Research in Business & Management Chapter 1: Choosing your research topic

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In academic research, at University level, a verb best avoided in the research question is:

2.

Idea generation by two or more people thinking as freely as possible is formally known as:

3.

What is the difference between research questions and research objectives?

4.

A student plans a research project; it is called A description of IBM. On the limited information we have (the title), which ONE of these best applies to the idea?

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What is 'a possible explanation that we may or may not agree with'?

6.

Consider this research question:

Should a new factory procedure be used?

Which management function is the closest match?

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Consider this research aim:

To help solve problems of absenteeism.

Which management function is the closest match?

8.

Consider this research aim:

To investigate new markets.

Which management function is the closest match?

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Research goes through distinct phases. Which one is in the WRONG position?

10.

Read the following definition by Gill and Johnson (1997):

"A formulation regarding the cause and effect relationships between two or more variables, which may or may not have been tested."

Which one of these does it define?

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Projects do go wrong. In one case a student's conclusion was not acceptable. She jumped to that conclusion because it seemed to her to be the right answer. Which ONE of the following would have been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem?

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Projects do go wrong. In one case a student could not analyse the data collected; he was not capable. Which ONE of the following would have been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem?