skills for business & management students in dissertation

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Skills for Business & Management Students in

Dissertation

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Description: A dissertation is often a crucial part of

a Business and Management degree. This

introduction to the dissertation writing guide

provides advice to help student get the longest and

most difficult piece of work.

I. 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. 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 (1).

II. 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. 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.

Fig.1. Management Skills

(CorporateFinanceInstitute.com)

III. 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, people

and organization and strategy and entrepreneurship)

but dissertation would certain your choice. 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


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Hence the students must develop some fundamental

skills for business and management dissertations

that include.

IV. 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. 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.

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V. 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. For instance, Gephart and Saylors (2020)

reveal that case study research is used and studied in

different management areas such as operations

management (Barratt, Choi and Li, 2011),

industrial marketing (Piekkari and Welch, 2011)

information systems (Johnson,Adkins and

Chauvin,2020) and finally supply chain management

(Flynn, 2008).

VI. ORGANIZING SKILLS

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.

VII. PROBLEM-SOLVING 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.

VIII. DRAFTING 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.

IX. 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.

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.

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.


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• Avoid using long sentences and difficult words to understand while writing with the proper

sentence and paragraph structure.

• 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.

X. THE PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACH

Although there is no standardized model for the

process-oriented approach, four basic stages can

generally be identified, namely:

1. Prewriting, in which students conceptualize their

topics, take notes and collect data,

2. Drafting, which involves structuring their ideas

and creating an initial composition,

3. Revising, or re-working the content and

organization based on feedback from peers or

instructors, and

4. 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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