Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool Business School

Learning Methods

Workshop

Module Offerings

7105LODMBA-JAN-MTP

7105LODMBA-SEP-MTP

7105LODMBA-SEP_NS-MTP

Aims

The aim of the module is to provide students with an understanding of how to design and produce applied business research scholarly-practitioner projects. The module will support and provide foundations for the final element of the programme, the applied business consultancy project.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Demonstrate a critical awareness of recent theory and processes required to complete a practitioner led applied business project
2.
Evaluate and justify options related to the preparation of a practitioner led applied business project
3.
Assess the importance of a relational approach when designing, conducting and reporting on the impact of organisational business research

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
  • Insider Business Research
  • Systematic Literature Reviews – Meta Analysis
  • Synthesising Results of Multiple Studies
  • Using Secondary/On-Line Data
  • The Foundations for Structuring and Evaluating Research Projects: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Design and Analysis, Validity, Ethical Considerations.
Module Overview:

The module will provide learners with an understanding of how to design and produce applied business research scholarly-practitioner projects. Learners will be provided with the knowledge and tools to be able to effectively design organisational/business/management research projects that apply to their own organisations or organisations which they are familiar with - learners will have a better awareness of how to become 'scholarly practitioners'. 

The module will support and provide foundations for the final element of the programme, either the 'Strategic Business Proposal' (for Senior Leader Apprentices) or the MBA/MSc final consultancy project module (for those undertaking master's degree programmes).
Additional Information:
For learners who are also part of the Senior Leadership Apprenticeship, the following standards are covered within the module; 

(K5) Systems thinking, knowledge/data management, research methodologies and programme management. (S3) Undertake research, and critically analyse and integrate complex information

Assessments

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