PROBLEM: You have been directed by your corporate or organizational president to

PROBLEM: You have been
directed by your corporate or organizational president to research the
creation and implementation of an effective recruiting and retention program to
enhance the quality of employees and management within the organization and
prepare a formalized research paper. Write your paper as if you were
employed with a Fortune 500 company or an organization currently in the news (Apple, Google, etc).
This paper should be addressed to the president, board of directors, and your
professor. For this research, you should conduct a review of literature based
on the current practices being used in today’s organizations (in terms of your
selected research problem/situation). As you conduct your secondary and/or
primary research, you should also develop a well-developed strategy as to
how to implement your strategy into this organization.
AUDIENCE:
Please write your research paper as if your organizational or corporate
president and/or board of directors would review and consider its findings and
recommendations. However, your professor will be the final reviewer for this
paper.
GUIDELINES:
1. Student should write a well-researched paper 8 page paper, and double-spaced
(not counting a title page, table of contents, references or appendices).
2. Student should follow the APA Style Manual for referencing and citing
sources in the paper.
3. Paper should be written in third person – not first person.
4. Paper should be error-free, so it may be wise to have another person proof
your work.
5. All sources must be properly cited, according to APA style. In essence, you
need to use in-text citations (no footnotes or endnotes in this paper
whatsoever). Full citations of all works should be included in the References
section, formatted in APA Style.
6. The paper must contain the following elements:
· Title Page
· Table of Contents
· Introduction
· Problem Statement (5-8 sentence
paragraph that clearly defines the problem and why it needs to be researched).
· Review of current practices
(background of literature) in the area
· Strategic plan for change or
creation of the anticipated change (use examples of where this approach has
been successful in other organizations if pertinent).
· Strategic approach for
implementation of the change(s)
h. Final recommendations and possible outcomes (best- and worst-case scenarios)
· Summary/Conclusions
· References section
Appendix (if tables
or charts or necessary)