Students will develop a research paper on a topic related to human resources management. The topic must be approved in advance by the instructor (Approved for Union/Management Relations). The research paper must meet the two conditions:
(1) it must be a research project (i.e., involve research articles and analysis) and
(2) it must be clearly relevant to human resources and personnel management.
The research paper will be a minimum of 5 (five) pages and a maximum of 7 (seven) pages, it should reference a minimum of 6 (six) scholarly articles. This page count does not include the title page, abstract, tables, graphics, and reference pages. Each student is expected to find relevant, recent, and credible research. Under no circumstances will references from dictionaries, the classroom textbook, or encyclopedias be accepted as references, including online sources such as Wikipedia.
NOTE: Instructor is very strict on plagiarism and APA formatting and strongly suggest reviewing originality report and ensure that less than 15% of paper is from other papers, periodicals, journals, etc. and must appropriately cite all your sources. Submitting a paper that was previously turned in for another class is unacceptable and will result in a 0.