Press Release

Mangalore: In this vibrant business environment, the decision making ability is optimized through honing the skills of research and enhancing the knowledge. The usage of appropriate methodologies of research is the key to accomplish valid conclusions in decision making. This can be achieved only through strengthening fundamental concepts by getting exposed to identification of the problem, hypothesis testing, qualitative, quantitative techniques and multivariate data analysis and also be able to identify the appropriate tools required for analyzing various types of data and interpreting the findings.

Being a research center for Visweswaraiah Technological University, Belgaum, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, Mangalore, is dedicated to promote research studies. Keeping this in view, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management has decided to organize Faculty Development Programme on “RESEARCH METHODS FOR BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES” to enable Management teachers, Researchers, Practitioners and Professionals, irrespective of their discipline to contribute towards their knowledge domains.

Focus of the FDP is on making the participants exposed to the process of research – philosophy, approaches and methodology. Before plunging into the complexities of the Research Process, the participants would be given basic concepts and overview of Statistical Methods and Probability. Subsequently they would be taken through sequential facets in the Research Process.

Takeaways

To enable participants to define a research problem and develop a suitable methodology for addressing the problem

To provide a comprehensive introduction to research methodology to enable management teachers to evolve as academicians of repute with a clear focus on applied research

To help researchers choose the right methodology for their research study

To understand the issues involved in coding, editing, analyzing and reporting research data

To generate ideas and discuss about emerging issues and perspective fields of research by bringing together academicians, practitioners and professions from different functional areas.

Contents of the programme

Contents of the programme

DATE	SESSION	TOPIC
DAY 1 23/07/2012	1	Keynote Address on Relevance and Mileage of Research
	2	Research Approaches, Research Process, Formulation of research objectives, Types of Research
	3	Literature review, Types, Process, Problem identification, framing research questions, Structure of Report
	4	Research Design and Sample Design
DAY 2 24/07/2012	5	Variables, Scales of Measurements, Measurements-Concepts & Constructs, Reliability and Validity in quantitative research
	6	Research Tools: Questionnaires, Surveys, Scales of Measurements, Hypothesis Setting and Procedures, Language of Hypothesis, Types, Level of significance, Type I and Type II errors
	7	Introduction to SPSS, Normalizing the data
	7	Data Management Using SPSS: Data & Time Transformation, Replace missing values, identifying duplicate cases, Outliers, Treatment of Outliers, Merge variables and cases, Restructure, Weighs, Select cases and Split file, Data presentation through tables
DAY 3 25/07/2012	9	Introduction to Excel, Short cut Keys, Functions-Logical, Lookup, Statistical, What if analysis
	10	Overview to Descriptive Statistics,
	11	Descriptive Statistics-Practicals
	12	Overview of Inferential Statistics, Correlation & Regression using SPSS, how to write results of hypothesis testing
DAY 4 26/07/2012	13	Parametric Tests-Practicals
	14	Non-Parametric tests: Crosstabs, non-parametric tests
	15	Multivariate Techniques: Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Binary Logistic Regression
	16	Multivariate Techniques: Corresponding Analysis, Conjoint Analysis, Discriminant Analysis
DAY 5 27/07/2012	17	Basics of Qualitative Research
	18	Data Analysis of Qualitative Research using Nvivo
	19	Data Analysis of Qualitative Research using Nvivo
	20	Discussion and Q & A on research at individual level to help doctoral research
DAY 6 28/07/2012	21	Writing Research Articles and Proposals

Resource Persons: The sessions would be handled by eminent faculty drawn from leading institutes like Mangalore University, Manipal University, University of Agricultural Sciences, Hebbal,Bengaluru, College of Fisheries, Mangalore, Father Muller’s College, Mangalore, Trainer from Numerical Analytics.

Date: July 23-28, 2012
Venue: Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, Sahyadri Campus, Adyar, Mangaluru-575007

Coordinator/s:

Mr. Girish M  -  Coordinator. Mobile No. : 9880707554

Ms. Susanna -  Joint Coordinator. Mobile No. : 9916820071

Ms. Sneha Shetty -  Joint Coordinator. Mobile No. : 9901707083

NOMINATION

A maximum of 40 participants will be enrolled on a first-come first-serve basis.

REGISTRATION FEE

Without accommodation : Rs 4500/-

*Research Scholars: Rs 3500/-

*Research Scholars need to produce Ph.D programme registration details

**Assistance for accommodation will be provided on request

All those who are interested to attend the programme are requested to confirm their participation well in advance.

Filled registration form along with DD/Cheque (drawn in favor of “Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management”, payable at Mangalore) should be sent to Programme Coordinator.

Contact details

Coordinator-MDP/FDP Programs

Department of Business Administration

Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management

Sahyadri Campus, Adyar, Mangalore-575007

Phone: 0824-2277222 Extn- 149

Email: mdp@sahyadri.edu.in