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Objective: Research shows that people learn effectively when working on real problems grounded in their own work experience. To this end, our course project is designed to incorporate students' work experience into the learning process in this course.
The project is an opportunity to explore, in-depth, a topic related to the course objectives (TCOs) that is of significance to you or your organization (current or former).
Guidelines: Topic Selection
Select a specific organization of interest to you and identify a problem at the firm related to organizational behavior (OB).
Think of yourself as an organizational consultant and assume that a key manager has requested a thorough analysis and recommended course of action to resolve an actual organizational problem that will make a difference to the future performance of the organization.
Identify which of our TCOs or specific topics in the syllabus are related to the problem you identify.
1. Familiarize yourself with course content and select an organization and problem area to research.
2. Submit written project proposal containing the following:
A brief overview of the chosen organization and your role in it
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
Which TCO or textbook topic your problem is related to
3. Conduct library research on your topic.
Identify a minimum of six scholarly resources for your project.
All resources for the paper must come from the DeVry library and must be of scholarly quality.
Use the librarians for assistance in accessing materials.
Review the "using EBSCO" tutorial.
4. Submit written project outline containing the following:
Documentation of at least three initial scholarly sources from the library
Expanded introduction to the organization
Expanded description of your chosen problem
Preliminary solution options (bulleted)
Preliminary analysis of leadership and organizational behavior concepts addressed in the paper.
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