question archive To facilitate professor, GTA, and peer review group reading & feedback, written submissions that do not use the following formatting will be penalized 5% for each formatting element lacking (up to a maximum of 25% on a single submission): - Font: 12-point Times New Roman - Formatting: APA Formatting - Margins: 1
To facilitate professor, GTA, and peer review group reading & feedback, written submissions that do not use the following formatting will be penalized 5% for each formatting element lacking (up to a maximum of 25% on a single submission): - Font: 12-point Times New Roman - Formatting: APA Formatting - Margins: 1
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To facilitate professor, GTA, and peer review group reading & feedback, written submissions that do not use the following formatting will be penalized 5% for each formatting element lacking (up to a maximum of 25% on a single submission):
- Font: 12-point Times New Roman
- Formatting: APA Formatting
- Margins: 1.25 inches (not 1)
- Page Numbers: Bottom (center preferred)
- Spacing: Double (not 1.5)
- Word Count: List Word Count on Final Page
Prompt: According to Bloomsburg Businessweek (https://www.bloomberg.com/business- schools/2018/insights/students-loans/), approximately 50% of graduates of top MBA programs owe at least $100,000 in debt.
Personal debt has traditionally been viewed as an issue external to the organization, but the stress a debt load can put on workers often has effects on the workplace. The CEO of your mid-sized organization usually only considers job candidates with MBAs for management roles.
You will write a proposal and researched report for the CEO, based in your knowledge of organizational behavior research, on how the effects of employee student debt impact the functioning and decision-making of organizations. You should also make recommendations (again, based on research) about what steps the company should take to attract and retain the best candidates for its management positions.
You might think about the issue not only in terms of their effects on individual motivation and work-life balance, but also with respect to how managers’ student debt might affect or be indicative of their leadership characteristics (i.e., risk-aversion), or how student debt might have implications for organizational growth possibilities. There are a number of perspectives you can take, but your argument should be founded in organizational behavior theory and research.
The goal of a research proposal is to present and justify the need to study a research problem and to present the practical ways in which the proposed research should be conducted.
In this formal research proposal you should inform your audience (the CEO) about your purpose for writing your white paper. The proposal should clearly outline your research question and interest. This is where you should begin to narrow your thesis statement.
It will be necessary to do some reading/researching to figure out exactly what you intend to argue. Your textbook will be a helpful starting point for finding OB theories to inform your argument. The sources consulted in this preliminary research process should be cited in correct APA formatting.
Your research proposal should address the following questions:
1. What do you plan to accomplish? Be clear and succinct in defining the research problem and what it is you are proposing to research.
2. Why do you want to do it? Be sure to answer the "So What?" question.
3. How are you going to do it? Be sure that what you propose is doable.
