Course Catalog 2009-2010 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Tommi Mahlamäki, Jouni Lyly-Yrjänäinen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Periodit 0 0

Requirements

Participation in the seminar sessions, written reports and presentation.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

The objective of the course is to prepare students for Master's Thesis in terms of writing skills, conceptual thinking and research methods. After this course, students should have a good starting point for working on their Master's Thesis rather independently - both in terms of writing skills, conceptual thinking and empirical research work. Furthermore, the group discussions as well as the reading of other students' seminar papers will enhance students' capabilities to understand and apply various managerial concepts both theoretically and in real life. Different managerial concepts, in the end, are tools for both researchers and managers alike to develop their thinking and understanding on complex issues. In addition, students will get first-hand experience on how to solve managerial problems in different organizations with the help of existing literature and how to reflect the reality using the existing literature and concepts.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	The most typical research methods in management science. Possibilities and limitations of these research methods.
2.	How to build the narrative for the research report (one of the most difficult phases in writing research reports) with empirical material.
3.	How to improve critical thinking and make it visible on the research report.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Written reports.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1

Last modified	18.03.2009
Modifier	Virpi Hämäläinen