BRM Unit-1
BRM Unit-1
BRM Unit-1
METHODS
Instructor: Dr. Manvendra Pratap Singh
School of Management
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
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COVID-19
1st Case: 17th November, 2019 (Wuhan, Hubei,
China)
Today:
Total Cases:1,83,54,342 (Who.int)
Death: 6,96,147
Countries: 216
India:
1st case:
Today:
Total Cases:19,67,411
Active cases: 5,97,450
Death: 41,082
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17th November 2019- 06th August, 2020.
Vaccine Status?
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COVID-19
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clinical trials
trials.
Unit-I
• Research: –
• Definition, Meaning, Importance types and Qualities of Research ,
applications in functional areas of Business, Emerging trends in
Business research.
• Research & the Scientific Method: Characteristics of scientific method.
• Steps in Research Process Concept of Scientific Enquiry: – Formulation
of Research Problem – Management Question – research Question –
Investigation Question
Questions?
• COVID-19 is ILI?
New and original information, ideas about the world we live in, are
obtained (Can we make vaccine for RNAs)
The Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English lays down the meaning
[2] Manoj says that he has researched and completed a document which gives
information about the age of his students, their results, their parents income
and distance of their schools from the District Office.
•A general manager of a car producing company was concerned with the complaints
received from the car users that the car they produce have some problems with sound at
the dash board and the rear passenger seat after few thousand kilometers of driving.
•He obtained information from the company workers to identify the various factors
influencing the problem.
•He analyzed the collected data, interpreted the results in the light of his hypotheses and
reached conclusions.
OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH
• The purpose of research is to discover answers to questions through the application of
scientific procedures. The main aim of research is to find out the truth which is hidden and
which has not been discovered as yet.
• 1. To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it (studies with
this object in view are termed as exploratory or formulative research studies).
3. To determine the frequency with which something occurs or with which it is associated
with something else (studies with this object in view are known as diagnostic research
studies);
4. To test a hypothesis of a causal relationship between variables (such studies are known as
hypothesis-testing research studies).
MOTIVATION IN RESEARCH
• What makes people to undertake research? This is a question of fundamental importance.
• The possible motives for doing research may be either one or more of the following:
1. Desire to get a research degree along with its consequential benefits;
2. Desire to face the challenge in solving the unsolved problems, i.e., concern over practical problems
initiates research;
3. Desire to get intellectual joy of doing some creative work;
4. Desire to be of service to society;
5. Desire to get respectability
Types of research?
• The basic type of research as follows:
• The major purpose of descriptive research is description of the state of affairs as it exists at
present.
• In social science and business research we quite often use the term Ex post facto research
for descriptive research studies.
• The main characteristic of this method is that the researcher has no control over the
variables; he can only report what has happened or what is happening.
• Most ex post facto research projects are used for descriptive studies in which the researcher
seeks to measure such items as, for example, frequency of shopping, preferences of people,
or similar data.
• Ex post facto studies also include attempts by researchers to discover causes even when
• The methods of research utilized in descriptive research are survey methods of all kinds,
• In analytical research, on the other hand, the researcher has to use facts or information
already available, and analyze these to make a critical evaluation of the material
• Investigation starts after the fact has occurred without interference from the
researcher.
• test hypotheses about cause-and-effect relationships or in situations
• 1. One commences with subjects who differ on an independent variable, for example
their years of study in mathematics, and then study how they differ on the dependent
variable, e.g. a mathematics test.
• 2. One commences with subjects who differ on the dependent variable (for example
their performance in a mathematics test) and discover how they differ on a range of
independent variables, e.g. their years of study, their liking for the subject, the amount
of homework they do in mathematics
Applied vs. Fundamental:
• Research can either be applied (or action) research or fundamental (to basic or pure)
research.
• Applied research aims at finding a solution for an immediate problem facing a society
or an industrial/business organisation,
• where as fundamental research is mainly concerned with generalisations and with the
formulation of a theory.
• “Gathering knowledge for knowledge’s sake is termed ‘pure’ or ‘basic’ research.”
• Research concerning some natural phenomenon or relating to pure mathematics are
examples of fundamental research.
• The central aim of applied research is to discover a solution for some pressing practical
problem, whereas basic research is directed towards finding information that has a
broad base of applications and thus, adds to the already existing organized body of
scientific knowledge.
Quantitative vs. Qualitative:
• Quantitative research is based on the measurement of quantity or amount. It is
applicable to phenomena that can be expressed in terms of quantity.
Research Type
Filling knowledge gap Problem solving
Positivist/Modernism Interpretative/Constructivism
Ontology
Single reality Multiple realities
Epistemology
Empericalistic Interpretative
Theory
Deductive Inductive
Other types
• one-time research or longitudinal research.
• field-setting research or laboratory research
• clinical or diagnostic research
• Historical research is that which utilizes historical
sources like documents, remains, etc.
Qualities of good research
A multinational firm wants to establish a production facility in another country after determining its technical and
economic feasibility
A government agency wants to ascertain the satisfaction level of its employees, the causes for any possible discontent, and
propose a scheme for enhancing this level
A financial institution wants to invest in stock and commissions a study to determine the past trends and forecast future
returns in a portfolio of stock.
MNC wants to find out the trends in retail and wholesale sector
Fields Where Research is Often Used – (1)
General Business Conditions and Financial and Accounting Research
Corporate Research
• Social media has emerged as the voice of people! Analysis of social media
exchanges of opinions and reviews about your products/services can help you
communicate better with your target customers directly, and improve the impact of
made social media popular among 80% of the population who own them. Hence,
conducting market research on social media has increased the audience size by a
• Research methods may be understood as all those methods/techniques that are used for conduction
of research.
• Research methods or techniques In other words, all those methods which are used by the
researcher during the course of studying his research problem are termed as research methods.
• Since the object of research, particularly the applied research, it to arrive at a solution for a given
problem, the available data and the unknown aspects of the problem have to be related to each
other to make a solution possible.
• Research methods can be put into the following three groups:
1. In the first group we include those methods which are concerned with the collection of data.
• These methods will be used where the data already available are not sufficient to
arrive at the required solution;
2. The second group consists of those statistical techniques which are used for establishing relationships
between the data and the unknowns;
3. The third group consists of those methods which are used to evaluate the accuracy of the results obtained.
• Research methods falling in the above stated last two groups are generally taken as the analytical tools of
research.
Research methodology
• Research methodology is a way to systematically solve the research problem. It may be
understood as a science of studying how research is done scientifically.
• Study the various steps that are generally adopted by a researcher in studying his research
problem along with the logic behind them.
• It is necessary for the researcher to know not only the research methods/techniques
but also the methodology.
• From what has been stated above, we can say that research methodology has many dimensions and research methods do constitute
a part of the research methodology. The scope of research methodology is wider than that of research methods.
• Thus, when we talk of research methodology we not only talk of the research methods but also consider the logic behind the
methods we use in the context of our research study and explain why we are using a particular method or technique and why we
are not using others so that research results are capable of being evaluated either by the researcher himself or by others.
• Why a research study has been undertaken, how the research problem has been defined, in what way and why the hypothesis has
been formulated, what data have been collected and what particular method has been adopted, why particular technique of
analysing data has been used and a host of similar other questions are usually answered when we talk of research methodology
• Flood
Steps in Research Process Concept of
Scientific Enquiry
RESEARCH PROCESS
FF
Review the literature
FF
Review
Concepts
Design
And
Research Collect Interpret
Define theories Formulate Analyse
(Including Data and
Research hypothesis Data
Sample report
Problem
Review Design)
F F
Previous
I Research III IV V
findings VI VII
II
F
F Feed Back
FF Feed Forward
The following order concerning various steps provides a useful procedural guideline
regarding the research process: