Methods of organization research 2600-MSMdz1MBO

1. Scientific approach and other ways of learning and describing organizational reality.
2. Fundamentals of organizational research methodology
• inductive and deductive strategies,
• quantitative and qualitative research,
• idiographic and nomothetic approach.
3. Approaches and perspectives in organizational research
4. Research design
• Basic stages of an organization study
• Principles of formulating the research goal and detailed research problems.
• Principles of formulating research hypotheses.
• Conceptualization and operationalization of variables
5. Basic research methods
• Experiment
• Field research (observations, interviews)
• Quantitative surveys
• Content analysis
• Secondary analysis (big data)
6. Basics of the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data
7. Reporting test results
• Principles of preparing a research report: report structure, rules for quoting sources.
• How to read research results and assess their credibility
• Common mistakes in organizational research.
8. Principles of preparing a literature review in accordance with the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method.