June 2026 Live Online Short Course
R Tools for Management Research
Dr. Scott Tonidandel
Monday, June 8 – Thursday, June 11 | 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Course Description
This course will provide a gentle introduction to the R computing platform and the R-Studio interface. We will cover the basics of R such as importing and exporting data, understanding R data structures, and R packages. You will also learn strategies for data manipulation within R (compute, recode, selecting cases, etc.) and best practices for data management. We will work through examples of how to conduct basic statistical analyses in R (e.g. descriptive, correlation, regression). We will then progress to some intermediate topics such as graphing and plotting in R, table creation, and leveraging R workflows for research. Finally, we will explore user-defined functions in R and lay the groundwork for understanding how to perform more complex analyses presented in other CARMA short courses.
Meet the Instructor
Scott Tonidandel, PhD is Professor of Management in the Belk College of Business and Director of the Organizational Science Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. Scott received his M.A. & Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from Rice University and his B.A. from Davidson College. Scott’s research interests include issues related to leadership effectiveness, the impact of diversity in organizations, and research methods and statistics including the interface of big data and the organizational sciences. Currently, Scott is working on a programmatic research stream focused on leveraging AI to measure leader behaviors for assessment and developmental purposes. Scott serves as an associate editor for Personnel Psychology and the Journal of Business and Psychology, is a former associate editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Research Methods. He is a fellow of SIOP, APA and APS.