1 / 37

ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream/tutorilarank.com

For more course tutorials visit<br>www.tutorialrank.com<br><br>ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 1 Scientific Thinking<br>ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 2 Making Research Decisions<br>ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 1 Exercises<br>ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics in Business Research<br>ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 2 DQ 2 Design of Research

CaldecottCork
Download Presentation

ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream/tutorilarank.com

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com The Best way to predict the Future is to create it.....To Best way.... www.tutorialrank.com

  2. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 1 Scientific Thinking ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 2 Making Research Decisions ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 1 Exercises

  3. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 1 Scientific Thinking For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Business - General Business Scientific Thinking Develop a hypothesis for a problem at a local business (for example: high employee turnover). Determine if your hypothesis has adequacy for its purpose, is testable and better than its rivals. Then, use the Checklist for Developing a Strong Hypothesis on page 64 as it relates to your hypothesis. Discuss your results. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings.

  4. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 2 Making Research Decisions For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Making Research Decisions Based on the analysis of the last six months' sales, your boss notices that sales of beef products are declining in your chain's restaurants. As beef entrée sales decline, so do profits. Fearing beef sales have declined due to several newspaper stories reporting E.coli contamination discovered at area grocery stores, he suggests a survey of area restaurants to see if the situation is pervasive (page 94, number 5).

  5. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 1 Exercises For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Week One Exercises Complete the Following Exercises Complete Discussion Questions 1, 2, and 5 on page 22. Complete Making Research Decisions Question 6, page 76.

  6. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics in Business Research For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Ethics in Business Research Read the interview with Elizabeth Buchanan on virtual research ethics: Readings in virtual research ethics: Issues and controversies. (2004, January-June). Information Technology Newsletter, 15(1), 22-25.]. You can find this article through the Ashford Online Library. Write a summary of this interview and add your thoughts on how this affects the business research process. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings.

  7. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 2 DQ 2 Design of Research For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Read Snapshot: Tracking Search Patterns on page 37. Find more details of this study since the text's Snapshot was printed and discuss the study including any updates. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings.

  8. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 2 Exercises For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Complete the following exercises: In your text book Complete Making Research Decisions 1, page 50 In text answer Terms in Review, 1-5, page 155 Complete Making Research Decisions, 7, page 388

  9. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 3 DQ 1 Measurement Scales For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Contemplate Snapshot: Measuring Respect on page 301 of your text. Discuss the information presented and the critical measures taken in order to present an appropriate measurement scale. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings.

  10. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 3 DQ 2 Clarifying the Research Questions For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Review the Research Questions on page 120 and then decide: Do these questions in the research proposal lead one towards a tangible end result defined by either higher service quality; higher levels of customer satisfaction; better product; or monetary savings? Respond to at least two of your fellow students' posts

  11. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 3 Exercises For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Complete the following exercises: In your text book Complete Making Research Decisions, 5, page 315. Complete Terms in Review, 1- 3, page 123. On companion website Read the case study, State Farm: Dangerous Intersections. Answer questions 1 through 5. (This case can be downloaded from the text book web site, http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073373702/student_view0/cases.html)

  12. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 4 DQ 1 Survey Methods For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Discuss the following questions then respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of self-administered interviewing, face-to-face interviewing, and telephone interviewing. What is necessary for the success of each of these three methods? How do these survey methods compare?

  13. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 4 DQ 2 Observational Studies For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Read and discuss Bringing Research to Life on page 187 of your text. Develop investigative questions that could have been used to guide Jason and Sara's mechanical observation study. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings.

  14. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 4 Exercises For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Complete the following exercises: In your text book Complete Terms in Review, 1-4, on page 204. On companion website Read Case Study: Ramada Demonstrates its Personal Best. Answer questions 1-3 (This case can be downloaded from the text book web site, http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073401757/student_view0/cases.html)

  15. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 5 DQ 1 Data Preparation and Description For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Poll a small sample of class members, work associates, or friends and ask them to answer the following in a paragraph or two: "What are your career aspirations for the next five years?" Use one of the four basic units of content analysis to analyze their responses. Describe your findings as frequencies for the unit of analysis selected. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings.

  16. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 5 Exercises For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Complete the following exercises: In your text book Complete Making Research Decisions, 2, page 450 Complete From Concept to Practice, 7, page 450 On companion website Read Case Study: Inquiring Minds Want to Know- NOW. Answer questions 1-9 (This case can be downloaded from the text book web site, http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073373702/student_view0/cases.html)

  17. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 6 DQ 1 Measures of Association For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Answer Making Research Decisions 5 on page 524 of your text. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings.

  18. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 6 DQ 2 Presenting Results For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Conduct a search of websites that provide Internet presentations. Select one and critique its content, visuals, and the presenter's skills. Make sure to include the URL in your Discussion Forum. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings.

  19. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 642 Week 6 Final Project For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Final Project A Final Project Paper is due in Week Six. The Final Project will contribute 35% to the course grade. Focus of the Final Project: The final project should be eight pages in length and include a reference of all resources used. At least three sources should be from scholarly

  20. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Entire Course (2 Sets) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial Contains 2 Sets of Assignments for All Weeks, Check Details Below BUS 642 Week 1 Assignment Research Project (2 Papers) BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 1 Scientific Thinking BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 2 Scholarly Research

  21. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 1 Assignment Research Project (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Projects Research Project – Week One. Each week’s assignment in this class will lead up to the final research project in Week Six. Before you work on Week One’s assignment, preview the “Research Project" in Week Six so you understand the final outcome of this project. Also read this week’s lecture. If you are having a difficult time choosing your topic, please contact your instructor before the assignment is due for assistance.

  22. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 1 Scientific Thinking For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Scientific Thinking. Reference this week’s lecture to develop a research question and a hypothesis for a hypothetical business problem of your choice. Explain the management dilemma, or the business problem that the research would attempt to solve. Your research question must relate to the business reason for the research. For example, “Why have sales of used cars been declining at a rate of 5% per month since July 2012 at Smith Motors?” is a research question because you can investigate it with research.

  23. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 1 DQ 2 Scholarly Research For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Scholarly Research. Using the Library, find a scholarly business research article on a topic you may want to write about for your final paper. Sample topics include, but are not limited to: ·Manufacturing Quality/Cost Improvement

  24. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 2 Assignment Research Project (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Projects Research Project – Week Two. Before you complete your week two assignment, please read your instructor’s comments about your week one assignment, as well as this week’s lecture. Be sure to include any suggested changes in your project going forward.

  25. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics in Internet Research For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Ethics in Internet Research. Read the journal article: The Ethics of Internet Research and this week’s lecture. In your own words, provide a summary of the article and add your own thoughts on how the Internet can affect the research process, including, but not limited to, ethics concerns. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

  26. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 2 DQ 2 Research Design For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Research Design. Google’s business model includes state-of-the art research. Pick a research study that Google’s researchers have done from their list of Research Areas & Publications.

  27. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 3 Assignment Research Project (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Projects Research Project – Week Three. Before you complete your week three assignment, please read your instructor’s comments about your week two assignment, as well as this week’s lecture. Be sure to include any suggested changes in your project going forward. In a three- to four- page paper (not including the title and reference pages), provide the following: a. A revised version of your introduction, research question, background research, hypothesis, research design, and sampling plan.

  28. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 3 DQ 1 Measurement Scales ( Updated) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Measurement Scales. Find a scholarly research study from the Library that uses measurement scales for data collection (such as in a survey). Explain the measurement scales that the study used, and evaluate them. Did you think the researchers made good decisions about the scales? Why or why not? Cite the study in APA format.

  29. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 3 DQ 2 Survey and Interview Methods For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Survey and Interview Methods. Find a scholarly research study from the Library that uses surveys or interviews for data collection. Also read this week’s lecture before submitting your post. Cite the paper in APA format. In your post:

  30. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 4 Assignment Research Project (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Projects Research Project – Week Four. Before you complete your week four assignment, please read your instructor’s comments about your week three assignment, as well as this week’s lecture. Be sure to include any suggested changes in your project going forward.

  31. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 4 DQ 1 Qualitative Analysis For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Qualitative Analysis. Using one of the Data Access Tools from the United States Census Bureau, choose some interesting census data and perform a qualitative analysis on it in order to answer a question you want to answer with the data. Do not just copy and paste or summarize the data that you find. Use an appropriate qualitative analysis technique and provide your thought process behind the technique you chose (e.g., why did you choose it?), as well as the results of your analysis. Use this week’s lecture to aid your analysis.

  32. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 4 DQ 2 Observational Studies For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Observational Studies. Observe some people doing something for about 15 minutes. You could do it almost anywhere: in a store, at work, or even at home if you live with other people! Before you begin, think about a question you want to answer, such as “Where do customers go after they enter this store?” or “How do people act when they are in their offices?”

  33. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 5 Assignment Research Project (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Projects Research Project – Week Five. Before you complete your week five assignment, please read your instructor’s comments about your week four assignment, as well as this week’s lecture. Be sure to include any suggested changes in your project going forward.

  34. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 5 DQ Statistical Analysis For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Statistical Analysis. Using one of the Data Access Tools from the United States Census Bureau, choose some interesting census data and perform a statistical analysis on it in order to answer a question you want to answer with the data. Do not just copy and paste or summarize the data that you find. Use an appropriate statistical tool and provide your thought process behind the tool you chose as as well as the results of your statistical analysis. Use this week’s lecture to aid your analysis. Cite the data source that you chose in APA format.

  35. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 6 Assignment Research Project (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Projects The final version of your research project should be 10-12 double-spaced pages (not including the title page, reference page, tables, appendices, etc.). The paper will be an original business research project that tests a hypothesis of your choice. The research can relate to your place of current/previous employment or other contexts of interest. Sample topics could include, but are not limited to: Manufacturing Quality/Cost Improvement

  36. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com BUS 642 Week 6 DQ Presenting Results For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Presenting Results. Find a presentation of interest on TED and critique its content, visuals, and the presenter’s skills (if applicable). Use this week’s lecture to aid your analysis. Provide a citation to the presentation in APA format. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

  37. ASHFORD BUS 642 Course Seek Your Dream / tutorialrank.com The Best way to predict the Future is to create it.....To Best way.... www.tutorialrank.com

More Related