Indiana wesleyan university ocls

In this assignment, you will choose from two human resource topics for a research project to be completed over four workshops, Workshop Two through Workshop Five:

Supply chain management
Reputation and brand enhancement
In Workshop One, you reflected on the broader agendas affecting your organization (or an organization you are familiar with). Through assessment of the organization’s evidence-based decision-making practices, you began to identify areas of strength and weakness that ultimately have implications on the broader workplace agendas. In this Workshop Two discussion assignment, you will identify a problem or opportunity as it relates to one of two topics—supply chain management or reputation and brand enhancement—for the purpose of drafting a research question for the Dropbox research project to be completed in Workshop Five. The value of drafting a research question in support of your formal inquiry is to: (a) define the investigation, (b) set boundaries, (c) provide direction, and (d) act as a frame of reference for assessing your work (O’Leary & Hunt, 2016, p. 46).

The textbook reading—Chapter 3: “Developing Practicable and Valuable Research Questions”—will review:

Issues before questions
Deciding on appropriate evidence-based questions
Getting the research question on target
Pitching your research question (O’Leary & Hunt, 2016, p. 37)
Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to:

Analyze an organizational problem or opportunity for workplace-based research.
Formulate an evidence-based research question using a four-step question generation process to support small-scale research.