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Business Skills in Research Projects: Enhancing Knowledge and Professionalism

This introduction highlights the importance of research in improving business skills such as information gathering, communication, and organization. It explores different philosophical bases of research and emphasizes the need for an organized, systematic, and critical approach. The chapter also discusses the educational focus of research projects and their relevance in demonstrating both content and soft skills to employers. The overall structure of the book and additional materials available on the textbook website are mentioned.

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Business Skills in Research Projects: Enhancing Knowledge and Professionalism

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  1. CHAPTER 1 Introduction

  2. In doing the research project I improved “certain business skills during the whole process such as finding useful information much more effectively and efficiently, communicating with business people much more professionally, organizing information and statistics more orderly and so on.” • ‑Business Student

  3. What Is Research? • At its most basic, research is activity used to increase knowledge. • Research is “a detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a (new) understanding.” Cambridge Dictionary

  4. To be effective, any research project needs to be an organized, systematic, data-based, critical, objective, scientific inquiry/investigation.

  5. Philosophical bases / Epistemology • Positivist Research • Interpretivist Research • Critical Research

  6. Positivist Research • Uses precise, objective measures and is usually associated with quantitative data • Researcher remains separate from the subjects and uses deductive reasoning

  7. Interpretivist Research • Believes that people experience physical and social reality in different ways • Reality is socially constructed • Researcher becomes fully involved with individual subjects

  8. Critical Research • Empower people to create a better world • Uncovering and going beyond surface illusions • Uncover myths and hidden meanings

  9. Educational Focus: Why projects matter Employers want students to have both content skills, as well as softer skills. Research projects assist in demonstrating you can do systematic work, individually or in groups. When in business the best idea is not always chose, it is the most effectively argued idea.

  10. Overall Book Structure

  11. Textbook website:www.polonskywaller.com Materials include: • Videos of past students talking about their project • Examples of past student projects • Supplementary materials related to the end of chapter case, which are also used in various chapters.

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