Develop a literature review (the articles/references to be reviewed are on the next page) between 5-7 scholarly resources, including mostly research studies related to your topic. Information should be drawn from scholarly sources (preferably within the past 10 years), such as professional journals, books, and dissertations. – This paper must be apa formatted
Writing a literature review requires not only summarizing individual studies, but also involves an examination or evaluation of studies in relation to the topic or research area. Some common purposes of literature reviews include: identifying and outlining relevant and existing knowledge on a topic; identifying gaps in research; evaluating and synthesizing information available in line with your own research topic; justifying a rationale for your own research; and evaluating current research. The Mongan & Rallis (2006) website will provide you with guidelines and examples regarding how to develop a literature review.
Your literature review should include the following
- Rationale/Problem Statement for the research topic of your choice: My topic is what is involved in making employees happy? Is it a mangers attitude, organizational culture, financial rewards? If these needs are met, are they more productive? Make a case for why this topic is important to the field of psychology.
- Research questions you have developed for your topic: What factors should be considered to make your employees happy? Are employees more productive when they are happy?
- A 5-6 page literature review on the 5-7 articles you selected: Read your articles thoroughly and provide a literature review that synthesizes what was theorized and discovered about regarding your topic. Do not write separate “summaries” for each article; rather, find connected themes or relationships in the different areas you cover. Use these relationships to frame your discussion of how variables were indicated, samples were obtained, and research designs were constructed. Are there any gaps or weaknesses present in the literature that can be investigated further? You will not necessarily refer to all the information from each article; instead, relate only that which is relevant to your topic and research question. Thus, your literature review should justify your study and support why conducting your proposed study would answer a problem that is not already well understood.
- Hypotheses that you want to test: If employees are happy at the job, there will be a boost in the company’s productivity.
- Dependent and independent variables: Operationally define the dependent and independent variables for each hypothesis
Independent variables: managers attitudes, organizational culture, personal problems, job content and financial rewards
Dependent variables – performance of the employees