Research refers to a careful investigation or inquiry to gain new knowledge. It involves systematically analyzing a problem by breaking it into components and studying it in light of basic assumptions. Research is significant as it promotes logical thinking and aids in developing policies and solving operational problems in business, industry, and social sciences. It provides intellectual and practical benefits by advancing existing knowledge and helping solve problems in a more efficient manner.

1. SIGNIFICANCE OF
RESEARCH
PRESENTED BY- MD AZIZUR RAHMAN
MLIS(3RD SEMESTER)
ROLL NO.15390011

2. WHAT IS RESEARCH ?
 Research common sense of the term refers to a search for
knowledge. Research is a part and parcel of human
knowledge.
 Research may be defined as a ‘careful critical enquiry or
examination in seeking facts or principles; diligent
investigation in order to ascertain something’.
 It is a scientific and systematic search for pertinent
information on specific topic. It is an art and as well as
science of investigation.

3. CONT…..
 The advanced Learners’s Dictionary of current English
defined as “a careful investigation or inquiry specially
through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge.”
 Redman and Mory define research as a “systematized
effort to gain new knowledge”. Some people consider
research as a movement,a movement from the known to
the unknown.
 According to J.H.Shera, “Research is an intellectual
process whreby a problem is perceived, divided into its
constituent elements, and analysed in the light of certain
basic assumptions”.

4. SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH
 According to Hudson Maxim Significance as, “All progress is born of
inquiry. Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to
inquiry and inquiry leads to investigation”
 Research inculcates scientific and inductive thinking and it promotes
the development of logical habits of thinking and organization.
 The role of research in several fields of applied economics, whether
related to business or to the economy as a whole, has greatly
increased in modern times.
 Research provides the basic for nearly all government policies in our
economic system.

5. CONT…..
 Research provides the basis for nearly all government policies in our
economic system.
 Research has its special significance in solving various operational and
planning problems of business and industry. In several ways,
operations research, market research and motivational research are
vital and their results assist in taking business decisions.
 Research is equally important for social scientists in studying social
relationships and in seeking answers to various social problems. It
gives intellectual satisfaction of knowing things for the sake of
knowledge. It also possesses the practical utility for the social
scientist to gain knowledge so as to be able to do something better or
In a more efficient manner.

6. CONCLUSION
 Research is, thus, an original contribution to the existing stock of
knowledge making for its advancement. It is the pursuit of truth with
the help of study, observation, comparison and experiment.
 In short, the search for knowledge through objective and systematic
method of finding solution to a problem is research.
 The systematic approach concerning generalization and the
formulation of a theory is also research.

7. REFERENCES
 Kumar, Ranjit, Research Methodology-a step-by-step guide
for beginners, sage publications, 2011
 Kothari, C.R., Research Methodology-Methods and
Techniques, New Wiley Eastern Ltd., Delhi, 2009
 Chaudhary,C.M., Research Methodology, RBSA
Publishers,2009