This course is designed to assist students in making a research activity plan. Discussion of lecture material will emphasize technical and methodological issues in the research process. Various topics that will be discussed and trained to students include: selection of topics, issues that are interesting and feasible to study, search for conceptual or theoretical foundations, preparation of research designs, design of data collection tools, application of data analysis methods, interpretation of results and preparation of research reports. RPS Metlitbis – ESP 204 Week 1 research in business Week 2 ethics in research business Week 3 thinking like a researcher Week 4 business research process Week 5 secondary data exploration Week 6 research design Week 7 qualitative research Week 8 observation studies Week 9 experiments Week 10 survey Week 11 measurement Week 12 questionnaire and instruments Week 13 sampling Week 14 data preparation n description