Work Plan (Dissertation / Work Project /Internship)

Code:

2GE10

Acronym:

WP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2014/2015 - 1S (of 15-09-2014 to 09-01-2015)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Management
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIM	38	Bologna Official Syllabus	2	-	7,5	56	202,5

Teaching language

English

Objectives

To allow students to make use of the knowledge learned (in the first year of the Master in Management programme) in preparing their dissertation plan.

 At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

 - understand some basic concepts of research and its methodologies,

 - identify appropriate research topics and a research problem

 - prepare a project dissertation proposal.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

At the final essay, the student is expected to:

- clearly identify the research question(s) and discuss the gap/opening question he wants to study in its master dissertation;

- fully perform a literature review and systematize the relevant literature in a main framework;

- justifiably identify the methodology suitable to analyze the problem in research (based in the relevant literature)

- plan the research work through a chronogram.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. How to write a scientific paper/research

2. Bibliographic and Statistical databases

3. Quantitative research methods. Data analysis.

 

Mandatory literature

Saunders, Mark; Lewis, Philip and Thornhill, Adrian; Research Methods for Business Students, Prentice-Hall, Edinburgh, 2002
Bryman, Alan; Bell, Emma; Business Research Methods, Financial Times / Prentice Hall, London, 2006
TBA – Quantitative research methods

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Teaching sessions.

- Tutorial sessions for reflection, discussion and motivation for future work of dissertation project.

- Presentation and discussion of dissertation themes, intermediate dissertation project draft and final project.

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	0,00
Prova oral	45,00
Trabalho escrito	55,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Grade = 0,15 x PaperPresentation + 0,55 x Final Essay + 0,30 x OralExamination

 

Dates of the Presentations/Deliveries of the essays:

-->3rd and 4th classes: Students’ oral presentation of the research idea (10 min.),

--> 12/10: Resume delivery: 1 page resume - research topic, purpose and relevance,

-->5th and 6th classes: Student’s one paper oral presentation and discussion (10 min.),

--> 9/11: 1st essay delivery:  max. 8 pages report - research topic (reformulated, if needed), purpose and relevance, literature review and main research question(s)

--> 14th classe: Students’ oral examination of the dissertation project (10 min.)

--> 04/01/2015: Final essay delivery (Dissertation proposal): max. 15 pages report -   research topic, purpose and relevance, the literature review (more complete), main research question(s), methodology and chronogram.

 

All the delivery dates are until 23h59 of the defined day.

- If the student does not present the research idea (3rd and 4th class), 1 point (out of 20) will be deducted from the final grade.

- If the student does not send the resume (according to the indications) until the defined date, 1 point (out of 20) will be deducted from the final grade.

-  If the student does not send the 1st Essay (according to the indications) until the defined date, 2 points (out of 20) will be deducted from the final grade.

- If the student fails any of the above mentioned assignments subject to classification (Paper presentation, Final essay, Final oral presentation), he/she will have a classification of zero points (out of 20) in the corresponding assessment.

- Attendance is mandatory. If a student misses more than 3 classes, for each additional absence, 0,5 points (out of 20) for each additional missed class will be deducted from  the final grade.

 

Criteria for evaluation of the Final Essay (brief guidelines)

- Research question framed in the literature, structure/coherence of the literature review (20%)

- Contribution of the research/main gap to be filled in to/within the researchliterature (20%)

- Integration and critical interpretation of the distinct contributions in the literature (30%)

- Methodology coherence with research question (20%)

- Rigor, quality and diversity of references/citations, text quality and clarity (10%)

 

Criteria for evaluation of the Oral presentations (brief guidelines)

- Organization and structure of the presentation (40%)

- Clarity of the presentation (60%)