THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
VNU-HCM
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
CONTENT
1. COURSE STAFF...3
1.2. Communication with Staff...3
2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE...3
2.2. Teaching times and Locations...3
2.3. Units of Credit...3
2.4. Perquisite and Parallel courses...3
2.5. Relationship of this course to other course offerings...3
2.6. Approach to learning and teaching...4
3. COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES...4
3.2. Course objectives...4
3.3. Student learning and outcomes...4
3.4. Teaching Strategies...4
4. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT...5
4.1. Workload...5
4.2. Attendance...5
4.3. General Conduct and Behavior...5
4.4. Keeping informed...5
5. LEARNING ASSESSMENT...5
5.1. Assessment details...5
5.2. Assignment Submission Procedure...8
5.3. Late submission...8
5.4. Assignment Format...8
6. ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM ...9
7. STUDENT RESOURCES...9
7.1. Course Resources...9
1. COURSE STAFF
Teaching Staff: Dr. Bui Quang Thong Room: A1.308
Phone: 0909558081
Email: [email protected] Consultant times: TBA
1.2. Communication with Staff
Student are advised to contact staff during consultant times, or by arranging an appointment
2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE
2.1 Units of Credit
UOC value for the course: 3
2.2. Perquisite and Parallel courses Pre-requisite: Statistics for Business
This course is offered for senior students only (final year) who are ready for doing thesis
2.3. Relationship of this course to other course offerings
This course combines the knowledge of all courses (especially the courses of your
specialization) and research methodology theories (that will be provided in this course) to solve a real project/ problem
2.4. Approach to learning and teaching
The teaching and learning adopted in this course is learner-center, and consequently, requires active student participation and contribution. Through a range of interactive activities and teaching strategies, it seeks to engage students in the learning. It also seeks to facilitate independent learning through individual tasks and research, and fosters collaborative learning through a range of group activities. It considers prior learning through a range of group activities.
3.
COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES
3.1 Course objectives
This course seeks to:
- provide student with a good understanding of business research, and
3.2. Student learning and outcomes
By the end of the course, students are expected to have attained proficiency in the following areas:
- distinguish between good research and research that falls short of professional quality - appreciate the value of learning research process skills
- identify and formulate research questions and hypotheses - write and critically evaluate research proposals
- identify ethical issues and research and understand the need to adhere to ethical guidelines when conducting research
- understand and apply the major types of research designs
- understand relationships that exist between variables in research design and steps for evaluating those relationships
- plan and collect sample data for a research project
- understand and evaluate content, criterion-related and construct validity and reliability - understand the various scale formats for measurement and how to construct each - develop survey instruments and conduct survey research
- design and conduct qualitative studies
- collect, code and analyze various types of data - explore, display and examine data
- present research results via both written and oral reports
3.3. Teaching Strategies
The teaching and learning approach in this course is highly inter-active, requiring student participation and contribution. To this end, and prior to each class, students must:
- Prepare your weekly readings or assignments (from the textbook and other distributed course materials)
- Prepare your responses to set discussion questions and cases - Be prepared to participate in the class discussions, group work
The general format of classes in this course will be as follows (with some variations) - Lecturing
- Student presentation & discussion - Group Project
4. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT
4.1. Workload
It is expected that you will spend at least 6 hours per week studying this course. This time should be made up of reading, working on individual assignment, group assignment and attending class lectures. In periods where you need to complete assignment or prepare for examinations, the workload may be greater.
4.2. Attendance
learning approach adopted. Please inform your lecture if you are unable to attend the class, and arrange for a classmate to collect any handouts.
4.3. General Conduct and Behavior
You are expected to conduct yourself with considerable and respect for the needs of your fellow students and teaching staff. Conduct that unduly disrupts or interferes with a class, such as ringing, or talking on mobile phones, or chatting on internet, is nor acceptable and students may be asked to leave the class.
4.4. Keeping informed
You should take note of all announcements made in lectures, tutorials or on the course website. From time to time, the University will send important announcements to your through website, course website and/ or Announcement Board (of School of Business and/ or Academic Affair) without providing you with a paper copy. You will be deemed to have received this
information.
5. LEARNING ASSESSMENT
5.1. Assessment details
To pass this course, student must:
5.2 Grading Scheme:
- Assignments, project: 45%- Midterm grade (in the form of assignments, students do not have to sit in the mid-term exam): 20%
- Final exam: 35%
DETAIL INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASSIGNMENTS:
To be provided by the lecturers as the course progresses
Assignment Submission Procedure
It is essential that you submit all your assignment tasks on time via the appropriate procedures. You should submit your written assignment to the tutor or lecturer in the beginning of class that your group will present.
Procedure
i) Attach a copy of the Assignment Cover Sheet to be found at the end of this document ii) Make the copy of the assignment for safe keeping
iii) Hand in your assignment to the tutor or lecturer iv) You may not submit assignment via email or by fax
- Late submission
Request for late submission of assignments or absent in the session that your group will present must be made in writing to the course lecturer. Extensions will be granted on medical grounds only, or on compassionate grounds under special circumstances. Medical certificates or other supporting documents may be required. Late submissions may incur a penalty of 30% of the assignment mark per day.
6. ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM
*The University regards plagiarism as a form of academic misconduct, and has very strict rules regarding plagiarism.
Plagiarism is the presentation of the thoughts or work of another as one’s own. Examples include:
- direct duplication of the thoughts or work of another, including by copying work, or knowingly permitting it to be copied. This includes copying material. Ideas or concepts from a book, article, report or other written document (whether published or unpublished), composition, artwork, design, drawing, circuitry, computer program or software, web site, Internet, other electronic resource, or another person’s assignment without appropriate acknowledgement;
- paraphrasing another person’s work with very minor changes keeping the meaning, form and/ or progression of ideas of the original;
- piecing together sections of the work of others into a new whole;
- presenting an assessment item as independent work when it has been produced in whole or part in collusion with other people, for example, another student or a tutor;
The inclusion of the thoughts or work of another with attribution appropriate to the academic discipline does not amount to plagiarism.
Students are also reminded that careful time management is an important part of study and one of the identified causes of plagiarism is poor time management. Students should allow
sufficient time for research, drafting and the proper referencing of sources in preparing all assessment items.
7. STUDENT RESOURCES
- Course Resources
The following text and references are essential for the course.
Textbook:
1. Cooper, R.D. & Schindler, S.P. (2011). Business Research Methods. 12nd Ed. McGraw-Hill Irwin. NY.
2. Anol Bhattacherjee, 2012, Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices 3. Woodside (2010), Case Study Research: Theory, Methods, Practice
4. Robert Yin, 2014, Case study research
References:
1. Hancock and Algozzine (2006), Doing case study research: a practical guide for beginning researchers.
2. Research papers provided by the lecturers
8. COURSE
SCHEDULE
THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
VNU-HCM
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
BUSINESS RESEARCH METHOD
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET
Student Number: _______________
Name:______________________
Course: ______________________
Tutor: _____________________
Day: ________________________
Time: ______________________
Date Due:___________________
Date Submitted:______________
Assignment Item/ Title/ Question: _____________________________________
---RECEIPT
NAME:__________________________
STUDENT NUMBER___________
DATE SUBMITTED: _______________________________________________
ASSIGNMENT RECEIVED BY:______________________________________
I declare that this assessment item is my own work, except where
acknowledgement, and has not been submitted for academic credit elsewhere.
THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
VNU-HCM
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
BUSINESS RESEARCH METHOD
GROUP REPORT
Group members:
Student Number Surname Given Name 1.
2. 3.
Student Name Responsibility in Assignment Participation % * 1.
2. 3.
* Please ensure that you discuss this % as a group and that the mark is fairly allocated. If your group has any problem, please discuss with the course lecturer
Signatures:
a. ____________________________________
