Course Description
The course provides students with the foundations needed to undertake scholarly research in business and management. The course offers students the opportunity to begin research on their final year project by providing clear and holistic guidance on how to generate and refine a research idea into a clear and unmistakable research topic with relevant, specific, measurable and realistic objectives or research questions as well. The course further focuses on the research process as it relates to conceptualization and design of appropriate research methodology to achieve the desired research objectives. This course is centre and therefore uses a combination of strategies such as assignments, and proposal development to achieve the intended goal.

This course examines the macroeconomic environment affects to the decisions of managers. To start, the course explores the economic thought of different schools and how they may explain the functions of markets and respective economic cycles. The course helps students understand the recent global economic crisis while possibly forecast future economic busts. The course also consider the role of the entrepreneur and the different influences of entrepreneurs on a nation’s economics.