Workshop on “Research Methods and Research Paper Writing

ALIGARH, December 31: The Department of Business Administration is organizing a workshop on “Research Methods and Research Paper Writing” from 2nd-7th January 2010 for research scholars of Departments of Business Administration, Commerce, Economics, Psychology and Agricultural Economics & Business Management. The workshop would cover issues related to Identifying and Defining of Research Problems, Developing Research Design, Sampling Fundamentals, Developing Questionnaire, Questionnaire Refinement, Hypothesis Testing - T test, Z test and ANOVA, Factor Analysis, Correlation and Regression, Introduction to SPSS Software, Interpretation of SPSS Outputs, and how to write a Research Paper.

The workshop has received an overwhelming response. The workshop originally plan~d to have an intake of 20 research scholars. However, interest of the AMU Research Scholars is evident from the fact that on the second day of announcement of the workshop (i.e. 21 December 2009), more than 20 research scholars had already registered for the workshop. Thus, on account of demand and keeping in mind the interest of the research scholars, the intake subsequently had to be increased to 40.

Several experts in the area of research methodology viz. Prof Hamida Ahmad, former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, AMU; Prof. Athar Ali Khan, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, AMU, Dr. Parvaiz Talib, Department of Business Administration, Dr. Valeed A Ansari, Department of Business Administration, Dr. Jamal A Farooqui, Department of Business Administration, Dr Romana N. Siddiqui, Department of Psychology, AMU, and Dr. Mohammed Naved Khan, Department of Business Administration, AMU, have very kindly agreed to act as resource persons.

The Inaugural Session of the Workshop will be held on 2nd January 2010 at 9.30AM in the Department of Business Administration, AMU. Prof. A. R.Kidwai has very kindly consented to the Chief Guest.

The Chief Patron of the Workshop is Prof Javaid Akhter, Dean, Faculty of Management Studies & Research, AMU, and Dr. M. Khalid Azam, Chairman, Department of Business Administration, AMU is the Patron. Dr. Mohd Naved Khan, is the Workshop Coordinator while Mr Asif Akhtar is In-charge of the Organizing Committee.