How can college encourage employee engagement and productivity?

BUS 130
OUTLINE FOR INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORT TEMPLATE
(5% of your individual grade)
Name:
Team Project Topic: How can college encourage employee engagement and
productivity?
1. Write a thesis statement for yourIndividual Research Report (2 marks)
“College can encourage employee engagement and productivity by implementing a reward and
punishment system”
 A reward and punishment system will motivate employees by providing monetary and non-monetary
incentives to those individuals observed to be highly engaged and productive.
 A reward and punishment system allows for the elimination of lazy employee for the purpose of bettering
the workforce with more engaged and productive recruits.
2. Complete the table below. Indicate at least four good quality sources you will use to argue your he
thesis statement. (4 marks)
Name of
article/book or
quality web
source related to
your topic
Author(s) Year
Publishe
d
Citation (APA) Key Finding
(paraphrase one or two
sentences ONLY)
The Effects of
Employee
Recognition, Pay,
and Benefits on
Job
Satisfaction:
Cross Country
Evidence
Mussie T.
Tessema,
Kathryn J.
Ready, and
Abel B.
Embaye
2013 Tessema, M. T.,
Ready, K. J., &
Embaye, A. B.
(2013). The Effects
of Employee
Recognition, Pay,
and Benefits on Job
Satisfaction: Cross
Country Evidence.
Journal of Business
and Economics , 1-
12.
The researchers
discovered that the
provision of financial
and non-financial
rewards has a
significant impact on
employee job
satisfaction and
productivity.
Relationship
Between
Rewards and
Employee
Performance: A
Payam
Gohari, Ali
Kamkar,
Seyed Jafar
Hosseinipour,
2013 Gohari, P., Kamkar,
A., Hosseinipour, S.
J., & Zohoori, M.
(2013).
Relationship
The research
establishes that there
is a connection
between the provision
of intrinsic and
1

Mediating Role of
Job Satisfaction
and Mahmood
Zohoori
Between Rewards
and Employee
Performance: A
Mediating Role of
Job Satisfaction.
Interdisciplinary
Journal of
Contemporary
Research in
Business , 571-597.
extrinsic reward on the
level of employee job
satisfaction and
performance.
Rewards and
Punishments
Role in Teacher-
student
Relationship from
The Mentor’s
Perspective
Claudiu Langa 2014 Langa, C. (2014).
Rewards and
Punishments Role
in Teacher-student
Relationship from
The Mentor’s
Perspective. Acta
Didactica
Napocensia , 7-12.
The research
concluded that
rewards and
punishments have the
ability of changing the
behavior of an
individual.
The Role of
Reward and
Punishment in
Learning
Ahmadreza
Fatahian
Kelishadroky,
Ali Shamsi,
Mohmadreza
Bagheri
2016 Kelishadroky, A. F.,
Shamsi, A., &
Bagheri, M. (2016).
The Role of Reward
and Punishment in
Learning.
International
Journal of
Advanced
Biotechnology and
Research (IJBR) ,
780-788.
The research
established that the is
need to utilized reward
systems in the
learning sector as
opposed to
punishment systems.
The researchers
discourage the usage
of punishment in
learning institutions.
3.Body paragraph one: (4 marks)
1. Write a topic sentence for body paragraph one below:
Reward systems improve the level of employee productivity and engagement
2. Fill out the table below to indicate how you will support the topic sentence:
Supporting
point #
Type supporting point
Indicate which source
from the list of research
above supports this
statement (APA format)
1 Tessema, M. T., Ready, K.
2