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Research Study Review: Employee Development Assignment

Overview

This assignment will increase your understanding of performance management and give you a greater awareness of the research related to the topic. The summaries are designed towards concentration on the most important aspects of the research study by following set guidelines that keep the focus of the review on the most critical aspects of the study. This will help you not only in this course but with future research and coursework as well.

Instructions

Using current APA style the review must include the following:

· Title page

· Specific sections, each with an appropriately formatted APA heading:

· Introduction (no heading) – title of article and author(s); why the article was written (purpose)

· Hypothesis - what it attempts to find or answer, include each hypothesis

· Methodology - how it answers the hypothesis, process, population, statistical tests used

· Results – what were the outcomes; provide the significance levels

· Discussion - what the results actually mean, how is it applicable, why is it important in the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology

· Reference list

Additional requirements of the assignment:

· Length of assignment: 500 words

· Excludes title page and reference section

· Do not use direct quotes

· Current APA formatting

· Your only citation will be the study that you are reviewing

· Acceptable sources are quantitative research studies published within the last five years

TEACHER FEEDBACK FROM PREVIUS RESEARCH STUDY

Teacher Comments

The introduction needs to include the title of article and names of each author(s) You are required to use a quantitative study for this assignment. Without a quantitative study you are not able to provide the hypotheses, explain how the methodology was used to answer the hypotheses, or explain the statistical tests used, or share the significance levels in the results section