Students are responsible for submitting an Applied Paper relevant to the student’s workplace,
industry or profession and to an organizational behavior topic discussed in the textbook. The
paper should be a minimum of 15 typed pages, double spaced, 12 pt. font, in APA style with at least five references from scholarly publications. More references could be used and is
recommended to build a strong premise. An Assignment Submittal Cover Sheet is also required.
The paper MUST be based on an organizational behavior topic.
Organizational Behavior (OB) topics (for the term paper) from the Academy of Management (the
premier management organization with over 10,000 members):
Organizational behavior is devoted to understanding individuals and groups within an
organizational context. The field focuses on attributes, processes, behaviors, and outcomes
within and between individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational levels of analysis.
Major topics include (note: your paper must be an OB paper):
individual characteristics such as beliefs, values, personality, and demographic attributes, and
individual processes such as learning, perception, motivation, emotions, and decision making
interpersonal processes such as trust, justice, power/politics, social exchange, and networks
group/team characteristics such as size, diversity, and cohesion, and group/team processes
such as development, leadership, decision making, and cooperation and conflict
organizational processes and practices such as leadership, goal setting, work design, feedback,
rewards, communication, and socialization
contextual influences on individuals and groups such as organizational and national culture, and organizational identity and climate
•and the influence of all of the above on individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational
outcomes such as performance, creativity, attachment, citizenship behaviors, stress,
absenteeism, turnover, deviance, and ethical behavior