BUSINESS RESEARCH

Coquitlam College Fall 2021

_____________________________________________________________________________________ BUSI 272 Organizational Behaviour

BUSI 272 Research Essay

Task:

You are a team of OB experts who are tasked to research into one or more organizational

behaviour (OB) variable(s) that would contribute or enhance organizational effectiveness.

Deliverables:

The deliverable would be a research essay on a topic in Organizational Behaviour, that would

contribute to organizational effectiveness.

Your team will need to research and document your findings; into a report essay of at least 10

pages in length, excluding the cover page, table of contents, figures, references, citations and

appendices.

Your team will need to research, confirm and submit your proposed topic for the Research

Essay, using the Research Essay Proposal form online, by 16th September (Week 2) before the

start of our online class.

The due date for this research essay will be on 28th October 2021 (week 8) at the beginning of

the class. References should be cited in your research essay ie. where a particular

research/reference is taken either from textbooks, web sites or publications. You should adopt

the APA Citation Style for all your references.

Your research essay will be evaluated based on the following four criteria:

• Content

o Is the information relevant?

o Is the coverage of the topic complete?

• Organization

o Is the information easy to locate?

o Are transitions between topics identifiable?

o Are information research in the paper properly cited?

• Format

o Is the format of report consistent?

• Mechanics

o Are words spelled correctly?

o Is it grammatically correct?

o Is the writing style effective?