MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Project Proposal
Course Project Brief Proposal of Research (Due This Week)
Submit a written Brief Proposal of Research containing the following (copied from Course Home/Course Project
tab):
1.
a brief overview of the chosen organization and your role in it;
2.
a brief narrative description of the organizational problem that you would like to research and resolve;
3.
a preliminary problem statement in the form of a researchable question; and
4.
which TCO or textbook topic your problem is related to.
Week 3 today 09/20/2015
Submit written Brief Proposal of Research containing the following:
1.
A brief overview of the chosen organization and your role in it.
2.
Preliminary problem statement in the form of a researchable question.
3.
A brief narrative description of the organizational problem that you would like to
research and resolve.
4.
Which Terminal Course Objective(s) your problem is related to.
Week 4 09/27/2015
Submit written Expanded Research Proposal containing the following:
1.
Title page and Table of Contents.
2.
Documentation of at least three initial scholarly sources from the library.
3.
Expanded introduction to the organization.
4.
Expanded description of your chosen problem.
5.
Preliminary solution options (can be bullet points).
6.
Preliminary analysis of leadership and organizational behavior concepts addressed in the paper.
Week 5 10/04/2015 week 7 10/18/2015
Continue to work on class project; seek professor help as required.
Week 7 10/18/2015
Submit completed project.
Milestones
WEEK
ACTION REQUIRED
Submit written Brief Proposal of Research containing the following:
1.
Preliminary problem statement in the form of a researchable question.
A brief narrative description of the organizational problem that you would like to
research and resolve.
4.
4
2.
3.
3
A brief overview of the chosen organization and your role in it.
Which Terminal Course Objective(s) your problem is related to.
Submit written Expanded Research Proposal containing the following:
1.
Title page and Table of Contents.
2.
Documentation of at least three initial scholarly sources from the library.
WEEK
ACTION REQUIRED
3.
Expanded introduction to the organization.
4.
Expanded description of your chosen problem.
5.
Preliminary solution options (can be bullet points).
6.
Preliminary analysis of leadership and organizational behavior concepts addressed in
the paper.
5–7
Continue to work on class project; seek professor help as required.
7
Submit completed project.
Project Outline
Your paper must include the following sections:
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Title Page
5
Introduction 10
DESCRIPTION
Title of your applied research paper, course number and title, professor, and
date.
Provide an overview of the organization and your role in it. Give enough
information about the firm to acquaint an unfamiliar person (no matter how
famous the company). Identify name, location, size, market segment (business
line), and a brief history. Identify the essential issues, events, or actions to help
frame the problem and subsequent discussion points.
Identify and clearly state the problem (the leadership or organizational behavior
issue that you have selected to research). The problem statement should be
phrased in terms of a researchable question. For example, if a work group is not
performing effectively, an effective problem statement might be "How can group
performance be improved?"
Problem
Statement
A wellformed problem statement has:
15
1.
Focus: the problem should be well defined and specific enough for the
reader to gain a clear idea of the OB topic area, and the direction of
your study and research.
2.
Structure: if the problem statement is sufficiently focused, it will
provide a basis for decisions about which information to include and
which to exclude from the paper.
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Literature
Review
40
DESCRIPTION
You must address at least six scholarly resources in this section. How:
approach this section as a mini "book report" on each of the reference sources
that significantly informed your analysis and proposed solutions. Give the reader
an encapsulated review of what information you found most relevant to your
research. You may have found conflicting opinions/theories related to your topic
area. Identify and discuss any such contrasts and/or describe in detail significant
agreement among your sources. Your literature review should be separate and
distinct from your analysis section; it is a summation of your research. The goal
should be a paragraph containing a minimum of three to five sentences per
review.
Explore the problem in depth and with scholarly rigor.
Analysis
40
Provide an identification and description of the root causes of the problem/issue.
Be sure not to address only symptoms of your problem. Diagnose the problem
and its origins.
A critical element of this section is to apply leadership and organization concepts
and models from our text, from class discussions, and from your literature
review. Discuss the concepts, ideas, or insights that are most valuable in helping
you make sense of the causes of the problem. Support your analysis with
reference to appropriate research material.
Identify at least three potential workable solutions to your problem, and identify
the pros and cons of each alternative solution and its highlevel implementation
steps.
Solutions
30
Reflection
10
Think about this assignment and write a wellthoughtout reflective statement
about how this assignment influenced your personal, academic, and professional
leadership and managerial development.
10
You must use no fewer than six library resources outside of your textbook.
Identify your preferred solution and describe exactly what should be done and
how it should be done, including by whom, with whom, and in what sequence.
Always explain your thinking behind your final solution set. It’s important to
be clear about why a particular alternative (solution) was chosen, as opposed to
others.
References
All references must be cited in two places: within the body of your paper and on
a separate reference list. Choose references judiciously and cite them accurately.
Cite all sources using APA format.
Please note that citing an author’s work within your text documents your
research, identifies the source for readers, and enables readers to locate the
source of information in the alphabetical reference list at the end of the paper. To
use the ideas or words of another person without crediting the source is
plagiarism. Plagiarism in its purest form involves copying passages either
verbatim or nearly verbatim, with no direct acknowledgment of the source. The
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DESCRIPTION
most common form of plagiarism is to paraphrase information from your source
material. Paraphrasing does not relieve you of the obligation to provide proper
identification of source data. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to make sure
all quotes, ideas, or conclusions that not your own are given proper
acknowledgment in your text.
Total
160
