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A NATIONAL LEVEL ONE-WEEK FDP

ON

BASICS OF RESEARCH

METHODOLOGY

Gujarat Technological University (GTU), Centre for Governance Systems (CGS) & Centre for

Financial Services (CFS) jointly organizes A National Level One-Week Faculty Development

Programme on ‘Basics of Research Methodology’ during 11TH July, 2016 – 17TH July, 2016 with Dr.

Nishith Bhatt, Dr. Ashok Mittal, Dr. Mamta Brahmbhatt, Dr. Balwinder Singh, Dr. Rajesh Modi and

Dr. Ritesh Patel.

Centre for governance systems

www.gturesearchcentres.edu.in

Gujarat Technological University

www.gtu.ac.in

N A T I O N A L L E V E L F A C U L T Y D E V E L O P M E N T P R O G R A M M E

11TH JULY, 2016 – 17TH JULY, 2016

CENTRE FOR GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS & CENTRE FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES ANNOUNCES

Center for Financial Services

www.gturesearchcentres.edu.in

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In today’s scenario, decision making has become multifaceted and complicated. It thus has become

imperative to identify the research problems with the objective of creating knowledge for the benefit of

business, economy and society at large.

Researchers at times, find themselves technically constrained while promoting research due to lack of

understanding of statistical analysis and techniques. So, there is a need of developing an understanding

in designing and carrying out research that can better equip faculty to effectively guide their own

research and student’s research work and dissertation.

This FDP focuses on the procedure to do research. As a researcher it is mandatory for one to know the

basics, in order to satisfy the purpose of research and establish an acceptable conclusion.

This FDP aims to impart knowledge on Research Methodology, Hypothesis Testing, Correlation &

Regression, Measures of Central Tendency, Measures of Variability, Measures of Shape, Descriptive

Statistics, Probability Distributions, Parametric & Non Parametric tests, Time-series analysis, Literature

Review, Citation, Referencing Styles, and Ways to avoid Plagiarism etc.

OBJECTIVES The objective of the FDP is to help participants to gain basic understanding of research methodology

and their utility within related areas as a means of summarizing data, making estimates and testing

hypothesis. Participants will learn concepts related to sample statistics and how to make inferences

about populations from the same. They will gain quantitative literacy related to basic statistics and learn

basics related to research methodology.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The programme will be useful to the professors in field of Management / Commerce / Economics /

Engineering / Pharmacy to upgrade their existing understanding and more importantly for the faculty

aspiring to do their Ph.D. for further career advancement. In addition to this, participants from corporate

who wish to pursue their Ph.D. will also benefit from this FDP. The fresh Ph.D. scholars, and newly

joined faculty members, who wish to enhance their computer based data analysis skills for future

research projects will also benefit from this programme. Further, the working executives will be able

to upgrade their knowledge in the areas of data analysis & quantitative techniques.

PEDAGOGY Application of concepts will be through class-room discussions, live software training, exercises and

lectures.

GTU CERTIFICATE All participants of the FDP on ‘BASICS OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY’ will be awarded a GTU

– CGS & CFS certificate on successful completion of the programme.

A B O U T T H E P R O G R A M M E

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DR. NISHITH BHATT

He is currently working as an associate professor in department of

management, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat

since December, 1996. He has more than 18 years of an experience in teaching

and academic field. He teaches subjects like Sales & Distribution management,

Strategic Marketing and Brand Management, Strategic Management,

International Marketing Management, Services Marketing. He has arranged as

well as attended number of seminars and workshops. He is a member of Governing Council of

V. M. Patel Institute of Business Management, Ganpat University, Kherva, Mehsana-Gujarat.

He is also Advisory Board member at BBA College at Unjha. He has been also an Ex-Member

Executive Council as well as Academic Council of Hemchandracharya North Gujarat

University, Patan, Gujarat. He has been a Chairman Board of studies in Management at HNGU

from 2003 to 2005. He is the Chairman Board of Studies in Hospital Management at HNGU,

Patan. His research papers have been published in various journals of national as well as

international repute. You may write to him on callnishith@yahoo.com .

DR. ASHOK MITTAL

Dr. Ashok Mittal is currently serving as Professor in Economics in the

Department of Economics, A.M.U. Aligarh. He completed his Ph.D in 1987.

His research and teaching areas of interest are Macroeconomics, Public Finance

and Econometrics. A number of articles written by him have been published in

several national journals namely Economic and Political Weekly and the Indian

Economic Journal. He is life member of Indian Economic Association, The

Indian Econometric Society, The Jodhana Institute of Economic Research,

Bhartiya Arthik Sodh Sansthan, and Uttar Pradesh - Uttrakand Economic Association.

Presently, he is the Vice- President of UPUEA. He has participated in several national and

international conferences, seminars and workshops. He is also supervising research work

leading to the award of the degree of Ph.D/MPhil.

He can be reached on askmittal@yahoo.com .

DR. MAMTA BRAHMBHATT

Dr. Mamta Brahmbhatt is having 15 years of academic experience and at

present she is serving as Associate Professor in Quantitative Techniques and

Strategic Management area at B.K. School of Business Management. Prior to

joining B.K. School of Business Management, she was associated with National

Institute of Cooperative Management, Gandhinagar as Associate Professor. She

holds a doctoral degree in Banking Management from Bhavnagar University.

She is BBA graduate from K.S. School of business management and completed MBA degree

in Finance specialization. To enlarge her academic base, she obtained Masters in Commerce

with specialized in Business Finance, where she stood topper in the Gujarat University and

earned diploma in computer application (DCA) from Gujarat University. She has accomplished

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a certificate course in SPSS from Department of Statistics, S.P. University. She has cleared

NET in Management and GSLET in Commerce. She is a strong believer in discipline, which

is clearly reflected by varied courses undertaken by her in a short span, thus, truly providing

herself as a versatile academician. Dr. Brahmbhatt has authored four books on management

and has to her credit 80 papers in several major international and national referred journals;

few research papers have received best research paper awards. She has also attended AICTE

sponsored FDP organized by NITIE, Mumbai and capacity building program organized by

ICSSR at Udaipur. For her services to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, she has been felicitated by

award/shawl by Shri S.S. Khandwawala, IPS (Director General of police, Gujarat). She has

special expertise in data analysis and statistical methods. She has been actively involved in

teaching and training research scholars at KCG-Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat, GNLU-

Gandhinagar, NIFT-Gandhinagar, ASC-GU and centres of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. Her

current area of research interest is service quality, banking and other financial services and

strategic management. She can be reached on mamtabrahmbhatt23@gmail.com.

DR. BALWINDER SINGH

He is an Associate Professor at Department of Commerce, Guru Nanak Dev

University, Amritsar and he has completed his M.Com from Guru Nanak Dev

University. He also holds M.Phil degree and completed his doctoral research

from Kurukshetra University. He has a teaching experience of more than 25

years and has been teaching post graduate classes through innovative

pedagogy, teaching materials and aids. He has been teaching core financial

courses and technical subjects like financial econometrics, research methods and data analysis

with the aid of latest software and techniques. Dr. Balwinder Singh has research acumen for

core financial issues and special interests in the fields of banking and capital market. He has

successfully guided eleven doctoral theses and five M.Phil theses in the areas of Capital Market

Efficiency, Initial Public Offerings, Banking (Internet Banking), Corporate Governance. He

holds to his credit 83 research articles published in top ranking journals of national and

international repute with 351 citations, an H index of 9 and i10 index of 9 as compiled by

google scholar. He has to his credit almost 100 conference papers presented in national and

international conferences, contributions as important chapters in edited books and an edited

book. He has been a prominent resource person, chairperson of technical sessions, key note

speaker through his unique and emphatic contributions in numerous conferences. He can be

reached on bksaini@gmail.com.

DR. RAJESH MODI

Dr. Rajesh Modi is having 12 years of academic experience and is currently serving

as an Assistant Professor in Industrial Management Technology Department of Yanbu

Industrial College, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Prior to joining Yanbu Industrial

College he has worked as a H.O.D (MBA-Dept) in Gandhinagar Institute of

Management (GIT) and as lecturer in various colleges. He has also worked as an

Internet Marketing Consultant in Sizzletwist, Illinois, Bloomington, USA. He is a PhD

in Marketing Management from Sardar Patel University and has successfully undergone Faculty

Development Program at IIM-A (Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad). He has also cleared

UGC-NET in the subject of Management. He has cleared Arizona Educators Proficiency Test (AEPA),

USA. He has successfully completed National Training Programme on Entrepreneurship Case Teaching

from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and “UGC Sponsored Orientation Programme with “A”

Grade” organized by UGC at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has published research papers in

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national and international journals of repute. He has authored a book on “Marketing Management”

which is Published by Gajanand Pushtakalaya, Surat and a chapter Misleading Advertising in

“Consumerism : Global and Indian Perspective” – by J S Panwar , RBSA , Jaipur. He is presently

writing a book on “Statistics for Managers”. He is Associate Member of Forum of Free Enterprise,

Member of ‘NBHM National Board of Higher Mathematics ‘Library, Associate Member of Society of

Entrepreneurship Educator (SEE), Indian School of Business- (ISB Hyderabad) and Associate Member

of Indian Commerce Association. He can be reached on rsm2471@yahoo.co.in.

DR. RITESH K. PATEL

He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Centre for Governance

Systems (CGS) a PG Research Centre at Gujarat Technological University

(GTU), Chandkheda, Ahmedabad. He has gained his MBA degree in

Marketing from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan and Ph.D.

in the area of Marketing from Department of Management, Sardar Patel

University, Anand. He has also cleared UGC-NET in the subject of

Management. He has sound academic experience of 6 years at Post Graduate Level and 5 years

Industry experience at Managerial level. Prior to joining GTU he worked as Academic

Associate with Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A); He has also worked as

Assistant Professor at Institute of Law, Nirma University for a short stint. He has presented

several research papers in various national and international level conferences. He has

published around 25 research papers in various referred journals of national and international

repute. Based on his thesis he has also published a book ‘Brand Management in Retail

Banking’, with LAP LAMBERT Publishing, Germany. He has also published a reference book

on Research Methodology, with Ahmedabad based publisher. His area of consulting, research

and teaching are Branding, Retailing, CRM, Research Methodology, Quantitative Techniques,

Consumer Behaviour and Good Governance. You can contact Dr. Patel on

visit_ritesh@yahoo.com, +91-9687100199.

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DAY-1: MONDAY, 11TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Nishith Bhatt )

Schedule Time

Registration, Tea & Breakfast 10.00 am - 10.30 am

Inaugural Function and Key-note Address 10.30 am - 11.00 am

Introduction, Classification & Tabulation of Data

Types of Data, Data Array, Frequency distribution

11.00 am - 01.00 pm

Lunch Break 01.00 pm - 02.00 pm

Descriptive Statistics : Tabular and graphical presentations

Measures of central tendency (grouped and ungrouped data)

Measures of variability (grouped and ungrouped data)

02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Tea Break 3.30 pm – 3.45 pm

Measures of shape: Skewness, Moments and Kurtosis

Probability Distributions : Binomial, Poisson and Normal

Sampling and sampling distributions

Estimation : point estimates, interval estimates, determining the

sample size

3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

DAY-2: TUESDAY,12TH JULY 2016 ( Dr. Mamta Brahmbhatt )

Schedule Time

Tea & Breakfast 10.00 am – 10.30 am

Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing : procedure, types, power,

tails Type – I & Type –II Error

10.30 am - 01.00 pm

Lunch Break 01.00 pm – 02.00 pm

Parametric Tests:

Paired t-test

Unpaired t-test

02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Tea Break 3.30 pm- 3.45 pm

Parametric Tests (cont...)

Pearson Correlation

One-Way ANNOVA

3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

DAY-3: WEDNESDAY, 13TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Rajesh Modi & Dr. Ritesh Patel )

Schedule Time

Tea & Breakfast 10.00 am – 10.30 am

Introduction to Chi-square distribution, Introduction to Chi-square

test with manual calcualtions & examples

10.30 am - 01.00 pm

Lunch Break 01.00 pm – 02.00 pm

Nonparametric Tests:

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

Mann–Whitney U Test

02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Tea Break 3.30 pm - 3.45 pm

Nonparametric Tests (cont…):

Kruskal –Wallis H Test

Spearman’s rank Correlation

3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

DAY-4: THURSDAY, 14TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Ashok Mittal )

Schedule Time

Tea & Breakfast 10.00 am – 10.30 am

D E T A I L E D S C H E D U L E

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Index Numbers

Correlation Analysis

10.30 am - 01.00 pm

Lunch Break 01.00 pm – 02.00 pm

Simple Linear Regression 02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Tea Break 3.30 pm - 3.45 pm

Multiple Linear Regression 3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

DAY-5: FRIDAY, 15TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Balvinder Singh )

Schedule Time

Tea & Breakfast 10.00 am – 10.30 am

Regression : Assumptions 10.30 am - 01.00 pm

Lunch Break 01.00 pm – 02.00 pm

Regression : Checking of normality, heteroscedasticity,

multicollinearity, auto correlation

02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Tea Break 3.30 pm- 3.45 pm

Regression : Interpretations of Results 3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

DAY-6: SATURDAY, 16TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Balvinder Singh )

Schedule Time

Tea & Breakfast 10.00 am – 10.30 am

Introduction to Time-series Analysis

Introduction to Panel Data, Cross-Sectional Data and Pooled Data

10.30 am - 01.00 pm

Lunch Break 01.00 pm – 02.00 pm

Introduction to Literature Review

Citations & Referencing Styles

Guidelines on How to Avoid Plagiarism

02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Tea Break 3.30 pm- 3.45 pm

Question Answer Round 3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

DAY-7: SUNDAY, 17TH JULY, 2016 ( Dr. Ritesh Patel )

Schedule Time

Tea & Breakfast 10.00 am – 10.30 am

Practice Session 10.30 am - 01.00 pm

Lunch Break 01.00 pm – 02.00 pm

Practice Session 02.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Tea Break 3.30 pm- 3.45 pm

Participation Certificate Distribution 3.45 pm - 5.30 pm

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Duration: Monday, 11th July, 2016 to Sunday, 17th July, 2016 (one-week)

Timings: 10.00 am to 5.30 pm.

Venue: GTU - Chandkheda Campus, Nr.Vishwakarma Government Engineering College,

Visat - Gandhinagar Highway, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad – 382424, Gujarat.

Seats: Limited Seats available on first-cum-first serve basis, using online registration link mentioned

below.

Programme Fee

Academicians/Researchers ` 2000/-

Industry Delegates ` 3000/-

NOTE: Programme fee includes study material, lunch, and tea. The organizer reserves the right

to change the schedule and/or venue of the programme with prior notice. Fees are subject to

change without notice.

Online Payment Process: All payment must be made online using following link:

https://www.onlinesbi.com/prelogin/institutiontypedisplay.htm

Step 1: State of Corporate/Institution: Gujarat

Step 2: Type of Corporate/Institution: Educational Institutions

Step 3: Educational Institutions Name: GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Step 4: Select Payment Category: Registration Fees for Conference

Step 5: Conference Name: GTU-RM FDP 2016

Step 6: Fill in your personal details and select the mode of payment

Step 7: At the end, collect the Payment Ref. No. starting with “DU”.

Step 8: Using Payment Ref. No. fill in the online Delegate Registration Form.

For instructions and query related to online payment, kindly refer:

http://www.gtu.ac.in/ImpCircular/SBIPayment%20Instructions.pdf

Online Delegate Registration Form:

Kindly make sure you keep Payment Ref. No. with you while registering.

Kindly visit following link to register yourself for the FDP:

http://tinyurl.com/fdp2016-rm

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Accommodation (optional):

The provision of basic accommodation is available on prior request. Kindly write to:

conference@gtu.edu.in or just call Mr. Bhavik Chauhan on +91-9099060336, with details of

your accommodation plans and requirements.

Important Instructions for Participants:

The participants will be informed about their seating arrangements, venue

and confirmation of their seats via e-mail.

The certificate of participation will be issued only after successful

completion of the faculty development programme.

Participant are suggested to bring their personal laptops for effective

practical learning with software packages SPSS & EViews pre-installed on

their laptop (not mandatory). Trial versions are available on respective

software’s website.

Once registered, it is not possible to cancel or transfer the registered seat.

Registration fees in any case is not refundable.

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Organizing Committee

Chief Patron

DR. RAJUL K GAJJAR Vice Chancellor (I/c), GTU

Patron DR. J. C. LILANI Registrar (I/c), GTU

Coordinators

Ms. Avani Mehta Research Assistant, Centre for Governance Systems, GTU Email Id: ra_cgs@gtu.edu.in Desk No: +91-79-23267586

Mr. Viral Bhatt Principal, SAL Institute of Management Ms. Nidhi Dutta

OSD, GTU

Conveners

DR. RITESH K. PATEL

Assistant Professor, Centre for

Governance Systems, GTU

Email Id: ap_cgs@gtu.edu.in

Desk No.: +91-79-23267585

Cell No.: +91-9909944290

MR. HITESH GUJARATI

Research Associate, Centre

for Financial Services, GTU

Email Id: research.cfs1@gtu.edu.in D Desk No.: +91-79-23267512 C Cell No.: +91-9824439013

MR. VIKRANT VALA Research Associate, Centre

for Financial Services, GTU

Email Id: research.cfs@gtu.edu.in Desk No: +91-79-23267512 Cell No.: +91-9426360163

Contact US:

For any query, please email us: cgs@gtu.edu.in

Phone: +91-079-23267586/585/512

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

(Established Under Gujarat Act. No. 20 of 2007)

CHANDKHEDA CAMPUS

Nr.Vishwakarma Government Engineering College,

Visat - Gandhinagar Highway, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad –

382424 – Gujarat.

Phone: 079-23267500, Fax: 079-26301500.