Highly important and relevant instructional notes learning how to work on Seminar related issues, especially in higher education

1. Seminar Issues in Management
A Presentation by
Dr C P Rijal, PhD in Leadership
Program Director, MBA, Global College International
In Affiliation with Shinawatra University, Thailand
Presented for
MBA Graduates Undergoing Seminar Paper Presentation
November 1, 2015

2. 1. Problems, Issues, and Challenges in Management
2. Significance of Seminar Issues in Management Studies
3. Working Methodologies in Seminar Issues
4. Implications for Future Research Preparation
5. A Few Criterial for the Selection of Seminar Issues
6. Outputs of Seminar Issue-based Discourses
Seminar Issues in Management

3.  A problem is mostly an internal, temporary obstacle facing the management. For
example, CG Electronics has been facing constant sales decline in the recent
days; International Development Bank has been unable to keep its shareholders
happy; NABIL Bank has been facing more job security demands from its
employees.
 Issues are stronger than the problems and are widely rooted with socio-
economic, political-legal, technological and ethical concerns. For example, High
Value Agriculture Products Project [HVAP] has been concerned on how to
promote gender empowerment and social inclusion (GESI) through its project
activities, compliance with corporate social responsibility (CSR), especially
subsidized airfare to the people from high hill and mountains, has become a
daunting task for Nepal Airlines in the present developing context, employee
engagement, employee empowerment, management of workplace safety, etc.
are the burning issues of all sectors globally today.
 Challenges are the most critical obstacles, mostly emerged from the external
environment, i.e., regulating or governing environment. For example,
globalization, changing attitude of young workers, political uncertainty,
technological innovation, etc. India’s concern over Nepalese politics is a severe
growing challenge that may give birth to numerous problems and issues.
1. Problems, Issues and Challenges in Management

4.  Seminar issue-based exploration helps understand the practical
world within and beyond the organizations.
 It serves instrumental making academic learning a more evidence-
based one.
 Most importantly, such exposure serves instrumental in shaping
idea on academic research and innovation.
 It helps produce future managers who with sensing of governing
environment having concern on business organizations.
2. Significance of Seminar Issues in Management Studies

5. 1. Within your area of specialization, make a choice of interest of
exploration of a very specific management problem, issue or challenge.
2. Make an inventory of journal articles, working papers, case studies,
general research papers and conceptual insights bearing authentic
materials for review works.
3. Using the resources collected, perform a gap analysis, introduce your
concern of inquiry, develop a conceptual framework to govern the
exploration making it thematically complete and a systematic journey,
and estimate possible outcomes of such a work.
4. Perform relevant reviews in respect with conceptual/theoretical
grounds, policy documents, related studies and newer developments.
5. Align it with some primary source-based information.
6. Produce the key findings, establish learning conclusions, suggest with
relevant decision implications in respect with policy development,
management decisions and future research.
3. Working Methodologies in Seminar Issues

6.  Graduate exposure on working in Seminar Paper in the Masters
degree programs serves very much instrumental in figuring out a
suitable theme research as part Masters’ degree Thesis Research.
 It helps in understanding the various methodological aspects
pertaining to performing research gap analyses, review of literature,
development of conceptual framework, and understanding paper
documentation and formatting.
 Most importantly, it imparts among the graduates with research-
based though patterns.
4. Implications for Future Research Preparation

7. 1. Always remember that yours is a work on research and innovation.
Thus, the work you would like to focus on must be an innovative
one.
2. Equally important is to make it practically a possible and feasible
proposition. Thus, it must be pragmatic one.
3. Also it should have room for replication of global realities.
4. It got to reveal the urgency of such an exploration.
5. It should be aligned with newly developing or developed situation
so that its relevance can be proved.
5. A Few Criterial for the Selection of Seminar Issues

8. 1. Identification of a gap for real-life research.
2. Development of working paper for seminar/workshops.
3. Publication of journal articles.
4. Hands-on experience of research-based issues to promote
academia-industry linkage.
5. Learning evidence-based practices for organizational decision-
making.
6. Outputs of Seminar Issue-based Discourses

9. Thank you!