Research paper

 

Major Assignment 3 – Final Exam Research project – (200 points) – Due February 24

You can pick 1 of any of the 5 options below.

Write a 10-11page paper (not including the cover page and reference page) double spaced 12-point type. This paper must be written in proper APA format and must have in-text citations.  You must describe your approach using concepts in terms from the textbook (A minimum of 5 different terms). You must also use a minimum of 10 additional different articles or books as references along with your textbook. This paper is to be written in APA format and must have in-text citations (References embedded in your paragraphs) If you mention a term or concept from the book that is not your own, you should have reference in proper APA format at the end of that sentence that mentions that term. A sample paper with format is in the link below:

http://www.csun.edu/~hbsoc126/soc4/Writing%20Sample%20and%20Refernce%20Guide%20as%201%20file.pdf

Link

http://arts-sciences.und.edu/psychology/_files/docs/tips-apapaper-2011.pdf

link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YroNRkrQ98M

1. Paper option 1- Research the US Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Pregnancy discrimination involves treating a woman (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because of pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth. Your organization just had to had to pay a major lawsuit based on pregnancy discrimination. Your job is to develop a strategy on how you will address the problem so that this issue does not happen again.  You are to also develop some innovative strategies and policies to make the organizational culture more mother friendly and more supportive of women that are pregnant. You must describe your approach using concepts in terms from the textbook (A minimum of 5 different terms). You must also use a minimum of 10 additional different articles or books as references along with your textbook. This paper is to be written in APA format and must have in-text citations (References embedded in your paragraphs). You must address the following in your paper:

• How this issue can distress the organization?
• How this issue can distress employees?
• How this issue can disturb the organizational culture?
• How this issue can distress business or the organizational brand?

The link below can help you with developing the approach for your paper.

https://www.google.com/search?ei=l_sjXOa_IOKmggfO8Kr4CA&q=pregnancy+discrimination+and+npr&oq=pregnancy+discrimination+and+npr&gs_l=psy-ab.12...105566.120739..122787...8.0..0.102.3445.47j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i7i30j0i8i7i30j0i8i30j33i10.Gsd3uTQQN_A

1. Paper option 2- Disability discrimination occurs when an employer or other entity covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended, or the Rehabilitation Act, as amended, treats a qualified individual with a disability who is an employee or applicant unfavorably because she has a disability. Harassment against people in the workplace with a disability is illegal. Harassment can include, for example, offensive remarks about a person's disability. Although the law doesn't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that aren't very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).The law requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodation to an employee or job applicant with a disability, unless doing so would cause significant difficulty or expense for the employer ("undue hardship"). Your senior leaders have asked you to develop a strategy to recruit, hire, and retain more highly qualified employees with disabilities. You are not to lower your hiring standards in order to do this. You need to develop a strategy that addresses all the following:

• What disabled groups (blind, hearing impaired, or etc) will you target to recruit for hiring?
• How would you target them and recruit them? What exact approach would you use?
• What steps you would put in place to make the organizational culture friendlier and more inclusive for people with disabilities?
• What kind of training, if any, would you do for hiring managers around recruiting people with disabilities?  
• You must describe your approach using concepts in terms from the textbook (A minimum of 5 different terms). You must also use a minimum of 10 additional different articles or books as references along with your textbook. This paper is to be written in APA format and must have in-text citations (References embedded in your paragraphs).

These links might help you.

Meet the paralyzed surgeon who can still performs surgeries thanks to his determination and a remarkable stand-up wheelchair

https://www.dailyrounds.org/blog/the-paralyzed-surgeon-who-can-still-performs-surgeries-thanks-to-his-determination-and-a-remarkable-stand-up-wheelchair/

We Need More Doctors With Disabilities

One-fifth of all Americans have a disability, but less than 1 percent of doctors do. That’s slowly starting to change—to the benefit of medicine and patients.

https://slate.com/technology/2017/07/increasing-the-number-of-doctors-with-disabilities-would-improve-health-care.html

Doctors With Disabilities: Why They’re Important

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/upshot/doctors-with-disabilities-why-theyre-important.html

Doctors With Disabilities Push For Culture Change In Medicine

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/06/635414552/doctors-with-disabilities-push-for-culture-change-in-medicine

America Needs More Doctors With Disabilities

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-america-needs-more-doctors-with-disabilities_us_5bc9e59de4b055bc947feebd

New medical devices help doctors with disabilities

https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/new-medical-devices-help-doctors-disabilities

1. Paper option 3- Woman represent 47% of the US Workforce and yet only 3% of the managers in your organization are women. Your job is to do research on how more highly qualified women into management positions. Your job is to develop a strategy to get more highly qualified women into roles. You must describe your approach using concepts in terms from the textbook (A minimum of 5 different terms or concepts). You must also use a minimum of 10 additional different articles or books as references along with your textbook. This paper is to be written in APA format and must have in-text citations (References embedded in your paragraphs). You must address the following in your paper:

• How would you recruit more highly qualified women into the organization?
• How would you change the culture to make the organizational culture friendlier and more inclusive of women?
• What kind of leadership development or mentoring programs would you develop or create to help more highly qualified women get into to management roles?
• What adjustments would you make to the structure and demographics of the hiring panels to ensure to ensure that highly qualified women would be evaluated more fairly and unbiasedly?

1. Paper option 4- Your organization is a retail chain that has high turnover, 75% higher than your biggest competitor. You also have a huge number of job openings that are currently unfilled. To address the issue, you must do some research and you must fully address the following:

• What kind of impact does high turnover have on the organization?
• Develop a strategy to address the organizational culture to find out with employee turnover is so high.
• Do some research on employee retention and creative recruiting and hiring approaches in retail.
• Develop some incentives to retain more employees.    
• Develop a strategy to change the organizational culture so that employees will want to stay.
• You must describe your approach using concepts in terms from the textbook (A minimum of 5 different terms or concepts). You must also use a minimum of 10 additional different articles or books as references along with your textbook. This paper is to be written in APA format and must have in-text citations (References embedded in your paragraphs).

1. Paper option 5- you have been brought in as a consultant to address the organizational behavior issues around sexual harassment at the John Besh restaurants. The links below can help.

Work After #MeToo: A Restaurant Company Tries to Change Its Culture

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/20/668211164/work-after-metoo-a-restaurant-company-tries-to-change-its-culture

John Besh restaurants fostered culture of sexual harassment, 25 women say

https://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2017/10/john_besh_restaurants_fostered.html

The links below can help with developing your approach  

https://www.google.com/search?q=sexual+harrassment+training+and+NPR&oq=sexual+harrassment+training+and+NPR&aqs=chrome..69i57.12614j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Link

https://www.google.com/search?ei=nv0jXMDBA4Ss_Qb6lbBA&q=harvard+business+review+sexual+harassment&oq=havard+business+review+and+sexual+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i22i30.327083.347710..349664...28.0..0.101.4525.57j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0j0i71j0i131j0i67j0i10j0i5i10i30j0i13j0i13i10j0i13i30j0i13i10i30j0i8i13i30j33i22i29i30.JqEXexECQxc

You need to come up with a plan to address this issues around organizational behavior:

• How this issue can distress the organization?
• How this issue can distress employees?
• How this issue can disturb the organizational culture?
• How this issue can distress business or the organizational brand?
• You must describe your approach using concepts in terms from the textbook (A minimum of 5 different terms or concepts). You must also use a minimum of 10 additional different articles or books as references along with your textbook. This paper is to be written in APA format and must have in-text citations (References embedded in your paragraphs).