COURSE NAME

BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS

COURSE CODE: MGM4103
SUMMER SEMESTER 2020 – 21

ASSESSEMENT
ASSIGNMENT-1
(Weightage: 20 Marks)

Name of the Student (s)_______________________________ ID

(s)____________

Learning Outcomes:

LO-1: Demonstrate an understanding of the steps in conducting business research (10 Marks)
LO-2: Explain research design, methodologies, and approaches to research (10 Marks)

GENERAL GUIDELINES
1- Evaluation will be over the quality of work as well as the meaningful ideas.
2- Last date of submission: 5-June-2021.
3- Submission as Softcopy to LMS
4- File submitted Should be ONLY in “Word” Format (All contents should be “TEXT” only)
5- All References should be only ARTICLES, and should be added to “MENDELEY” following
“APA”
6- Plagiarism should bellow 15, above 20 to be rejected

INSTRUCTIONS:

OVERVIEW: A research paper is not a personal narrative using first person, nor is it a report on
your findings about your topic. Instead, it is a piece of writing that requires a more
abstract, critical, and thoughtful level of inquiry. Writing a strong research paper means
you have familiarized yourself with the writing of experts on your chosen topic, and then
compared their opinions, findings, etc., with your own thinking. So, rather than reporting
on your findings, you will need to use facts, statistics, the results of studies, and opinions
from expert sources to support a claim you make about your topic. Your job is to integrate
 evidence and your personal insights. Ultimately, YOU are the one in charge. That is, your
beliefs and thinking are backed up by the ideas and information of others.

TOPIC: Your topic should address a current issue under the broad topic of "Business and
Management". You should discuss and approve your topic before you proceed to the next
step.

GOAL: Your main goal is to choose a sufficiently narrowed "Business and Management" issue
you care about and want to know more about, then get to work researching using the
Skyline University College Library databases (Could be also ResearchGate &
GoogleScholar), drafting a paper that not only advances only your own knowledge but your
instructor’s and all of your classmates’ knowledge as well (becoming part of the
conversation regarding your chosen topic).

ASSIGNMENT CONTENT: Once you got the approval to your topic, the next step to prepare the
following:
1- Formulate the TITLE of your “Research Assignment” that should include at least three
different types of variables.
2- Breakdown each variable into its common dimensions
3- Develop the MODEL of your “Research Assignment” that show the relationships among
the variables and dimensions.
4- Search for “ARTICLES” as the main source of the information. (only Journals Articles will
be accepted) and (at least 5 “ARTICLES” to support each single relationship in the
Research Model)
5- Develop the INTRODUCTION section of the paper including Need for the Study, Problem
Statement and Model showing the relationships.

The assignment should be for 1200 -1500 words including references at the end. It should be
submitted through the assignment submission link on the LMS.