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Description of LASA:
Choose an industrial/organizational (I/O) topic of interest. A nonexhaustive list of research topic suggestions includes leadership, job satisfaction, organizational culture, measuring performance, work–life balance, compensation, selection, recruitment, retention, employee engagement, training, and emotional intelligence.
Once you have selected your topic, you will conduct a literature review on that topic. Locate three scholarly peer-reviewed articles (published within the last five to seven years) that have investigated your research topic:
- One of the articles needs to have employed an experimental research design.
- One of the articles needs to have employed a quasi-experimental research design.
- One of the articles needs to have employed a mixed-methods research design.
Tasks:
Read, summarize, analyze, and critique each of the articles. For each article, your analysis should:
- Summarize the results of the study.
- Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the research.
- Discuss the appropriateness of the research design for the study, the reliability, the validity, sampling methods, and any potential bias.
- Identify any ethical or diversity issues.
Having reviewed the same topic from a variety of research design approaches, reflect on what you have learned about the specific industrial/organizational (I/O) topic itself, as well as the impact that the research method employed had on the knowledge gained from the study. Be sure to include these reflections in the conclusion of your paper.
Write a 7- to 9-page paper based on your literature review, utilizing the three scholarly sources you review. Make sure you employ proper grammar and spelling and apply current APA standards for writing style to your work.
Use the following headings to organize your paper:
- Research design methods defined:
- Experimental
- Strengths and limitations
- Quasi-experimental
- Strengths and limitations
- Mixed methods
- Strengths and limitations
- Industrial/organizational (I/O) topic area of interest
- Experimental design study summary:
- Results
- Experimental design study analysis and critique
- Strengths and weaknesses of the study
- Ethical, legal, and/or diversity considerations
- Quasi-experimental design study summary
- Results
- Quasi-experimental design study analysis and critique
- Strengths and weaknesses of the study
- Ethical, legal, and/or diversity considerations
- Mixed-methods research design study summary:
- Results
- Mixed-methods research design study analysis and critique
- Strengths and weaknesses of the study
- Ethical, legal, and/or diversity considerations
- Conclusion
- References
Submission Details:
- By Wednesday, February 10, 2016, save your paper into a Microsoft Word document as M5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc and submit it to the M5 Assignment 2 LASA Dropbox.
This LASA is worth 280 points and will be graded according to the following rubric.
| Assignment Components |
Proficient |
Max Points |
| Summarize the results of the study.
CO: 4
PO: 1, 2, 4
ILO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 |
Summary of each article clearly and accurately describes the type of design and overall results of the study. |
/48 pts. |
| Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the research.
CO: 4
PO: 1, 2, 4
ILO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 |
Evaluation provides specific examples of advantages and disadvantages of using each research design. Strategies to alleviate disadvantages are suggested. |
/60 pts. |
| Discuss the appropriateness of the research design for the study, the reliability, validity, sampling methods, and potential bias.
CO: 4
PO: 1, 2, 4
ILO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 |
Discussion justifies the design used for each article. Explanation of each article’s reliability, validity, sampling methods, and potential bias is clear, and judgment of appropriateness is justified. |
/60 pts. |
| Identify any ethical or diversity issues
CO: 5
PO: 1, 2, 3, 5
ILO: 2, 4, 5, 6 |
All relevant ethical or diversity issues and/or problems are identified. |
/60 pts. |
| Reflect on what you have learned about the specific I/O topic itself, as well as the impact that the research method employed had on the knowledge gained from the study.
CO: 2
PO: 1, 2, 4
ILO: 1, 2, 3, 6 |
Reflection provides insight on the impact of the topic to I/O as a whole. Reflection provides judgment of the effect of the method used in each study to knowledge gained in the literature review. |
/24 pts. |
| Academic Writing |
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| Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e. APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
PO: 4
ILO: 2 |
Written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in appropriate and accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Use of scholarly sources aligns with specified assignment requirements. |
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