Course Prerequisites This course assumes students have taken a course in introductory statistics including descriptive and inferential statistics. Business Research Methods. Major Course Objectives Introduction Research overview Identify the sequence of steps in a research study. Explain the place of theory, variables, constructs and prior research in planning research. Identify the components of the scientific method.
Ethics Define the rights and obligations of the respondent.
Define the obligations of the researcher. Discuss the characteristics of good research objectives. Discuss the characteristics of good variable definitions. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of quantitative and qualitative research. Explain the purposes of exploratory research.