In this globalized and digitized business world, management students need to improve many skills to have a successful career. And the best way to develop it is by writing excellent dissertations on many business and management topics.
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Skills for Business & Management Students in
Dissertation
An Academic presentation by
Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical Operations, FoodResearchLab
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Introduction
Skills for business and management dissertations
Fundamental skills for business and management dissertations
Planning skills
Research skills Organizing skills Problem-solving skills
Drafting skills
Writing skills
The process-oriented approach
OUTLINE
Today's Discussion
INTRODUCTION
In this globalized and digitalized business world, management
students need to improve many skills to have a successful
career.
And the best way to develop it is by writing excellent
dissertations on many business and management topics.
It is the reason that management institutions worldwide want
their students to write dissertations.
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But for students, it is a challenging task to write
dissertations because of the vast scope of business and management
studies or too much academic work and others.
However, writing dissertations is mandatory for students to get
good grades to develop skills for business and management for
having a fantastic future career.
Only with the right skills, students can excel both in the
academic performance and in applying it for the real-time business
world to be successful.
SKILLS FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT DISSERTATIONS
Until writing the dissertation, students must have experience in
writing essays and other small project work.
But the dissertation is the first most substantial piece of
independent work by students running into many pages, which needs a
lot of skills.
The dissertation's sole aim is to write an original research
work on any topic in the subject.
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It will be making it more challenging for the students in
business and management but also the most rewarding work.
It could lay a solid foundation for their future career by
developing many skills for business and management.
FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT DISSERTATIONS
Unlike writing essays where students only need to evaluate
others' ideas critically, it is a different ball game for the
dissertation.
Although student study a wide range of topics during the course
(e.g., Business transformation, digital economy, finance and
accounting, marketing and retail management,
organizationandstrategyand butdissertationwouldcertainyour
peopleand entrepreneurship) choice.
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You can choose any topics that you’re strong and linked to your
future career need a range of planning and research skills.
It is to form a theoretical framework from others' ideas and by
offering opinions and interpretations for their own research.
Only then the students can write on the many theories, concepts,
definition like Theories X & Y, Systems, beureacratic,
Scientific management, among other theories.
Concepts like planning, organizing, directing and controlling
among others hence the student must develop some fundamental skills
for business and management dissertations that include.
PLANNING SKILLS
As per Benjamin Franklin's words, "by failing to prepare, you
prepare to fail,", planning skills are 56pthe fundamental need for
any business and management student.
It is the primary cognitive skill that forms part of any
executive function.
Planning is the ability to think about the future for mentally
expecting the right way to achieve a specific goal.
It is one of the essential skills for business and management
dissertations and future career.
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The research and dissertation report writing effort can be
divided into a number of phases separated by milestone events where
products from the previous phase are reviewed and approved before
continuing on to the next phase.
The Research Milestone Schedule indicated in Figure 1 depicts
the recommended phases and how the review milestones (in blue and
red) separate them.
The Milestone Deliverables Matrix indicated in Table 1 also
indicates the phases and milestones for preparing a dissertation
report, but also lists the work products that should be reviewed at
each milestone event, and the participants at each event.
Using the Research Breakdown Structure (RBS) to Manage
Information The recommended management approach contained in this
paper includes the use of a new concept referred to as a Research
Breakdown Structure (RBS). As indicated in Figure 2, the top of the
RBS diagram contains business areas the researcher is interested in
pursuing.
RESEARCH SKILLS
One thing common for business and management dissertation and
work is research skills.
Only with in-depth research on the topic and its relevant
information, students can write excellent dissertations.
The skills include ability to search for and select relevant
qualitative and quantitative data, analyze and interpret data, and
transform data into useful information to conduct research on
business issues.
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For instance, Gephart and Saylors (2020) reveal that case study
research is used and studied in different management areas such as
operations
managementmanagement(Barratt,Choi
Li,2011),industrialmarketing(Piekkari
and and
Welch,2011)informationsystems (Johnson,Adkins and Chauvin,2020)
and finally supply chain management (Flynn, 2008).
Organizing time and the work to complete achieving the aim
applies for writing dissertations in business and management and
its working environment.
Planning, Communication, Decision making, delegation and problem
solving are few organizing skills to tackle a management.
Lacking organizing skills will devastate for time and work to
complete it to get good grades or have a prosperous career.
ORGANIZING SKILLS
Writing dissertations will have challenges that the students
need to overcome for completing them successfully in time.
Hence, they need to develop problem-solving skills that will
make the students more adaptable and initiative.
Cause and effect analysis, Root cause analysis, active
listening, dependability, creativity and team-building are the few
skills of problem solving.
These skills will also be crucial for their future business and
management career wherein they have to deal with real- time issues
daily.
PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS
To write dissertations, students must develop drafting skills to
structure them properly, as per the specifications to avoid
rejections.
From the first paragraph of the introduction until the
conclusion, they need to draft each word to be in place to make it
easy for the readers to understand.
Also, redrafting the written dissertation draft to polish it
without errors is vital for submitting the final dissertation.
DRAFTING SKILLS
WRITING SKILLS
Many of the problems faced by students when attempting to
communicate complex ideas in a language other than their mother
tongue are predictable.
Having a limited vocabulary, needing a longer time to write, and
being restricted to a simplistic writing style can impair students’
ability to express themselves adequately and may have a negative
effect on their self-efficacy.
Majority of the students, lacked confidence in their academic
writing ability due to limited familiarity with terminology,
referencing, and understanding how to organize ideas according to
the formalized structure that is typically required by
English-language academic journals.
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Focusing on these issues, Connor (2002) stresses that, while
writing requirements for journals typically lean heavily toward
English norms in terms of clarity, linearity, and straightforward
language.
Developing writing skills is to write an excellent dissertation
and write letters, reports, and other communications.
One should: Clearly state the purpose of dissertation, use
concise language, organize the ideas thoughtfully, use active voice
and write the content that is free of errors. Hence students have
to build the following writing skills.
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Keep the readers' need to write excellent dissertations to reach
far from the approving authorities like the journals.
Follow the basic rules of good written English to do the
dissertation with accurate spelling and correct grammar and
punctuation.
Write in the active voice to show the expertise on the topic and
the field to appreciate the supervisors.
Avoid using long sentences and difficult words to understand
while writing with the proper sentence and paragraph structure.
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Write the dissertation critically to demonstrate the ability to
confidently refusing to accept the conclusions of other writers
without evaluating their arguments and evidence.
Write the arguments clearly with evidence to lead to the
readers' finding in conclusion to understand easily.
THE PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACH
Although there is no standardized model for the process-
oriented approach, four basic stages can generally be identified,
namely:
Prewriting, in which students conceptualize their topics, take
notes and collect data,
Drafting, which involves structuring their ideas and creating an
initial composition,
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Revising, or re-working the content and organization based on
feedback from peers or instructors, and
Editing, or making final corrections concerning the form, layout
and mechanics of the writing (Flower & Hayes, 1981; Hyland,
2003).
The above skills for business and management dissertation
writing will not only help to get good grades but will also help
for future career.
And for developing more such skills it is best to seek help from
the best dissertation writing services.
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