RESEARCH OUTLINE

Instructions:

Using your knowledge of the individual aspects of organizational behavior and leadership we have gathered in Chapters 1 through 17, develop a research project that you could theoretically execute. Think about your own working life or issues you have read about in the workplace. What is an important question that needs to be answered? What is a problem you have seen that research might be able to fix?

Specifically, prepare a research outline as prescribed in this Research Outline Template. You should use this template as just that, a template. The location for your title, the headings for each section are provided, and detailed instructions/examples are provided. Your submission should be 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins. This guidance is in addition to specific formatting guidance related to the Annotated Bibliography. Please submit as either a Word document or PDF. Use appropriate professional grammar, sentence structure, spelling, organization, and so on. In general, the outline will be assessed based on the organization of ideas and information, coverage of the selected topic, inclusion of key sources, and content. See rubric for additional details.

The above should be deleted and your research outline will start at the title below.

Title of Research

Topic: Provide the topic your research will cover (Example: Personality, Integrity, Leading with Emotion, Leading Teams, Conflict, Motivation, etc.). This is likely a specific topic we covered in the textbook.

Research Question: Provide the question that your research would answer. Research questions should be concise, on the point, and inform the reader what to expect throughout your work. (1 question)

Introduction: Introduce your research by outlining the history of research in this topic area and where it should be headed. What problem are you trying to fix? Why is this a problem? What is the background of the problem or research topic? What has been said about the topic before? Where do researchers think the research should be investigating? (Between and 1 page, all page lengths based on formatting standard)

So What: Explain why this research would matter for either educational purposes, to help inform practice in organizations, or both. Why should the reader care? Why is this important to investigate? (Maximum page)

Thesis Statement: Answer your research question based on the articles you reviewed for this project. What would you expect to find if you performed this research? (2-3 sentences)

Annotated Bibliography: The expectation is to review and provide an annotated bibliography for 3 scholarly articles. These annotations will be both descriptive and evaluative. Meaning, you will first summarize the arguments and findings of the article. Then, you will examine the consider the logic of authors’ arguments and the quality of their evidence. Finally, you will explain why the source is relevant to your research.

What is a scholarly article? It is a peer reviewed journal article. It is usually a 4000-8000 word article published in an academic journal. Journal articles are considered the best sources for essays because they:

• Have been blind peer reviewed. This means that two experts who dont know the author read the article and critiqued it;
• Have been written by an expert;
• Are generally written by the person who conducted the original research. This means its information straight from the original source.

So, how do you find scholarly articles? The textbook provides references in the endnotes of each chapter. Often, these references will provide you with scholarly articles to track down. Google Scholar also provides an avenue for finding scholarly articles. This source allows you to look up articles based on the topic you choose. By examining the amount of times the article has been cited, you can get a sense of how important the article is to your topic. You can also investigate the journal the article was published in by searching for it on the Australian Business Deans Council journal list (). A journal on this list has been vetted and deemed scholarly. One shortcoming of using Google Scholar is that you might not find access to the article there. In this scenario, you would need to go to the USM library website and search for the article (). If there are further questions on this topic, please reach out.

Per APA standards, the annotated bibliography should follow this format:

• The text and the reference list should be double-spaced.
• Numbering starts on the title page, at the top right of the page.
• Reference list entries must have a hanging indent (to do this in Microsoft Word 2003, click Format, then Paragraph, then Special, and choose Hanging).
• There should be 1 inch (2.54 cm) margins all around (top, bottom, left, and right) on each page.
• Use Times Roman font, or a similar serif font.
• Each paragraph should be indented.

I HAVE ATTACHED THE DIRECTIONS AS WELL. COME UP WITH A TOPIC. SAMPLE RESEARCH IS ATTACHED.