NATIONAL WORKSHOP

ON

“STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING USING

IBM SPSS AMOS

PROGRAMME COORDINATORS

PROF. C.M. MARAN

PROF. B. RAVIKUMAR (POSQ DIVISION )

VIT Business School VIT University, Vellore—632014

Tamilnadu , India

17th August, 2013

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Registration Form

NATIONAL WORKSHOP

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17th August, 2013

Dear Sir,

We are pleased to nominate the following Executives /

Faculty Members/ Research Scholars for the pro-

gramme “ Structural Equation Modeling Using IBM SPSS

AMOS ” on 17th August, 2013 organized by VIT Busi-

ness School, VIT University, Vellore.

Institution / Organization Name:

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We enclose Demand Draft for Rs…………….. towards reg-

istration fee, drawn in favour of VIT University, payable

at Vellore.

Amount:……………… DD No……………….Dt…………

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Yours faithfully,

Authorized Signatory

Note : DD/Cash Once Paid will not be refunded

Chief Patron

Dr G Viswanathan

Chancellor

Patrons

Mr Sankar Viswanathan Vice President

Mr Sekar Viswanathan Mr G V Selvam Vice President Vice President

Dr V Raju Vice Chancellor

Dr Anand S Samuel Dr S Narayanan Pro Vice Chancellor Pro Vice Chancellor

Dr Saroj Kumar Datta

Dean— VIT Business School

Dr G Karunanithi Associate Dean—VIT Business School

All Correspondence must be addressed to

Prof C.M. Maran (0 94430 34873) Prof B. Ravikumar (0 81448 08369) Programme Coordinators VIT - Business school, VIT University, Vellore-632014. Tamilnadu, India. Phone (Off): 0416-2202708 Fax : 0416 - 2243092, 2240411 E-mail : vitbs_sem13@yahoo.com Website : www.vit.ac.in

VENUE:

606, Smart Class room Silver Jubilee Tower

About the Programme FOR WHOM:

This programme is primarily targeted for the research scholars and faculty members either doing or planning to do research in the area of management and allied. The workshop will be also very useful for those teachers who offering courses in Research methodol-ogy , marketing research, quantitative techniques, Business Intelligence, Business Statistics and Business Analytics who would like to introduce the SEM Using AMOS to their students. OBJECTIVE:

The objective of the workshop is to provide hands on experience to the participants in analyzing and interpreting SEM using IBM SPSS AMOS. The partici-pants will learn about the use of various methods like Mediation and Moderation in research, to build the com-plex models for such analysis.

About SEM : Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with latent variables has been used as the most important techniques for complex models in Business management and social sciences research. SEM Using AMOS been widely used by the researchers in various fields like Marketing Re-search, Health Care, Psychology, Criminology, Sociology and so on. SEM combines Path Analysis, Multiple Regression and Factor Analysis can examine a Simple Relationship at a time. It enables complex causal relationship for series of dependent and independent relationships simultane-ously. PEDAGOGY : The workshop will be skill oriented and would empha-size hands on data analysis using statistical software's. Case studies and exercises will be used to supplement learning. PROGRAMME FACILITATOR: (Prof. CM Maran, Prof B Ravikumar and eminent Resource Persons from reputed Institutions/corporate)

VIT University VIT University, profoundly known as VIT was started in 1984 by Honorable Shri. G. Viswanathan. He is founder chancellor of the University and a former parliamentarian. The sole aim of the University is to provide quality education on par with International Universities at an affordable cost Mr. Sankar Viswanathan, , Mr. Sekar Viswanathan and Mr. G. V. Sel-vam are serving the University as Vice—Presidents. Dr. V. Raju the Vice-Chancellor is spearheading the academic activi-ties in VIT University. VIT is the first Institute in India to get International Accreditation from IET (UK). Teaching at VIT University is structured around six schools of study and many Centers. Research centres are also part of the schools, encouraging interdepartmental collaboration and opportunity for students to participate in exciting research projects. The university offers 18 Undergraduate and 31 Postgraduate programmes. It also offers research programmes leading to MS by Research, M.Phil. and Ph.D degrees. More than 1000 fulltime faculty members work at VIT. As an educational institution offering state-of-the art facilities to students from India and abroad, VIT is fast blossoming into an institution of international repute.

VIT Business School

VIT Business School is a place which fosters innovation. As one of the nine constituent schools of VIT University, it takes pride to be one of the fast growing business schools in the country. The school attracts students from all over the coun-try. and many other foreign nationals. The school has well qualified and industry experience rich faculty with many hold-ing doctoral degrees. Currently, significant number of faculty members are involved in funded research projects too. Inter-national academic partnerships have been established with various foreign universities. VIT Business School is one of India’s leading centre for man-agement education and was established in September 1994. The program offered are: Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (International Busi-ness) [MBA-IB], and Bachelor of Business Administration. VIT Business School’s core competencies are, Infrastructure Management including International Shipping, Logistics Management, Project Management, Intellectual Property Rights, Hands on experience in Supply Chain Lab, Business Simulation, Real Time Business Solutions, Capital Market Simulation, E-Commerce Lab, etc

TOPICS TO BE COVERED (HANDS ON EXPERIENCE)

♦ Introduction to IBM SPSS AMOS

♦ Hands-on-experience in Analysis of Moment Structure

(AMOS)

♦ Introduction to Mediation Analysis

♦ Mediation Analysis Using Bootstrapping

♦ Simple Mediation Models

♦ Multiple Mediation Models (Parallel and Serial Models)

using SPSS and AMOS

♦ Moderation Analysis

♦ Path Analysis

♦ Exploratory Factor Analysis

♦ Introduction to Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) us-

ing AMOS

♦ Interpretation of CFA

♦ Introduction of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

♦ Hand-on-experience in SEM using AMOS

♦ Interpretation of SEM

Registration Fee:

• Rs 1500/- ( One Thousand Five Hundred Only)

(Registration Fee Includes Working Lunch, Course Materi-

als, Latest IBM SPSS AMOS Trail CD) Mode of Payment: Payable by way of Demand Draft drawn in favour of ‘ VIT UNIVERSITY’ payable at Vellore.