CSU MBA 5652 COMPLETE COURSE

Unit Assignments

Unit I Mini Project

Using Exhibits 6.4 and 6.5 from Chapter 6 in your textbook as guidelines, respond to the following statements. You are not required to submit the responses, but use your answers as the foundation for the assignment listed below.

1. Identify a business decision situation that requires action in your organization. Be clear and succinct.

1. Assess the current situation.

1. Identify two symptoms.

1. Identify likely problems causing each symptom.

1. Write a decision statement (this is always a question).

1. Identify the research objective (potential result) that corresponds to the decision statement.

1. Restate the research objective in the form of a question (known as the research question).

1. Develop a hypothesis by (1) reviewing the research objectives and identifying the variables and (2) specifying the variables in a declarative statement and describing the direction of the relationship.

Write a two-page paper based on the information from your responses. The paper should include the following headings:

Current Situation, Problem Statement, Research Objective, Research Question(s), and Hypothesis. Be sure to include a title page and a reference page. Use correct APA formatting when writing your paper.

NOTE: This assignment is part of the Unit VIII Research Proposal. This assignment must be submitted in sequence (i.e., Unit I must be submitted and graded by the professor, who will provide feedback to the student before he or she can progress to the Unit II assignment). The student assignment will be graded according to the assigned rubric. The professor will grade and annotate items that need to be corrected by the student. This feedback from the professor will help the student correct any discrepancies before compiling this assignment into the Research Proposal. This will help the student achieve a better review/grade for the Research Proposal.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit II Mini Project

Write a three- to five-page literature review on your selected topic. Ensure your literature review has the following:
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Introduction: Provide an overview of the topic. Explain why the question is important and a brief description of the research design. State the purpose of conducting the literature review. Discuss major trends in the field. Explain how the literature review will be organized.

Body: Discuss the current status of the topic. Organize this section according to the previously mentioned themes or something similar. Discuss relationships that may exist in the literature.

Conclusion: Highlight major points discussed in the previous sections. Be sure to relate the information back to the purpose and relevance of the research.

Include a minimum of five sources. Three of the sources must be from peer-reviewed journals. Use and follow APA style for this assignment.

NOTE: This assignment is part of the Unit VIII Research Proposal. This assignment must be submitted in sequence (i.e., Unit II must be submitted and graded by the professor, who will provide feedback to the student before he or she can progress to the Unit IV assignment). The student assignment will be graded according to the assigned rubric. The professor will grade and annotate items that need to be corrected by the student. This feedback from the professor will help the student correct any discrepancies before compiling this assignment into the Research Proposal. This will help the student achieve a better review/grade for the Research Proposal.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit IV Mini Project

Write a two- to three-page report discussing the sampling design for the proposal.

Generate a sampling design that will yield the best results for your research objective. Include the following information:

1. Research the objective.

2. Description of the population: Process for identifying the target population and selecting the sampling frame

3. Describe the sampling procedures (convenience, quota, simple random), and justify your rationale for choosing the procedure(s).

4. Determine the sample size using one of the techniques from Chapter 17.

5. Calculate the confidence interval at 90%, 95%, and 99% to get an interval estimate, and explain the results. (Click

here for a copy of the Appendices.)

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7. Identify the different types of biases that are likely to occur and explain what steps you will take to minimize them.

8. Conclusion: Highlight the major points discussed in the previous sections. Be sure to relate the information back to the purpose and relevance of the research.

You must use correct APA formatting when writing your paper. All references used, including the textbook, must be cited.

NOTE: This assignment is part of the Unit VIII Research Proposal. This assignment must be submitted in sequence (i.e., Unit IV must be submitted and graded by the professor, who will provide feedback to the student before he or she can progress to the Unit V assignment). The student assignment will be graded according to the assigned rubric. The professor will grade and annotate items that need to be corrected by the student. This feedback from the professor will help the student correct any discrepancies before compiling this assignment into the Research Proposal. This will help the student achieve a better review/grade for the Research Proposal.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit V Mini Project

Write a two-page paper describing a basic experimental design for the proposal.

Design a basic experiment to assess a cause and effect relationship based on your research question. Include the following information:

1. Research the objective.

2. Explain if the design is a true experiment or a quasi-experiment. Justify your selection.

3. Develop a hypothesis based on your research question.

4. Evaluate your hypothesis according to the characteristics provided in the lecture. Be specific.
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5. Describe the independent variables, blocking variables, dependent variables, and extraneous variables.

6. Explain how you plan to deal with issues related to internal and external validity. Be specific.

7. Conclusion: Highlight the major points discussed in the previous sections. Be sure to relate the information back to the purpose and relevance of the research.

You must use correct APA formatting when writing your paper. All references used, including the textbook, must be cited.

NOTE: This assignment is part of the Unit VIII Research Proposal. This assignment must be submitted in sequence (i.e., Unit V must be submitted and graded by the professor, who will provide feedback to the student before he or she can progress to the Unit VI assignment). The student assignment will be graded according to the assigned rubric. The professor will grade and annotate items that need to be corrected by the student. This feedback from the professor will help the student correct any discrepancies before compiling this assignment to the Research Proposal. This will help the student achieve a better review/grading for the Research Proposal.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit VI Mini Project

Write a 2-3 page paper discussing the measurement scale for each question in the survey developed in the Unit III assignment. Decide if you will use a composite scale score or a summated scale score. Justify your decision. How will you measure reliability, validity, and sensitivity?

Explain how you will deal with ethical dilemmas during the research process (confidentiality, anonymity, conflicts of interest, informed consent, debriefing, experiments on human subjects, and so forth).

You must use correct APA formatting when writing your paper. All references used, including the textbook, must be cited.

NOTE: This assignment is part of the Unit VIII Research Proposal. This assignment must be submitted in sequence (i.e., Unit VI must be submitted and graded by the professor, who will provide feedback to the student before he or she can progress to the Unit VII assignment). The student assignment will be graded according to the assigned rubric. The professor will grade and annotate items that need to be corrected by the student. This feedback from the professor will help the student correct any discrepancies before compiling this assignment to the Research Proposal. This will help the student achieve a better review/grading for the Research Proposal.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit VII Mini Project

Using the survey that you developed in Unit III, choose 10 people in your organization to respond to the survey. Before disseminating the surveys, please pre-code the data (refer to Chapter 19, pp. 470-471) or follow the example provided in the lecture.

Perform the following:

1. Create a data file using an Excel worksheet.

2. Compute descriptive statistics for the variable(s), and explain the measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion that are most appropriate for your study.

3. Create a pie chart with percentages.

4. Compute a frequency table and histogram for each variable.

5. Decide which measures of central tendency, spread, and graphical display would be most appropriate for the study.

Using the information above, write a one- to the two-page paper explaining how the data will be analyzed. This section should begin with a brief introduction to the section and a description of the problem. You must also explain how the data will be coded and edited. Provide justification for the descriptive statistics that will be employed in the study. You will only need to submit the paper for this assignment. Please do not include data, results, or graphical displays.

The above activities are designed to help you explain the type of analysis that will be performed. Remember that the proposal is futuristic.

You must use correct APA formatting when writing your paper. All references used, including the textbook, must be cited.
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NOTE: This assignment is part of the Unit VIII Research Proposal. This assignment must be submitted in sequence (i.e., Unit VII must be submitted and graded by the professor, who will provide feedback to the student before he or she can progress to the Unit VIII assignment). The student assignment will be graded according to the assigned rubric. The professor will grade and annotate items that need to be corrected by the student. This feedback from the professor will help the student correct any discrepancies before compiling this assignment to the Research Proposal. This will help the student achieve a better review/grading for the Research Proposal.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Research Proposal

Compile the revised mini-projects assignments from Unit I, Unit II, Unit IV, Unit V, Unit VI, and Unit VII to formulate a complete 8-10 page research proposal. Please include the appropriate headings for each section of the proposal to help transition the reader and organize the paper. Remember to create your abstract. An abstract is a self-contained, short, and powerful statement that describes a larger work. Be sure to review the abstract to ensure it is correct and include it as part of the research proposal.

Note: All assignments must have been submitted in sequence. Feedback from each mini-project must have been received from your professor before moving to the next section. Please be sure to make the revisions based on the feedback provided for each mini-project.

All papers must be formatted using APA guidelines.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided

Init III assessment

1. Design a 10-question questionnaire based on your proposed research problem. The questionnaire must contain an introduction that explains the purpose, an approximate time frame for completion, and a statement on confidentiality/anonymity. There should be at most two open-ended questions. Please review the guidelines located in Chapter 15. You may also refer to Appendix 15A for wording on the most common research topics. Your response should be at least 200 words in length unless otherwise specified. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

QUESTION 2

1. Evaluate each question that you included in the questionnaire. Explain how the question will help meet the objectives of the research. Please be specific and provide justification. Your response should be at least 200 words in length unless otherwise specified. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

UNIT VIII assessment

Question 1

Complete question 10 in your textbook on page 578 (Chapter 23). Create your table in Word as shown on page 578 for this question. Provide your findings in the space provided.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Answer

Press Tab to enter the content editor. For the toolbar, press ALT+F10 (PC) or ALT+FN+F10 (Mac).

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25 points

Question 2

Using Case Exhibit 21.1-1 on page 527 in the textbook, please calculate the mean average miles per gallon. Compute the sample variance and sample standard deviation. Determine the most appropriate statistical test using the 0.5 significance level. Provide your findings in the space provided.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Answer

Press Tab to enter the content editor. For the toolbar, press ALT+F10 (PC) or ALT+FN+F10 (Mac).

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25 points

Question 3

Go to page 550 in your textbook and offer a thorough interpretation of question 11. Interpret the output, examining group differences for purchase intentions. The three groups refer to consumers from three states: Illinois, Louisiana, and Texas.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Answer

Press Tab to enter the content editor. For the toolbar, press ALT+F10 (PC) or ALT+FN+F10 (Mac).

All discussions

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Unit 1 discussion

Introduce yourself to your fellow students and instructor. Share your college degree plans, briefly explaining what degree you are pursuing, why, and how you think taking this course will assist you in achieving your personal or professional goals.

You can choose to introduce yourself via a video clip on YouTube. Simply provide the hyperlink to your video in the Discussion Board where you would normally insert your answer to the discussion question. All comments regarding the videos must be made in Blackboard DB (not on YouTube). Please note that the video is optional.

(Optional) Comment on the following statement:
Any significant business decision requires input from a research project. Please defend or refute this statement.

Unit II discussion

Secondary data have been called the first line of attack for business researchers. Discuss this description.

Please include the name of the person or question to which you are replying in the subject line. For example, “Tom’s response to Susan’s comment.”

Unit III discussion

Yogi Berra, a former New York Yankee catcher, said, “You can observe a lot just by watching.” How does this fit in with the definition of scientific observation?

Unit IV discussion

Explain each term and provide a corresponding, real-world example to demonstrate your understanding.

· Sample

· Sample distribution

· Sampling distribution

Unit V discussion

Compare and contrast deductive logic with inductive logic. Give a detailed example of both.

Unit VI discussion

Class

List three research obligations for research participants, researchers, and research clients; explain why these obligations are important.

Unit VII discussion

Discuss three ways that researchers can help maximize the integrity of data files for research clients.

Unit VIII discussion

What is your opinion of the course? Did it meet your expectations? What suggestions can you offer for improvements of this course for future students?

(Optional): Provide a work-related example in which a Type I error may be more serious than a Type II error.