Organizational Behavior Performance and Evaluation

Reviewing the literature on a given topic yields a large amount of information about studies, concepts, findings, and conclusions that can easily be overwhelming. In order to avoid getting lost in a sea of details, it helps to take systematic notes about what you read and how it might support your inquiry.

For this Assignment, you will complete a literature matrix that helps you keep track of your findings as you review publications that inform your study. You will need to refer to your notes in this matrix in order to complete each of the three projects that are due in Weeks 5, 8, and 10, respectively.

Download the template for the matrix from this week’s Resources, and follow the instructions that are included in the document. Your goal should be to add at least 10 articles from peer-reviewed journals for each of your projects by no later than the end of Week 4.

Notes:

The column “Ethical and Social Change Impact of the Research” may not be applicable in every case. However, you should aim to find articles that include either implicitly or explicitly this perspective.
This Assignment will be submitted in three parts: You must add at least 10 articles for each submission in Weeks 2, 3, and 4.
Continue your review of the literature over the next couple of weeks as needed to complete the literature matrix for all three of your projects.
Include proper APA citations and peer-reviewed references.

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Week 2: Initial Literature Reviews

Hints for Week 2 Discussion This week, you will be asked to work more in depth with your literature. In the Discussion this week, you will begin to talk about the literature you have been finding about your area of interest. One great way to accomplish the analysis of each article is to utilize the literature matrix consistently throughout the development of all your projects. When you review articles that are peer reviewed you should be able to see how the authors base their assumptions. You will be developing your understanding of the topic and building your argument.

Example Theme: Organizational Behavior Topic: Individual Employee Motivation and Behavior Issue: Impact and influence of reward and recognition on employee performance and job satisfaction; Impact of leader/member relationship Palmer, Johnson, & Johnson (2015) conducted a study into the value of accurate feedback, with the goal of determining how relevant feedback is to performance, and more specifically, how important was the accuracy of feedback on employee behavior. Their study found that the accuracy of the feedback did seem to help improve employee performance. However, they found that even exaggerated performance feedback is better than no feedback at all. The authors conclude by pointing out that “[m]anagers who might be tempted to underreport performance to get employees to work harder may be causing damage rather than increasing organizational output (in addition to other legitimate concerns related to credibility and ethics)” (p. 235). The findings of this article inform a possible research study into the impact of feedback on employee motivation and performance.

Reference Palmer, M. G., Johnson, C. M., & Johnson, D. A. (2015). Objective performance feedback: Is numerical accuracy necessary? Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 35(3/4), 206–239. doi:10.1080/01608061.2015.1093059 Permalink to article in Walden Library: https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx ?direct=true&db=edswss&AN=000365671100003&site=eds-live&scope=site

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• Clicking on the link above will not work. Please copy the entire link and paste it into the location bar of your browser to access the resource in the Walden Library.

Criteria for “superior” initial post: þ Student accurately includes the complete reference and link from a peer-

reviewed article and provides a thorough and detailed written rationale for the selection of the article and explains how it contributes to the project.

þ Student consistently follows APA writing style and basic rules of formal English grammar and written essay style. Student communicates in a cohesive, logical style. There are no spelling or grammar errors.

þ Student demonstrates full adherence to APA style with respect to source attribution, references, heading and subheading logic, table of contents and lists of charts, etc. There are no APA errors. Citations and references support position.

Hints for Week 2 Assignment When you fill out your literature matrix, consider everything you can learn from the article. For example, Phipps-Taylor and Shortell (2016) conducted a meta-analysis that provides a good starting point for finding additional literature about your topic of interest. When an article is a meta-analysis of the literature, you can see the relationships among the variables the authors sought to understand. The other benefit of a meta- analysis is that you will be able to find other potential literature about your topic of interest. When you begin to select your topics, you will want to identify the scope and primary concepts. Your literature should focus on the intersection between two or more of the issues under one topic. Ask yourself, what are the concepts I am trying to understand or explore? You may not find articles that talk about the concepts together; that is when you need to construct your argument and understand what is important to you about the topic you selected. Interdisciplinary review of literature is very common. Often researchers work to identify concepts used by other disciplines to explain similar underlying concept.

Example (extract) See the Excel workbook “Literature Matrix” located in this week’s resources.

Reference Phipps-Taylor, M., & Shortell, S. M. (2016). More than money: Motivating physician behavior change in accountable care organizations. The Milbank Quarterly, 94(4), 832– 861. doi:10.1111/1468-0009.12230

Criteria for “superior” Assignment: þ Student provides a total of 11 or more relevant peer-reviewed journal entries with

some related to the ethical and social change impact of the research. þ Student presents a detailed and thorough explanation for every entry provided. þ Student has no spelling or grammar errors. Matrix is organized, clear, and easy

to understand. Correct APA format and style is applied.

Organizational Behavior Performance and Evaluation

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