General
Responsible
teacher: Risto Rajala
Assigment Supervisors: Karlos Artto, Jan Holmström, Timo Seppälä, Paul Lillrank, Riitta Smeds, and Post-Docs in the department
Teaching period: I-II, III-V (Autumn and Spring)
Workload: 5 or 7 credits
Learning Outcomes:
o Students will learn how to apply research methods and scientific thinking in problem solving.
o Students will learn how to define and specify adequate research objectives and research questions in the subject area of Operations and Service Management.
o Students will learn how to make a sound research plan for a small-scale empirical study.
o Students will be able to execute an empirical data collection project, analyze the data, report the results, and evaluate the quality (reliability and validity) of the study.
Content:
Course includes designing a study that is based on empirical data. Students will do hands-on exercises of the different phases of conducting scientific research (e.g., designing a study, data collection, data analysis, etc.). The course prepares the students for conducting scientific research (e.g. Master's thesis) as well as critically assessing studies done by others.
Course practicalities
The course consists of two parts.
PART 1
Part 1 (about 54 hours) includes lectures,
reading materials, and examination, and is held jointly with three Majors
(i.e., courses TU-E1090 - Research Assignment in Strategy and
Venturing, TU-E2090 - Research Assignment in Operations and Service
Management, TU-E3090 - Research Assignment in Leadership and Knowledge).
All information and communication regarding Part 1 (reading materials,
pre-lecture work, weekly exams, news and discussions) takes place in a separate
forum hosting all three courses. Here is the link to the common RA-module Part I MyCourse-pages. REMEMBER TO ENROLL SEPARATELY TO THE COMMON RA-MODULE IN MYCOURSES.
PART 2
The second part of the course (81-135 hours) consists of supervisory meetings and writing a research plan, conducting the research assignment, final presentation, and review of an assignment. Please note that Part 2 is different in the above-mentioned courses and students in TU-E2090 - Research Assignment in Operations and Service Management need to follow the instructions provided here.
To participate in this course, you
must register to both the course (Part 2) and the lecture
module (Part 1).
The kick-off lecture of the Research Assignment in Operations and Service Management Part 2 takes place on Thursdaty, February 6, at appr. 12:00 (right after the lecture of Part 1).
Schedule of PART 2