UNSW Handbook Course - Research Methods in Employment and Management

Research Methods in Employment and Management - MGMT3708


	Faculty: Faculty of Commerce and Economics
	School: School of Organisation and Management
	Contact: Junor,Anne
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)

Description

This course is designed as an advanced level course for students intending to undertake the fourth year Honours program in the areas of Employment and Management. It examines the philosophical foundations of the various approaches and the contributions of basic social science disciplines to the study of employment and management studies. The course will provide students with research philosophy, strategy, design, and execution skills. Topics include disciplinary perspectives on employment and management, the foundations of social science and competing paradigms used in research, identifying research topic, strategy, design and a variety of research methods - case-study and field research, comparative method, historical analysis, interviewing, focus groups, survey design and analysis.

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