RES/351

Business Research

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RES 351 Week 1 Current Events in Research

Purpose of Assignment

The Week 1 assignment takes students immediately into the most contemporary uses and applications for business research.  Students have the opportunity to use the University Library to locate research examples that can be related to their current employment.

Assignment Steps

Locate an article in the University Library that contains a research study in the same area as your own job or an area you desire to be a part of someday.

Develop a 1,050-word research assessment in which you do the following:

• Describe the business research process followed in the study.
• Identify the research problem, the research design approach, and research method used.
• Discuss how the research might help solve the problem.
• Discuss how a study, such as the one you located, could be applied to your own work.

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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RES 351 Week 2 Learning Team Charter

Overview

In this course, your team will work together to complete a few assignments. This chartering assignment is designed to help you apply your project management skills to understand the scope of your project, then break the project into goals, tasks, responsibilities, resources, and milestones. The assignment also asks you to discuss and answer some questions that will lay the foundation for developing your project.

Beyond the Standard Charter

You will notice that this chartering process goes beyond your standard University of Phoenix Charter by helping your team create a project plan for team success by providing you with opportunities to define your deliverables, recognize the connections between the deliverables and other classroom activities, determine your timelines and milestones, identify each team member’s expected contribution, and answer questions that lay the foundation for building your projects.

Putting “I” in “Team”

Important to note is the section for defining learning team expectations related to participation, collaboration, communication, team contributions, assignment deadlines, and other considerations. Please take the time to discuss and document how your team will address each area and any challenges that may arise.  It is important to understand that we are “Putting ‘I’ in ‘Team'”. In short, we will recognize and reward individuals according to their contributions to team output, not according to their team membership. This means that individual grades may be different from the team grade depending on each individual’s contribution to each team deliverable.

Completing this Assignment

To complete this assignment, please do the following:

Review the Charter and Project plan. 

Review the weekly Learning Team deliverables.

Complete the provided Learning Team Charter and Project Plan, including the following: team member contact information, project by week, learning team expectations, team discussion questions.

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RES 351 Week 2 Business Research Ethics

Purpose of Assignment

The Week 2 Individual Assignment provides students the chance to delve into the nuances of ethics in business research.  Students will be looking at researching projects within their own place of work and seeing how the concepts or ethics and any potential pitfalls might affect them.

Assignment Steps

Identify a business research project in your own business or locate a business research article in the library related to a business in the same industry.

Create a 1,050-word analysis in which you create a set of ethical research guidelines for the research.

Include the following:

• Summarize the business research project or article.
• Determine the potential unethical research practices that should be avoided in this project.
• Identify those parties involved in the research that could face injury. What injuries might occur?
• Discuss the ways in which unethical behavior in this research might affect the organization, the individual, and society.
• Determine methods by which the unethical behavior could be monitored or resolved if found to be occurring.

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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RES 351 Week 3 Preparing to Conduct Business Research, Part 1

Purpose of Assignment

The Week 3 Learning Team assignment is part of a 3-part assignment that takes students through the research process.  Part 1 is designed to introduce students to the basics of research such as identification of an issue or problem and how it is determined that the issue is worth researching.  This type of research can be related to virtually any business environment.

Assignment Steps

Scenario: The team is a cross-functional team interested in conducting a research project. The team must prepare a detailed proposal and presentation for the executive team that details the scope, magnitude, and feasibility of the project as well as the potential approach. 

Select an issue, opportunity, or problem facing one of the team member’s place of employment or organization with which the team is familiar.

Develop a 700-word discussion of the potential project that addresses the following:

• Describe the selected issue, opportunity, or problem facing the organization.
• Discuss the significance of the issue, opportunity, or problem.
• Justify why the chosen issue, opportunity, or problem facing the organization is important to be researched and whether it can be solved with business research. 

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines. 

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RES 351 Week 3 Stages of the Research Process

Purpose of Assignment

The importance of peer-reviewed studies is vital in business research.  Students will have the opportunity to find examples of peer-reviewed sources to both apply to their research in this course, but also to help understand the importance of using scholarly sources in general.  Students will also use this assignment to dig into the various stages of research including purpose, the research hypothesis, variables, and design methods.

Assignment Steps

Locate at least two peer-reviewed, business-research studies based on the industry in which you work or would like to work.

Develop a 1,050-word evaluation of the critical first stage of the research studies:

• State the purpose of the business research for each study.
• Determine the research questions and hypotheses being researched in each study.
• Identify the dependent and independent variables being manipulated or measured in each study.
• Determine if the variables are measured qualitatively or quantitatively.
• Discuss the ways in which you might apply research to your current work or desired career.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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RES 351 Week 4 eparing to Conduct Business Research, Part 2

Purpose of Assignment

The Week 4 Learning Team Assignment is a continuation of the assignment started in Week 3.  Students will take the next steps in the research of their selected problem or situation and tackle the hypothesis and variables.  This also includes an examination of the ethical considerations.  Ethical implications of a research project are something that impacts all areas of research and business and students should consider this in any research project.

Assignment Steps

Build on the “Preparing to Conduct Business Research Part 1” team assignment from Week 3. 

Incorporate feedback from your instructor. 

Create a 700-word assessment of the business research problem.

Include the following: 

• Determine the key business objectives.
• Identify the questions that must be researched.
• Determine the hypotheses and variables that must be considered.
• Identify the ethical considerations that must be considered.
• Discuss the implications of the ethical considerations.
• Define the purpose of the research.
• Determine the research design approach that will be used.
• Determine if the key variables are qualitative, quantitative or both.
• Define the variables from an operational standpoint.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines. 

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RES 351 Week 5 Preparing to Conduct Business Research, Part 3

Purpose of Assignment

The Week 5 Learning Team assignment is the third part of the cumulative Learning Team project.  This part of the assignment gives students the chance to determine the best approaches to the design of the research such as qualitative versus quantitative and then looks at the sampling process.  Students continue using their same study and look at real world business issues that can be related back to their own work or desired employment.

Assignment Steps

Create a 700-word assessment of the nature of the research design.

Include the following:

• Discuss whether the business problem could be solved using primarily qualitative or quantitative research design.
• Discuss the benefits of using both designs in the research study.
• Determine which design (qualitative or quantitative) will become the primary research design.
• Discuss how to use the power of each design most effectively.
• Discuss the drawbacks of using just one of the designs to research the problem.
• Determine how to obtain the sample including the sampling method and approach.
• Discuss the insights each type of design might generate and the importance of those insights in solving the business problem.

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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RES 351 Week 5 Understanding Business Research Terms & Concepts

Purpose of Assignment

The Individual Assignment takes students through multiple studies that research opposing ends of the spectrum: qualitative vs. quantitative, descriptive vs. inferential. It gives students the chance to look at the strengths and weaknesses of each. Each of the designs and methods have different purposes and areas in which they are more suited and students will have this opportunity to see how they fit into different industries and purposes.

Assignment Steps

Locate two research studies: one in which the business problem is researched using a qualitative design and the other using a quantitative design. These should be in an industry you are currently working in or are interested in working.

Develop a 1,400-word analysis of the research and include the following:

• Summarize each of the research studies briefly.
• Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each design approach.
• Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each sampling approach.
• Identify the specific situations in which you might choose each of the data collection instruments.
• Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of statistical analysis use to describe the data.
• Discuss whether the identified sampling method and data collection approach are appropriate for your own business, industry, or functional area.

Cite a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources not including your textbook.

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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