Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Research Methodology in HRM area 2 (17.IM2918)

Native organizations units: Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 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 enable students to understand many basic concepts, processes, and issues that arise when performing empirical studies in most disciplines of management, and thus create a conceptual basis for later studies in facilities that include this type of knowledge.

Educational outcome:

Students are trained in-house research design, data collection, data processing, multivariate methods (exploratory factor analysis, EFA, confirmatory factor analysis CFA, structural modeling, SEM, cluster analysis, data interpretation and preparation of reports on research conducted using the software package SPSS, AMOS , LISREL.

Course content:

The presentation material is a continuation of the course, its advanced section where students are trained to perform the collection, processing and analysis of data using multivariate procedures that are consistent with the trends of the world's leading journals in the field (in depth). These are the procedures and konfarmitivne exploratory factor analysis, cluster analysis and Structural modeling method. The focus is primarily on logic and above all practice mentioned at the end of the course describes the structure of a standard written report on the investigation. During the course, for illustration shows a large number of (mostly simplified) examples of research in many areas of management.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, computer exercises and consultations.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Stone, D.L	Creating knowledge that makes immportant contributions to Society, Journal of Managerial Psychology	2010	Emerald	English
Cohen, J., Cohen, P., West, S.G. and Aiken, L.S.	Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences	2003	Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ	English
Nunnally, J.M	Psychometric theory	1998	McGraw-Hill, inc.	English
Maruyama, G.M.	Basics of Structural Equation Modeling	1998	Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA	English

Knowledge evaluation:

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00
Project	Yes	Yes	30.00
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	30.00
Term paper	Yes	Yes	20.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Computer exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00