This module is only available for students enrolled on to MSc Business Management and MSc Human Resource Management who have completed all other compulsory modules.

This is compulsory on MSc Business Management and MSc Human Resource Management.
This module fee is for UK & ROI fee payers only.

Detailed Description

This module is only available for students enrolled on to MSc Business Management and MSc Human Resource Management who have completed all other compulsory modules.

The focus of this module is to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills to prepare you for a range of challenges in your academic and professional career.
Specifically, the emphasis is on developing research skills that will equip you with the expertise to undertake relevant and topical research allied to your dissertation. The core material covers:
a) critiquing academic and practitioner research from a range of published sources,
b) developing tools and techniques for writing a critical literature review,
c) methodological considerations,
d) research design,
e) research ethics,
f) qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection,
g) manual and computer-based techniques of data analysis and,
h) evaluating and communicating your research.
i) production of a dissertation and reflection on work undertaken.