Objectives:
To develop your primary data research skills
To encourage you to develop a wider network within the business community
Procedures:
Choose one of the following topics:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Leadership Development: Practices and Performance
Organizational Stress, Causes, and Consequences: What Organizations are doing about it?
Job Satisfaction and the Consequences of Job dissatisfaction
Motivation in Organizations
How to Build an Effective Team?
Role of HR in business performance
Organizational structure and performance
Organizational culture: what is it how does it affect the organization?
1.Select an organization in the university’s surrounding area as the focus for your paper and identify an appropriate individual; (not a relative, a professor or another student) who holds a managerial position with responsibilities in the area you are researching. Don’t be timid about asking – companies are usually very receptive to students. Schedule a 20-30 minute interview with them. Don’t wait until the last minute for this – interviews sometimes must be rearranged to accommodate travel schedules, emergencies and other priorities – give yourself plenty of leeway!
2.Develop appropriate interview questions. The questions must be in written form and a copy of your questions will need to be attached to your paper as an appendix. You’ll probably want to read up on your subject before you formulate the questions. Many of your questions should center around the subject that you are learning about.
3.Conduct your interview with your subject, and analyze your interview results, comparing the information you obtained to the expectations you had going into the interview.
4.Prepare an APA formatted typed, double-spaced paper (no less than four full 12 font pages and no more than five) reporting your findings. Be sure to properly cite any articles you used in the preparation of your paper. Note that simply reporting the answers to the questions you asked is not sufficient. Do not use a Q&A format for your paper!!!
You should have an additional page for bibliography (references). Use no fewer than three (3) resources, NOT including your text, which you may also cite. The Internet should NOT be used as a resource. If you are unfamiliar with the APA guidelines on plagiarism, please read them on the Internet or at the library, and be careful not to plagiarize.
A library/ProQuest search of periodicals containing articles relating to selected topics should be used to illustrate your understanding of each topic and show how they can effectively assist the achievement of corporate/organizational goals. Identification of operational impediments and behavioral constraints, and steps taken to resolve these issues will elevate the quality of the term paper. The term paper will be 20% of the final grade.
5.At the end of the paper, type the name of the person you interviewed, their title, business address, and phone number. Be sure to send them a thank you note for their assistance. This paper is due on or before your class Mar 10th , 2016 18:50.
6.A grading rubric will be posted on Blackboard.
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