or paradigms and investigate their epistemology, ontology, and axiology.
Learning Outcome 1: Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the major steps involved in conducting research.
Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate an extended understanding of various business research designs and methods, and be able to evaluate and explain their strengths and
weaknesses in research designs for particular projects.
Learning Outcome 3: Demonstrate a critical appreciation of ethical issues in research and an advanced understanding of appropriate procedures and protocols applicable to these issues.
Learning Outcome 4: Critically review and evaluate research literature.
Learning Outcome 5: Design research for a particular project, explaining the limitations, advantages, and technical and ethical implications of the techniques employed.
Learning Outcome 6: Select, justify and design questions suitable for a survey instrument and be able to analyse survey data in relation to a particular research question.
Learning Outcome :7 Prepare a formal research proposal investigating an innovative and/or unresolved research question.
Assessment Task: Critically assess how "truth" is established in business and management research. Students must identify relevant research philosophies or paradigms and investigate their epistemology, ontology, and axiology.
Please note that we are looking for the following:
part a) Assignments must display knowledge of the relevant theory, concepts, and literature.
part b) The theory and concepts must be applied to discussing the assignment question
part c) Assignment focus upon contentious and problematic issues, therefore they must contain a well-argued case with an appropriate structure and obey academic conventions regarding referencing.