BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Reference this week’s lecture to develop a research question and a hypothesis for a hypothetical business problem of your choice. Explain the management dilemma, or the business problem that the research would attempt to solve. Your research question must relate to the business reason for the research. For example, “Why have sales of used cars been declining at a rate of 5% per month since July 2012 at Smith Motors?” is a valid research question because you can investigate it with research.

A hypothesis must state an “educated guess” about why you think something is happening; think about cause and effect. For example, “Sales are declining at Smith Motors due to road construction around our dealership” is a hypothesis because it offers a possible cause for the problem. “Sales are declining at Smith Motors” is not a hypothesis because it does not offer a possible cause for the problem.

 

discussion 2

Using the Ashford University Library, find a scholarly business research article on a topic you may want to write about for your final paper.

Sample topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Manufacturing Quality/Cost Improvement
  • Service Quality Improvement
  • Systems Design
  • Accounts Receivable/Billing/Accounts Receivable Aging
  • Marketing/Advertising Issues
  • Sales of Goods
  • Investments
  • Product Safety
  • Workplace Safety
  • Labor Pools
  • Human Resources matters of broad concern
  • Population Studies

Use the Library Research Tips Tutorial to help you complete this assignment. The tutorial covers what scholarly sources are and how to find them, generating and using keywords, and searching in the best library databases for business research.