Written for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students planning theses and dissertations and other early career researchers, Designing and Managing Your Research Project helps you successfully plan and complete your research project by showing the key skills that you will need.

The book covers:

" choosing research methods

" developing research objectives

" writing proposals

" literature reviews

" getting ethics approval

" seeking funding

" managing a project

" software skills

" working with colleagues and supervisors

" communicating research findings

" writing reports, theses and journal articles

" careers in research.

Designing and Managing Your Research Project includes lots of examples, case studies and practical exercises to help you learn the research skills you will need and also to help you complete crucial project tasks. A key feature is its user-friendly guidance on planning projects and accessing information from the Internet.

Designing and Managing Research Projects: An Overview
Designing a New Research Project: Issues to Think about
Developing Research Aims and Objectives
Preparing and Writing a Research Proposal
Getting Funding for Research
Research Ethics and Ethics Reviews
Doing a Literature Review
Managing a Research Project
Software for Research
Working with Colleagues and Supervisors
Communicating Research Findings
Writing for Research: Some Guiding Principles
Writing a Research Report: Organization and Presentation
Careers in Research

David C Thomas (Ph.D, University of South Carolina) is Professor of International Management at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is the author of seven books including Cross-Cultural Management: Essential Concepts, (Sage) and Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business (Berrett-Koehler), as well as numerous journal articles on cross-cultural interactions in organizational settings. He is currently the Associate Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Management and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of World Business, Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Journal of Management.