individual Paper ● You are to assume the role of an HR/OB consultant. Your task

individual Paper
● You are to assume the role of an HR/OB consultant. Your task is to advise HR managers
looking for background information, best practices, and guidance on your chosen HRM/OB
topic. Many HR managers are behind in terms of issues that will help them to recruit,
motivate and retain employees. As a result, you have been asked to analyze an important
topic as a priority for HR managers to begin to move their companies forward in terms of
knowledge and understanding in this area. Your research should inform your advice and
recommendations to other HR managers struggling to impact employee’s attitudes and
behaviors in measurable ways.
Good sources for ideas may be newspapers, magazines, current events, reality TV, etc. You
are welcome to frame your analysis objectively or to develop a thesis and defend it.
PAPER CONTENT
 Describe and define the HR/OB phenomena. Give sufficient detail to provide a clear
understanding of how organizational practices may be impacted by the chosen topic. To
support this descriiption, provide an example from an organization where the topic has been
raised as an issue including evidence of the positive and negative results. You may draw this
example from the popular press or from real life examples that you glean from
discussions/interviews with business contacts.
 Make the strategic business case for how this issue can impact employees’ attitudes and
behaviors. What types of tangible and intangible benefits can be realized by understanding
your phenomenon? Explain your rationale.
 Briefly describe a study that you might conduct to further understanding in the area of your
chosen topic. What measures will be important? How will you collect the data? What do you expect to find as a result of the study that you recommended? Also, report any findings of
data that you collected through interviews or archival data.
 Outline a plan to measure the changes that HR managers should make in response to your
presentation and provide recommendations that include action items that can be followed by
HR managers.
KEY THİNGS
submitting an MSWord document
 Turnitin.com score should not exceed 25% including references
 Writing should be concise and non-redundant – use the feedback from your peers and
ProComms to improve the quality of your draft
 Incorporate at least 4 outside sources to develop knowledge about the topic, for example,
presenting statistics on the prevalence of the problem or phenomenon. Useful sources are popular
business publications (e.g., Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune) and HR-specific
publications (e.g., HRMagazine). Online newsletters and blogs are not acceptable sources.
 Use ~2/3 specific course concepts/theories to analyze the topic
o Define the theory from readings/lecture
o Use the theory or concept to analyze
 Explain the “So what?” of the topic & discuss the broader implications for the real world &
management practices, all in a creative/unique way.
 Embed at least one figure and one table within the body of the Apaperppropriately cite all of the references used throughout the paper (not included in the word limit).
Use APA 7 formatting.
 No more than 1200 works of double-spaced text (one-inch margins, Times New Roman 12-point
font). The cover page, references, and any appendices do not count toward the word limi