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CENTRE FOR GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS & CENTRE FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES ANNOUNCES
A

NATIONAL LEVEL ONE-WEEK

FDP

ON

BASICS OF RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
11TH JULY, 2016 17TH JULY, 2016
Gujarat Technological University (GTU), Centre for Governance Systems (CGS) & Centre for
Financial Services (CFS) jointly organizes A National Level One-Week Faculty Development
Programme on Basics of Research Methodology during 11TH July, 2016 17TH July, 2016 with Dr.
Nishith Bhatt, Dr. Ashok Mittal, Dr. Mamta Brahmbhatt, Dr. Balwinder Singh, Dr. Rajesh Modi and
Dr. Ritesh Patel.

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In todays scenario, decision making has become multifaceted and complicated. It thus has become
imperative to identify the research problems with the objective of creating knowledge for the benefit of
business, economy and society at large.
Researchers at times, find themselves technically constrained while promoting research due to lack of
understanding of statistical analysis and techniques. So, there is a need of developing an understanding
in designing and carrying out research that can better equip faculty to effectively guide their own
research and students research work and dissertation.
This FDP focuses on the procedure to do research. As a researcher it is mandatory for one to know the
basics, in order to satisfy the purpose of research and establish an acceptable conclusion.
This FDP aims to impart knowledge on Research Methodology, Hypothesis Testing, Correlation &
Regression, Measures of Central Tendency, Measures of Variability, Measures of Shape, Descriptive
Statistics, Probability Distributions, Parametric & Non Parametric tests, Time-series analysis, Literature
Review, Citation, Referencing Styles, and Ways to avoid Plagiarism etc.

OBJECTIVES
The objective of the FDP is to help participants to gain basic understanding of research methodology
and their utility within related areas as a means of summarizing data, making estimates and testing
hypothesis. Participants will learn concepts related to sample statistics and how to make inferences
about populations from the same. They will gain quantitative literacy related to basic statistics and learn
basics related to research methodology.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The programme will be useful to the professors in field of Management / Commerce / Economics /
Engineering / Pharmacy to upgrade their existing understanding and more importantly for the faculty
aspiring to do their Ph.D. for further career advancement. In addition to this, participants from corporate
who wish to pursue their Ph.D. will also benefit from this FDP. The fresh Ph.D. scholars, and newly
joined faculty members, who wish to enhance their computer based data analysis skills for future
research projects will also benefit from this programme. Further, the working executives will be able
to upgrade their knowledge in the areas of data analysis & quantitative techniques.
N.B.: Existing Ph.D. degree holders are not advised to join this FDP as this FDP is designed for
newly joined faculty members and research scholars.

PEDAGOGY
Application of concepts will be through class-room discussions, live software training, exercises and
lectures.

GTU CERTIFICATE
All participants of the FDP on BASICS OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY will be awarded a GTU
CGS & CFS certificate on successful completion of the programme.

P R O G R A M M E

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A B O U T

Dr. Ashok Mittal is currently serving as Professor in Economics in the

Department of Economics, A.M.U. Aligarh. He completed his Ph.D in 1987.
His research and teaching areas of interest are Macroeconomics, Public Finance
and Econometrics. A number of articles written by him have been published in
several national journals namely Economic and Political Weekly and the Indian
Economic Journal. He is life member of Indian Economic Association, The
Indian Econometric Society, The Jodhana Institute of Economic Research,
Bhartiya Arthik Sodh Sansthan, and Uttar Pradesh - Uttrakand Economic Association.
Presently, he is the Vice- President of UPUEA. He has participated in several national and
international conferences, seminars and workshops. He is also supervising research work
leading
to
the
award
of
the
degree
of
Ph.D/MPhil.
He can be reached on askmittal@yahoo.com .

DR. MAMTA BRAHMBHATT

Dr. Mamta Brahmbhatt is having 15 years of academic experience and at
present she is serving as Associate Professor in Quantitative Techniques and
Strategic Management area at B.K. School of Business Management. Prior to
joining B.K. School of Business Management, she was associated with National
Institute of Cooperative Management, Gandhinagar as Associate Professor. She
holds a doctoral degree in Banking Management from Bhavnagar University.
She is BBA graduate from K.S. School of business management and completed MBA degree
in Finance specialization. To enlarge her academic base, she obtained Masters in Commerce
with specialized in Business Finance, where she stood topper in the Gujarat University and

DR. ASHOK MITTAL

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He is currently working as an associate professor in department of

management, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat
since December, 1996. He has more than 18 years of an experience in teaching
and academic field. He teaches subjects like Sales & Distribution management,
Strategic Marketing and Brand Management, Strategic Management,
International Marketing Management, Services Marketing. He has arranged as
well as attended number of seminars and workshops. He is a member of Governing Council of
V. M. Patel Institute of Business Management, Ganpat University, Kherva, Mehsana-Gujarat.
He is also Advisory Board member at BBA College at Unjha. He has been also an Ex-Member
Executive Council as well as Academic Council of Hemchandracharya North Gujarat
University, Patan, Gujarat. He has been a Chairman Board of studies in Management at HNGU
from 2003 to 2005. He is the Chairman Board of Studies in Hospital Management at HNGU,
Patan. His research papers have been published in various journals of national as well as
international repute. You may write to him on callnishith@yahoo.com .

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DR. RAJESH MODI

Dr. Rajesh Modi is having 12 years of academic experience and is currently serving
as an Assistant Professor in Industrial Management Technology Department of Yanbu
Industrial College, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Prior to joining Yanbu Industrial
College he has worked as a H.O.D (MBA-Dept) in Gandhinagar Institute of
Management (GIT) and as lecturer in various colleges. He has also worked as an
Internet Marketing Consultant in Sizzletwist, Illinois, Bloomington, USA. He is a PhD
in Marketing Management from Sardar Patel University and has successfully undergone Faculty
Development Program at IIM-A (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad). He has also cleared
UGC-NET in the subject of Management. He has cleared Arizona Educators Proficiency Test (AEPA),
USA. He has successfully completed National Training Programme on Entrepreneurship Case Teaching
from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and UGC Sponsored Orientation Programme with A

He is an Associate Professor at Department of Commerce, Guru Nanak Dev

University, Amritsar and he has completed his M.Com from Guru Nanak Dev
University. He also holds M.Phil degree and completed his doctoral research
from Kurukshetra University. He has a teaching experience of more than 25
years and has been teaching post graduate classes through innovative
pedagogy, teaching materials and aids. He has been teaching core financial
courses and technical subjects like financial econometrics, research methods and data analysis
with the aid of latest software and techniques. Dr. Balwinder Singh has research acumen for
core financial issues and special interests in the fields of banking and capital market. He has
successfully guided eleven doctoral theses and five M.Phil theses in the areas of Capital Market
Efficiency, Initial Public Offerings, Banking (Internet Banking), Corporate Governance. He
holds to his credit 83 research articles published in top ranking journals of national and
international repute with 351 citations, an H index of 9 and i10 index of 9 as compiled by
google scholar. He has to his credit almost 100 conference papers presented in national and
international conferences, contributions as important chapters in edited books and an edited
book. He has been a prominent resource person, chairperson of technical sessions, key note
speaker through his unique and emphatic contributions in numerous conferences. He can be
reached on bksaini@gmail.com.

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DR. BALWINDER SINGH

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earned diploma in computer application (DCA) from Gujarat University. She has accomplished
a certificate course in SPSS from Department of Statistics, S.P. University. She has cleared
NET in Management and GSLET in Commerce. She is a strong believer in discipline, which
is clearly reflected by varied courses undertaken by her in a short span, thus, truly providing
herself as a versatile academician. Dr. Brahmbhatt has authored four books on management
and has to her credit 80 papers in several major international and national referred journals;
few research papers have received best research paper awards. She has also attended AICTE
sponsored FDP organized by NITIE, Mumbai and capacity building program organized by
ICSSR at Udaipur. For her services to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, she has been felicitated by
award/shawl by Shri S.S. Khandwawala, IPS (Director General of police, Gujarat). She has
special expertise in data analysis and statistical methods. She has been actively involved in
teaching and training research scholars at KCG-Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat, GNLUGandhinagar, NIFT-Gandhinagar, ASC-GU and centres of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. Her
current area of research interest is service quality, banking and other financial services and
strategic management. She can be reached on mamtabrahmbhatt23@gmail.com.

He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Centre for Governance

Systems (CGS) a PG Research Centre at Gujarat Technological University
(GTU), Chandkheda, Ahmedabad. He has gained his MBA degree in
Marketing from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan and Ph.D.
in the area of Marketing from Department of Management, Sardar Patel
University, Anand. He has also cleared UGC-NET in the subject of
Management. He has sound academic experience of 6 years at Post Graduate Level and 5 years
Industry experience at Managerial level. Prior to joining GTU he worked as Academic
Associate with Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A); He has also worked as
Assistant Professor at Institute of Law, Nirma University for a short stint. He has presented
several research papers in various national and international level conferences. He has
published around 25 research papers in various referred journals of national and international
repute. Based on his thesis he has also published a book Brand Management in Retail
Banking, with LAP LAMBERT Publishing, Germany. He has also published a reference book
on Research Methodology, with Ahmedabad based publisher. His area of consulting, research
and teaching are Branding, Retailing, CRM, Research Methodology, Quantitative Techniques,
Consumer Behaviour and Good Governance. You can contact Dr. Patel on
visit_ritesh@yahoo.com, +91-9687100199.

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DR. RITESH K. PATEL

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Grade organized by UGC at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has published research papers in
national and international journals of repute. He has authored a book on Marketing Management
which is Published by Gajanand Pushtakalaya, Surat and a chapter Misleading Advertising in
Consumerism : Global and Indian Perspective by J S Panwar , RBSA , Jaipur. He is presently
writing a book on Statistics for Managers. He is Associate Member of Forum of Free Enterprise,
Member of NBHM National Board of Higher Mathematics Library, Associate Member of Society of
Entrepreneurship Educator (SEE), Indian School of Business- (ISB Hyderabad) and Associate Member
of Indian Commerce Association. He can be reached on rsm2471@yahoo.co.in.

Lunch Break
Descriptive Statistics : Tabular and graphical presentations
Measures of central tendency (grouped and ungrouped data)
Measures of variability (grouped and ungrouped data)
Tea Break
Measures of shape: Skewness, Moments and Kurtosis
Probability Distributions : Binomial, Poisson and Normal
Sampling and sampling distributions
Estimation : point estimates, interval estimates, determining the
sample size

01.00 pm - 02.00 pm
02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

3.30 pm 3.45 pm
3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

DAY-2: TUESDAY,12TH JULY 2016 ( Dr. Mamta Brahmbhatt )

Schedule
Time
Tea & Breakfast
10.00 am 10.30 am
10.30 am - 01.00 pm
Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing : procedure, types, power,
tails
Type I & Type II Error
Lunch Break
01.00 pm 02.00 pm
02.00 pm - 3.30 pm
Parametric Tests:
Paired t-test
Unpaired t-test
Tea Break
3.30 pm- 3.45 pm
3.45 pm - 5.30 pm
Parametric Tests (cont...)
Pearson Correlation
One-Way ANNOVA
DAY-3: WEDNESDAY, 13TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Rajesh Modi & Dr. Ritesh Patel )
Schedule
Time
10.00 am 10.30 am
Tea & Breakfast
Introduction to Chi-square distribution, Introduction to Chi-square 10.30 am - 01.00 pm
test with manual calcualtions & examples
Lunch Break
Nonparametric Tests:
Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test
MannWhitney U Test
Tea Break

01.00 pm 02.00 pm
02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

3.30 pm - 3.45 pm

3.45 pm - 5.30 pm
Nonparametric Tests (cont):
Kruskal Wallis H Test
Spearmans rank Correlation
DAY-4: THURSDAY, 14TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Ashok Mittal )
Schedule
Time
Tea & Breakfast
10.00 am 10.30 am

DAY-1: MONDAY, 11TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Nishith Bhatt )

Schedule
Time
Registration, Tea & Breakfast
10.00 am - 10.30 am
Inaugural Function and Key-note Address
10.30 am - 11.00 am
11.00 am - 01.00 pm
Introduction, Classification & Tabulation of Data
Types of Data, Data Array, Frequency distribution

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01.00 pm 02.00 pm

Simple Linear Regression

02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Tea Break
Multiple Linear Regression

3.30 pm - 3.45 pm
3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

DAY-5: FRIDAY, 15TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Balvinder Singh )

Schedule
Time
Tea & Breakfast
10.00 am 10.30 am

Regression : Assumptions
Lunch Break
Regression : Checking of normality, heteroscedasticity,
multicollinearity, auto correlation

10.30 am - 01.00 pm
01.00 pm 02.00 pm
02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Tea Break
3.30 pm- 3.45 pm
3.45 pm - 5.30 pm
Regression : Interpretations of Results
DAY-6: SATURDAY, 16TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Balvinder Singh )
Schedule
Time
Tea & Breakfast
10.00 am 10.30 am
10.30 am - 01.00 pm
Introduction to Time-series Analysis
Introduction to Panel Data, Cross-Sectional Data and Pooled Data
Lunch Break
Introduction to Literature Review
Citations & Referencing Styles
Guidelines on How to Avoid Plagiarism
Tea Break
Question Answer Round

01.00 pm 02.00 pm
02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

3.30 pm- 3.45 pm

3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

DAY-7: SUNDAY, 17TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Ritesh Patel )

Schedule
Time
Tea & Breakfast
10.00 am 10.30 am
10.30 am - 01.00 pm
Practice Session
Lunch Break
01.00 pm 02.00 pm
02.00 pm - 3.30 pm
Practice Session
Tea Break
3.30 pm- 3.45 pm
3.45 pm - 5.30 pm
Participation Certificate Distribution

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Lunch Break

10.30 am - 01.00 pm

Index Numbers
Correlation Analysis

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Programme Fee
Academicians/Researchers ` 2000/Industry Delegates

` 3000/-

NOTE: Programme fee includes study material, lunch, and tea. The organizer reserves the right
to change the schedule and/or venue of the programme with prior notice. Fees are subject to
change without notice.

Online Payment Process:

All payment must be made online using following link:
https://www.onlinesbi.com/prelogin/institutiontypedisplay.htm
Step 1: State of Corporate/Institution: Gujarat
Step 2: Type of Corporate/Institution: Educational Institutions
Step 3: Educational Institutions Name: GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Step 4: Select Payment Category: Registration Fees for Conference
Step 5: Conference Name: GTU-RM FDP 2016
Step 6: Fill in your personal details and select the mode of payment
Step 7: At the end, collect the Payment Ref. No. starting with DU.
Step 8: Using Payment Ref. No. fill in the online Delegate Registration Form.
For instructions and query related to online payment, kindly refer:
http://www.gtu.ac.in/ImpCircular/SBIPayment%20Instructions.pdf

Online Delegate Registration Form:

Kindly visit following link to register yourself for the FDP:
http://tinyurl.com/fdp2016-rm

Venue: GTU - Chandkheda Campus, Nr.Vishwakarma Government Engineering College,

Visat - Gandhinagar Highway, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad 382424, Gujarat.
Seats: Limited Seats available on first-cum-first serve basis, using online registration link mentioned
below.

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Timings: 10.00 am to 5.30 pm.

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Duration: Monday, 11th July, 2016 to Sunday, 17th July, 2016 (one-week)

 The participants will be informed about their seating arrangements, venue

and confirmation of their seats via e-mail.
The certificate of participation will be issued only after successful
completion of the faculty development programme.
Participant are suggested to bring their personal laptops for effective
practical learning with software packages SPSS & EViews pre-installed on
their laptop (not mandatory). Trial versions are available on respective
softwares website.
Once registered, it is not possible to cancel or transfer the registered seat.
Registration fees in any case is not refundable.

Important Instructions for Participants:

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The provision of basic accommodation is available on prior request. Kindly write to:
conference@gtu.edu.in or just call Mr. Bhavik Chauhan on +91-9099060336, with details of
your accommodation plans and requirements.

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Accommodation (optional):

DR. RAJUL K GAJJAR

DR. RITESH K. PATEL

Vice Chancellor (I/c), GTU

Assistant Professor, Centre for

Governance Systems, GTU

Patron

Email Id: ap_cgs@gtu.edu.in

Desk No.: +91-79-23267585
Cell No.: +91-9909944290

DR. J. C. LILANI
Registrar (I/c), GTU

Coordinators

MR. HITESH GUJARATI

Ms. Avani Mehta

Research Associate, Centre

for Financial Services, GTU

Research Assistant, Centre for

Governance Systems, GTU
Email Id: ra_cgs@gtu.edu.in
Desk No: +91-79-23267586

Mr. Viral Bhatt

Principal,
SAL Institute of Management
Ms. Nidhi Dutta

OSD, GTU

Email Id: research.cfs1@gtu.edu.in

D Desk No.: +91-79-23267512
C Cell No.: +91-9824439013

MR. VIKRANT VALA

Research Associate, Centre
for Financial Services, GTU
Email Id: research.cfs@gtu.edu.in
Desk No: +91-79-23267512
Cell No.: +91-9426360163

Contact US:

For any query, please email us: cgs@gtu.edu.in

Phone: +91-079-23267586/585/512

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

(Established Under Gujarat Act. No. 20 of 2007)
CHANDKHEDA CAMPUS
Nr.Vishwakarma Government Engineering College,
Visat - Gandhinagar Highway, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad
382424 Gujarat.
Phone: 079-23267500, Fax: 079-26301500.

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