Management Research Paper

Research Paper:

• Identify an organization whose leaders apply a unique management technique. The selected organization must have enough written about it on the web, in magazines, or in journal articles to provide enough information for a research paper. The organization may be a non-profit. Research the organization and write a paper including the following:

o Basic info - brief history, product(s), geographical scope of operations, etc.

o Identify and describe what is unique in the organization’s management technique.

o Connect the organization’s unique management technique to one (or multiple) of the four

management functions: planning, organizing, leading, or controlling.

o Summary- Your assessment of the unique management technique applied?

 Important section.

 Separate sub-heading.

 Use the knowledge gained from class.

 What do you see as the positives and negatives of the management techniques applied?

• Spelling and grammar will affect grade.

• Write paper from a business standpoint.

o Use business terminology (Examples: profit, return, market, market share, strategy, etc. Use terms from class).

• A minimum of three published articles required as sources

o Web site sources can be used in addition to the three published articles.

o “Open-source” web sites (Wikipedia) not allowed.

• APA format.

o Include a bibliography.

o Parenthetical referencing.

o Abstract not required.

• Formatting

o Title page

 Good title

 Course

 Date

 Author

o Subheads required

 Bold

 Flush left

o Header

 Right side

 Author’s last name

 Page number

 Title page not included in page numbers

o Font – 12pt Times Roman

 Double space

o Boarders – normal

o Staple – upper left (no binders)

o For sample of format, see example on s-drive (riwillia)

• Base paper on research, not personal experience.

• Three to five pages of text (not including the bibliography), double spaced.

• Papers will be ranked and graded with a rubric. You are competing against your class mates. Ralph will select best papers for presentation to class.

o If selected, if present when called to present, and if presentation is good, the lowest quiz/homework grade after the drops will be converted to 100.

o No Power Point needed for the presentation – summarize the paper and share your assessment of the management

• Papers will be submitted on d2l to a drop box and will be checked for plagiarism

o Plagiarism could result in a zero grade for the assignment

o It is the student’s responsibility to know what plagiarism is and guard against it!