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Term Project: Warning: Plagiarism in Any Manner, Shape or Form Will Result in An F Grade!

1. Students are required to write a 2000-4000 word business report examining how organizational behavior theory can be applied to solve a real problem in a company with at least 100 employees. 2. Teams of 1-3 students must conduct an interview with a manager or higher-level employee at the chosen company to collect primary data on an organizational behavior-related issue impacting company performance. 3. The report should present the problem, apply relevant concepts from the course to analyze it, and be double-spaced with proper formatting and free of plagiarism. It will be graded on thoroughness, originality, clear presentation, grammar and more.

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Term Project: Warning: Plagiarism in Any Manner, Shape or Form Will Result in An F Grade!

1. Students are required to write a 2000-4000 word business report examining how organizational behavior theory can be applied to solve a real problem in a company with at least 100 employees. 2. Teams of 1-3 students must conduct an interview with a manager or higher-level employee at the chosen company to collect primary data on an organizational behavior-related issue impacting company performance. 3. The report should present the problem, apply relevant concepts from the course to analyze it, and be double-spaced with proper formatting and free of plagiarism. It will be graded on thoroughness, originality, clear presentation, grammar and more.

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TERM PROJECT

(20 marks)

You are required to write a business report of 2000-4000 words on an OB related topic. Longer
reports are acceptable, shorter reports will result in a poor grade.
The objective of this business report is to examine and document in some detail how the
theory taught in this course may be applied in practice to solve an OB related problem in a
real-life business organization.
Choose any reasonably sized company/institution (except educational institutions) operating in
Pakistan making any product or service, profit or non-profit, national or multinational, public or
privately owned. Choose a company employing at least 100 employees. The target organization
must have proper and formalized operating policies/practices.
Select a recent issue or problem in the organization that is related to the behavior of people
within the organization and is presently resulting in a significant impact on organizational
performance. Using the knowledge gained from this course, identify a problem that is
noteworthy and can be studied in adequate detail. Do NOT choose a multitude of minor
problems or issues; focus on one and only one “major” problem and analyze it in depth. You
may refer to as many concepts from the text as you like as long as they have a direct bearing on
your chosen problem. A list of suggested OB related problems/problem areas is presented below.
Be careful that you choose a problem that is related to human behavior – not a financial or
administrative issue.
For this report, please form teams of 1-3 students. You may choose to do the work individually
or in teams. The choice is yours. Four or more members in a team are strictly NOT ALLOWED.
Team members are required to prepare a list of questions and obtain prior appointment with a
responsible person(s) (preferably manager/senior manager/director level) in the target company
in order to arrange an interview or interviews. You may meet more than one person in the target
company in order to collect data. Important instruction: please mention the name(s) of the
person(s) interviewed or append their visiting cards, on the top sheet of your report. Visiting card
is NOT mandatory. Name(s) and contact details of the person(s) interviewed must be provided
on the top sheet otherwise the report will NOT be graded. These person(s) may be contacted for
verification of your visit!
Use only the personal interviewing technique for gathering data; avoid using other tools such as
survey questionnaires incorporating a Likert scale, observation studies of the employees at work,
etc. Owing to the present Covid-19 restrictions, you may conduct interview(s) online.
Your report should contain information collected from one company only. The report should
consist entirely of primary data. If secondary data about the target company is included it must
be in your own words. No handouts provided by the company should be included as appendices.
Warning: Plagiarism in any manner, shape or form will result in an F grade!
The final report should be in soft copy format, double spaced, on A-4 sized paper, Times New
Roman, font size 12. Pages should be properly numbered. ‘Table of Contents’ must be included
in the beginning. Copy of list of questions asked in the interview(s) must be included as an
appendix. Check your report for grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization errors. Do
NOT include a Letter of Acknowledgement/Appreciation or a Letter of Transmittal.
Please remember that you are expected to write a business report, NOT a research thesis.
For tips on writing a business report consult:
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/report-writing-format.html
Your report will be graded on the following criteria: thorough investigation of the
“problem/selected topic,” originality of information, clear and logical presentation of ideas,
worded in simple English (no jargon or company-specific terminology, please), use of correct
grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization. Students are advised to use active voice
throughout.
Please ensure that your report is uploaded on Blackboard before 11:59 pm on Friday, 28 May,
2021. The marks will be posted through Blackboard before the commencement of the final
examination. Late reports will NOT be accepted under any circumstances.
If you still have any questions, please feel free to contact me in or outside the class. Best of luck!
Some suggested OB related problems/problem areas that you may select from are listed as
follows. You may choose another problem provided it is an OB related issue.
Caution: Choose only one problem out of the following!

1. Absenteeism
2. Ambiguous responsibility
3. Attitudes
4. Authority
5. Autonomy
6. Bureaucracy
7. Change management
8. Communication
9. Conflict
10. Cooperation
11. Coordination
12. Corruption
13. Customer satisfaction
14. Decision-making
15. Departmentalization
16. Deviant workplace behavior
17. Discrimination
18. Diversity management
19. Downsizing
20. Drug abuse
21. Employee recognition programs
22. Employee representation
23. Esprit de corps
24. Ethical dilemma(s)
25. Feedback to subordinates
26. Goal-setting
27. Grapevine
28. Human skills
29. Individual ability
30. Individuals’ privacy
31. Information overload
32. Ingroup favoritism
33. Integrity
34. Intrinsic job motivation
35. Job design
36. Job enlargement
37. Job enrichment
38. Job performance
39. Job satisfaction
40. Leadership
41. Loyalty
42. Machiavellianism
43. Mentoring
44. Motivation
45. Organizational citizenship behavior
46. Organizational commitment
47. Organizational culture
48. Organizational development
49. Organizational justice
50. Organizational politics
51. Participative management
52. Perceived organizational support
53. Performance evaluation
54. Performance-reward relationship
55. Personality-job fit
56. Power distance
57. Procedural justice
58. Productivity
59. Psychological contract
60. Psychological empowerment
61. Recruitment and selection
62. Risk aversion
63. Safety at work
64. Sexual harassment
65. Social loafing
66. Socialization
67. Stress management
68. Teamwork
69. Time management
70. Training and development
71. Trust
72. Turnover
73. Vision
74. Work schedules
75. Work-life balance

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