Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Research methods (17.IM2215)

Native organizations units: Chair of Production Systems, Organization and Management

Type of studies	Title

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Proizvodni i uslužni sistemi, organizacija i menadžment
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	4

Educational goal:

The subject aims to inform students about basic principles of research methodology. Students will obtain knowledge necessary for independent research and research problem definition, research design, conducting research, scientific reasoning and research results presentation and application.

Educational outcome:

Students will be able to independently plan, design and conduct a research. They will be competent to formulate relevant research questions, to identify crucial factors in the relevant context, to select and apply addequate research method and to draw conclusions with implications. Also, students will become competent in research results presentation and publication, using contemporary software tools.

Course content:

This subject is organized in the following units: defining research problem; literature review and referencing; research variables; methods and levels of measurement; direct and indirect measurement; reliability, validity, accuracy and measurement errors; research designs; control groups; sampling principles and methods; drawing conclusions from research; reporting research results; tools for research and publication (LATEX, MS Word, Mendeley); basic principles of master thesis writing.

Teaching methods:

The course will be realized through combination of lectures and practical work in groups. Lectures will be accompanied by case studies from academic research in the innovation field that illustrate how the research methodology helps generating conclusions and making decisions in the innovation projects. By engaging in small group work, students will experience research project from start to finish: they will identify a research problem in the field of innovation, define the research question, design the research process, review literature, construct or adapt measuring tools, use statistics software and draw conclusions that offer solution to the starting problem.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Stefan Kottwitz	LaTeX Beginners Guide	2011	Packt Publishing	English
Živan Ristić	O istraživanju, metodu i radu	2006	Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd	Serbian language
Jan Jonker, Bartjan Pennink	The Essence of Research Methodology: A Concise Guide for Master and PhD Students in Management Science	2010	Springer-Verlag	English

Knowledge evaluation:

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Practical part of the exam - tasks	No	Yes	50.00
Term paper	Yes	Yes	20.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	20.00