Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Brisbane - The Hotel School | ||
| Melbourne - The Hotel School | ||
| Online | ||
| Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby | N/A | |
| Sydney - The Hotel School |
Unit description
Develops students’ understanding of the importance and application of the research process to businesses. Through a project-based teaching approach, students develop a research question and choose appropriate theoretical, methodological, and analytical frameworks to best answer that question. Students gain skills in the planning, preparation, design and presentation of a business research project.
Unit content
- Introducing business research
- Beginning research
- Review of related literature
- Research design
- Quantitative methods
- Qualitative methods
- Selecting the sample
- Analysing the data
- Reporting the research
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | develop a formal and robust research question on which to base a research project |
| 2 | write a critical literature review and explain its role in the research planning process |
| 3 | plan and design a research proposal |
| 4 | explain basic qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and methods of analysis |
| 5 | critically evaluate the limitations of social research |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- develop a formal and robust research question on which to base a research project
- write a critical literature review and explain its role in the research planning process
- plan and design a research proposal
- explain basic qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and methods of analysis
- critically evaluate the limitations of social research
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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International
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