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Course Outline Quantitative Techniques Course Prescription

This document outlines the course content and structure for a Quantitative Techniques course designed for research students interested in conducting social science research in organizations. The course aims to provide an overview of quantitative research methodology and fundamental skills in research design, measurement, data analysis and evaluation. Over 15 weeks, topics will include measurement, survey design, hypothesis formation, sampling, data analysis, and modeling techniques. Assessment will comprise midterm and final exams, class participation, and a proposed research plan where students design an empirical study to test hypotheses through measurement, research design, and analytical methods.

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Course Outline Quantitative Techniques Course Prescription

This document outlines the course content and structure for a Quantitative Techniques course designed for research students interested in conducting social science research in organizations. The course aims to provide an overview of quantitative research methodology and fundamental skills in research design, measurement, data analysis and evaluation. Over 15 weeks, topics will include measurement, survey design, hypothesis formation, sampling, data analysis, and modeling techniques. Assessment will comprise midterm and final exams, class participation, and a proposed research plan where students design an empirical study to test hypotheses through measurement, research design, and analytical methods.

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Course Outline

Quantitative Techniques

Course Prescription

Students will become familiar with underlying theory and current best practice in quantitative
research through discussion and application of topics including measurement, design
(including survey design), and computer-based data analysis.

Program and Course Advice

This course is designed for research students who want to conduct social science research in
organizations. Students who are interested in other quantitative research methods, for
instance, modeling, data mining, big data and econometrics, should consider taking other
courses, such as Economics etc.

Goals of the Course

This course is designed to provide students with an overview of quantitative research


methodology applicable to the investigation of organizational phenomena. It is intended to
introduce the fundamental skills and concepts needed to design and conduct social science
research for research students and to enhance the students’ ability to evaluate the research of
others.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course it is expected that the student will be able to:

1. understand the underlying theory in quantitative methods for social science research;
2. understand the current best practices in quantitative methods for social science
research;
3. evaluate critically other empirical research that adopt quantitative methods;
4. develop thorough procedures for conducting quantitative studies for social science
research; and
5. write testable hypotheses, methods and results sections of a quantitative research
paper.

Content Outline

Week 1 Basic Concepts in Quantitative Research


Week 2 Procedures for Quantitative Research
Week 3 Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement
Week 4 Reading and Writing Hypothesis, Methods and Results Sections
Week 5 SPSS Tutorial (To be arranged)
Week 6 Sampling
Week 7 Elementary Data Analyses
Week 8 Modes of Observation: Experiments & Survey Research
Week 9 Correlation and Simple Regression
Week 10 Unobtrusive Research and Evaluation Research
Week 11 ANOVA and Multiple-regression
Week 12 Introduction to Path Analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis and Structural
Equation Modeling

Week 13,

14 & 15 Presentations and Colloquium

Learning and Teaching

To achieve the objectives of the course a variety of teaching approaches will be utilized
including lectures, class discussions, written assignments, and presentations. The class
typically meets for three hours a week. Students are expected to use at least six additional
hours each week reading and preparing for class. Active participation is essential, and
students will be expected to master material assigned in readings, presented in class lectures,
discussions, presentations, assignments and in their proposed research plans.

Course Instructor

Dr. Jawad Iqbal


Email: [email protected]

Learning Resources

Recommended text or reference

1. Research Methods For Business: A Skill Building Approach, 4Th Ed By Uma


Sekaran
2. Business Research Methods By Donald Cooper, Pamela Schindler
3. Introduction to Research By Su Greener

Assessment

Mid Term 30%

Final Term 50%

Proposed Research Plan 20%

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Total 100%
Participation

Students are expected to have read all the reading materials before coming to the class. They
are also supposed to actively participate in the class discussions. Grades will be determined
by an evaluation of student performance by the instructor. The quality of contributions will
be monitored. It should be noted that students must contribute actively in discussions to
receive passing grades for participation. The active contribution will be assessed on quality,
not quantity. Active participation involves:

 Being fully prepared;


 Showing engagement with the material;
 Offering insightful comments and questions;
 Building on others’ contributions;
 Giving constructive criticism of others’ contributions;
 Contributing to the shaping of the discussion;
 Integrating what others have said;
 Effective and brief communication

Proposed Research Plan - Hypothesis, Measurement, Design and Analytical Methods


(First draft due on 15th May 2019 and Final submission due on 28th June 2019)

A major purpose of this class is to help you develop testable hypothesis, measurement, design
and analytical methods. In the submission, you’ll design an empirical investigation in which
you test conceptual or substantive hypotheses that interest you.

The submission must reflect what you have learnt from the class. The hypotheses can deal
with accounting, marketing, information systems, or management theories – whatever your
discipline is. The hypotheses must reflect that your study is a social science study, which
involves constructs such as attitudes, perceptions, values, personalities, behavioural
intentions and behaviors etc. Other non-behavioural constructs such as performance measures
can also be included. The hypotheses must be based on a careful, exhaustive review and
analysis of published literature. That analysis will also contain a comprehensive
methodological critique of existing literature using the principals we cover in class.

Submissions should include traditional Literature Review, Conceptual Analysis, and


Hypotheses sections. The Literature Review and Conceptual Analysis can be brief for the
purpose of this submission. Your submission must also contain a complete Methods section.
This section must include all of the important choices you made about how to conduct your
research, and the corresponding rationales for those choices. It must also include most of the
details of your proposed procedure. The methods should be spelled out so clearly that another
graduate student could pick up your work and know how to carry out your research.

Following the Methods, your submission must contain an Analysis section as a substitute for
the typical Results section. In this section, you should carefully describe how you will
analyze the data from your research design in a way that clearly tests your hypotheses.
You will receive comments from me on the first draft of your submission. My evaluations of
your submission will largely follow the Academy of Management Journal’s Reviewer
Evaluation Form (http://amj.aom.org/site/misc/ReviewerEvaluationForm.pdf). Then you’ll
have about 5 weeks to revise and resubmit your submission. When you hand in your final
submission, you need to include a summary of changes you have made to your submission in
response to each of my comments. This process is simulating the journal paper submission
process that you will encounter in your future academic career.

Academic Integrity

Attention is drawn to HEC/University policy and regulations on honesty and integrity in


academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of
such policy and regulations.

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