HRM Practices and Employees' Motivation Alignment to Understand Performance

II. The Brief Research Summary Option – 1.0 credit per paper. Reading original, peer-reviewed research papers is a skill that will enhance your understanding of the scientific process. You can earn 1.0 research credit for each summary you write providing that your paper meets the following criteria. Failure to comply with the following 6 criteria will result in no credit for your paper.
1. You must select an article on a topic related to MGB 301, such as job performance, job satisfaction, stress, wellbeing, trust and justice, Perception and learning, Team Characteristics, Team Processes & Diversity, Power & Influence, Leadership style and behaviors, Organizational Culture, Negotiation.
A. A peer-reviewed journal (available online through UB Libraries’ EBSCO database). This does not include general newspapers or magazines.
B. The paper must have been published no more than 6 months prior to the date you hand it in.
C. The paper must contain empirical results (i.e., report the results of an experiment or survey conducted by the author and discussed in the article).
2. You must provide the first page of the article. If handing in via email, you can send the entire article, or screenshot the first page.
3. You must write a one-page summary of the research article that describes the article in your own words.
Some areas you might cover in your summary are: hypotheses (what was being tested), participants, Results (whether the hypotheses were supported), and discussion or what the experimenters concluded. These are ideas only; you may summarize the article in any way you wish.
4. Plagiarism will be dealt with according to university policy. DO NOT copy from the article. Cite any ideas that are not your own.
Each paper is expected to take approximately 1 hour or less of your time and the length should be about 1 page of
double-spaced 12-point Times type.