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Research Methods in Employment and Management - MGMT3708
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Faculty: Australian School of Business
 
 
School:  School of Organisation and Management
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.orgmanagement.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 3 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

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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